Dragon Quest Heroes, burdened with the ridiculous subtitle of The World Tree’s Woe and the Blight Below, is the latest Samurai Warriors-styled game from Omega...
Author - Matt Gosper
aka Ponk – a Melburnian gay gamer who works with snail mail. Enthusiastically keeping a finger in every pie of the games industry. I'll beat you at Mario Kart, and lose to you in any shooter you can name.
Animal Crossing: New Leaf was a terrible plague that consumed my life and that of my friends, and I loved every minute of it. Slowly collecting scattered...
When it comes to Japanese RPGs, I’ve been on a slippery slope the last few years. My love of RPGs in general worked in concert with Tumblr’s love of the...
Last week, Bioware officially brought the Inquisition’s story to a close with Dragon Age: Inquisition’s final story DLC, titled “Trespasser”. Set...
Tearaway Unfolded is a different kind of remake or remastering. Actually a better word would be remix. Yes, it’s been remade for PS4. Yes it displays in...
Strewth, you guys. I never thought I‘d see the day where Mad Max, of all movie franchises, had its own video game. And not a crappy movie-to-film adaptation at...
Dishonored was met with critical acclaim upon its release in 2012. It possessed an open world style of gameplay that truly felt open, alongside a mix of...
Seemingly out of nowhere, Bioware has dropped another single-player DLC campaign for Dragon Age: Inquisition into our laps. With barely a week’s notice...
Submerged is a game I recall playing with interest at last year’s PAX Australia. Developer Uppercut Games was founded by three long-term industry...
As has become a bit of a habit of mine, I’ve once again found myself playing the remake of a game I never played the original-make of. The latest installment...
Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture is a title that will polarise. For some, it’s a mystery shrouded in an enigma, sitting there begging to be revealed...
The Talos Principle is one of those puzzle games that I love to hate – a mind-twisting puzzle game with a high-minded philosophical story to back it up. As...
In the past few days since Journey’s release, I jokingly told fellow Stevivorites (Stevivorians? Stee-vivs? We need to sort this out ASAP) Trent and Steve that...
Arkham Knight represents a number of things for Rocksteady’s Batman franchise – it’s the fourth game under the Arkham banner, the first game on new-gen...
When it comes to themes in gaming, advanced particle physics is not exactly the most common narrative thread. Vengeance, apocalypse, princess-rescuing –...
When Xenoblade Chronicles first released on the Wii in 2010, I was really feeling it. The game represented one of the few full-bodied RPGs to arrive on the...
In this time of re-releases, Borderlands: The Handsome Collection is extra-special: it contains the oldest last- on current-gen game, 2012’s Borderlands...
Pillars of Eternity is a game with a fine pedigree. Brought to us by Obsidian Entertainment, makers of such fine RPGs as Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic...
Ori and the Blind Forest was one of those exclusive Xbox One titles used to really sell the system – and it worked, at least for me. Ori’s gorgeous visuals and...
Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate is a game that does exactly what it says on the tin – it gives you monsters, and you hunt them. With your custom-designed character...

