Alex Walker
There’s more than one way to get an idea of how fast an NBN plan is. Providers self-report typical evening speeds, the ACCC publishes a quarterly report, or you could listen to what Netflix says. Up until the pandemic hit, Netflix used to publish a monthly speed index that compared…
Illustrator and pixel artist Pat Ackerman has spent the last year reimagining the entire Pokédex of Pokémon Sword and Shield as old-school sprites.
A little over a week after a Dead by Daylight designer became publicly agitated over requests for accessibility options, developer Behaviour Interactive has announced that it is working on accommodations for colorblind players.
Resident Evil cosmetic items and gear are coming to The Division 2 in February. The upcoming crossover was announced briefly today during Capcom’s Resident Evil Showcase.
Australia’s finally getting another cloud gaming service — and this time it’s the one that people seem to actually rate. GeForce Now, Nvidia’s cloud-powered gaming service that leverages your existing Steam library, is coming to Australia.
I have a new love, and its name is Grindstone. We spend time together every night before we go to sleep.
Even though every retailer did their best this morning to service everyone they could, getting a PS5 in Australia is still a lottery. And it’s not helped by the fact that a good amount of people who just got fresh PS5 consoles are immediately reselling them at higher prices.
BioWare art director Matt Rhodes spent the holidays uploading some interesting concept art from Revolver, a project that never saw the light of day.
A lottery for prized graphics cards and processors went up briefly on PC part seller Newegg’s site yesterday. It’s a testament to the ongoing shortage of all things gaming during the ongoing covid-19 pandemic.
This Wednesday, a St. Petersburg court has banned the Death Note, Tokyo Ghoul, and Inuyashiki anime after concerns that teenagers would mimic on-screen violence.
Genshin Impact has one of the most exciting regions that I’ve visited in a video game in years. It’s called Liyue and its geological and agricultural bounty is distinct from other open world games. To the west, a traveller can find gorgeous cliffs of ashy stone and golden amber. In…
We’re actually in a good mood today for reasons, but to say it’s been generally bleak during the pandemic would be an understatement. With no outlet for his comedy stylings during covid-19, a Los Angeles man grabbed his board and a Mandalorian costume, and set about lifting moods in an…
This 20-minute collection of b-roll footage, shot as part of a news report and only uploaded to YouTube this week, gives us a fascinating look behind the scenes at Nintendo of America in 1990, showing everything from manufacturing to R&D to the Nintendo Power Line.
What an age we live in. PlayStation consoles, by the pound.
As unpredictable as video games can be, January is perhaps the closest the industry can have to a predictable, relatable cycle. It is, historically, the dead month. But largely thanks to Xbox Game Pass and its constant need for substantive content, January has become super stacked for new video games.
Hitman 3, out today for pretty much all of the platforms, sees Agent 47 continue his spree of heinous crimes, including murder and travel journalism. Like the previous entry in IO Interactive’s sumptuous Savile Row simulator, you can import levels and character progression from prior games. It’s only a matter…
Hitman 3 is out today. And while it’s pretty different from previous games in the rebooted trilogy, it’s still a lot of fun. If you’re new to the series or coming back from a while away, should you jump right into 3 or start with the earlier games? Personally, I’d…
Casio’s line of Baby-G watches are great. Know how to make the timepieces even better? Add Pikachu, that’s how.
As of this week, Jin Sakai and the open-world samurai game he stars in — Ghost of Tsushima — turn six months old. Rather than a one-off, Ghost of Tsushima has received an impressively dedicated level of support from developer Sucker Punch with consistent quality-of-life upgrades, new difficulty levels, and…
While it was great that PC owners got to play a big Sony exclusive last year, what wasn’t so great about Horizon Zero Dawn’s port was that it ran like shit. Well, five months later things are looking much better.
2020 was a tough year, but video games helped us get through it all.
Twitch’s plan to replace its problematic Pogchamp emote with a rotating cast of fresh faces? Pretty poggers. Twitch’s execution of said plan? Not poggers. Today’s Pogchamp? Also not poggers, because instead, it’s KomodoHype, a meme with some Pogchamp history.
Civilization is all about domination, but the modern economic interpretation of dominance — corporations — hasn’t been a part of Civiziliation 6 just yet. Until now. Developers Firaxis announced that everyone’s favourite agent of capitalism, corporations and monopolies, is being added in the next DLC drop as a new game mode. It’s designed…
It’s hard to buy a PS5 anywhere in the world. But for Japanese gamers, already annoyed at the reversal of the circle and X buttons and the severe lack of supply, things definitely aren’t improving.
Absence can make the heart grow fonder, and with Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: The Game the wait has set me up to fall in love with its retro gaming nostalgia-fest all over again. Its return couldn’t have come at a better time either. Cooped up in my home away…
Finnish artist Juho Könkkölä took a single sheet of 68cm x 68cm wafer-thin Wenzhou paper and folded it for fifty hours. The result? A samurai papercraft that is around 20cm tall.
Here’s a terrifying fact: Sega has been out of the console business longer than they were in it. And while it was the Dreamcast that finally did the struggling giant in, for a platform that was only around for a couple of years it certainly left one hell of a legacy behind.
In any other year, Ring Fit Adventure might have been a bit of a slow sleeper hit, because folks who were keen on fitness were more than likely hitting the gym or engaging in social exercise groups at the local swimming pool. Then comes COVID-19, and we’re increasingly being restricted…
The great thing about breaking a game’s camera is that you get to see into a game’s heart and soul. And in Red Dead Redemption 2, those secrets include a UFO. Gumby. And pubes? Possibly?
A gaming rig is only as powerful as its weakest component. Think about it: Does it really make sense to spend thousands on a cutting-edge graphics card, a CPU powerful enough to not bottleneck it, and some wild amount of storage, like 2TB of SSDs and 128GB of RAM, only…
The history of the MOBA genre is one of mods and iteration. Its most popular and still-standing games today are the result of multiple reimaginings and tweaks to skirt copyright issues. Now, there’s one more absurd step to the story: the makers of Auto Chess are making a MOBA. An…
