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State Of Decay Studio Undead Labs Is Apparently Also Facing Closure At Xbox

Jun 29, 2026 |

By Brodie Gibbons

| Press Start Australia

Press Start may receive a commission when you buy from links on our site at no extra cost to you. Following on from recent news that several studios, including Ninja Theory, Double Fine, and Compulsion Games, were all in the gun at Xbox and facing closure if deals couldn’t be reached that’d see them spin off, be bought, or regain independence, word has filtered through that Undead Labs, the studio behind the State of Decay series, is in a similar predicament.

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Games Coming Out In July 2026 That You Should Be Excited For

Jun 29, 2026 |

By Brodie Gibbons

| Press Start Australia

Press Start may receive a commission when you buy from links on our site at no extra cost to you. With the first half of the year in the rearview, it’s absolutely fair to say we’ve had some banger months and some unexpectedly excellent games that’ll find themselves in contention when it comes to discussing Game of the Year in just a handful of months. Although we know what awaits us in September and, of course, November, July does feel like the beginnings of a gentle ramp-up to a busy end of year.

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Bungie Has Been Hit By Significant Layoffs

Jun 25, 2026 |

By Brodie Gibbons

| Press Start Australia

Press Start may receive a commission when you buy from links on our site at no extra cost to you. Following Bungie ceasing active support for Destiny 2 last month, and with the studio still in the incubation stages for future projects, it has reorganised its workforce, leading to significant layoffs. Worst hit is the Destiny team, which has been all but disbanded.

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These Star Fox Plushies Are Bloody Cute

Jun 25, 2026 |

By Brodie Gibbons

| Press Start Australia

Press Start may receive a commission when you buy from links on our site at no extra cost to you. With the release of Star Fox this week, Nintendo has opened pre-purchases on a bunch of adorable plush toys, designed after the game’s titular crew. Quite frankly, run, don’t walk, because these things are cute as hell. Players can get the band together with plush toys for Fox McCloud, Falco Lombardi, Peppy Hare, and Slippy Toad.

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Here’s When Preloads For Grand Theft Auto 6 Will Go Live

Jun 24, 2026 |

By Brodie Gibbons

| Press Start Australia

Press Start may receive a commission when you buy from links on our site at no extra cost to you. With the news that Grand Theft Auto 6 pre-orders are going live later tonight, it’s also been confirmed that Rockstar will be taking a rather player-friendly approach to the game’s preload. With preloads beginning on November 12, players will be given a full week to get their act together and preload what is expected to be a behemoth game, likely ranging in the hundreds of gigabytes.

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Here’s How Much Grand Theft Auto 6 Is Going To Cost

Jun 24, 2026 |

By Brodie Gibbons

| Press Start Australia

Press Start may receive a commission when you buy from links on our site at no extra cost to you. After months and months of speculation as to where Rockstar would land when it came to pricing their mega blockbuster November release, Grand Theft Auto 6, we’ve at last got somewhat of an answer. Although we’re still awaiting word on local pricing, Grand Theft Auto 6 has been confirmed at a USD 80.00 price point, ten dollars above what has become the norm in recent years.

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Here’s What In Each Of Grand Theft Auto 6’s Editions

Jun 24, 2026 |

By Brodie Gibbons

| Press Start Australia

Press Start may receive a commission when you buy from links on our site at no extra cost to you. With the news just coming that pre-orders for Grand Theft Auto 6 go live later tonight, Rockstar has also released a lot of information on the game’s editions and what’s included in them. As we reported earlier, the game’s standard physical edition will be released with a pack-in code, with no disc in the box at all.

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Grand Theft Auto 6’s Physical Editions Won’t Include A Disc

Jun 24, 2026 |

By Brodie Gibbons

| Press Start Australia

Press Start may receive a commission when you buy from links on our site at no extra cost to you. As news rolls out about Grand Theft Auto 6’s pre-order timings, it has seemingly been confirmed that the physical copies of the game won’t include a disc, opting for a pack-in code instead.

