Gaming in New Zealand. Reviews, Walkthroughs, News

Starfield lead Todd Howard has sent a heartfelt congratulations to the entire team at Xbox and Bethesda on the eve of the game's Early Access launch.

Old is new again. This is the Atari 2600+, a newly revamped version of the original 1980 Atari 2600 home console with lots of new bells and whistles to bring it into the modern age.

Over the past few months, generative AI has been utilized by more and more industrial and services segments and most recently social media platforms are also integrating artificial intelligence into their app to make user experience more fun and engaging. Keeping AI advancement and competition in mind, Snapchat has introduced a new AI selfie feature, Dreams that enables users to generate images according to different themes provided in the app. Know more about the latest feature here.

Bethesda Game Studios has revealed that its eagerly-awaited sci-fi RPG Starfield will go live on September 6th, midnight UTC. However, depending on your region, it could be released sooner or later. A new article outlines release timings worldwide, starting September 5th at 5 PM PDT in Los Angeles, with Premium Edition owners receiving early access on August 31st.

It’s been a whirlwind of a week for us at TSA, with a big part of that down to two of us being at Gamescom. We’ve played so many games that it’s hard to pick the best ones out, but I’m very excited for Bellwright, Mudrunner Expeditions and Mortal Kombat 1.

NVIDIA has teamed up with Remedy Entertainment to give away a unique and rare Alan Wake II-inspired GeForce RTX 4090 graphics card.

A closed beta kicks off later this month.

By Jay Peters, a news editor who writes about technology, video games, and virtual worlds. He’s submitted several accepted emoji proposals to the Unicode Consortium.

Level Infinite has announced strategy game Command & Conquer: Legions for iOS and Android via a licensing agreement with intellectual property owner Electronic Arts. A closed beta test for Android (Google Play) will occur later in August in Australia, Canada, France, Mexico, New Zealand, and the Philippines, followed by a global launch later in 2023.

More information has been shared about Ubisoft‘s cancelled sequel to open-world adventure game Immortals Fenyx Rising.

New details have emerged regarding one of Ubisoft's recently canceled projects.

Following last month's confirmation that a planned sequel to Ubisoft's enjoyable open-world romp Immortals: Fenyx Rising had been cancelled, new details of the ill-fated project have emerged, including word it would have combined elements of Elden Ring and WindWaker to create a follow-up very different from the original.

Whether you're a noob or you've been levelling up your experience points for years, a new exhibition celebrating women in gaming will have something for you, Lucinda Blackley-Jimson says.

New Zealand's primary competition regulator, the Commerce Commission, has approved Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard.

While Microsoft sent its final submission to the Consumer Markets Authority in the UK regarding its acquisition of Activision Blizzard, another regular has approved the deal. New Zealand’s Commerce Commission announced its approval, noting its focus on “the importance of Activision games (such as Call of Duty, Overwatch and World of Warcraft) to New Zealand gamers.”

Today was a big day for businesses that are either working heavily with artificial intelligence or are looking to get into this space. Walt Disney has created a new task force that will study AI and find out all the different ways it can be used in its businesses in the entertainment industry. In other news. Spotify is finally expanding its experimental feature of an AI DJ to 50 different countries, after keeping it in limited access for almost three months. This and more in today's AI roundup. Let us take a closer look.

One more country has approved Microsoft's mega purchase, leaving only one more pending outside of the UK's roadblock.

New Zealand has become the latest part of the world to give the nod to Microsoft's proposed acquisition of Activision Blizzard.

New Zealand has become the latest company to approve Microsoft‘s impending purchase of Activision Blizzard.

New Zealand has approved Microsoft’s merger-acquisition deal with Activision Blizzard King.

Microsoft's proposed acquisition of Activision Blizzard has been approved by New Zealand's Commerce Commission.

Today, after a long list of eight delays (called time extensions), the New Zealand Commerce Commission has officially cleared Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard. That makes the Pacific Ocean island country the 42nd where the deal has been approved, although technically, the Federal Trade Commission may still continue to pursue its in-house judiciary process even after being defeated in federal court following the request for a preliminary injunction.

Rapper Post Malone has purchased a one-of-a-kind Magic: The Gathering card inspired by JRR Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings series.

Larian Studios is preparing to release Baldur’s Gate 3 on PC on Thursday. The team is answering some questions, thanking the community for their support, and revealing details on Twitch Drops and other things to know for launch.

The Biden administration believes China has implanted malware in key US power and communications networks in a "ticking time bomb" that could disrupt the military in event of a conflict, The New York Times reported Saturday.

As promised, Grinding Gear Games delivered a major Path of Exile 2 update at ExileCon 2023, hosted yesterday in Auckland, New Zealand. To begin with, the developer clarified that Path of Exile 2 will be a full sequel instead of being considered a mere standalone campaign as originally announced.

As Path of Exile 2 rears its head for the first time in a long while at ExileCon 2023, it does so in a world where the action-RPG is more popular than ever. In the decade since its predecessor launched, these top-down, loot-driven games have grown to become some of the most popular and best RPG games. Now, alongside the likes of Diablo 4, Lost Ark, and the upcoming Last Epoch, Path of Exile 2 proves that Grinding Gear Games is still pushing the genre forward in exciting new ways.

Path of Exile 2 will not be released this year in any form. The plan, as it stands, is for a closed beta test to begin 7th June 2024.

ExileCon 2023 is coming up in a few hours, with the event streaming from Grinding Gear Games' hometown of Auckland, New Zealand. With teases that Path of Exile 2 will be shown during the event and information on patch 3.22 for Path of Exile 1.

Lizzo has fully embraced Legolas cosplay — silver hair, pointed ears, and all. In a series of TikTok and Instagram posts, the pop star dubbed herself “Lizzolas” and galavanted through what appears to be The Shire in New Zealand. Let the Lizzolas era begin.

Baldur’s Gate 3 has just confirmed its PC release time for every part of the world, meaning that the question on everyone’s minds finally has an answer. When is Baldur’s Gate 3 out on PC, then? As we count the days down until the RPG game launches, you can always return here to see precisely when Larian Studios’ highly anticipated Dungeons & Dragons-inspired experience will drop on Steam. Baldur’s Gate 3 is one massive 2023 release you won’t want to miss, so we have pinpointed it right to the launch hour here.

Diablo 4 Season 1, Season of the Malignant, will be launching globally at the same time later today on July 20th! We've broken down when the season will start across time zones. Here is when Diablo 4 Season 1, Season of the Malignant, will be launching in popular regions: