The revamped, tiered PlayStation Plus is now available in New Zealand, meaning subscribers have access to hundreds of downloadable games. While PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 games make up the bulk of that number, of particular note for anyone who likes to look back a little further is the Classics …
Metal Max Xeno isn’t something I’d expect to see getting a major overhaul. The original is just a few years old, met with middling reviews, and never really made much of a splash despite an intriguing premise and some unique ideas. A rebirth might be just what it needed, though: …
The folks behind Love Bakudan are back with another game, and while it looks a very different in tone from that steamy adventure, it heart is in the same place. Good Luck Baby! is “an adventure/mystery yuri visual novel about falling in love, saving the world, and finding your place …
After OlliOlli World introduced the world its wonderfully outlandish skate-themed fantasy world, it seems only fitting that the first DLC, Void Riders, should revolve around an alien invasion. So when a UFO crashes into Burntrock and a bunch of odd-looking creatures come out in search of the raddest skaters to …
At first glance, Wylde Flowers doesn’t stray too far from the farming life sim conventions that Harvest Moon laid out some 25 years ago. I don’t say that as a complaint: this is a genre where, more so than most, there’s comfort in familiarity. A new setting, a new group …
I caught up with Wadjet Eye’s Dave Gilbert for a quick Q&A about his next game: Old Skies. If you’re a fan of point-and-click adventure games, there’s a good chance you’ve heard of Wadjet Eye Games—and if you haven’t, do yourself a favour and look them up. They’ve been consistently …
Ah, the good old time paradox, bane of every temporal traveller and source of many a narrative twist. But what if time travel was so ordinary and so commodified that paradoxes were just a risk to be mitigated while making bank off people wanting to go back in time to …
In a lot of ways, Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers is a very different beast to its predecessor. The first was a funny, heartfelt, optionally romantic visual novel about the daily lives of a game centre operator and their eccentric regulars; The New Challengers is all about arcade esports: competition, …
Are you sick of the quaint, laid-back charm of Story of Seasons-esque farming life-sims yet? I know I’m not, but even if you are (monster!), there’s a new one on the horizon that you may want to keep an eye on. Coming soon to Steam Early Access is Kappa Bits’ …
If I was lazy (or at least, lazier than I am), I’d review SteelSeries’ Aerox 5 Wireless mouse by simply saying it’s the Aerox version of last year’s Rival 5. I’m not quite so lazy that I’d submit that and call it a day, but it’s a decent summary: the …
