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.
Check out the latest games, compete in the eGames Masters tournament, watch the presentations, panels and Rock Band competitions live on stage. The Space-Meat team will be there covering the event and internet quiz show THE LOBBY will be doing live shows from the expo. Feel free to come by and say hello. The biggest [...]
Coming up this weekend is the annual Melbourne Armageddon Expo. It’s a pop-culture expo with guests from film, TV, animation and comic books. Unfortunately some of the previously announced guests have had to withdraw, most notably Phil LaMarr (MadTV, Justice League), however they did get Rufio to replace him and he kills pirates. Details below. [...]
The International Digital Entertainment Festival is on again this year hosting 3 great events across one weekend including Australia’s biggest gaming expo eGames. Normally home to other forms of art and nearby the Melbourne Museum, the Royal Exhibition Centre will house the convention this year opening it’s doors to a different kind of artistic connoisseur, [...]
The long running and always entertaining Armageddon Expo is known for having some big name film, TV, animation and comic book stars attending each year and this years coming Melbourne event is no different. The biggest star this year is probably Seth Green, star of film (Austin Powers, the Italian Job, Sex Drive), TV (Heroes, [...]
Here is an old (March 2007) talk by J.J. Abrams (Lost, Mission Impossible 3, Star Trek) discussing his love of mystery and its uses in life and film. This talk is just one of many by fantastic speakers including Al Gore, Brian Greene, and Ken Robinson which you can check out at TED. I highly [...]
Whatever type of gaming you’re in to, Gen Con Australia has got you covered again this year getting prepared early to take over the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre come September. With masses of space for all sorts of tabletop gaming and LAN tournaments the action rides alongside convention exhibitionists and special guests spanning across [...]