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After terrifying us with first-person horror, Resident Evil Requiem sees the triumphant return of third-person over-the-shoulder action. With an eye cast across the series’ history, this is a confident blend of the best of old and new Resident Evil, combining the stalking horror of Resident Evil 2 and the exhilarating...
Star Trek Voyager was the first series in the franchise that I ever really watched. Chaotic, late-night scheduling plagued it for much of its Australian airing, but I was the kind of kid who would typically fall asleep with the TV on anyway. Having now as an adult watched Star...
Romeo is a Dead Man
Romeo is a Dead Man is the latest from Grasshopper Manufacture and SUDA51, the latter recently part of the somewhat lacklustre Hotel Barcelona. Whereas that title had some interesting ideas that ultimately fall through, Romeo is a Dead Man tries to get by on style and attitude alone, and will divide...
Mario returns to the court in Mario Tennis Fever after his deluge of Aces almost eight years ago, following a similar game plan. The single-player content remains light and fixates on a series of basic mini-games designed to teach newcomers the mechanics, while its greatest strength is reaffirming that a...
They said it couldn’t (or wouldn’t) be done, but the mad lads did it anyway! After the brilliant Kiwami remakes of Yakuza 1 and 2, Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio have circled back to breathe new life into another of the early Yakuza and Like a Dragon titles with Yakuza Kiwami...
Metroid Prime 4: Beyond
After a false start stretching back to E3 2017, Retro Studios returns with the first mainline 3D Metroid game since 2007’s Metroid Prime 3 Corruption. After such a long layoff, Nintendo’s clarified this is a new story that doesn’t infringe upon the completed Phazon saga of the original trilogy. That...
Project Motor Racing
It’s hard to beat the thrill of a well-executed qualifying lap. Stringing together a sequence of brave braking points and perfectly clipped apexes to shave mere fractions of a second off of your time, all while dancing on the limits of grip.
Kirby Air Riders
If you’d listed every possible game and franchise that Nintendo could revive in the year 2025 for the Switch 2, there are dozens of options I would’ve guessed before ever getting to, “Masahiro Sakurai is bringing back Kirby Air Ride.” Clearly, that’s why I’m not one of the visionaries working...
If you’re ready for more so soon, Black Ops 7’s multiplayer modes deliver what you’re looking for. It’s the most familiar Call of Duty year-on-year yet – perhaps it should have been an expansion for Black Ops 6 – but you know what you’re in for with more fast and...
I was obsessed with real-time strategy games as a kid, and when I hit my teens I gained an intense love for tabletop wargames and Civilization. I find myself firmly in the back-half of my 30s now, which feels just about bang on time for a foray into the world...
Wreckreation
For me, Burnout Paradise was — and still is — the epitome of arcade racing. The open map, the volume of content and activities, and the balance of challenge and accessibility had me throwing away more than 300 hours of my life; I loved every minute of it. Since then,...
The Outer Worlds 2
Back in 2019, Obsidian Entertainment did the unthinkable and gave us The Outer Worlds, a brand-new, narrative-driven RPG among the stars – a realisation of the “Fallout in space” dreams that have circled on message boards for over a decade. Set in a galaxy driven by capitalism and greed, you...