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Ka pai, Dinosaur Polo Club! A te reo Māori update has launched for Mini Motorways. Kūwaha Ltd has gifted the name Rori Riki as part of this update, timed for Te Wiki o te Reo Māori. We spoke to the studio about this important journey. News + Interview gamesnight.nz/mini-motorways…
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Hadouken! Street Fighter is hitting the big screen on October 15th! We’re happy to be giving away 5 double passes to the Street Fighter Movie, thanks to our friends at Paramount Pictures. Visit gamesnight.nz to enter! #streetfighter #nzgiveaway
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We’re back at PAX AUS this year! 🥳 Quite a few have reached out already and it’d be great to meet and put names to faces. Interviews, previews, reels(😉)? Let’s meet! ☺️ DM or flick us an email #paxaus @PAXAus
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NZGDC is almost here! 👀🎮🕹️ Returning to Auckland for the first time in nearly a decade, just as NZ game dev revenue hits $1 billion! 30th September – 3rd October Kiwi Game Zone taking place on the 3rd October! Full Details gamesnight.nz/nzgdc-2026-com…
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GamesNight retweeted
18 NEW ZEALAND INDIE GAMES ARE COMING TO PAX AUS! Yep. EIGHTEEN. NZ CODE is bringing a whole bunch of Aotearoa's latest indie games to Booth #1840, and there is a frankly unreasonable amount of weird, wonderful stuff to play. Here’s a tiny (XD) taste of what you can find: 🧪 Apothecurse Play as an aspiring alchemist, brew potions and uncover the dark secrets of a plague-ridden city. 🧙 Bashful Adoration Four competitive witches. One crush. Bombastic combat. Love, rivalry and friendship. Obviously. 🐋 Beyond These Stars Build a city on the back of Kewa, a SENTIENT SPACE WHALE, and journey across the stars. 🍔 Burger Bois Run a food truck, make burgers and attempt to turn around a failing food business. 🛼 Canvas City Turn-based tactics. Roller skates. Street artists. Rebellion. Take back the city one map at a time. 🍳 Cooking For MA! Cook your way through the spirit world to save your grandma from an evil sea serpent. 🚁 spkl.io/60137TxKb Take control of a drone and tackle high-risk missions where stealth and split-second decisions matter. 🎱 Dungeon Baller Pinball meets dungeon crawling. Launch tiny heroes, smash monsters and hoard ridiculous loot. 🌽 FarmZ Farm by day. Defend your farm by night. And yes, your crops can become weapons. 🎣 GO PHISH Go fishing. Go phishing. Pay your rent. Crack passwords and drain savings in this rogue-ish debt-builder. 🧟 Killing Things With Your Friends Team up, tear off mutant limbs and use them as weapons. Friendship has never been so... medically questionable. 💼 Middle Management Build an office, manage your workers and delve into brains to create the perfect employees. ✈️ Night Plane You're a flight attendant on a doomed plane. Check tickets, serve passengers and work out which ones are secretly demons. ⚔️ Nothing Lost Every death makes your next hero stronger. Battle through ever-changing dungeons and combine the powers of your fallen heroes. 🪐 PlanetSmith Build, explore and survive across fully spherical alien planets. Then build a rocket and LEAVE THE PLANET. 🧩 Shape Sender Deluxe Meet Sendy. Solve 90+ handcrafted physics puzzles. Then make your own. Keep an eye on Sendy. 🌌 Star Catcher Fish for lost souls across a sea of stars, explore ancient islands and venture into the great cosmic unknown. ⚔️ The Order of the Damned A grimdark Arthurian action-RPG where one of the last knights of a fallen order must face an ancient darkness. And that's just the tiny preview XD! Come meet the developers. Play the games. Find your next indie obsession. 18 games. One booth. Probably several games you didn't know you needed to play. Go discover something.
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New Zealand’s video game sector continues to grow. Playful is a NZ based playtesting service that aims to provide indie devs with tools through all stages of development, backed by real player behaviour and feedback. #nzgamedev #indiedev Full Story: gamesnight.nz/playful-a-play…
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Our unique blend of cultures is part of what we love about Aotearoa, and just in time for Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori, we’ve added te reo to the game! Learn some kupu hou as you explore the world in a language unique to our whenua in NZ 🥰 📢
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“The Blood of Dawnwalker carves out an identity of its own. Its gripping story, rewarding exploration, and excellent combat make it a memorable RPG” Full Review: gamesnight.nz/the-blood-of-d…
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PlayStation’s next big title featuring Marvel’s Wolverine is right around the corner, coming September 15th. We spoke with Insomniac Senior Project Director Jess Reiner-Reed about reimagining an icon like Wolverine. #wolverine Interview: gamesnight.nz/marvels-wolver…
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Good way to start Friday! GamesNight is now on OpenCritic! ☺️🥳 +1 for NZ game reviews getting seen on a global scale. 🇳🇿🫡
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Denari from Astronaut Diaries and published by Ninja Kiwi has a release date of March 24th, 2027! Check out the demo now for some cell shaded combat 👀🗡️ Full Details gamesnight.nz/denari-release…
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Sludgineers is out now! 👀 Time to get your cozy cleaning on! 🧹🥳
🫧🧹 Sludgineers is OUT NOW on Steam! ❤️ Play our cozy cleaning mining incremental game today: store.steampowered.com/app/4… #sludgineers #cozy #cleaning #mining #incremental #game #indiegame #gaming
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Witcher fans are eating good. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt — Remastered coming September 29th. Perfect time before the new DLC and the Witcher 4 #thewitcher
Are your swords oiled up and sharpened? Potions brewed? Roach saddled? It’s time to face Eredin and his entourage once again! The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Remastered features an array of improvements, bringing upgrades to visuals, gameplay, and more. It's coming on September 29 and will be available as a free upgrade to all owners of the game on GOG, Steam, Epic Games Store, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S. It is also available for pre-purchase on Battle.net and Nintendo Switch 2. That’s not all, though! All current owners of the base game will gain access to the two original expansions – Hearts of Stone and Blood and Wine – for free! Both of these expansions will also be included in #TheWitcher3Remastered base game! Learn more here: thewitcher.com/witcher3
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The wait is almost over. Path of Exile 2 fully releases on December 11 PST. Ready your swords, Exile. Your greatest battle is about to begin. ⚔️ Sign up for exclusive rewards and learn more here: pathofexile2.com/register/X
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Canvas City demo is now live on Steam! 🥳👀🛼 Rollerblade and trick your way through way turn based battles while also tagging spots and taking down rivals. #canvascity #indiegames #turnbasedstrategy Full Story: gamesnight.nz/canvas-city-st…
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It’s the moment you’ve all been waiting for… Beyond These Stars launches… October 15th, 2026. Wishlist on Steam: buff.ly/Z3gXKLg
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Elfcat Studio has revealed the announcement trailer and Steam page for their debut title, Buru and The Old People. A narrative adventure game with Indigenous storytelling in an anthropomorphic world with a healthy dose of D&D-inspired mechanics. Story: gamesnight.nz/buru-and-the-o…
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It’s been a month since we released our first game - Teeto. Despite its slow launch, it was a huge achievement for us & a big stepping stone at the start of our game dev journeys. We poured pretty much everything into this game for 2.5 years and are so proud of what we made. 🩵
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