Gaming

A few American video game publishers have put New Zealand in the same region as Australia, which has us paying that 20%+ more for games on top of the standard USD to NZD conversion + VAT tax(when applicable), and others are outright charging us an Oceanic mark up.. One of the …

First Video Game Tournament 6th February, I purchased Dragonball FighterZ for PS4. Two days later I had registered for my first video game tournament, the Hamilton qualifiers of LetsPlay.Live‘s Dragonball FighterZ Arcade Reborn Tour. Today the 11th of February, the battle was on!   19 years of playing video games and …

It’s been a very long time since the days of Dave Mirra BMX games, Of which I was a huge fan. Now we have BMX Streets. It looks a bit simplistic at the moment, I hope it gets added to or even picked up by a bigger publisher who can …

Australasia’s first direct-to-television esports studio will open this week in the iconic Sky Tower, following a partnership between SKYCITY Entertainment Group and leading esports company LetsPlay.Live We were very kindly invited along to the grand opening for drinks, nibbles and a tour of the new digs ( those indian potato …

Okay, so I’m a bit rubbish when it comes to making great gaming predictions. But on the back of a stellar 2017, I figure that there’s at least 5 games that it’ll be worth keeping an eye on in 2018. These aren’t in any particular order, but they are all …

2017 has been a bit of a big year. There’s been some huge triumphs of gaming, and, frankly some staggeringly large disappointments. I have been fortunate enough to be able to play a fair amount of these games, some to excess, some not nearly as much as I’d like to …