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Here’s When Grand Theft Auto 6 Pre-Orders Go Live In Australia

Jun 24, 2026 |

By Brodie Gibbons

| Press Start Australia

Press Start may receive a commission when you buy from links on our site at no extra cost to you. After a bit of speculation earlier in the week, it’s been confirmed that Grand Theft Auto 6 will go live at midnight local time for those in the AEST time zone. Although we’re still awaiting local pricing, the standard edition has been confirmed to be USD 79.99 for both PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S.

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Here Are The Aussie Times For This Week’s Capcom Spotlight

Jun 23, 2026 |

By Brodie Gibbons

| Press Start Australia

Press Start may receive a commission when you buy from links on our site at no extra cost to you. Announced earlier this week, Capcom is set to host a Capcom Spotlight later this week. The presentation will last roughly half an hour and covers both updates to recently released titles and upcoming games, including Onimusha: Way of the Sword.

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Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy Hands-On Preview – It’s Crete!

Jun 23, 2026 |

By Brodie Gibbons

| Press Start Australia

Press Start may receive a commission when you buy from links on our site at no extra cost to you. A Plague Tale emerged quietly as one of the unexpected hits of its time, overwhelming audiences with a heartrending journey of perseverance and hope amid one of humanity’s darkest hours, as the Black Plague tore through Europe and decimated the population, altering the course of history forever.

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Star Wars: Galactic Racer Hands-On Preview – Racing Around The Outer Rim

Jun 23, 2026 |

By Brodie Gibbons

| Press Start Australia

Press Start may receive a commission when you buy from links on our site at no extra cost to you. While there are people who hold it in great reverence, Star Wars Racer from the Nintendo 64 isn’t a game that has aged too well—I’d go so far as to say that, by today’s standards, it has aged like blue milk. It’s because of this that a new racing game, set within the legendary galaxy far, far away, is such an exciting prospect.

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Clive Barker’s Hellraiser: Revival Hands-On Preview – Such Sights

Jun 16, 2026 |

By Brodie Gibbons

| Press Start Australia

Press Start may receive a commission when you buy from links on our site at no extra cost to you. Even as a fan of horror growing up, Clive Barker’s Hellraiser was something of a blind spot for me. Pinhead still managed to transcend this fact, and his demonic, pin-cushion head looking ass is the stuff of nightmares.

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Xbox Is Reportedly About To Shut Down South Of Midnight Studio Compulsion Games Alongside Other Studios

Jun 15, 2026 |

By Brodie Gibbons

| Press Start Australia

Press Start may receive a commission when you buy from links on our site at no extra cost to you. UPDATE: It is now being reported by Bloomberg that Double Fine as well as Ninja Theory are also in active discussions to be closed down unless they can find a buyer.

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20 Games From The June 2026 Steam Next Fest That You Should Check Out

Jun 15, 2026 |

By Brodie Gibbons

| Press Start Australia

Press Start may receive a commission when you buy from links on our site at no extra cost to you. After spending the first half of June feverishly trying to keep track of all of the big games coming in the next twelve months, whether at Summer Game Fest, PlayStation’s State of Play, Xbox, or the Nintendo Direct, it’s nice to be able to wind down and do what I love most.

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Valor Mortis Hands-On Preview – A Brand New Of FPS

Jun 14, 2026 |

By Brodie Gibbons

| Press Start Australia

Press Start may receive a commission when you buy from links on our site at no extra cost to you. After the Ghostrunner duology, I was eager to see what One More Level would do next. After the sequel’s open-world and bike sections felt like flat spots to me in a game that, otherwise, had a focus on breakneck speed, the prospect of Valor Mortis, an enormous departure from their other works, is tantalising.

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Saw: Genesis Preview – Game Over

Jun 12, 2026 |

By Brodie Gibbons

| Press Start Australia

Press Start may receive a commission when you buy from links on our site at no extra cost to you. The Saw games haven’t ever been much to write home about as they clumsily navigate the film canon and lean too hard on ‘been there, done that’ traps.

