Return to Monkey Island is a definite cause for celebration, it sees the return of the Lucasfilm Games/LucasArts point-and-click classic with creator Ron Gilbert at the helm, and series veteran Dave Grossman for good measure. As one of the most surprising and awesome game announcements of this year, we also got our first look at gameplay thanks to a new trailer that debuted a couple of days ago.

Skate 4 or skate. is the return of EA's beloved skateboarding series with new developer, the Vancouver-based Full Circle at the helm. This is one of those beloved series that fans have been asking to see return for quite sometime, so when it was made official that happened pretty much alongside development kicking off.

With the all new PlayStation Plus available in Australia offering up subscription tiers with massive game libraries to download and play titles from, the Essential tier remains as is with monthly games up for grabs. And the PlayStation Plus games for July 2022 have been announced, headlined by Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time for PS5 and PS5.

Sony's new INZONE brand covers gaming gear designed for both PC and PlayStation, and with three new gaming headsets coming to Australia there's also the prospect of brand-new Sony gaming monitors. Although local availability and pricing is still TBC, reviews have been cropping up and first impressions have been positive.

Sony is gearing up, literally, with its new INZONE brand of gear targeting both PC and PlayStation players. It's the former that serves as the foundation for the announcement of three new Sony INZONE headsets that that will leverage the company's "expertise as a pioneer of audio-visual technology, delivering features that will immerse gamers into the action with total focus".

Gotham Knights is shaping up to be... something. On the one hand, the game centres around the death of Batman at the hands of the Court of Owls, in a storyline pulled from some of the best modern Batman comic book arcs, but on the other it's also looking like it could be too much of a mixed bag of gameplay ideas not always gelling together.

And tonally, if the music in today's character spotlight is anything to go... let's just say we're a bit concerned.

Sometimes you just want something dedicated to a specific task. Something that excels at what it was designed for and, something that leverages needs and wants as part of its basic and dedicated design setup. With the HyperX PulseFire Haste - Wireless Gaming Mouse you get pretty much that where competitive gaming is concerned.

Fallout: London is a DLC-sized mod for Fallout 4 created by a group of passionate fans, and if you didn't know that going in you wouldn't be mistaken for thinking that this is an officially sanctioned Bethesda joint. Switching the location to Europe, there's new factions, societal structures, crazy scientific experiments, and the moody horror of exploring a post-apocalyptic underground.

Diablo II: Resurrected was a brilliant remaster by the way of remake for the iconic action-RPG, and since launch the team at Blizzard have continued to update the game with new items, balance changes, and several updates. After a rocky launch (server-wise) things are now in a great place, and the latest update Patch 2.4.3 is looking to improve the backend, lobbies, and more.

The latest Overwatch 2 Beta is live, running from today until July 18 - and it brings new heroes, new maps, and more to players on PC (via Battle.net), PlayStation, and Xbox. And it arrives with full cross-play support.

And that comes in the form of the following: Persona 5 Royal, Persona 4 Golden and Persona 3 Portable, with Persona 5 Royal slated to drop for the Switch this October. The other two are in a bit of a "wait and see" holding pattern, but they're coming and for Ninty players, that's all that matters.

One of our most beloved Nintendo Switch titles not made by Nintendo or from Nintendo in-house, Mario + Rabbids, makes its console return in October of this year by way of Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope. Introducing a new setting, new characters and new free-roaming element to battles, this entry in the now-definitely-a-franchise looks to be the biggest yet.

Portal: The Companion Collection brings Portal and Portal 2 together in one neat little package, and it's available now for the Nintendo Switch (price will be roughly $28 AUD). With the game optimised to run at 60fps at 1080p, the results looks impressive for a Switch first-person title.

Return to Monkey Island sees Ron Gilbert's Terrible Toybox join up with Devolver Digital and Lucasfilm Games to bring a new entry in the classic point-and-click adventure series, and as part of a new Nintendo Direct Mini we got our first proper gameplay trailer. One that does well to highlight the new art-style.

July 2022 marks the beginning of the second half of the year, and following on from a fairly stacked first half things don't look like they are slowing down anytime soon. Let’s take a look at the big releases across each platform...

Solve the mystery of poor Sire Denathrius who was murdered at his own dinner party, as Hearthstone's latest expansion presents a dark, gloomy, and fun Murder at Castle Nathria case to solve. Don't worry though, Murloc Holmes is on the case. With 135 new cards including Legendary Suspects, a new Location card type, and the new 'Infuse' Keyword, it's set to launch August 3.

We should probably preface that this is all currently based on rumour, and while we take so much of the rumour-mill -- especially where Nintendo IP and product is concerned -- with horse-sized salt-lick grains of salt, we kind of just want to believe there's some truth here.

So, with that out of the way, it's being speculated that we'll be seeing a Metroid Prime Remaster released for the Holiday period this year.

Blade Runner: Enhanced Edition sees the return of the 1997 point-and-click adventure game classic from Westwood Studios that broke new ground back in the day. From its real-time story structure to the motion-captured visuals through the visual style inspired by Ridley Scott's sci-fi masterpiece.

As the next expansion for WoW, World of Warcraft: Dragonflight sets its sight back towards Azeroth in a tale all about the return of dragons and what that means for the future. It's shaping up to be something pretty epic too - be sure to check out our massive interview with the WoW Team for more info. But, without a release date many were expecting a 2023 release. Well, that's not the case with Dragonflight set to, well, take flight this year.

Back in the day, the 1990s, playing console games in Australia on a TV meant playing in the PAL 50Hz format. With NTSC 60Hz being the TV style found in the U.S. and Japan a lot of PAL releases weren't optimised so they ran slower, had borders, and were generally inferior. But hey, as youngsters we didn't know any better. So it's good to see PlayStation giving us the option to play classic games - in their original format.