The Ministry of Sound Summer Dance Festival is returning in 2026, to kick off the warmer months in style with an Australian tour. But there’s only a few tickets left. There’s good reason to jump on board, too. Nothing says summer in Australia quite like a music festival and while the heyday has long passed,…

beabadoobee the Filipino-British singer-songwriter and alt-pop powerhouse will return in March 2027 for her biggest Australian shows to date, bringing The Powerlines Tour to Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney. Fans can expect a career-spanning live set drawing from Pylon alongside acclaimed releases including This Is How Tomorrow Moves, Beatopia and Fake It Flowers, with the distortion,…

There’s a necessary emotional armour that comes with spending your life staring at the worst things human beings can do. In The Girl in the River, Devon Sawa’s seasoned criminologist has learned to treat death, violence and unimaginable crime as simply part of the job. But when that carefully cultivated detachment is shattered by the…

PlayStation’s State of Play streams are always something to look forward to, but I guess we’ll have to double our excitement for this week. We’re getting two State of Play streams back to back later tonight, the first of which will focus on the upcoming titles from PlayStation Studios and third-party developers alike, including another…

John Steinbeck’s sprawling American classic is receiving a new interpretation, with Florence Pugh stepping into one of literature’s most formidable roles in Netflix’s upcoming limited series East of Eden. Premiering October 1st, the new adaptation turns its attention towards Cathy Ames (Pugh), the unforgettable antihero at the centre of Steinbeck’s multigenerational story of family, love,…

There are a few things to note before I begin my review of Orbitals. If you read my Split Fiction review last year, then you’ll know how much of a sucker I am for a good cooperative experience. For one, I love getting my wife, who is not a gamer by any stretch of the…

NSW pop-rock artist Neo Stereo returns this week with his new single “Follow Me”, and today we’re buzzing to be able to give you an exclusive first listen ahead of its release tomorrow, Friday 4th of September. “Follow Me” captures a relationship somewhere between frustration and hope. A driving backbeat and insistent bassline give the…

Welcome to Westerberg High School where you’ll find a liquorice all sorts of jocks, nerds, angsty teens and mean girls. Most notably, the Heathers – a group of nasty girls who rule the school. They take oddball Veronica Sawyer under their wing and everything seems a-okay until things take a sharp turn when Veronica falls…

Dyson has announced they’re entering the oral hygiene game with the CameraJet electric toothbrush. Launching at 9pm tonight for a whopping A$799, the CameraJet will use a 100k pixel macro lens camera to help spray water through the gaps between your teeth. The included AI algorithm will also scan your mouth with 28 live images…

For all the Hadoukens, roundhouses and larger-than-life personalities synonymous with Street Fighter, Noah Centineo sees something surprisingly vulnerable underneath Ken Masters’ famous bleached-blonde exterior. Set in 1993, Street Fighter reunites the estranged Ryu (Andrew Koji) and Ken Masters (Centineo) when the mysterious Chun-Li (Callina Liang) recruits them for the World Warrior Tournament. What initially promises…

I was a fan of the original Mortal Shell when it was released back in 2020, but I will admit that it fell through the cracks, wedged within the rapidly expanding world of Souls-like games. Even so, it had introduced and implemented a few new ideas, mainly stemming from the Shell mechanic, but for the…

Father’s Day has a habit of sneaking up on us. And while Dad might insist that he doesn’t need anything, turning up empty-handed this Sunday probably isn’t the strongest way to test that theory. Gifts still matter, especially when it comes to parents. Fortunately, buying for dads has become a bit more interesting than defaulting…

Few films arrive quietly when they star Armie Hammer. Citizen Vigilante, the latest provocation from writer-director Uwe Boll, certainly hasn’t. The controversial thriller stars Hammer as Sanders, a self-appointed vigilante who hunts violent criminals and dispenses his own uncompromising version of justice. As his actions turn him into a hero to some and a dangerous…

The PAX Aus Indie Showcase is back once again for 2026 to celebrate Australia’s most inventive independent game creators, by highlighting a selection of digital and board games, which will be available to try out later this year. Superloop will be sponsoring the PAX Aus Indie Showcase for this year, supporting the next generation of…