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Control Resonant Hands-On Preview – Mad In Manhattan

Jun 12, 2026 |

By Brodie Gibbons

| Press Start Australia

Press Start may receive a commission when you buy from links on our site at no extra cost to you. As an enormous fan of Remedy’s interconnected universe, which has really begun to hit its stride after Control and Alan Wake II, I’ve long been anticipating their next chapter because, odds are, it’d play into the strange, Lynchian lore and tone that has long been the bedrock for the studio’s titles.

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Erosion Hands-On Preview – A Time-Hopping Roguelike

Jun 12, 2026 |

By Brodie Gibbons

| Press Start Australia

Press Start may receive a commission when you buy from links on our site at no extra cost to you. One of Interstellar’s most gut-wrenching scenes comes as Coop returns from Miller’s planet to discover the hours he spent there were decades back on Earth. McConaughey’s performance is titanic as he learns that time has escaped him and he’s missed so many years of his daughter’s life.

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Tomb Raider: Legacy Of Atlantis Hands-On Preview – An Icon Redefined

Jun 11, 2026 |

By Brodie Gibbons

| Press Start Australia

Press Start may receive a commission when you buy from links on our site at no extra cost to you. The original Tomb Raider game, at its time, was a pioneering release for the action-adventure genre. Wanting to create an alternative to the first-person shooters flooding the market, the team took Indiana Jones’s sense of adventure and plugged it into a three-dimensional, exploration-rich world inspired by the likes of Flashback, thus creating an icon in Lara Croft.

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Xbox is reportedly planning mass layoffs as they look to reset the business

Jun 10, 2026 |

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Xbox Is Reportedly Planning Mass Layoffs As They Look To “Reset” The Business

Jun 10, 2026 |

By Brodie Gibbons

| Press Start Australia

Press Start may receive a commission when you buy from links on our site at no extra cost to you. Still in the afterglow of its Xbox Games Showcase just a few days ago, Bloomberg has reported that significant layoffs are expected to hit Microsoft’s Xbox division next month.

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Bad Magpie Hands-On Preview – Carn The Pies

Jun 10, 2026 |

By Brodie Gibbons

| Press Start Australia

Press Start may receive a commission when you buy from links on our site at no extra cost to you. As its reveal was unfolding in real-time, I thought for a hot second that Bad Magpie might be the next project out of Acid Nerve, the creators of Death’s Door. The transition from crow to magpie, in my mind, felt like a logical step.

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Minecraft Dungeons II Hands-On Preview – It’s A Block Party

Jun 10, 2026 |

By Brodie Gibbons

| Press Start Australia

Press Start may receive a commission when you buy from links on our site at no extra cost to you. Arguably one of Microsoft’s biggest brands, and one of the biggest entertainment properties period, Minecraft has gone from strength to strength in the last decade—the base game has grown bigger and bigger still, there has been a Telltale spin-off, Dungeons felt like baby’s first Diablo, and the film did gangbusters, becoming an unbearable meme hotbed and having its sequel rushed into development.

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Fable Preview – Building An Extraordinary Life

Jun 10, 2026 |

By Brodie Gibbons

| Press Start Australia

Press Start may receive a commission when you buy from links on our site at no extra cost to you. After being delayed into next year to give others in the Xbox portfolio wriggle room in the months that won’t be dominated by Grand Theft Auto, the wait for Playground’s Fable is proving to be an arduous one—but the hope exists that the studio, based in England, should be equipped to run with the ball Lionhead left on the field and deliver a Fable of their own with the wry British wit intact.

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Gears Of War: E-Day Preview – Back To Beginnings

Jun 10, 2026 |

By Brodie Gibbons

| Press Start Australia

Press Start may receive a commission when you buy from links on our site at no extra cost to you. Gears of War has been one of Xbox’s longest enduring franchises, having given us one and a half trilogies thus far, and a handful of spin-offs to boot. Although I’ve enjoyed the franchise’s expansion in its sequel trilogy, the reverence I feel for the original games is second-to-none.

