Gaming

Inside the online end of Nintendo’s Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp

- December 6, 2024 8 MIN READ

Nintendo has to be the gaming industry’s most unpredictable company. In 2017, after years of resisting pressure to do so, the gaming giant released a trio of mobile games leveraging its hot intellectual property: Super Mario Run, Fire Emblem Heroes and Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp. All three ticked away with similar business models. You could… Read more »

Gaming

The price of impatience: what happened to gamers who didn’t wait for the Steam Deck’s Australian launch

- November 1, 2024 6 MIN READ

Chris Hansford tempted fate buying a second-hand Steam Deck off Facebook marketplace. He wasn’t scammed, and his model arrived as advertised. It was instead an unfortunate case of terrible timing. Hansford purchased the device a few weeks before the company announced they would start selling the Steam Deck in Australia in late November. Had he known,… Read more »