Southern California folk singer-songwriter Kaz Murphy takes us back through generations of musical dissent on his new single “Old Protest Records”, which we are thrilled to premiere today ahead of its release this Thursday, 3rd of September. Taken from Murphy’s forthcoming fifth studio album Making Noise: Songs Of Rebellion & Redemption, out on the 18th…

The thing about time travel novels is, you’re either supposed to think deeply about whether or not the time travel actually works, or you aren’t. As actual “time travel”, the decade hopping done by the main characters in Jaclyn Moriarty‘s latest novel for adults, Time Travel for Beginners, may not stand up to scientific scrutiny,…

The first game from brand-new studio Rebel Wolves is a massive single-player RPG that features heavy development from the team that worked at CD Projekt Red on a little indie game called The Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt. An incredibly ambitious open-world action RPG, The Blood of Dawnwalker is an ambitious debut with teeth, though…

The act of speaking out is so often framed as an inherently empowering one. But what happens when telling your story comes with the threat of financial ruin, public vilification, exile, or years spent defending the very fact that you chose to speak at all? That question sits at the unsettling heart of Silenced, the…

I got the chance to go hands-on with Star Wars Zero Company earlier this month, and due to the lengthy nature of that build, feel like the genuine love I have for this game might not only sound familiar, but might also have increased. So apologies in advance if we touch on a few of…

While Netflix subscribers got an exclusive look earlier this morning, everyone got to see a whopping 26 minutes of Grand Theft Auto 6 just hours later. The Extended Look showed us plenty of cinematic sequences, action, activities and a decent dive into this much larger version of Vice City. Without further ado, let’s jump in…

Apple TV’s Dark Matter has always used its high-concept science fiction to ask deeply human questions. Its multiverse may offer infinite realities and innumerable versions of the lives we could have lived, but beneath the physics, the Box and the alternate worlds is something far more intimate: if you could see every path you didn’t…

For what it’s worth, I really loved 2019’s The Sinking City. It might have been a little janky in parts, but it served up a foreboding and tense atmosphere that felt like the best bits of Resident Evil and BioShock combined. While the gameplay felt a little stiff, I had plenty of fun simply existing…

For one more time this August we’re updating our Discovery playlist on Spotify and Apple Music with some of the best new music from across Australia and internationally. Naarm-based singer-songwriter and producer Eyes of Bel is in the spotlight, taking home Track of the Week for her new single “Bygones Will Be Bygones”. The single,…

Bruno Mars is officially heading back Down Under, and he’s bringing some very good company with him. The 16-time Grammy Award winner has expanded his mammoth The Romantic Tour, confirming a run of Australian and New Zealand stadium dates for February and March 2027. And, as if Mars returning to our shores wasn’t enough of…

Queens Of The Stone Age are back with their ninth studio album, Perfecth, arriving October 30 via Matador Records and the desert-rock heavyweights will bring their live show to Australia this December. Perfecth sees Josh Homme and company continuing to push the boundaries of their own distinctive brand of dark, swaggering rock’n’roll. The album takes…

Canberra singer-songwriter Jack Biilmann has been a firm favourite around these parts for some time, and we’re delighted to be premiering his latest single, “(Not) Easy to Love”, ahead of its release this Friday, 28 August. We most recently featured Biilmann in June with “Never Have It All”, another strong addition to a particularly productive…

There are some stories of World War II which were never told. Not because they were uninteresting, or unimportant, but because they couldn’t be told. Because those they belonged to were silent about their work, even after the war ended. And now, so many years on, they are finally ready to be told. It is…

It is arguably one of the best games of all time; Elden Ring became a smash hit when it debuted back in 2022. The extremely difficult and beautiful Souls-like game was and still is undeniably a breathtaking masterpiece. It is safe to say it surprised everyone when FromSoftware advised they were making an edition for…

There’s a fascinating film buried somewhere within The Dog Stars. It’s quieter than its marketing suggests, more interested in grief, loneliness and the necessity of human connection than the violent survivalism its trailers have largely sold. And whenever Ridley Scott allows his latest to simply exist in that contemplative space, there are flashes of something…

Gamescom 2026 is here, and with that, the Opening Night Live showcase, highlighting a whole bunch of new and exciting games on the horizon. There’s a fair amount to cover here, so let’s dive in and run through all the announcements. STAGE TOUR THE WITCHER 3: WILD HUNT – REMASTERED IS FREE FOR ALL CURRENT…