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Over at High Performance Laptops, Nick Ross has just posted a full, Australian review of the 2024 Asus ROG Zephyrus G16 – one of the first laptops on the local market with a new, Intel, 14^th-Gen processor. Here’s the reduced, rapid review:

Copycat is a wholesome, narrative-driven game about rejection, belonging, and the true meaning of home. It's a truly heart-warming game where you play as Dawn, a mischievous, aloof cat, who slowly comes to love and care for your adopted owner, Olive.

The exploration goes even deeper, with all-new cards released for the free-to-play collectible card game Hearthstone this Friday 19 January 2024, in the Showdown in the Badlands mini-set, Delve Into Deepholm.

AI voice company Replica Studios has taken its already-impressive platform to new levels with NPCs not only voiced and animated by AI, but with their entire dialogue now powered by AI too. Epic gaming titles 10x or more the size of Red Dead Redemption 2 are now a real possibility.

Hearthstone, the free-to-play collectible card game featuring heroes from World of Warcraft, has gone live with its latest expansion, Titans - and true to its name, the expansion brings awesome new massive minions along with a new keyword and other enhancements.

Can you smell pizza? Xbox and Paramount are celebrating the return of the iconic teenage mutant ninja turtles to the big screen with the world's first pizza-scented controller.

High-performance gamer gear provider Corsair has launched two fantastic new showstopping PC gaming accessories that will enhance even the most intense play - the Nightsabre wireless gaming mouse, and the K65 Pro mini optical-mechanical gaming keyboard

Xbox has announced Xbox Game Pass Core, an evolution of Xbox Live Gold, that launches on 14 September 2023. Xbox Live has been connecting gamers in online games for 20 years, and the new Game Pass Core bundles online play with Game Pass.

Mahjong is a delightfully colourful tile-based strategy game, and Gamovation's single-player Mahjong solitaire is an excellent modern rendition that allows you to pick up and play anytime, either to relax or to exercise your mind.

The ancient game of chess needs no introduction, enthralling players of all ages and skill levels for centuries. What a time we live in where we can easily play chess against our smartphone thanks to Gamovation's free app.

Based on heroes from World of Warcraft, the collectible card game Hearthstone is about to see its Battlegrounds mode join the current expansion, Festival of Legends, in Battlegrounds season 4 starting on 10 May. The new hero Rock Master Voone is headlining, with 58 musical minions in his entourage and a truckload of Festival-themed cosmetics.

The Game On Cancer initiative from Cure Cancer is recruiting and assembling superhero streamers of all shapes and sizes to fundraise for life-saving cancer research for the third year running.

Elite Tauren Chieftain (E.T.C.) is putting on the biggest music festival that Azeroth has ever seen, and everybody's invited. It's all coming in the next big Hearthstone update, with 145 brand-new cards, two new keywords, and more. The expansion has so much, it is sure to be music to your ears.

Microsoft Flight Simulator has been updated with World Update XII (12), which brings in seven high-res New Zealand cities, 62 handcrafted points of interest, and 10 missions. Now anyone can explore the magnificent vistas of NZ from their own lounge room.

In the land of Marvel, where heroes and villains clashed in epic battles, a new threat emerged. The Midnight Suns, a mysterious force bent on destruction and domination, threatened to engulf the land in darkness. But hope was not lost, for a group of unlikely allies came together to face this ominous enemy.

Activision's newest game, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II, was released only on Friday and has become the number one top-selling opening weekend ever in the franchise, and also became the biggest box office opening for the year, surpassing Top Gun: Maverick, and Doctor Strange in the Multitude of Madness combined.

Hearthstone - the collectible card game set in the World of Warcraft universe - has a brand new expansion, Murder at Castle Nathria. Players can enjoy a new card type and a new keyword as they investigate a murder mystery.

OlliOlli World is out now for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation, Xbox, and PC, allowing you to explore the delightfully charming and odd world of Radlandia on your journey to skateboarding greatness. It’s a fun adventure for players at all levels, letting you play hard or kick back with a drink and chill.

Square Enix officially launched its Final Fantasy XIV Online data centre this week, providing local support for the massively multiplayer online role-playing game. New characters can now be created here, and Home World transfers have also opened up. In fact, as new worlds, any player who transfers to, or creates new characters, on the Oceania data centre worlds will receive special bonuses.

With two years of work, a dedicated Minecraft Java edition player has released a DOOM-inspired adventure map, for free. The almost 80MB download includes textures, levels, collectibles, coloured keycards, and even the chainsaw.