David SMith

Dec 3, 2024 | gameshub.com | David SMith |David Smith

Scrolling on Bluesky last Tuesday afternoon, I came upon a post by user Mel Stefaniuk about an FMV adventure game called The Sydney Mystery. This happenstance post led me down a Google rabbit hole, desperate to play this unique and seemingly lost piece of Australian game development from the turn of the century. For nearly three years I ran one of the biggest games sites in the country, and part of my job was discovering obscure Australian games. I’d never heard of The Sydney Mystery before.

Jul 20, 2024 | theguardian.com | David SMith |David SMith

A rodeo crowd waves cowboy hats as a man rides a bucking horse. Then comes a shower of leaves, a chorus of mobile phone rings and a wail of klaxons. Horses run wild and cars collide. One vehicle is whipped into the air by what a weatherman calls a once-in-a-generation tornado outbreak. This is a scene from Twisters, starring Glen Powell and Daisy Edgar-Jones, in which rivals come together to try to predict and possibly tame ferocious storms in central Oklahoma.

Jul 9, 2024 | kotaku.com.au | David SMith |David Smith

Wannabe sim racers yearning for a sick new wheel, gather round, for I have one you might be interested in. Thanks to our mates at MOZA RACING, we’ve got a full MOZA R3 sim racing wheel and pedals to give away to one lucky reader. Defined by MOZA itself as the benchmark for entry-level racing, the R3 Wheel and Pedals bundle features a 3.9Nm DD Servo Motor, aviation-grade aluminium construction and durable ISF PU grips with immersive rumble feedback and precision steering.

Jul 4, 2024 | kotaku.com.au | David SMith |David Smith

PlayStation is back on the Tokyo Game Show floor. Tokyo Game Show, Japan’s biggest games industry trade expo, announced a long list of confirmed exhibitors yesterday. Among them was a surprise: PlayStation will return to the Makuhari Messe this coming September as an exhibitor. It marks the publisher’s first appearance at Tokyo Game Show since 2019. What does that mean, “as an exhibitor”? It means PlayStation will have a booth on the show floor to exhibit its games.

Jul 4, 2024 | kotaku.com.au | David SMith |David Smith

The Wii U era has finally, definitively come to an end. Nintendo Japan says it has, at long last, run out of the parts required to continue repairing Wii U consoles and peripherals. As such, the repair shop is now permanently closed to the platform. The news came from a pair of posts on the company’s Japanese social media accounts. “We have posted “Notice regarding the planned end of repairs for the Wii U console and peripherals.”” reads a translation of the first post.