Esports
When Fortnite went to the Australian Open
Seamus was in Melbourne for the Fortnite Summer Smash event at the Australian Open and interviewed a host of streamers, competitors and organisers about the
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Games
Bashing heads endlessly against Jaina's ice wall
Luke Lancaster, Content Manager at ReedPop (ComicCon, PAX Aus) is our awesome guest host this week, along with a Seamus having a very bad microphone day.
Culture
Every D&D nerd deserves a Mind Flayer mounted trophy
Tabletop trophy hunters rejoice! For all those times you've taken out illithid nests, whether in the Forgotten Realms or maybe an old school Spelljammer
Games
Our next show: The Esports Moment
Every week, every month, there’s yet another sign that now is the time when esports levels up and shows the wider world why it’s time to take notice. This new
Esports
Fortnite Summer Smash: chasing heroes, chasing dreams
Who’d have guessed twelve months ago that Fortnite would hold a major esports event at the Australian Open with the biggest prize pool in our nation’s history?
Technology
Here's five things Sonos should do before trying to compete in the headphones market
Sonos wants to make headphones? Hmmm... instead of going to fight a new warfront in consumer tech land, here's some suggestions to extend what they already do
Games
Heroes of the Storm is getting a new community tournament in February
Blizzard shocked fans when they announced they were shutting down the Heroes Global Championship at the end of 2018. But now the esports community is stepping
Games
The Scrapyard podcast: 2019 will be a very important year for Blizzard!
We're back after the summer break (which included a literal break of a bone, so things were slower than we expected...) and this is a short and sweet catch up
Technology
A 'self-driving' Tesla ran down an autonomous robot at CES 2019 in the most CES incident possible
Who's at fault? The Tesla driver? The Tesla autopilot? The Promobot that was weirdly standing on the street like it'd been out late drinking? Is somebody
Games
The Commodore 64 bass keytar is even better than you could imagine
A keytar with the body of a Commodore 64? Very cute. Oh, wait... the pick up actually sends sound into the WORKING C64 to create chiptune vibes that can be
Games
Dreams beta becomes a PT nightmare but OMG how amazing is this game/tool going to be?
PT. A demo that for a now never-to-be-made Silent Hill game that was just one hallway but freaked the hell out of everyone who ever experienced it. And then
Technology
The actual Uber flying taxi appeared at CES so get ready
The Bell Nexus was unveiled at CES this year and it's the sexy four-passenger air taxi Uber has been working on. With VTOL and super sleek design, those pipe