1+ hour, 28+ min ago   (777+ words) For years, and despite player requests, Final Fantasy XIV forced players who chose the popular cat-people race, the Miqo’te, to wear tribal tattoos on their face as a matter of lore. In the coming expansion, Evercold, and its patches to…...

1+ week, 4+ hour ago   (802+ words) This is not to say that professional videogame reviewers aren’t good at their jobs. In fact, quite the opposite, I often get a bit of writer’s envy perusing their work and wordplays. But it almost feels like there’s an element…...

3+ week, 3+ hour ago   (959+ words) Later this month, an updated version of the classic game Final Fantasy X is being released on Switch 2. It’s an update, of an update, of an update. Beyond the HD remaster of the game released in 2013, other changes to the…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (554+ words) Once a year, that spirit manifests in the form of the Queensland Games Festival (QGF). “It is one of the few venues that consolidates Queensland video games in one place and lets the world know about it,” Blake Kammermann, co-organiser…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago   (1121+ words) It would also be a conduit for introducing some of Australia’s best PC native indie games to a living room audience. Now, with the device’s details revealed, the Steam Machine isn’t closing any gaps. In fact, it’s poised to widen…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (636+ words) But there were a few differences this time around that perhaps only the keenest of observers may have noticed. For instance: did you pick that more games had a release date this time than at the previous Summer Game Fest…...

2+ mon, 1+ day ago   (1288+ words) It was the last thing the industry veteran and co-founder of Sydney’s Hojo Studios expected to be doing as a first-time judge for the Australian Game Developer Awards (AGDAs). With no game in the running in 2025, Salter decided he would…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (1174+ words) When it comes to creating a game, you might think the biggest pain point is the idea, or the design. Finding funding to get it off the ground? Finding the right people to build it? Or ensuring that it’s actually…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (768+ words) We’re entering a weird new world when it comes to how you pay for video games. Consider the past month. We’ve seen price rises (mainly for consoles), price drops (Xbox Game Pass) and now, in hushed whispers across the gaming…...

2+ mon, 4+ week ago   (937+ words) That’s the challenge. And as I’m in transit this week: here’s the solution. Micro-reviews that cover a breadth of games that allow me to give a verdict and say something interesting about them but not go into too much detail....