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Halo: Campaign Evolved Hands-On Preview – The Blockbuster Campaign Is Back

Jun 10, 2026 |

By Brodie Gibbons

| Press Start Australia

Press Start may receive a commission when you buy from links on our site at no extra cost to you. After going hands-on with Halo: Campaign Evolved earlier this year, which gave us a first look at the original genre-redefining campaign rebuilt in Unreal Engine 5, we got another lengthy look at the remake in all its glory.

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Alien: Isolation 2 Hands-On Preview – Nerve Shredding

Jun 10, 2026 |

By Brodie Gibbons

| Press Start Australia

Press Start may receive a commission when you buy from links on our site at no extra cost to you. Alien: Isolation was a standout survival horror title when it was released, as well as a champion example of how to get the most out of an established IP.

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Stranger Than Heaven Hands-On Preview – A Punchy Fight Club

Jun 10, 2026 |

By Brodie Gibbons

| Press Start Australia

Press Start may receive a commission when you buy from links on our site at no extra cost to you. Stranger Than Heaven—weird Tupac feature set right aside—is the most interested I’ve been in a game out of Japan’s RGG Studios, known best for the Like A Dragon games as well as its many spin-offs, of which Stranger Than Heaven is one, being a distant prequel.

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Turok: Origins Hands-On Preview – For Those About Turok

Jun 10, 2026 |

By Brodie Gibbons

| Press Start Australia

Press Start may receive a commission when you buy from links on our site at no extra cost to you. During Summer Game Fest, we got an opportunity to sit down with Turok: Origins, the next entry in the legendary dinosaur hunter series.

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Grave Seasons Hands-On Preview – They Bought The Farm

Jun 09, 2026 |

By Brodie Gibbons

| Press Start Australia

Press Start may receive a commission when you buy from links on our site at no extra cost to you. There’s nothing cosy about the premise of the Blumhouse published Grave Seasons, which melds the oft-seen ideas of idyllic farming, in that you plant and harvest crops to stimulate the town’s economy, with a grisly supernatural murder investigation, seemingly full of romance—it’s quite literally got a bit of everything.

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Way To The Woods Hands-On Preview – Deer, Oh Deer

Jun 09, 2026 |

By Brodie Gibbons

| Press Start Australia

Press Start may receive a commission when you buy from links on our site at no extra cost to you. After earning my attention over a decade ago, Way to the Woods developer Anthony Tan, then a sixteen-year-old kid, went to ground and built upon the promise of the game’s first reveal. The game is a gorgeous little tale of a mother deer and her fawn trying to make their way home through an abandoned, urban world that always looked as though it’d pack the emotional dynamite of a Ghibli film.

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Aniimo Hands-On Preview – An Idyllic Creature Catcher

Jun 09, 2026 |

By Brodie Gibbons

| Press Start Australia

Press Start may receive a commission when you buy from links on our site at no extra cost to you. As someone who saw Palworld more or less come and go, taking an unmistakable but, in the end, misguided shot at the Pokémon crown, one can’t help but be curious about Aniimo, a creature-catching RPG that looks to incorporate a lot of the same concepts while tactfully circumventing copyright law, a novel concept when compared to Palworld.

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N Plus Infinity Times Two Hands-On Preview – Jump, Man!

Jun 09, 2026 |

By Brodie Gibbons

| Press Start Australia

Press Start may receive a commission when you buy from links on our site at no extra cost to you. When I was much younger, before my reflexes began to wane, I relished the crushing challenge of platformers that put to work my twitch reactions and sticktoitiveness. One such game was N+, which I discovered through the Xbox Live Arcade program among many other indie gems, and fell in love with the hundreds of escalating challenge rooms and the small, furtive stick-ninja that met them head-on.

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The Lost Wild Preview – Dead By Dino

Jun 09, 2026 |

By Brodie Gibbons

| Press Start Australia

Press Start may receive a commission when you buy from links on our site at no extra cost to you. Dinosaurs, like any behemoth animal that acts on impulse, are terrifying. How they vanished from the video game zeitgeist, only to see zombies quite literally everywhere, is a shift I’ll never be able to make sense of. During Summer Game Fest, we got to see a brief presentation showing about half an hour of the new Annapurna-published survival horror game, The Lost Wild.

