Winning is good, and losing is bad. We strive to win, and this is the basis for most of the games we play. Challenges are binary: we either overcome them, advancing the story, or fail, and must try...
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Do you want to conquer the challenges of indie board game backing and hunt fancy loot? Your party may be too small, the dungeon too ambitious, the loot may be swallowed in inexperience or lost in the...
While the Pubcast team was down in Melbourne for PAX Australia 2014, we managed to catch up with Siobhan Reddy, studio director at Media Molecule and former student at the same primary school as our...
PAX AUS 2014 – State of Play – Competitive Gaming and eSports in Australia
Following the popular panel of last year, we look back at the year in competitive gaming in Australia and overseas. The eSports scene continues to grow, and how are things progressing here at...
It seems obvious that, when playing a game of skill, one attempts to win. Interestingly, this is often not the case, and even skilled gamers rarely analyze to any real depth the underlying...
In this final round of the Omegathon there can be only one. The only way this can be settled is a trial by Combat! Watch as two people who never played the Atari "classic" battle each other in...