Tickets for PAX Australia 2025 are on sale now

Tickets for PAX Australia 2025 are on sale now

Last year PAX Australia played host to Cult of the Lamb-themed weddings, a Medusa-shaped gaming PC that doubled as commentary on AI, and memer-shooter sequel 420 Blaze It 2. Who knows what the 2025 edition will bring us? Scheduled to take over the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre from October 10–12, PAX Australia 2025 will…

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MSI Claw 8 AI+ A2VM review

Pour one out for the original MSI Claw. You can still find it for sale, but with a Meteor Lake Intel chip inside and a chassis design that felt a lot more like a prototype than you’d expect from a modern gaming handheld, it seemed doomed to obscurity from the start. The MSI Claw 8…

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Trippy, psychedelic alien shooter ChainStaff shows there are still new ways for games to be ‘retro’

I love a new-old game as much as anyone, but it’s hard to pretend that today’s retro throwbacks aren’t drawing inspiration from a small, predictable selection of extremely popular games: Zelda. Chrono Trigger. Final Fantasy. Castlevania. Metroid. Mega Man. These are perfectly understandable picks for a game of any size to be inspired by—there are…

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Minecraft creator Notch says that he ‘basically announced minecraft 2’ with a Twitter poll and a commitment to making a spiritual successor

Original Minecraft creator Markus “Notch” Persson has stated on Twitter that his next game will be a Minecraft spiritual successor and that he “basically announced minecraft 2.” Notch had run a Twitter poll asking followers to weigh in on whether he should keep his in-development project’s current direction, or put it on the shelf to…

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