This is the first in a series of articles looking at how professional game reviews shape the industry. As a flurry of February releases hits gaming devices, a new report is set to perhaps rekindle an age-old gaming industry debate. Published this month in the Journal of Business Research, new research has drawn a line between critical… Read more »
Humour me with a little thought experiment. Go ask someone, anyone, to name one love story in film, literature and music. They may stumble on one of the three, but I’d wager they wouldn’t do too badly. Now ask them for a love story in a video game. If they don’t game, I’d reckon they’d… Read more »
We’re just a few weeks into 2025 and its already shaping up to be significantly more eventful than the past year. We’re set to see a brand new console launch, a major games developer aim to steer itself out of hot water, and a console-maker realise its goal to become hub for cloud gaming. It… Read more »
Thanks for reading Infinite Lives this year. This is my last edition for 2024, I’ll be taking a break — using the time to play my new Steam Deck — and be back in late January, 2025. Catch you in the New Year! Finally, a PlayStation 3D platformer that rivals Mario. I even went as… Read more »
There’s a world in which you could consider 2024 unremarkable for the gaming industry. Like most other years, there were mass redundancies, launch delays and stuff-ups — that’s sadly become the norm. There were also breakout successes and major points of hype too. Each major player had their time in the sun. But coming off… Read more »
It was a policy blitz like no other. No less than 31 separate bills were passed by our government on November 28, clearing the way for a federal election in Australia at some point next year. Among them, a controversial but broadly supported bill to ban those under 16 from accessing social media. It’s generated… Read more »
Nintendo has to be the gaming industry’s most unpredictable company. In 2017, after years of resisting pressure to do so, the gaming giant released a trio of mobile games leveraging its hot intellectual property: Super Mario Run, Fire Emblem Heroes and Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp. All three ticked away with similar business models. You could… Read more »
It has fewer users than the Epic Games Store but holds the power to make or break both AAA and indie games. In nine months of writing about the games industry — but over two decades of playing them — never have I heard so much about one platform that I knew so little about.… Read more »
The global video game industry is surprisingly flush with data. There are charts that measure the hype of games on Steam, monthly trackers of most-played games, and financial reports and sales — whenever they leak — from the major gaming companies. It’s not all serious stats either. Last year Larian Studios, the makers of Baldur’s… Read more »
Chris Hansford tempted fate buying a second-hand Steam Deck off Facebook marketplace. He wasn’t scammed, and his model arrived as advertised. It was instead an unfortunate case of terrible timing. Hansford purchased the device a few weeks before the company announced they would start selling the Steam Deck in Australia in late November. Had he known,… Read more »
Talk about a one-two punch. After years of Australians paying almost $400 above US recommended retail to attain a grey-imported Steam Deck, the company has finally decided to launch its coveted console in this market. This was all done by stealth. With no prior warning — aside from an embargoed press release to some outlets… Read more »
Jordan Mochi is perplexed. The history student turned solo game developer ticked all the boxes. His survival horror war game Conscript had a healthy wish list of over 165,000 users on Steam — meaning that many gamers intended to buy the title on release. A successful Kickstarter, dozens of global press reviews — all largely… Read more »
It took over eight years and a reported 150 staff to build Concord, and just under two weeks to apparently decide to throw it in the bin. Last week, Sony shocked the global gaming community with its sudden decision to remove its new shooter, Concord, from sale and refund all those who purchased it. What’s more,… Read more »
It could have been the time I was crushed by the Stone Vanguard. Or that time I was fried by an electric-charged dragon, Kang-Jin Loong. I definitely remember turning the game off after being skewered for the 20th time by the Yellow Wind Sage’s obnoxiously long trident. While the broader gaming community is currently lauding… Read more »
While well-regarded and lauded within the crypto community, Australian-founded ‘Pokemon-like’ Illuvium knows it’s in for a fight to win over a broader market. “They f-cking hate us,” says Illuvium CEO Kieran Warwick. He’s speaking, of course, about the online gaming community. Which is inconvenient given he’s just launched the open beta of a new video… Read more »
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