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Silent Hill: Townfall Preview – It’s Scot The Stuff

Jun 08, 2026 |

By Brodie Gibbons

| Press Start Australia

Press Start may receive a commission when you buy from links on our site at no extra cost to you. Konami’s readiness to shop Silent Hill to anybody and everybody willing to tell stories within its iconic horror universe has been something of a saving grace for the series. Nothing is treated as sacrosanct, and developers, it appears, have been given carte blanche to tailor the experience how they see fit.

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Spyro: A Realm Beyond Preview – The Magic Dragon Is Back

Jun 08, 2026 |

By Brodie Gibbons

| Press Start Australia

Press Start may receive a commission when you buy from links on our site at no extra cost to you. Although heavily rumoured in the lead-up to the event, it was such a feel-good moment seeing Spyro the Dragon’s grand return on the big stage. In what is the former PlayStation mascot’s first major, original release in almost two decades, developer Toys for Bob has seemingly attempted to reinvent what it means to be a dragon in a modern take on the series.

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All Of The Aussie Times For The Summer Game Fest Showcases And Where To Watch

Jun 06, 2026 |

By Brodie Gibbons

| Press Start Australia

Press Start may receive a commission when you buy from links on our site at no extra cost to you. Although it’s always an early morning slog for most Aussies, Summer Game Fest week has become like the Super Bowl for the gaming brethren. Geoff Keighley has spun the event into a marketing monster, and while it shows in the ads peppered through every year, we also get some very exciting reveals at Summer Game Fest.

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Here’s Everything That Was Shown At The June 2026 Frosty Games Fest

Jun 06, 2026 |

By Brodie Gibbons

| Press Start Australia

Press Start may receive a commission when you buy from links on our site at no extra cost to you. After last year’s tremendous first offering, we’re back for another Frosty Games Fest, an exhaustive showcase of all of the wonderful talent and video games coming out of both Australia and New Zealand. As someone who loves digging into the indies on Steam Next Fest and wandering the show floor at PAX every year, these showcases, geared at spotlighting the little guy, are very necessary.

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Nintendo Music Has Added Four Hours Of Mario Kart World Tunes As It Launches On PC And Tablets

Jun 03, 2026 |

By Brodie Gibbons

| Press Start Australia

Press Start may receive a commission when you buy from links on our site at no extra cost to you. This week, Nintendo Music has added just over four hours of Mario Kart World tunes to the service, with the promise of Free Roam tracks still to come. This comes as Nintendo Music, which has only been available through Nintendo’s mobile app thus far, launches on PC, tablet, and car touch screens that support Apple CarPlay and Android Auto.

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A Nintendo Direct Will Apparently Air Next Week After Summer Game Fest

Jun 03, 2026 |

By Brodie Gibbons

| Press Start Australia

Press Start may receive a commission when you buy from links on our site at no extra cost to you. It’s been suggested that Nintendo will broadcast a new Nintendo Direct next week, likely on the heels of the week’s Summer Game Fest fanfare. According to a reliable industry leaker, NateTheHate, Nintendo is expected to give players a good idea of what’s yet to come for the rest of 2026 in a presentation expected to air in the week beginning June 8.

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LEGO Batman: Legacy Of The Dark Knight Will Land On Switch 2 Alongside The Game’s First Major DLC

Jun 03, 2026 |

By Brodie Gibbons

| Press Start Australia

Press Start may receive a commission when you buy from links on our site at no extra cost to you. After the Nintendo Switch 2 version of LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight slipped from the game’s wider launch on other consoles, Warner Bros. has confirmed that players can expect to get their hands on the game on September 18.

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Can We Talk About How Stacked September Is For A Second?

