Sometimes all you need is a few keywords (oh, hey Google). And in this instance from indie dev Black Salt Games and publisher Team 17 it was “eldritch fishing sim” that first caught our attention. Fast forward a bit of time (and bank it), and we’ve been dredging up a slew of thoughts on the studio’s debut original IP, Dredge, a game that definitely delivers on the cosmic horror and eldritch promise to serve up an atmospheric horror experience for the ages.

This week marks the release of the 10.0.7 Content Update for World of Warcraft: Dragonflight, which introduces a new high-level Zone for players to explore in the Forbidden Reach. And with major Content Update 10.1 Embers of Neltharion around the corner, there seems to be a renewed vigor for all things WoW within the walls of Blizzard.

According to Valve, "Counter-Strike 2 is the largest technical leap forward in Counter-Strike’s history, ensuring new features and updates for years to come." Counter-Strike 2 will arrive as a free update to CS:GO, where upgraded visuals, map overhauls, fancy new smoke effects, and a new Source 2 engine that improves server tick rates are all on the cards.

From the creators of Dishonored and Prey, Redfall is a co-op action game set in a sleepy coastal town overrun by vampires. It headed to Xbox Series X|S and PC in May (and will be available as a part of Xbox Game Pass) and we recently had the chance to go fangs-on. That is hands-on, and, err, play the game.

It's no secret on this website that we love Resident Evil 4. Not just for its own awesomeness, but for how it impacted and ultimately reshaped the third-person action and survival horror experience for the better. But what happens when someone decides they're going to try and top the OG with an all-new "Remake" of where it all started?

Life by You is an ambitious new life simulator in the style of The Sims or Second Life and is aiming to be the most moddable and open life simulator ever created. Featuring an open world that you can freely explore with all lives ready to fully control, it sounds fascinating.

PAX Australia 2023 is on track for the weekend of October 6-8 at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, and with that tickets are now available to purchase. The Early Bird 3-Day Badges are available for $175 with Early Bird Single-Day Badges for Friday, Saturday, and Sunday available for $70 each.

Sometimes we get unexpected announcements in our inbox that just immediately demand attention, and Trinity Fusion, a roguelite action-platformer from indie studio Angry Mob Games, did just that overnight thanks to its high-concept multiverse setup and hyper-stylised action and polished visuals. In short, what we've seen and learnt has definitely got us interested.

Boy, that year and a bit went by fast. Fortress Sydney, which is set to become the flagship HQ for the brand, will be opening its doors this coming April 1, no jokes. And alongside will be Telstra as a key partner who will also provide the location with its high-speed fixed network.

Southern Cross University has been awarded a grant by the Australian Institute of Sport to build a model for future elite esports players based on investigations associated with successful esports players and programs. The goal behind the investigation and subsequent model is to better prepare future esports players for the rigours and expectations associated with the burgeoning field.

If I had to leverage a negative against a handful of the early Disney+ Star Wars stories, it's that too many of them took place on Tatooine or other already familiar locales. Star Wars is a huge universe with unknown planets and species and cultures just waiting to be explored and expanded upon. And today it looks like that's exactly what we're going to be getting with the forthcoming Star Wars Jedi: Survivor sequel from Respawn Entertainment and EA.

It's no secret that we loved Coffee Talk. Or that we're waiting with baited breath for its sequel, Coffee Talk Episode 2: Hibiscus & Butterfly. So news overnight that its follow-up would be rocking Game Pass from Day One of its launch is actually huge news as the game's near one-person dev team, Toge Productions benefited hugely off the original's eventual Game Pass posting.

Like Deathloop before it, Bethesda and Tango Gameworks' Ghostwire: Tokyo is set to make its Xbox Series X|S debut roughly a year after launching on PlayStation 5. As a timed exclusive it looks like the exclusivity period is ending with Ghostwire: Tokyo set to launch into Xbox Game Pass (both Console and PC) on April 12. Plus it arrives with a bunch of new updates.

As part of NVIDIA's GDC announcements, we've got word that Diablo IV is going to launch with DLSS 3 support - namely the impressive AI-powered Frame Generation tech seen in the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 Series. With the Diablo IV Early Access Beta kicking off this weekend, and the Public Open Beta next weekend, this is great news for PC gamers.

Cast your minds back to the launch of Fallout 3 in Australia and the game was originally banned due to its depiction of drug use. The reason for that was that the R18+ rating for videogames wasn't a thing at the time. Today comes the surprising revelation that Bethesda's Starfield has been given an R18+ rating due to the game's drug use.

Arkane Austin (Prey, Dishonored) is in the final stretch of development for its upcoming single-player and co-op action game Redfall - it's out May 2, 2023, for Xbox Series X|S and PC. Today comes a new lengthy story trailer from publisher Bethesda and Arkane that hints at the game's mix of science experiments gone wrong and blood-soaked horror.

As part of an anniversary celebration for the last great Far Cry game, Ubisoft has given fans what they've been most vocal about -- Far Cry 5 running at a native 60fps across all modes. And it's available now via a free update for the game.

We've already spoken about our intrigue over Deck 13's forthcoming Atlas Fallen, and today publisher Focus Entertainment alongside the studio have released an all-new trailer highlighting some aspects of gameplay, most notably in the game's traversal, which sees the protagonist as something of a prolific sand surfer. And it looks prety cool.

Stephen King writing as Richard Bachman in the early 80s released The Running Man -- a dystopian sci fi novel that eventually made its way to the silver screen in an action epic starring Arnie. Now, some 40-plus years later a new game is taking inspiration from the classic story, as well as other 80s and 90s action films, titled Showgunners, and it looks rad.

Fully Locational Evisceration System for Humanoids, or FLESH, is behind Dead Island 2’s over-the-top and impressively gory combat. We sit down with Dambuster Studio to talk about how it all works.