FINALLY we have another Game On AUS song! You'll hear Pete and Dan's take on the Queen Classic, We Are The Champions! Then onwards with a MONSTER episode, we're back from PAX and it gave us a great opportunity to test out a new little somethin' somethin' on a couple of unsuspecting gaming industry leaders.. READ ON! Top 3 things gamers need to hear this week: 1. Fallout 76 B.E.T.A is now live, Pete shares his (surprising) thoughts 2. Titanfall 3 is on its way?? 3. Red Dead Redemption 2 is smashi...
Jul 05, 2022•1 hr 2 min•Season 2018Ep. 105
Top three things gamer's need to hear this week: 1. Red Dead Redemption is out and Rockstar have released an awesome companion app! 2. The Battlefield 5 developer who got banned from playing Black Ops 4! 3. PAX Aus fires up - we're joined by PAX content manager, Luke Lancaster, to talk us through what fans can expect! What game did you absolutely SUCK at? I've got you in my sights: We're having a crack at Storms and the NBuN.Co! Check out all of GOA shows....
Jul 05, 2022•53 min•Season 2018Ep. 104
Larry Hryb, aka Major Nelson. His title says "Director of Programming for XBox Live", but that is only one of the many hats that this legend of the industry wears. In our very special interview for episode 100 we talk to him about his life into gaming. How a chance crossing of the hallway at Microsoft started him on the journey to being one of the most recognisable names in the gaming community, and how he influenced every XBox since the 360! We also talk about the gaming industry and hear his o...
Jul 05, 2022•30 min•Season 2018Ep. 103
Top 3 things that gamers need to hear this week: 1. CoD Blops 4 is out – what does this mean for Fortnite and PUBG? 2. See you at PAX – if you’re going to Australia’s biggest gaming and tech fest, find out where you can find Pete! 3. EB Games announced AfterPay is going live. We catch up with Jo from thesavvyshopaholic.com.au to talk us through the pro’s and con’s Do you remember your “gamers first” – Dan explains what he means An impromptu “got you in my sights” this week as Dan realises toward...
Jul 05, 2022•51 min•Season 2018Ep. 102
Top 3 things gamers need to hear this week: 1. The #1 mod Skyrim players are downloading is seedy and hilarious 2. Anthem’s dev team reveals details on how its raid system will work 3. Another incredible story about gamers doing good – 6 gamers who have been playing online for years, and what brought them together to meet for the first time! We’re so excited to add ANOTHER guest to our hall of game! AVRL, Kevin Walker, is one of the best Overwatch analysts/casters we’ve had the pleasure of heari...
Jul 05, 2022•56 min•Season 2018Ep. 101
Someone must be listening because we're starting to hear from industry people and others are starting to take our call.. this week is certainly a great example of it because instead of the top 3 things gamers need to hear this week, we've got... The Top 3 INTERVIEWS Gamer Need To Hear This Week! 1. PHID from goto.game "may or may not have" ended up at Capcom yesterday playing some yet to be released games with some yet to be released surprises.. hypothetically speaking of course. 2. STEVE MO STA...
Jul 05, 2022•59 min•Season 2018Ep. 99
This week's episode is CHOCCA'S! Two major announcements over the last week has seen us grab some great talent from across Australia's gaming scene to give us exclusive insight into what you need to know. You'll only hear it here on Game On AUS! Top 3 Things Gamers Need To Hear This Week: 1. AFL Evolution 2 - We're joined by Daniel Visser, Managing Director of Wicked Witch Software, the devs behind AFL Evolution and Evo 2, for an in depth chat about what fans can expect from the sequel coming in...
Jul 05, 2022•48 min•Season 2018Ep. 98
Dan's off so two of the Game On AUS' finest from the community join Pete this week, Stix and Garbs! Top 3 things gamers need to hear this week: 1. 2K for 2k is our brand new competition! 2k games has sent as about $300 worth of AWESOME GEAR to give to a lucky GOA listener. Head to the facebook page for more information! 2. No Esports at the Olympics? Why the IOC has crushed that idea 3. We've been playing through EVERYTHING, we discuss our experience with a week full of releases - Destiny 2's Fo...
