Hadouken! Street Fighter is hitting the big screen on October 15th! GamesNight is happy to be giving away 5 double passes to Street Fighter, thanks to our friends at Paramount Pictures New Zealand..

The New Zealand Game Developers Conference returns to Auckland in 2026, for the first time in nearly a decade. NZGDC runs from the 30th September-3rd October at the New Zealand International…

New Zealand’s gaming industry is steadily growing, from NZ On Air’s Game Development Sector Rebate to the Centre of Digital Excellence (CODE) helping developers reach the right audience and have a…

Wellington-based studio Dinosaur Polo Club has launched a full te reo Māori localisation for Mini Motorways, with the award-winning title being gifted a new te reo Māori name by te reo Māori…

Whenever someone says modern western RPGs, there are only a few titles that come to mind. The Witcher 3 would probably dominate the conversation here, but there’s also Kingdom Come: Deliverance…

Insomniac’s Jess Reiner-Reed talks reimagining Wolverine, handling MCU/X-Men pressure, and 15 years across PlayStation Studios with GamesNight.

Astronaut Diaries and publisher Ninja Kiwi have announced the release date for Denari, an NZ title we’ve had our eye on for quite some time now. The cel-shaded isometric action title will be arriving…

Penguin Colony is the next game developed by ORIGAME DIGITAL and published by Fellow Traveller. Penguin Colony swaps Tauranga rooftops from its previous game, Umurangi Generation…

I wasn’t there when Halo: Combat Evolved came out in 2001, nor when the Anniversary Edition arrived a decade later. XBOX simply wasn’t popular where I grew up. My introduction to Bungie came with…

Rockstar has just confirmed that GTA 6 pre-orders will go live on June 25th, available via digital storefronts and certain retailers for PS5 and Xbox Series X/S. This likely is locking in the release…

To save her daughter's soul, outlaw gunslinger Rose must journey into the Underwest - the wild west's mysterious underworld - and hunt the Deadly Sins. Experience this action-adventure platformer that...

The Frosty Games Fest showcase is back for 2026, presenting a bunch of games made in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand. The ANZ-based showcase will be premiering at 8am AEST/10am NZST on Sunday…

The NZ Game Awards 2026 (The Pavs) returned for its 10th anniversary, celebrating another great year of video games for Aotearoa. We’ve got some familiar faces as well as some new promising games to…

A video game that transports you back to a childhood memory is a hard thing to pull off. Being able to replicate that same feeling in a gameplay format is even harder, and Rollick N’ Roll succeeds in…

I walked into Project Songbird with low to no expectations. It’s not easy to have any for a game that wasn’t on your radar, especially when it’s a one-man passion project you haven’t heard much about…

NZGamesFest is back for 2026, celebrating the 10th anniversary with a record amount of Level Up art exhibition applications and The Pavs Game Awards submissions. This year, the NZ Games Festival will…

Steam Next Fest February 2026 has been, and we got a lot of good games in this showcase! Of course there are a tonne of games to check out, and it was hard enough picking for this list!

“Be careful what you hate; it could turn out to be something you love,” they say. For a long time, I wasn’t a big fan of colony sims and avoided them at every chance. So, you can imagine how terrified...

Resident Evil Requiem is one of my most anticipated titles of 2026, coming February 27th. The ninth mainline entry in the Resident Evil series, with gameplay looking more horrifying than ever while…

After playing many Metroidvanias in the past couple of years, including some major hits this year alone, such as Silksong, Blasphemous 2, and The Last Faith, I thought nothing could surprise me…

Adaptory, from NZ-based Stormcloak Games, is a base-building survival game, combining multiple complex simulations with a story-rich world. Adaptory has had a healthy development supported by a…

Ghost of Yōtei is the latest title from Sucker Punch and PlayStation, a standalone sequel to the acclaimed Ghost of Tsushima, telling the story of Atsu in Northern Japan seeking out the notorious…

Amidst the sea of indie games at PAX AUS 2025. There was one game that stood out immediately, not just due to its art style, but also its light-hearted spin on an otherwise serious and focused…

We speak to Doggy Don't Care Developer, Rotub, about the journey of creating the game as a solo indie developer, and more.