Gaming

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I’ve always avoided turn-based games, and especially tactics style ones.

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Pupils’ designs cross the Pacific

Columba College pupils Juliette McDonald (left) and Anise Maclean (both 17) take a break during...

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Pupils’ designs cross the Pacific

Games about escaping a dark foreign planet or a school full of evil teachers performing strange rituals are examples of what Dunedin and Japanese pupils came up with during the recent Cross Pacific Game Jam.

Tech review

Confession: I have never been much of an “audio guy”, largely being content to use whatever pair of cheap earphones that came with a long-since-dead cellphone I can find lying around the house.

Otago game developers, Japanese pupils to team up

Information technology lecturer Adon Moskal and Otago games co-ordinator Mairead Fountain prepare...

Otago game developers, Japanese pupils to team up

Dunedin secondary school pupils will have the opportunity to create video games with pupils in Japan this weekend.

Aloy back in the saddle

Aloy travels to new and exciting environments in which to fire arrows at robots in Burning Shores...

Aloy back in the saddle

Game developers need to be careful when bringing out add-ons for wildly successful games.

Gaming industry welcomes boost

Runaway Play chief executive Zoe Hobson is delighted with news of a rebate for game development...

Gaming industry welcomes boost

Dunedin's burgeoning gaming industry has welcomed a 20% rebate for game development studios contained in in yesterday’s Budget — hopefully quelling an exodus to Australia.

Scratching the witch itch

Excellent art direction is a feature of Bayonetta Origins: Cereza And The Lost Demon. Image:...

Scratching the witch itch

CEREZA AND THE LOST DEMONFrom: Platinum Games / NintendoFor: Nintendo SwitchRating: ★★★★I’ve never played Bayonetta games, but I’ve definitely heard about them.

A change of platform

Returnal (above) and Inscryption (below) are now on new platforms.

A change of platform

Michael Robertson and Ben Allan scope out a couple of recent ports of hit titles.

Scarred? No, bored

Like many of the galaxy’s most menacing life forms, the creatures in Scars Above have helpfully...

Scarred? No, bored

At this point, any time someone touts a game as "challenging", I’m instantly interested.

Trawling the appalling

Uh-oh, the sun is going down — cause for concern in Dredge. Image: supplied

Trawling the appalling

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.