The biggest telcos in Australia just released their iPhone 12 pre-order plans And we have them all in one place for you. Here’s what Telstra, Optus and Vodafone have on offer. And in case you forgot, only the iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro plans pre-order plans are available so…
South Korean news reports that a 20-something-year-old man has been arrested after lighting up around 100 cigarettes in the smoking room at an internet cafe.
Rooster Teeth has returned to streaming after a brief interlude. Here’s what they had to say.
There’s no better time for conquest, carnage and pillaging than the weekend, as it turns out.
Though DC Comics is still very much in the midst of weirding up its comics universe with Dark Nights: Death Metal, the publisher’s already dreamed up its next major event. It’s one that will take readers into a future populated by new iterations of iconic legacy characters crafted to usher…
Yesterday was a great day for hopeful PS5 or Xbox Series X owners, with EB Games telling users that they’d been pushed forward in the launch queue. Now this evening, the retailer has done an about-face, informing customers that the emails and SMS notifications were sent “in error”.
Tons of games have found various ways to gamify experience and engagement to keep people playing. So, naturally, Google’s using the same idea on a platform-wide level and rolling it out to Australians.
We’ve talked plenty about the next-gen consoles, but there’s also another generation of gaming tech on the way very soon: next-gen monitors.
The demo for the upcoming Kingdom Hearts rhythm game is live today for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Switch. Based on what I’ve played, it’s the most straightforward game the series has ever seen, so simple you can play it with just one button.
According to Baldur’s Gate 3‘s Steam page, the long-awaited RPG’s early access version consists of “approximately 25 hours of self-contained content,” but you can tackle it pretty much any way you want. Most diehard fans take a completionist tack, trying to stretch the still-incomplete game as far as it will…
Yesterday, Sony rolled out system software update 8.00 for the PlayStation 4, which added new features, renamed some old things, and for the most part got the old console ready to interact with the upcoming PS5. A notification that party chats may now be recorded began appearing along with the…
Between games built for the Xbox Series X/S and older games optimised to take advantage of the new consoles’ power, there’ll be a lot to play when the fourth generation Xboxes drop on November 10. This morning Microsoft listed 31 games ready for Series X/S level play on launch day,…
If you had issues with the live-action Monster Hunter trailer, the movie poster might also give you pause.
One of the great things about any remaster, but especially Age of Empires 3, is how they give you the chance to make the game really shine. And I’m not just talking about the graphics.
Backwards compatibility has long been a contentious issue for Sony, but the PlayStation 3 presents a unique challenge on its own.
Want to get some tatts, a long beard and pet a gorgeous dog/cat? Those are all things available in Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla, as seen by some new gameplay that’s appeared online.
10 years ago, a group of Australians working for what was then known as SEGA Studios Australia began working on a prototype for what could have been the future of the Golden Axe franchise. This week, everyone will be able to enjoy the fruits of their labour.
If you’ve got 45 kg of old potatoes lying around why not use them to play Doom on a graphing calculator?
Along with planting the seeds for new story content with the addition of a new remote S.H.I.E.L.D. outpost, tomorrow’s patch 1.3.3 for Marvel’s Avengers does away with several annoyances players have been complaining about since day one. For example, it adds remote faction terminals to outposts, increases the radius in…
It’s not uncommon for horror games to take off on Twitch. Usually they’re flashes in the pan: The janky P.T.-alike du jour grabs eyeballs for a few days and then quickly descends back into the poorly-lit pits of obscurity. Phasmophobia is different. Sure, it’s inspired by P.T., and yes, it’s…
Minecraft’s Steve went live in Smash Bros. Ultimate overnight, and yup, no problems there. None whatsoever.
Earlier this winter, a cutscene nestled deep in Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain’s PS3 version was triggered because, it seemed, once every single nuke in the game had been located and destroyed. Konami now says that disarmament was not achieved.
World of Warcraft x Yeti is a match made in heaven.
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After being delayed by a month, Apple’s iPhone 12 event has finally happened. With it came four new iPhone 12 devices and we have all of the Australian price, specs and release date information for you right here. The entire range comes with mmWave 5G that has Smart Data mode….
Video game localisation is a balancing act of preserving the original language’s meaning while also making sure it’s understandable for a wider audience. In one unusual example, Sega’s localisers faced a tricky situation trying to localise an NPC who already spoke English for the Western version of Yakuza: Like a Dragon.
If you’ve ever used Instagram or Facebook, you may have encountered ads for mobile games like Gardenscapes and Homescapes. They follow a fairly typical formula: a logic challenge coupled with a prompt like, “You’ll never be able to solve this.” In the UK, regulators are now cracking down on these advertisements, arguing they misrepresent the games on offer.
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Amazon Prime Day 2020 has arrived, and it has brought some decent Nintendo Switch deals with it. To help you get straight to the best deals available, we’ve sorted through everything for you already. To get any of these deals you’ll need an Amazon Prime membership, so don’t forget to…
If the Xbox One is your console of choice, there’s a few decent game deals going during Amazon Prime Day 2020. To help you get straight to the best Xbox One deals during the massive sale, we’ve already sorted through everything for you. You do need to be Amazon Prime…
If you’re looking for a cheap PC upgrade, you’ll find no better bang for buck than a SSD or NVMe drive — and there’s a ton of solid NVMe deals to grab today.
Tales of Vesperia, a stalwart entry in Bandai Namco’s long-running Tales series, will become available on Xbox’s games-on-demand service on Thursday. Better yet, it’s the definitive edition, a 2019 re-release that offered high-definition graphics, more playable characters (at least stateside), and exactly the same amount of Troy Baker’s iconic silky…
As Microsoft gears up for the release of the fourth generation of Xbox game consoles, it throws a bone to the likely few and probably quite proud gamers who’ve stood by the second generation for 15 years. Xbox 360 users will soon be getting free cloud saves, to make upgrading…
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Say hello to the E2-Mask Z. This face-covering headset uses AI to read expressions of happiness, sadness, anger, and more and then render those emotions via an anime avatar.
