Last week, FTI (The Film and Television Institute of WA, FYI) released the results of their WA games industry scoping survey. Naturally, I wanted to write a piece on it (this one, specifically) because it […]

It’s not often that licensed games get it right, but when they do, they truly bring the world they represent to life, and in turn inject new life into, and reinvigorate their source material. The […]

The Evil Within is about exploring the anxiety of disempowerment, and understanding that you need to play it smart if you’re going to survive. What makes it work especially well, however, is a plot device […]

Talking about Rakuen, a story-centric adventure game which is the debut title from Plants vs. Zombies composer, Laura Shigihara [...]

New Super Mario Bros. brought back 2D Mario, fresher than ever. Not only that, but it'd be hard to argue that it had nothing to do [...]

In recent years, the underground scene of eSports has taken The West by the collar and shoryuken’d the living crap out of it. Once the realm of dedicated Quake and Counter-Strike players, eSports has become […]

Recently, we got to go hands-on with the demo for Super Smash Bros. 3DS, which will be releasing in Australia on October 4th 2014 [...]

Thanks to the fantastic team over at FTI, Perth was lucky enough to have Travis Plane, a Director at Surprise Attack Consulting, fly over to run a masterclass and workshop with a group of our […]

I love games that can forego the typical ‘adult’ conventions, and supply something that is, above all, good. Wind Waker is one of these. [...]

Mirror, mirror, on the wall, why are cutscenes so banal? I just can't see why they're great, when all they do is irritate; They appear in every triple [...]