Everything below passed one test: would we tell a mate about it at the pub? Press releases go in the recycling. The rest gets written up straight, with dates in NZT and no exclamation marks we didn't earn.
After last year's slip from 2025, Rockstar reaffirmed this week that Grand Theft Auto VI ships 19 November 2026 on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S. Preload details and the PC question remain unanswered, because of course they do. Our take: the one delay did the game good — the latest trailer's density of simulated Florida chaos speaks for itself.
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Nintendo's follow-up keeps outrunning supply a full year after launch. Mario Kart World remains the attach-rate monster, and NZ retailers say restocks still sell through in days.
Team Cherry posted one image: a sealed door, a red thread, no caption. The community has produced 400 theories in 48 hours. We've read them all so you don't have to — three are actually plausible.
The national game developers conference returns to our backyard, with talks spanning indie survival economics, Māori storytelling in games, and porting for handhelds. Local devs get early-bird rates through August.
We played 43 demos over the fest so your download queue doesn't have to be a landfill. Standouts: a courier sim set on a drowned archipelago and a rhythm dungeon-crawler made by two people in Dunedin.
Bigger drives, same NZ pricing — a rare sentence in 2026. The base model now starts at 512GB, which means your Silksong screenshot folder finally fits.
Mossmouth's fake-retro anthology heads to Switch and PS5 later this year. Our review stands: it's the best value proposition in games, full stop.
Forty-eight hours, sixty-one finished games, one physics sandbox about herding sheep with a leaf blower that deserves a full release. BattleRelay sat on the judging panel; our shortlist is inside.
More late-90s PC titles return to digital storefronts with modern patches. Somewhere, a CD-ROM binder weeps with joy.
Twenty-eight minutes of trailers, three of substance. We ranked what's real, what's CGI perfume, and what's quietly the most exciting thing Sony showed.
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