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Voidtrain – Review

Voidtrain is a new survival crafting game from HyperTrain Digital, and it’s due for release on the 10th of May 2023 on PC. Players can take on the Void World, either solo or with friends in the 4-player co-op experience, taking on the role of engineers that have been thrown

4.5

Knight Crawlers – Review

“Knight Crawlers” is a rogue-lite dungeon crawler by a small fledgling studio, Good Morning Games, working alongside publisher, The Iterative Collective. In this fantasy world, it’s all about weaving through traps, slaying enemies, and preventing the Corrupted Realms from taking over. I was lucky to try an early preview back

Park Beyond – Hands-On Preview

‘Park Beyond’ is an up-and-coming promising theme park simulator and management game by Limbic Entertainment. Due for release 16th of June, 2023, MKAU got to have a hands-on preview of what’s to come and the future looks exciting. You are but a lowly designer, doodling and inventing mechanical feats only

8.5

Showgunners – Review

A gruesome game show set in a dystopian cyberpunk world? Count me in! Diving into this game was pretty exciting. I don’t usually take on turn-based games like this, but it definitely caught my attention. Developed by Artificer, Showgunners is turn-based tactical combat with some open exploring and puzzle aspects.

HYPERVIOLENT (Early Access) – Preview

HYPERVIOLENT is an amazing throwback to 90s gaming, and this brutal action-packed FPS brings back the old-school sprite-based character models that were used in heavy hitter classics like Doom and Duke Nukem. It is created by indie company Terminst Arcade and is published by Fulqrum Publishing. HYPERVIOLENT will have the

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Stray Blade (PC) – Review

Berlin-based developers Point Blank Games have released the latest in action-adventure games to keep you immersed for hours. They have built this visually stunning, story-rich game known as Stray Blade. This is one title you aren’t going to want to miss. You begin your adventure with the main character –

KarmaZoo – Hands-On Preview

Of all the things that could inspire a video, one of the least expected would be a subway, but that’s exactly what gave the team at PastaGames the spark needed for KarmaZoo, and a project that Game Designer Nadim Haddad was clearly very passionate about. To paraphrase Nadim: “It can

7.5

Desktop Dungeons: Rewind – Review

Digging through the trenches and diving through dungeons has never been easier or more accessible! A new and upcoming tactics-based, rogue-lite dungeon crawler, jam-packed with quick-to-complete randomly generated dungeons will be sure to fill any gap between the big releases this year. Desktop Dungeons: Rewind is a remaster of the

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Beyond Contact – Review

Beyond Contact is a sci-fi survival game published by Deep Silver and developed by Playcorp Studios, a local Australian game studio based out of Melbourne. Beyond Contact utilizes a top-down viewing experience that I am not usually a fan of, but this game does it well. Survive by doing the

Immortals Of Aveum – Hands Off Preview

MKAU was recently invited to a hands-off exclusive preview of Ascendant Studios LLC’s first title, Immortals of Aveum, which is being published by EA. Needless to say, the presentation was amazing, and it’s a game I’m looking forward to getting fully immersed in when we finally get a chance to

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Supplice – Review

This is the throwback to the ’90s when all we wanted were those fast-paced, action-packed, first-person shooters, we all learned to love. ‘Supplice’ is the perfect mixture of fast-paced action and colourful environments and those beautiful retro-style graphics which we all loved in titles like ‘Quake’ and ‘Doom’. The developers

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Terra Nil – Review

Industrial development is humanity’s way forward and there’s an abundance of city-builder games about it, but there aren’t many that focus on nature until Terra Nil. The last thing I expected from the creators of Broforce and a game about jousting with certain appendages was a game about rebuilding ecosystems,

Redfall – Hands-On Preview

Last week I was lucky enough to get a chance to visit the Bethesda ANZ office to get an early hands-on preview of Redfall. During this experience, I was able to play a story mission that takes place about 30% into the campaign, and I was able to pick from

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Post Void – Review

‘Post’ and ‘Void’, two words both with a multitude of different meanings. Post can be an upright support, an action to display information, or can even mean something that is after an event. Void can render something invalid, refer to the emptiness of space or be an action of draining

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Battle Ram – Review

‘Battle Ram’ is an indie arcade game where players must fight off waves of enemies and environmental hazards. Battle Ram, developed by Wloop777 & Anatoliy Loginovskikh and published by Khukhrovr, is only available on PC and was released on January 6, 2023. In Battle Ram, the player controls a genetically

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Zapling Bygone – Review

If you’re looking for a ‘Metroidvania” that you can finish in a weekend then ‘Zapling Bygone’ is for you. Developed and published by 9FingerGames, this indie carries all the standard tropes you’ve come to expect from the genre. Zap is a hive mind and is under attack from a parasite.

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Scars Above – Review

Developed by Mad Head Games, Scars Above is a challenging sci-fi third-person shooter set on a mysterious alien world. Feel rewarded as you fight through and overcome the difficulties as you embark on a compelling and intricate story. You play as Kate, an astronaut, and scientist working for the Sentient

7.5

SpellForce: Conquest Of Eo – Review

Spellforce: Conquest of EO is a turn-based strategy game, or, as they’re more commonly referred to, a 4X strategy. Developed by Owned by Gravity, and published by THQ Nordic, Spellforce: Conquest of Eo is only available on PC and released on 4th February 2023. Conquest of Eo is the newest

Bleak Sword DX (DEMO) – Preview

Power always corrupts. Yes, it does, as Apple exclusive ‘Bleak Sword DX’ by more8bit, curses its way onto PC and Nintendo Switch. With no announced release date, MKAU got their hands on the DEMO to see what we are in store for! The Bleak Sword has corrupted King Rhael and

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Winter Survival: Prologue – Review

Drago Development and Movie Games have brought us the latest in survival titles with ‘Winter Survival: Prologue’. It’s based in Mount Washington State Park, with a group of friends lost and it all goes terribly wrong from the start. It’s you against the elements. You begin the adventure by talking

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Returnal (PC) – Review

As you probably already know, Returnal has been out on PS5 for a couple of years now, and you can check out that review HERE. Now it’s released on PC, and we get to dive in once again, but this time, we get to see how it runs with a

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