After spending considerable time with Dead Island 2, it’s safe to say that the combat is shaping up to be some of the most fun gore-filled action you’re likely to see in 2023.

Horizon Call of the Mountain has many moments where you'll stop, stand there, and take in the view. Like the series' mainline games on PS4 and PS5, the world of Horizon is chock-full of impressive jungles, forests, icy peaks, and giant robot dinosaurs. And all of that takes on new life in VR.

As it did with Resident Evil Village, publisher-developer Capcom has dropped a playable demo for the hotly-anticipated Resident Evil 4 Remake, available to play now on PC, PS4, PS5 and Xbox Series X|S and has no limits as to how many times you can play through it.

Yeah, PlayStation Vr2 or PS VR2 is just that good - a monumental leap forward over the original PS Vr from back in 2016. Not only because it leverage the power of the more, err, powerful PlayStation 5 console hardware - but because its design is exceptional. 4K OLED, touch controls, inside-out tracking, and more.

When exactly, we're not sure -- only that it'll be in "2023". But we can at least confirm it's happening and the fan-favourite Indie riff on Nintendo's beloved Advance Wars series has taken all of its learnings from its first outing and promises in this sequel to take Wargroove 2 "to the next level".

In a first for the game, Wargaming has included an Australian Commonwealth naval commander, Matilda Kelly, as well as the Commonwealth light cruiser, Brisbane, set to come to World of Warships this April 19 in a "special themed adventure".

Forever Skies, the first-person survival game set in a post-apocalyptic future where the surface of Earth is a posionous deathtrap and humans have been forced to shift into orbit above the planet, has a lot of science backing up its survival gameplay loop. And we have peer reviewed proof of it by way of a fresh video from developer Far From Home.

As a companion piece to our deep-dive on what it means to be a "Lovecraftian" game, featuring background on the man himself, H.P. Lovecraft, we tasked Crowland Publishing's Christian D. Read to submit his top 10 best Lovecraftian games, and boy he didn't disappoint. This is an eclectic list with a few entries you might not have ever heard of, so jump in and take a look.

And isn't interested in any sort of deal - ala the recent announcement that Microsoft is bringing Call of Duty to both Nintendo platforms and NVIDIA's GeForce NOW cloud gaming service. In fact, Sony has been suggesting to the CMA in the UK that Microsoft might intentionally leave in bugs and "errors" in the game as a way to diminish the PlayStation brand.

We now have a new release date for Bethesda Game Studios' Starfield, the long-awaited sci-fi RPG from the studio behind The Elder Scrolls and Fallout. And what're a few more extra words to wait? Okay, here we go. The release date is September 6, 2023, for Xbox Series X|S and PC. And we got a new trailer too.

Microsoft has announced a new batch of Xbox Game Pass titles for March 2023 and in addition to confirming that we're only days away from the console debut of the smash-hit survival game Valheim, but that the sim and strategy giant Sid Meier’s Civilization VI is coming on March 16 to Cloud, Console, and PC.

And it looks stunning, with 20 unique paintings covering 160 feet of the ceiling in a "deconsecrated cathedral in France." We're assuming it was deconsecrated before the painting, but having a massive Diablo IV inspired ceiling inside a real cathedral would probably double as a form of deconsecration.

The Lamplighters League and the Tower at the End of the World, which is something of a mouthful, is a new real-time stealth and tactical turn-based game from the studio behind The Shadowrun Trilogy and BATTLETECH. Set in an alternate history 1930s it features a fun stylised art style that is part animation part Indiana Jones.

The original Cities: Skylines first came out back in 2015, but since then it has received several bits of DLC content and made its way to consoles and even VR. Along the way, it has sold millions of copies and cemented itself as the successor to Sim City. We've been expecting a sequel for some time, and today publisher Paradox Interactive and developer Colossal Order has announced that Cities: Skylines II is coming.

Rocket League is in its 10th official season and show's no signs of slowing down, or diving any time soon. With that said, the new season begins this Thursday for Aussies in the evening PM and features new cars and new arena variant and a new in-game event, among other additions.

It's funny that we've solwly replaced "clone" with "-like" in our descriptions of games in media and overall coverage of new and upcoming releases. But as ours is an industry full of influence and of developers wearing those on their sleeves, I think it's actually good.

Anyway, Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem, which is a Diablo-like dungeon-crawler with epic loot and a dedicated PC audience, makes its way to consoles this month in its most complete form.

AI this and AI that, you could say that headlines in the tech world have been about AI-generated images (DALL-E), sounds, and text (ChatGPT). And with that, it was probably only a matter of time before Skyrim entered the picture. The new Dragonborn Voice Over mod for Skyrim Special Edition uses ElevenLabs AI to generate over 7,000 voice lines for the main character - the unvoiced Dragonborn.

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive 2, or simply a version of CS:GO that runs on the Source 2 engine, has been seemingly outed by the latest NVIDIA graphics driver. Where it was noticed that a profile existed for something called "csgos2.exe" exists.

Polish-based studio Fool's Theory, which includes a team of RPG veterans, is currently working on The Witcher Remake alongside CD Projekt RED. But, it's also partnered with 11 bit studios on another RPG called The Thaumaturge - and with a gameplay reveal debuting over the weekend, this is one to keep an eye on.

With the surprise (and awesome) Metroid Prime Remastered release last month, Metroid Dread, Metroid Prime 4 still "coming soon... ish... maybe", Metroid (NES), Super Metroid (SNES), and Metroid II: Return of Samus (GB) all available on the Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack service - Metroid fans be eating like a Metroid attached to an unsuspecting Space Pirate.