Jun 02, 2026 |

By Brodie Gibbons

| Press Start Australia

Press Start may receive a commission when you buy from links on our site at no extra cost to you. In an effort to escape the Grand Theft Auto VI hype event horizon, which is sure to crush everything in its path to the most infinite point possible, games are currently being packed into the prior months like sardines into a tin. I’m having a small bout of deja vu here, as I remember six years ago writing an article about a particularly packed release day in February.

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God of War Laufey Was Just Revealed Alongside 20 Minutes Of Gameplay

Jun 02, 2026 |

By Brodie Gibbons

| Press Start Australia

Press Start may receive a commission when you buy from links on our site at no extra cost to you. PlayStation’s State of Play closed with a first, enormous look at the new Cory Barlog-led title out of Sony Santa Monica, God of War Laufey, set in the God of War universe. The game appears to be set parallel to the events of 2018’s God of War, as Faye passes into The Everywhen, an afterlife realm for the gods, beyond the mortal veil, as Kratos journeys to deliver her ashes to Jotunheim with Atreus.

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Control Resonant’s Release Date Has Been Revealed

Jun 02, 2026 |

By Brodie Gibbons

| Press Start Australia

Press Start may receive a commission when you buy from links on our site at no extra cost to you. As many expected, Control Resonant made an appearance at PlayStation’s State of Play this morning, and the trailer was an immaculate tone-setter for the upcoming sequel. Unlike the original, which followed FBC’s Jesse Faden, Resonant follows her brother, Dylan Faden, who was a focal point of the original game’s plot.

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Silent Hill: Townfall’s Release Date Has Been Revealed

Jun 02, 2026 |

By Brodie Gibbons

| Press Start Australia

Press Start may receive a commission when you buy from links on our site at no extra cost to you. It was revealed at this morning’s State of Play that Silent Hill: Townfall will be released on September 24, 2026. It’s the second game in the series to be set outside of the titular town of Silent Hill, after Silent Hill f took the series to rural Japan. Townfall follows Simon Ordell after he’s called back to the island of St. Amelia to make things right. Of course, everything is not right.

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Phantom Blade Zero Got A New Teaser Trailer

Jun 02, 2026 |

By Brodie Gibbons

| Press Start Australia

Press Start may receive a commission when you buy from links on our site at no extra cost to you. Phantom Blade Zero got a brand new, exciting teaser trailer ahead of pre-orders opening alongside a full trailer in the coming weeks. The game, which has been in development for some time at S-Game, looks spectacular and shows off a glimpse of the frenetic action fans of the genre will be expecting. Phantom Blade Zero launches on September 9, 2026.

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Bancho The Chef Is A Dave The Diver Prequel

Jun 02, 2026 |

By Brodie Gibbons

| Press Start Australia

Press Start may receive a commission when you buy from links on our site at no extra cost to you. In an expected reveal, Bancho the Chef was revealed at this morning’s State of Play. The game is a prequel set in the Dave the Diver universe, and acts as an origin story for Bancho, the acclaimed sushi master of Blue Hole. It’s a standalone prequel from Dave the Diver creators, Mintrocket, and follows a younger Bancho as he travels across Asia learning the ways of the tongs.

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Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls Revealed A Trio Of Playable Villains

Jun 02, 2026 |

By Brodie Gibbons

| Press Start Australia

Press Start may receive a commission when you buy from links on our site at no extra cost to you. At this morning’s State of Play, Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls showed up to reveal the Knights of Doom, a playable selection of villains from Marvel’s storied history. The Knights of Doom, the game’s fourth group to be revealed, is made up of Doctor Doom, obviously, as well as Magneto, Green Goblin, and Carnage.

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Here’s A First Look At Marvel’s Wolverine Gameplay

Jun 02, 2026 |

By Brodie Gibbons

| Press Start Australia

Press Start may receive a commission when you buy from links on our site at no extra cost to you. This morning’s State of Play opened with our first real look at Marvel’s Wolverine gameplay, showing an extended segment from the campaign. In terms of how the game is looking to unfold, it looks more linear, akin to The Last of Us, instead of an open-world setup like Insomniac’s past superhero games in Spider-Man. Combat is visceral, extremely bloody, and we got a first look at Jean Grey.

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