In my first few hours with it, Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin felt like it was shaping up to be something truly special. A couple of dozen hours later, and it’s one of my favourite games of the year. Here’s why. Sakuna is about as spoilt as any goddess can …
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Vodafone New Zealand and PlayStation New Zealand have announced a new partnership, which will begin with a limited number of PlayStation 5 consoles for sale to Vodafone customers on launch day. The PlayStation 5 launches this Thursday, November 12, but a variety of factors mean the initial supply is very …
Saviours of Sapphire Wings & Stranger of Sword City Revisited, a double pack of Experience Inc. dungeon crawlers RPGs, comes to Nintendo Switch and PC in March 2021. North America will get them on March 16, Europe on March 19, and Oceania on March 23. Saviours of Sapphire Wings originally …
Clea, a gorgeous 2D survival horror game from Australian developer InvertMouse, will soon be available on Nintendo Switch. It’s due out on 31 October (AEDT/NZDT)—a fitting date for what looks like a very creepy game. Clea is described as a “jump scare free, skill-based survival horror adventure”. As the titular …
Yesterday, Nintendo shared the last of its Nintendo Direct Mini: Partner Showcase presentations for the year—continuing a somewhat annoying new trend of broadcasting them with no warning and at 3am New Zealand time. But that scheduling headache aside, it was a show full of exciting announcements and nice surprises, including—finally!—a …
A new Final Fantasy XVI teaser site sheds some more light on the setting and main characters for the upcoming action RPG, as well as some impressive key artwork. Final Fantasy XVI takes place in Valisthea, “a land blessed in the light of the Mothercrystals”. Great powers have developed around …
Earlier this year, Sony announced the PlayStation Plus Collection, an assortment of PlayStation 4 games that would be available to PlayStation Plus subscribers on PlayStation 5 at no extra cost. Today, the company finally shared the full list of what those games will be, with 20 in total from both …
It’s hard to fairly describe a game like Pikmin 3 Deluxe. I said as much when I shared my first impressions, and despite having spent much more time with it since then, I’m still struggling to do it justice. It’s a game that’s not quite like anything else out there, …
Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night, a spiritual successor to the acclaimed Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, is coming to mobile thanks to a partnership between ArtPlay and NetEase. The mobile version of Bloodstained will be a premium title (in other words, not reworked into a free-to-play game) that “features all …
Crimzon Clover: World EXplosion is coming to Switch on October 29, bringing this fan-favourite shoot-em-up to console for the first time since its 2011 debut along with a new update. Crimzon Clover is the creation of Japanese indie developer Yotsubane, delivering an intense bullet hell experience to rival CAVE’s creations. …