Jul 05, 2022•1 hr•Season 2018Ep. 97
Top 3 Things Gamers Need To Hear This Week: 1. XBox Games With Gold 2. Who is Anathan Pham? 3. The Destiny 2 Forsaken pre-load details are live Father's Day is this weekend, we have the most incredible Father's Day story that will turn on the water-works for any gamer. Is it our fault Malcolm Turnbull lost his job? Sights: Dan tee's off on his son. Check out all of GOA shows.
Jul 05, 2022•55 min•Season 2018Ep. 96
We have a real treat for you this week gamers! Top 3 things that gamers need to hear LIVE FROM GAMESCOM: Our good mate Alex from Kotaku is over in Germany at Gamescom and graciously took some time out of his hectic schedule to tell us the top things we need to know coming out of Gamescom. We also pick his brain on what it's like being one of the main guys who gets to go and represent a major gaming news brand at these gaming festivals talking about who he gets to meet, what morning until night l...
Jul 05, 2022•1 hr 10 min•Season 2018Ep. 95
Top 3 Things Gamers Need To Hear This Week. 1. DOTA 2 The International fires up this week 2. How to win a gold plated XBox One X 3. 81 year old finishes Destiny 2's Raid for the first time. Writes short story about it. The results of our Bachelor poll - and why a gaming house is doing a bachelor poll anyway. Also your answers to our big question last week - Which game turned you into a gamer! I've got you in my sights segment: Dan tees off on Network 10. Check out all of GOA shows....
Jul 05, 2022•44 min•Season 2018Ep. 94
Top 3 Things Gamers Need To Hear This Week: 1. Game On AUS' new game show, the Wheel Of Keys, is your chance to score XBox and steam codes! 2. Everything announced from Nintendo's latest Direct livestream 3. A new God of War game We've dived deep into the best injuries/illnesses to have for gaming, now comes our top 5 WORST! We get incredibly philosophical about "the game that made you a gamer" - then it's over to you at facebook.com/gameonaus Don't forget to check us out on your socials - we're...
Jul 05, 2022•59 min•Season 2018Ep. 93
HUGE THANKS TO AOC/AGON monitors, the world's #1 monitor brand has joined Game On AUS as our major sponsor for the next 13 eps! Top 3 things gamers need to hear this week: 1. What is GOALL? 2. Google stadia, and the issues with it 3. A new record for most video games in a collection has been set! HYPERX Cloud Alpha gaming headset giveaway! We give away this awesome headset thanks to HYPERX who have just signed on as a major partner of the Western Sydney Wanderers E-league team! ***INTERVIEW*** J...
Jul 05, 2022•1 hr 16 min•Season 2019Ep. 127
Dan's back from Vegas - and so are his jokes! Top 3 things gamers need to hear this week: 1. EA has announced lay offs - Dan's been through a redundancy and talks about it 2. ANTHEM's new patch reveals awesome changes, but also brings back old bugs 3. The QUEEN of England is a bloody gamer! We discuss also what Her Majesty may have enjoyed playing BIG QUESTION It's back - we ask our community "What's the game you bought even though it was shit" SIGHTS NBN is back in our sights this week. Check o...
Jul 05, 2022•1 hr 11 min•Season 2019Ep. 126
Dan's still away, so Pete's joined by a special guest this week! Jaime Bodeker is the co-founder/owner of Esports organisation, MC Esports. In this week's episode she joins Pete to talk about MC Esports, and the LANS they're taking around Australia. However, during the chat, they get onto the subject of AFLW star Tayla Harris, whose image went viral this week when her extraordinary athleticism was put on display and attacked by online trolls. She has since become a voice for change in the online...
Jul 05, 2022•38 min•Season 2019Ep. 125
Dan's off to Vegas for a couple of weeks so we welcome two of the Game On AUS content team - Stix & The Historian to the mic! Don't forget we have also started broadcasting every recording on twitch, this is where you can interact with our show live! Top 3 things gamers need to hear this week: 1. The Halo suite is coming to PC! 2. The funny stuff you can do in Division 2 to get achievements. 3. Google's games streaming service launches next week! ANTHEM - the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. We ...
