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Everything You Need to Know About the League of Legends Worlds Championship 2018

The League of Legends World Championship of 2018 is taking shape, ready to kick off in South Korea this October. ‘Worlds’ as it’s affectionately known sees a total of 24 teams from around the world converge in Seoul, Korea for the biggest League of Legends event. Starting from the first of October 12 teams will […]

Posted September 22, 2018 by Daniel

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XCOM 2 WOTC Playthrough [Ironman] Mode

Join Dan (and XCOM) as we fight back against the alien menace. Watch as Dan (and You!) take to the streets, build up a hellicarrier and more. Mostly sit back and enjoy me making tactical decisions that have lasting impact because we’re playing Ironman mode. That means no take backsies. Wanna get your character into […]

Posted September 14, 2018 by Daniel

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Melbourne International Games Week 2018 Program Announced

Melbourne International Games Week (MIGW), the biggest games festival in the Asia Pacific, today announced the 2018 program, the largest to date. Taking place from 20–28 October at locations throughout Melbourne’s CBD, MIGW brings local, national, and international games talent together for one week of creativity, networking, business/industry development and play. Melbourne is the natural […]

Posted September 8, 2018 by Emily McCoy

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Four Games to Play in 2018

For gamers that are in the loop, it can often feel like there are simply too many games released every year to sample all of them. You might head over to review sites, rely on recommendations from friends, or otherwise do some trial and error gaming of your own to find the games that you’re […]

Posted September 7, 2018 by Emma K

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PAX Australia 2018 Indie Showcase

PAX Australia 2018 is rapidly approaching 26-28th October and we’re starting to get a glimpse of what to expect. As with previous years you can expect we’ll be getting hands on with all the Indie darlings we can at PAX. The best Aus indies have to offer get a special place in the PAX Aus […]

Posted August 21, 2018 by Daniel

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141 Chinese PUBG Hackers Arrested For Creating Cheat Software

Anyone who plays PUBG knows someone who has blamed cheaters when they’ve been killed. They might not have been wrong, cheating is a huge problem in Player Unknown’s Battlegrounds. One of the biggest sources of cheat software comes from China. Tencent Holdings Ltd., the game’s distributor there, has been working together with local law enforcement […]

Posted July 12, 2018 by Daniel

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RPG Maker MV Coming to Nintendo Switch, Xbox One and PS4

RPG Maker MV makes the jump from PC to the Nintendo Switch, Xbox One and PlayStation 4. Following in the footsteps of Super Mario Maker, NIS America has partnered with Kadokawa to bring the long running game making toolkit to the latest generation of consoles. The series, which contains several editions on PC and console editions […]

Posted July 11, 2018 by Daniel

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Melbourne Esports Open Cements Melbourne As Esports Capital

Melbourne’s working to claiming the title of ‘Esports Capital’ to go with ‘Sporting Capital of the World’ with the first Melbourne Esports Open to launch in September this year. ESL Australia and TEG (Ticketek) have today confirmed that the first ever Melbourne Esports Open will kick off in September later this year. The Melbourne Esports Open will feature […]

Posted June 20, 2018 by Daniel

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Gamers Slam NBN Co For Accusations of Congestion

Gamers to Blame For NBN Co’s Slowdown? Video games get blamed for a lot of things. The National Broadband Network’s (NBN) CEO has blamed ‘gamers’ for slow speeds in parts of the network, saying they’re using up too much data. UPDATE: NBN Co is insisting its CEO Bill Morrow only singled out online gamers as […]

Posted June 6, 2018 by Non-Fiction Gaming

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New Pokémon Games for Nintendo Switch

Pokémon: Let’s Go, Pikachu! and Pokémon: Let’s Go, Eevee! Arrive This November Featuring Interactivity with Pokémon GO During a special Pokémon press conference in Tokyo today, The Pokémon Company International and Nintendo announced three new ways to play Pokémon for Nintendo Switch™—Pokémon: Let’s Go, Pikachu!, Pokémon: Let’s Go, Eevee!, and the free-to-start Pokémon Quest. With the addition of these new […]

Posted June 3, 2018 by Daniel

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‘Rift Rivals’ League of Legends Esports Tournament to Hit Sydney’s Sate Theatre

Sydney’s State Theatre will host the 2018 League of Legends esports tournament Rift Rivals. In an announcement this week, Riot games has teamed up with Event Hospitality and Entertainment to bring the event to Australia for the first time. Rift Rivals sees the best teams across Oceania, Japan and Southeast Asia compete over four days […]

Posted May 31, 2018 by Daniel

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League of Origin Returns with an AFL and Riot Games Partnership

League of Legends Oceania is strengthening connections with the AFL to bring a partnership between esports and sportsball. The partnership between the AFL and Riot games brings with it a premier stadium tournament to the heart of football in Melbourne. Following in the footsteps of last years League of Legends: League of Origin, the new event […]

Posted May 10, 2018 by Daniel

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Grand Theft Auto: Update to Remove Expired Music is Now Live

Are you still playing GTA IV? You may have noticed a large update today as a number of songs are being removed from the Grand Theft Auto IV game due to licenses expiring. When you load GTA IV up your Console or PC you’ll be asked to do an update which is 6.96GB on console and […]

Posted April 30, 2018 by Emma K

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Can I Get An Encore: Do You Want More – D&D 5E Bard Optimisation Guide

This Bard guide is strung together from many musicians across the internet. Taking the best notes and chords from those that came before, the Encore guide below hopes to get that foot tapping into your Bardic future. We also link to a full list of other great character optimisation guides for D&D. Contents Introduction Stats […]

Posted April 20, 2018 by Daniel

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Labor’s Got a Plan To Fix The NBN Multi Technology Mess

There’s no doubt the discussions around NBN from politicians have left something to be desired. Aussie gamers have been watching the NBN debate unfold slowly from disaster to disaster. Now the rise of mainstream discussion on 5G and the competitiveness of a ‘Multi Technology Mix’ based NBN is getting into full swing. The discussion gets […]

Posted April 11, 2018 by Daniel