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Xbox Game Pass Ultimate Australia pricing, Series hardware, and the multiplatform releases that matter here.
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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
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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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GTA 6 Australia Countdown: 74 Days, a Pre-Load Week, and No Review
Seventy-four days to Thursday 19 November. That is a calendar, a pre-load week, and a cardboard ritual — not a scored campaign.
6 Sept 2026 · 1 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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GTA 6 Release Date Australia: 19 November 2026, PS5 and Xbox, No Review Yet
Rockstar dated Vice City Thursday 19 November 2026. That is a calendar, not a scored review. Here is the Australian till version.
5 Sept 2026 · 3 min read
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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
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
Previews
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GTA 6 Preview: Vice City After Dark
A first look at Rockstar's dual-protagonist crime story — and why the Florida heat might be the real open world.
8 May 2026 · 1 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
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
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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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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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