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Melbourne-based studio Plot Twist has announced Ashes, a murder-mystery thriller set in regional Victoria that blends graphic novel storytelling with interactive gameplay, launching on Steam this April.…
Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. In director Simon McQuoid’s adaptation of the ‘90s video-game series Mortal Kombat, logic and sleeved shirts are no…
After seeing Sonic the Hedgehog, I am convinced that Pokémon Detective Pikachu was a fluke being the only decent video-game movie that isn’t a cynical cash-grab with a famous video game character slap…
Red Dead Redemption 2 is out in the world. It’s another mammoth video game from the minds at Rockstar studios (all 3000+of them), putting you right in the middle of 1890’s America. You use a controlle…
The visual and aural feast that is thatgamecompany's Journeyhas made its way to the Playstation 4, allowing a new group of players the opportunity to embody mute, cloaked jawas on their trek to th…
Unravel is the equivalent of looking at your very talented photographer friend’s holiday shots. Their photos of mountaintops and luscious forests look absolutely brilliant and are some of the finest p…
Spider-Man. Peter Parker. Great power. Great responsibility. Yada yada yada. You know the drill. After three different cinematic portrayals of the web swinging New Yorker (with a massive, multi-unive…
World War One is sadly under represented in video games. It’s a war that - to steal from a film critic I follow - is simply not ‘sexy’. It’s a war without the same level of firepower or artillery as W…
As my work life has changed, I have found my available gaming time has changed as well. Where I used to sit down for hours on end to play through a fantasy epic, I now find myself struggling to comple…
Up until the 2018 God of War, the character of Kratos had laid claim to being the 'greatest anti-hero video game character of all time'. He's an angry, brutal man, scorned by having been t…
When looking at what games were coming up over the next year, I stumbled onto this fascinating game called Bee Simulator. Now, simulator games are a dime a dozen, and wonky controlled animal simulator…
This review will contain spoilers. The eighties feels like it's the decade that spawned that pesky thing called ‘nostalgia’. The rose tinted glasses of the seventies were discovered by upstart sq…