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PlayStation is giving you a whole lot to love and play this February with the excellent Control: Ultimate Edition, the fantastic Concrete Gene and the new Destruction AllStars. If you weren't lucky enough to pick up a PS5 make sure you…

You may know Biomutant as that game that you have been able to pre-order from Mighty Ape and EB Games for years with a cool collectors edition but with no release date. Well now Biomutant has a release date. It will be coming to PC,…

When there is heaps of game trailers out there, something different can certainly help distinguish oneself. Olija has certainly done that with their gorgeous animated trailer. https://youtu.be/Utgb03A9dkI For a look at the…

Monster Jam Steel Titans 2 is coming to Xbox,  PS4, Steam, Switch, and Stadia March 2nd. The first Monster Jam Steel Titans was so close to an awesome game, so hopefully the second outing for the Monster Truck IP sticks the landing a…

Have you always wished your Ear Buds could cancel sound better and make talking on the phone easier? Well Samsung is releasing the slick looking and stat smashing Ear Buds Pro on the 29th of January. You can see all the stats below…

If you want to start off 2021 with an expensive bang, Samsung has some fancy phones to show off for you to buy from the 29th of January. Coming in at a cool $1399, $1799, and $2199 respectively the S21, S21+, and S21 Ultra are all…

The latest Nokia phone, the Nokia 3.4, has launched in NZ. You can pick one of these up at Spark, Noel Leeming, PB Tech, Warehouse Stationery, The Warehouse, and Harvey Norman for $299.  https://youtu.be/upL0seoy_9I More…

I sound like a broken record at this point, but Xbox Game Pass has another big month including Control on PC, Donut County and Yakuza Remastered. Final Fantasy 15 is disappearing on the 29th so if you haven't played it yet, start…