Happy Days! Any adult gamer that likes to get their drink on should have checked out the Mana Bar by now, with all the press and positive reception going on it’s hard not to hear about the nightlife bar taking over Brisbane’s Valley district with geeks getting into video games and custom themed drinks. Well [...]

The Melbourne Anime Festival (Manifest) is running this weekend at the Melbourne Showgrounds and has the theme ‘Mecha VS Magic’ in this incarnation (it’s 11th year running). Expect to see various panels on how to get into anime and Japanese culture as well as more specific genres of anime such as mecha anime. That said, [...]

Last month I attended the pop-culture expo Supanova at the Royal Melbourne Show Grounds. I had a fun time and while I was there I met up with Will and Kyle from Canned Geek to do some video coverage.

The annual geek tradition that is Supanova hits Brisbane this weekend and Melbourne the weekend after. They are lining up some great guests and exhibits so make sure not to miss it! BRISBANE 2010 | MELBOURNE 2010 April 9-11 | April 16-18 RNA Showgrounds | Royal Showgrounds Some of the standouts appearing in both Brisbane [...]

I was recently up in Brisbane visiting friends, one of which was Australian Gamer’s own Yug, and I decided to do an a quick interview with for mentioned Yug about the new video game bar, The Mana Bar, he is opening there with his good friends Yahtzee (of Zero Punctuation), Shay, and Pras. Thanks to [...]

The Hub Productions will be holding a Stargate event in Melbourne and Sydney with guests from SG-1, Stargate Universe and Farscape. Guests: Richard Dean Anderson, David Nykl, Connor Trinneer, Dan Shea, Christopher Judge, Ben Browder, David Blue, Claudia Black, Julie Caitlin Brown, Jason Palmer and Gigi Edgley (Sydney Only). When: Sydney – 6th March (Saturday) [...]

Fans of gaming, booze, and general socialites will soon have a place to gather when ‘Mana Bar’ opens up this year in Brisbane, Australia. Currently in the last stages of setup in Brisbane’s night life strip The Valley, The Mana Bar will serve as a great place to meet up. Owned and operated by gamers [...]

The guest line-up and dates for this years Supanova expo for Brisbane & Melbourne were recently announced, and this year there are a couple of pretty big names in the world of geekdom appearing, most notably Buffy The Vampire Slayer’s Spike himself James Marsters and legendary fantasy artist Boris Vallejo. BRISBANE April 9-11, RNA Showgrounds [...]

Game Connect Asia Pacific is an annual conference and networking event for the Asia Pacific games industry, hosted by the Game Developer’s Association of Australia. This years GCAP was held at the Crown Promenade Hotel in Melbourne from the 6th – 8th of December and quite an entertaining event.

Last Wednesday (9th of December), Melbourne’s THQ offices held a media event in their offices. They gave me free beer and pizza, and let me see their latest games and the coolest office decorations of all the game developer offices I have visited. THQ spreading Christmas cheer… and chainswords.