Back for their second year the guys over at Shadowloo are set to host another epic fighting game tournament in Melbourne on June 25th at the CQ Hotel. If you’re wondering just how epic this may be, well it’s damn epic enough to bring several of the world’s top Super Street Fighter IV players all [...]
The fine folks at THQ Melbourne once again opened their doors to the Space Meat team for a preview of their upcoming and just launched titles. As usual we all had a great time hanging with our fellow Melbourne video game media and checking out what THQ had coming out in the near future. Personally [...]
The annual Melbourne Armageddon Expo is nearly here. It’s a fun pop-culture expo with guests from film, TV, animation and comic books. Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre October 16 & 17, 2010 Some of the guests: John Dimaggio (Bender in Futurama) Michael Shanks (Dr. Daniel Jackson on Stargate SG-1) David Faustino (Bud Bundy on Married [...]
If you’re a lover of the crouch punch and spend your afternoons quarter-circling your way to victory, then you shouldn’t miss the second annual Battle Arena Melbourne fighting game tournament. Presented by CouchWarriors and sponsored by THQ, Madman Entertainment, and Sega Australia. Battle Arena Melbourne When: October 2 & 3 Where: CQ, Event Room 2, [...]
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) [...]