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  • Four Marvel characters stand in a line, poised to fight

    Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls review – an anime-style rumble that’s rooting for you

    With tremendous visuals and accessible controls, this superhero-themed fighter has the chops to inspire a new generation of champs
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  • Melbourne game developer David Ashby and comedian Broden Kelly with their new AFL arcade game Pro Jank Footy at the Great Northern Hotel in Carlton North.

    ‘People in Japan thought we made footy up’: Pro Jank Footy, the video game taking Australian rules to the world

  • A dark-skinned short-haired woman in dungarees stands in front of a church holding a sledgehammer, a robot in the background.

    Virtue and a Sledgehammer – take a literal hammer to your past

  • A synthetic human face is placed onto a machine, the whole head raised above a platform as the sky can be seen outside a window.

    Convince an AI it’s not alive in psychological horror game Prove You’re Human

  • Close up of Samus' helmet in Metroid Prime 4

    Metroid at 40: happy birthday to Samus Aran, gaming’s greatest badass and my personal heroine

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    The ​games industry’s obsession with ​visual fidelity is costing them money and talent

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    My family is coming apart – so it’s time for one last video game session

    Dominik Diamond
  • animated golfer takes a swing in Normal Golf Game.

    Behold, the most realistic golf game ever – it took me 428 strokes to finish a hole

    Dominik Diamond
  • Dominik Diamond in sunglasses and a purple head wrap gives two thumbs up while running

    If you want to run your first marathon in your 50s, it helps to be chased by zombies

    Dominik Diamond
  • Title screen for Daley Thompson's Super Test video game showing various Olympic events

    I touched a ZX Spectrum for the first time in decades – and I liked it

    Dominik Diamond
  • Four colourful characters made mostly of balls sit on a bridge that leads into a building.

    Big Walk review – larking around with mates elevated to an artform

  • The player character, Emma, wears mostly grey clothing and a wide hat, stands outside next to her large white dog, Koo.

    Beast of Reincarnation review – a taxing reflection of human-made damage

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    Halo: Campaign Evolved review – they don’t make ‘em like this any more

  • Sally (a woman with green hair) stands with arms folded on the deck of a vessel, a wooden buoy with glowing eyes at her feet. On a wall of the vessel the word Seafoam is crossed out and Mortuga is painted beneath.

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