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Common ground between the gaming subculture
With the gaming industry/community slowly growing as an accepted mainstay in our society (both from a practical and cultural point of view), we’ve begun to really untangle the many pressing questions...
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Streetpassing Melbourne
I spent a lot of time in queues at PAX Aus. Whether for panels, demos, or food; lengthy waits are an inescapable part of a convention on this scale. But in truth, I didn’t really mind too much, largely...
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Melbourne and PAX Aus – The next level
Herein lies the epic journey to PAXAus 2013. The noble hero encountered many a trial and beast, but ultimately levelled up and experienced the wonderful Penny Arcade Expo, meeting exciting new heroes...
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Social media coverage of PAXAus: an analysis of Twitter activity
There is no denying that the Australian games industry suffered as a result of the Global Financial Crisis, although initially buffered from its effects we saw a worrisome string of studio closures,...
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Tasty Fish and somewhere beyond the sea…
Hello everyone, my name is Dann and I am addicted to Dime Studios’ Tasty Fish! You might recently have encountered their stall at PAXAus 2013, shelling out badges of their various exotic fishies and...
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MC Frontalot: a journey through nerdcore
Nerdcore is a genre of music that predominately centres around themes of nerd culture discourse. And Damian Hess, better known as MC Frontalot, is a founding artist of the subgenre. Sitting on the...
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PAX Aus 2013: Post Show Report
At the opening of the first Australian Penny Arcade Expo in July this year, scores of people filled the Melbourne Showgrounds in a hall that usually holds showbag stands, most arriving from a short...
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Heart of PAX: The Making of
Hi, I’m Callum. I’m a freelance writer and one of the creators of ‘The Heart of PAX’ video. The second half of the project was Stefan Chochowski, cameraman and editor. Here’s how we put the short film...
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PAX Australia to stay in Melbourne until 2019
The Victorian Government has secured the right for Melbourne to continue to host the Australian leg of the world’s largest digital games festival, the Penny Arcade Expo Australia (PAX Aus), for the...
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PAX Aus 2014 turns up the volume on games in Australia
For the second year in a row, the Penny Arcade Expo Australia (PAX Aus) was held in Melbourne from 31 October 2014 to 2 November 2014. It opened to the news that Melbourne had secured the right to...
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