Promising indie games we saw at PAX Australia 2023

PAX Australia hit Melbourne like a cyclone full of boxing gloves over the weekend, bringing with it Mandalorian cosplayers, cultists of The Lamb, and New Blood Interactive’s incredible merch. Sadly, someone committed the frankly un-Australian act of complaining about New Blood’s “Sick Cunt” T-shirt and they had to remove it from display, but they’ll always…

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This Pathfinder RPG’s weakest class is a poisoner in a game where nearly everyone is immune to poison, but after two years it’s about get a lifesaving overhaul

If you wanted to play a sneaky assassin guy (like I often do) in the excellent CRPG, Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous, you paradoxically never, ever wanted to pick the Assassin prestige class⁠—it was that bad. In the game’s 2.2 update accompanying the release of its Lord of Nothing DLC on November 21, though, Assassins…

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Arkane shows it hasn’t given up on Redfall with a substantial new update, but it’s hard to imagine a Cyberpunk-style turnaround is in the cards

Despite a rough release and not many people remaining to play it on Steam, Redfall is not yet Deadfall. On Friday, Arkane put out a large update to the game that addresses performance and stability concerns, bugs, accessibility and QoL shortfalls, and even adds new combat encounters and player actions. The performance improvements most notably…

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Tomb Raider Gold Finally Comes To The Sega Saturn

“A Saturn port was long overdue”. It’s an often-overlooked fact that Tomb Raider came to Saturn before the PlayStation, and while Lara Croft would enjoy many more adventures on Sony’s hardware, one fan has ensured that the famous explorer has returned to Sega’s console, albeit in an unofficial capacity (thanks, segasaturnshiro.com). RetroRaiderJohn has ported Tomb…

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