From Dingodile to Roadhog, from Saxton Hale to the inhabitants of Pandora’s moon in Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel, Australian characters in videogames often lean heavily into caricature. And fair enough, too—for a culture where sarcasm is the standard way of talking, where the most severe swears are used as everyday greetings, …
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 …
There’s not much longer to wait before Boomerang Fu lets you slice up your friends in hectic, hilarious local multiplayer battles, and you’ll be able to do so on Switch, too. Today, developer Cranky Watermelon announced an August 13 release date, as well as a Switch version in addition to …
Among the more interesting of MAD magazine’s recurrent gags are “fold-ins”. The back cover of almost every issue since 1964 had an image, with points at the edge of the page marked A and B. By folding the page so that those two points met, you’d reveal another hidden image, …
Party games are plentiful, but great party games are rare. It takes more than just cute characters and local multiplayer. You need something that’s easy for someone brand new to pick up, but deep enough to stay interesting over however many days, weeks, months, or years people are playing. You …
