Meta Quest 3 review

Virtual reality has certainly experienced a rollercoaster of expectations in recent years. While the lofty dreams of an all-encompassing digital universe have yet to materialize fully, the Meta Quest 3 represents a recalibration of the metaverse vision proposed by Mark Zuckerberg. Instead of a dystopian portrayal akin to “Ready Player One,” it refers to the…

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Deep Rock Galactic’s new Vampire Survivors-inspired spin-off proves everything’s better with dwarves—and you can try it for yourself right now

Even as a huge fan of Deep Rock Galactic, I didn’t quite get it when a Vampire Survivors-like spin-off was announced. How do you translate the feel of a four player co-op FPS into a singleplayer top-down bullet heaven game? But after just a couple of hours with Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor’s new demo, I’m…

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Interactive series Silent Hill: Ascension begins Oct 31, ‘if people are afraid of weird F2P monetization, it’s not a game’

There are currently three Silent Hill games we know about in the works. There’s Bloober Team’s remake of Silent Hill 2, a prequel set in Japan called Silent Hill F, and No Code’s Silent Hill: Townfall. But there’s also a game-adjacent project called Silent Hill: Ascension being made by Genvid Entertainment, an interactive streaming series…

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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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