Probably one of the more hotly anticipated indie games for a while, Dredge comes to us from Black Salt Games, a small games studio operating out of Christchurch that has bagged itself an international publishing deal.
Harvestella feels like playing the gaming equivalent of 2-in-1 shampoo, a half-baked RPG with a farming system taped on to the side, writes a disappointed Wyatt Ryder.
My late father was not into video games — and he was no god of war — but he was on my mind a lot when I played through the deep and dazzling God of War: Ragnarok.
The New Zealand Centre of Digital Excellence (CODE) is ending the year on a high note by funding five new Dunedin game development studios in its latest round of grants.
In this age of remastering and remaking games, having a brand new sequel to an old series is a rarity, and it’s even more rare for the original creators to return as well.
The DCC's work on the development of Code - NZ Centre of Digital Excellence - has been awarded best practice winner for sector development at the Economic Development NZ Conference awards in Christchurch.
Of all the games I expected to be remade in this era, I wouldn’t have suspected a series that parodies Cold War alien films and offers jokes and stereotypes that probably offend basically everyone in the modern era.
The latest release in Square Enix’s line of HD-2D games, Live A Live is a remaster of the 1994 game of the same name, which never received a Western release.