I’ve never worked so hard to earn a t-shirt. The plan was simple: Arrive at PAX as a group as early as possible on Sunday, its quietest day. Make a beeline when the doors open at 10am for the Final Fantasy XIV stall. Get to the front of the queue. Beat the boss, win a… Read more »
One month in and This Week In Videogames, launched by an Australian content creator, is off to a roaring start. In an industry full of busy people, Edmond Tran has to be among the busiest. For the past month, Tran has been working as an editorial Swiss Army knife for the new gaming news website… Read more »
Operating for 20 years, Australia Plays has become a globally influential gaming survey authority. But it now faces new challenges as its data matures. Bond University’s Professor Jeffrey Brand is calm, collected and ready to go. There’s no sense of nervousness or trepidation on a media call discussing his research into Australia’s gaming population. He… Read more »
It beggars belief that holding the world record for speedrunning Pokémon HeartGold can come down to how quickly you catch a rare Magikarp. It’s a notoriously pathetic monster, mocked both in-game and in the long-running anime series. But in HeartGold there’s an incredibly rare variant that’s set at level 50. Capturing it, and boosting it… Read more »
Nintendo can remotely disable Switch 2 consoles for modding or piracy, potentially challenging Australian consumer protection laws. A month out from the console launch, and players around the world are still finding new and exciting things about the Switch 2 console. But for some users, particularly those in gaming’s more technical communities, they’re discovering Nintendo’s… Read more »
When enhanced graphics just aren’t enough. And why that’s now an issue for Sony. Let it be known: I’m a sucker for a tech upgrade. I’m one of those weirdos who tries to update their phone every two years. I swapped out my PlayStation 4 for a PlayStation 4 Pro. My original Switch for the… Read more »
As hype for the new console leads to sellouts around the world, there’s still a rare few places where its readily available. Australia is curiously one of them. Australia has a long history of fumbling its tourism marketing campaigns; the only message that seems to resonate is that we’re a country full of poisonous and… Read more »
This article is part of a quarterly series I’m launching The Greatest In Gaming, where I poll writers across Substack and the broader community on a unique aspect of gaming that’s special to them. You can find the last piece on gaming’s greatest love stories here. While you might not hear video game music on… 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 »
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 »
Redundancy was the opportunity Tom King was waiting for. For the first time since he turned 18, he was fully unemployed. No side hustles, no part-time jobs, and a tidy cash buffer from the redundancy payout. So, he decided to explore a new venture, something that many gamers think about but rarely actually do; he… Read more »
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