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Switch 2, Pokémon Legends Z-A, Metroid Prime 4: Beyond, Mario Kart World, and Silksong — handheld first, always.
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NBA 2K26 Australia: Editions, Price, Early Access, and Which SKU to Skip
NBA 2K26 has three useful receipts and one expired prestige bundle. Here is the Australian edition ladder, the launch RRP, and what Steam AU is asking in October 2026.
13 Oct 2026 · 3 min read
News
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Kirby Air Riders Australia: Switch 2 Only, $109.95 eShop, City Trial Explained
Kirby Air Riders is the Air Ride successor Australians keep googling as if it were still incoming. It shipped on Switch 2 last November. Here is the platform lock, the sticker, and what the modes actually are.
13 Oct 2026 · 2 min read
News
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EA Sports FC 26 Australia: Editions, Price, Ultimate, and When to Wait
FC 26 is a year into its cycle and the SKUs still need a translator. Standard, Ultimate, World’s Game, a $39 Steam tag, and a $239 prestige bundle — here is the Australian till.
13 Oct 2026 · 3 min read
News
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AFL 26 Australia: Release Date, Price, Switch 2, and Why It Is Not EA
AFL 26 is the Melbourne-made footy game, already a year into its cycle, with a Switch 2 port that arrived in March. Here is the calendar, the till, and the publisher people keep getting wrong.
12 Oct 2026 · 3 min read
News
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Switch 2 and PS5 AU Storefronts: What the First Weekend of September Actually Looks Like
eShop AU and PSN AU are not the same argument. Here is the Australian till version for the first weekend of September.
6 Sept 2026 · 2 min read
Reviews
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Metroid Prime 4 Review: Beyond Is Prime When It Leaves the Desert
Retro remembered how to build a room. Then it asked Samus to farm a desert so the motorcycle would have a job.
5 Sept 2026 · 4 min read
Reviews
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Pokémon Legends Z-A Review: Lumiose Finally Makes Pokémon Feel Like a City
Game Freak shrank the map to one city and accidentally remembered how to make a Pokémon game you finish on purpose.
5 Sept 2026 · 5 min read
News
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Silksong and Ghost of Yotei Still Owning the Australian Weekend Chat
Adelaide's needle and Sony's mountain are still the two games Australian weekends keep arguing about. That is chatter, not a forged ARIA number.
5 Sept 2026 · 2 min read
Reviews
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Donkey Kong Bananza Review: Smash First, Ask the Island Later
Nintendo rebuilds Donkey Kong as a demolition sandbox — joyful, loud, and occasionally too proud of the dirt.
4 Sept 2026 · 2 min read
Reviews
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Mario Kart World Review: Nintendo's Biggest Kart, Not Its Tightest
A connected map and knockout races make this the most ambitious Kart yet — with a few seams Nintendo usually irons out.
4 Sept 2026 · 2 min read
News
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Mario Kart World on Switch 2 in Australia: Price, Stock, and Whether You Need the Console
World is the Switch 2 living-room game. That does not mean you should panic-buy a console at midnight retail.
4 Sept 2026 · 2 min read
Reviews
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Silksong Review (2026): Pharloom Punishes, Then Pays Off
Team Cherry's sequel is denser, meaner, and more generous than Hallownest — if you can survive the first dozen deaths.
4 Sept 2026 · 3 min read
Opinion
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Is Silksong Worth Buying in Australia?
A scored 9.2 is not a blank cheque. Here is the AU-dollar version: who should tap buy tonight, and who should leave Hornet in the wishlist.
4 Sept 2026 · 2 min read
Previews
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Hollow Knight: Silksong Preview — The First Hours in Pharloom
Hornet is faster, meaner, and already making Hallownest feel like a tutorial. Hands-on from the opening climb.
12 Sept 2025 · 1 min read
News
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Nintendo Switch 2: What the Australian Launch Lineup Actually Looks Like
Stock, pricing, and the first-party slate that matters once the midnight queues thin out.
6 June 2025 · 1 min read
Reviews
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Balatro Review: The Poker Night That Ate the Year
A deckbuilder that makes Texas Hold'em look like a tutorial. One more ante. Then we sleep. Then we lied.
21 Feb 2024 · 1 min read
Reviews
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Sea of Stars Review: A SNES Dream That Knows It Is One
Sabotage's turn-based adventure is gorgeous, musical, and just self-aware enough to avoid pastiche.
1 Sept 2023 · 1 min read
Reviews
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Skyrim Anniversary Review: Still the Elder Scrolls
Fifteen years on, Tamriel is still where we go when a new RPG misses. The bugs are folklore. The mountains still work.
19 Nov 2021 · 1 min read
Reviews
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Human: Fall Flat Review
Ragdoll physics, co-op chaos, and the kind of laughter that makes the neighbours knock. A party game that accidentally became a platform.
22 Jan 2020 · 1 min read
Reviews
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The Binding of Isaac Review: Explore the Gruesome World
Edmund McMillen's basement roguelike is still one of the meanest, funniest, and most replayable games on PC. We went back into the tears.
18 Nov 2019 · 2 min read
Reviews
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Overcooked 2 Review: Be the World's Best Chef
Ghost Town Games plated a sequel that is louder, faster, and still the most honest friendship test on consoles.
9 Sept 2019 · 1 min read
Opinion
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Top 5 Gaming Consoles of All Time
Five living-room machines that changed what a generation could mean. Arguments welcome. Controllers down.
3 July 2019 · 1 min read