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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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Call of Duty Black Ops 7 Australia: Launch Date, Price, Vault Edition, Game Pass
Black Ops 7 is already out. If you are still typing the launch date, you want the Australian till: platforms, Vault versus Standard, and whether Game Pass is the cheaper door.
13 Oct 2026 · 4 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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Battlefield 6 vs Black Ops 7 for Australians: Price, Platforms, Which Loop
Same $110-class sticker, different wars. Battlefield 6 is current-gen all-out warfare. Black Ops 7 still talks to last-gen and Game Pass. Here is the Australian comparison without a fake score.
13 Oct 2026 · 4 min read
News
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Borderlands 4 Australia: Price, Standard vs Deluxe vs Super Deluxe
Borderlands 4 has three Australian receipts and a DLC pitch that costs more than the base game if you buy it later. Here is the edition maths without a review score.
12 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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Silent Hill f Australia: Release Date, Price, Deluxe, Platforms
Silent Hill f shipped in September 2025. If you are still typing the name, you want the Australian doors: platforms, the $99.94 Steam sticker, and the Deluxe gap — not a fog-and-feel review.
12 Oct 2026 · 2 min read
News
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Game Pass AU Tier Reminder: Ultimate Is Still Not the Only SKU
Microsoft keeps renaming the ladder. Before you tap subscribe this week, check which SKU you are actually buying in Australia.
6 Sept 2026 · 2 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
News
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Xbox Game Pass Ultimate Australia: What $25.95 Actually Buys in 2026
Ultimate is not a vibe. It is A$25.95 a month and a stack of decisions Microsoft keeps renaming. Here is the Australian till version.
5 Sept 2026 · 4 min read
Reviews
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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Review — Grief, Paint, and Perfect Parries
Sandfall's debut plays like a studio that has been alive for twenty years. It has not. That is the scandal.
4 Sept 2026 · 3 min read
Opinion
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Death Stranding 2's Australia Map: What Kojima Invented, What We Recognised
On the Beach is set in Australia. It is not a tourism board. Here is the local read of Kojima's chiral continent.
4 Sept 2026 · 2 min read
Reviews
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Death Stranding 2 Review: Kojima Walks Australia, Then Asks You To Connect It
The sequel is still a walking sim with a blockbuster budget — funnier, meaner, and uncomfortably close to home.
4 Sept 2026 · 3 min read
Reviews
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Monster Hunter Wilds Review: Capcom Sands the Edges — and Some of the Teeth
The hunts feel better than they ever have. The walls you used to climb are lower. That is both the pitch and the complaint.
4 Sept 2026 · 3 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
News
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Xbox Game Pass Adds a Genuinely Good Indie Wave
Microsoft's latest day-one drop is not another open-world checklist. It is a stack of small games that respect a weeknight.
15 Jan 2026 · 1 min read
Videos
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Video: Inside Melbourne Fight Night
A Friday night of FGC brackets, borrowed CRTs, and the best crowd reaction to a perfect in recent memory.
29 Nov 2025 · 1 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
Reviews
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Split Fiction Review: Two Players, One Reckless Imagination
Hazelight's latest co-op adventure is a genre blender that only works if you trust the person on the other stick.
7 Mar 2025 · 1 min read
News
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Dota 2 Patch 7.38 Rewrites the Map — Again
New terrain, quieter mid, louder offlane. The International meta just got a new homework assignment.
20 Feb 2025 · 1 min read
Videos
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Video: How Skyrim's Modding Scene Outlived the Game
A feature-length look at the load orders, Discord servers, and stubborn art that keep Tamriel in 4K.
11 Nov 2024 · 1 min read
Opinion
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StarCraft II Co-op Commanders: A Field Guide for People Who Hate the Ladder
Weekly mutations, hero kits, and the commanders that still slap. No 200 APM required.
3 Sept 2024 · 1 min read
Previews
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Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree Preview — A Second Continent of Secrets
The Land of Shadow plays like a new campaign, not a map pack. First impressions from the opening plateau.
10 June 2024 · 1 min read
Reviews
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Dota 2 Review: The Infinite War
Valve's MOBA is still the most demanding free-to-play game on PC. We tried to explain it without starting a flame war. We failed, politely.
16 Apr 2024 · 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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Baldur's Gate 3 Review: The RPG Benchmark
Larian shipped a role-playing game so dense it made the rest of the genre look unfinished. Honour Mode optional. Shame not included.
14 Aug 2023 · 2 min read
Reviews
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Elden Ring Review: Become Elden Lord
FromSoftware opened the gate and somehow kept the mystery. The Lands Between is the decade's defining adventure.
2 Mar 2022 · 2 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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Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot Review — Be a Superseyan
A love letter to the Saiyan saga that plays like an interactive recap tape. Fans will feast. Everyone else will wonder why the fishing is here.
3 Feb 2020 · 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
Reviews
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StarCraft II: Legacy of the Void Review
The trilogy closer that proved the RTS campaign could still be cinema — and that the ladder would outlive the retail box.
20 Nov 2015 · 1 min read