A home for the Australian gaming community
News and reviews written by gamers, tournaments and ladders to actually compete in, a Linux compatibility checker for your Steam library, and a community built to grow with it.
News & Reviews
Articles, reviews and industry news, written by the community.
Linux Readiness
Connect your Steam library and see what actually runs, checked against ProtonDB.
Tournaments & Ladders
Run or join a competition — brackets, ladders and team pages, ready to go.
Guides
Walkthroughs and how-tos for the games you’re actually playing.
Community
Profiles, groups and events for the Australian gaming scene.
Get Involved
Write, curate, moderate, or help run a tournament — the site grows with who shows up.
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Before Cartridges: The One-Game Wonders That Started Home Gaming
Long before anyone swapped a cartridge, a handful of consoles that could only ever play one game taught the world to plug something into the TV for fun. Here's that story, and where a few of the people involved ended up.
by thrax
We turned your Steam library into an update feed
Own a few hundred games on Steam? You're missing things. My Game Feed pulls the official update posts for every game in your connected library into one place, and can show you just what has landed since you last played each one.
by thrax
Will your Steam games run on Linux? We built a tool to check
Windows 11 wants a permanent cut of your RAM for telemetry, ads and Recall. Linux doesn't. Before you switch, run your Steam library through playtopia.com.au/linux to see what actually works on the GPU and distro you have in mind, scored from real Linux player reports on ProtonDB.
by thraxThis site grows with the people who show up
Hop into the Discord, jump into a tournament, or just start reading — the tools are built, the rest is up to whoever's here.