Jul 05, 2022•1 hr 4 min•Season 2019Ep. 124
You always know it's a special episode when we title it "Acapella" Actually that's a lie, it just means we got kicked out of our studio and had to do it on the floor in a small soundproof box... BUT you get the awesome acapella Game On AUS podcast experience. It's raw! Top 3 things gamers need to hear this week: 1. Xbox One S BUT WITH NO DISC PORT is coming! 2. Govt. loot box enquiry comes to a grinding halt 3. Surgeons claim they're better when they play games The Game On AUS Facebook BIG QUEST...
Jul 05, 2022•1 hr 3 min•Season 2019Ep. 123
We have some incredibly exciting news to share! Over the last few months we have been working with twitch on taking our twitch channel into partner stat us as we begin a new phase of the weekly podcast, the live video broadcast! Each week on a Wednesday night join us from 5:30pm AWST for our live broadcast of the weekly Game On AUS podcast - follow and/or sub now and thank you so much to Twitch for the partnership! In the podcast - Dan kicks things off with an apology, plus... Top 3 things gamer...
Jul 05, 2022•1 hr 6 min•Season 2019Ep. 122
Are you playing Apex Legends and feeling like your ping on the pong? It's not an accident... Top 3 things gamers need to hear this week. 1. Alex Walker from Kotaku joins us to reveal some really interesting build mechanics in Apex Legends that will show you you're not just imagining you were behind that wall when Wraith killed you... 2. Fortnite is suing someone who tried to put on what turned out to be the Fyre festival equivalent of a Fortnite theme park! 3. It's Anthem week, if you're experie...
Jul 05, 2022•1 hr 4 min•Season 2019Ep. 121
It's Valentine's Day week and in what is meant to be the season of love, we're actually busy breaking up with something that's been a part of our lives for a long time. Dan surprises Pete with a Valentine's break up song. Top 3 things gamers need to hear this week: 1. We're investigating doing tournaments for our members. 2. Activision/Blizzard lays off 800 staff in the face of a record earnings year - the full story. 3. Rainbow Six Siege's new map is set in Australia, and it's bloody brilliant!...
Jul 05, 2022•1 hr 16 min•Season 2019Ep. 120
Top 3 things gamers need to hear this week: 1. The community wants Shaggy from Scooby Doo to appear in Mortal Kombat 11 2. Fallout 76's latest update - one step forward, two steps back! WE TAKE A QUICK BREAK BETWEEN TOP NEWS STORIES BECAUSE.... Ryan Lappin, one half of Jade and Ryan from Channel 10's cult children's 90's TV show, Cheez TV, joins Pete for an in-depth chat about the series and how it launched pop culture in Australia! THEN IT'S BACK TO TOP 3.... 3. Chris "The Historian" Inglis joi...
Jul 05, 2022•1 hr 13 min•Season 2019Ep. 118
Top 3 things gamers need to hear this week: 1. BioWare has revealed they were going to make something we all wanted! 2. A Star Wars WRITER has slammed EA for abusing their license over Star Wars 3. Ubisoft is saying sorry also! SIGHTS: Dan has a crack at Pete. Check out all of GOA shows.
Jul 05, 2022•32 min•Season 2019Ep. 117
Top 3 things gamers need to hear this week: 1. Someone built a NES out of lego bricks... and IT WORKS! Find out how... 2. There's a new king of twitch. 3. What's happened to EA's open world star wars game? We put in a call to Game On AUS' "The Historian" to get his incredible take on Star Wars in gaming and his thoughts on EA and where it needs to go. "I've got you in my sights" Kevin Rudd - where the bloody hell are you?! Check out all of GOA shows....
Jul 05, 2022•42 min•Season 2019Ep. 116
We're back and we're kicking things off with one of our world famous songs - "Rainbow Road" to John Denver's classic "Country Road". Then it's into the regular stuff you love: Top 3 things gamers need to hear this week! 1. Kevin Rudd has opened up in a reddit AMA about Australia's NBN, he wants a royal commission and even mentions there may be a huge conspiracy behind it! 2. Anthem isn't far away - here are the tech specs to make it run lovely! 3. New figures out from the UK showed how much gami...
Jul 05, 2022•52 min•Season 2019Ep. 115
>*Mature Content Warning* This episode of the Game On AUS podcast features a discussion surrounding the events of the week, when a male was arrested and charged after he was caught allegedly assaulting his partner, whilst live streaming a session of Fortnite. If you, or someone you know, are experiencing domestic violence, there is always help. Phone the "National Sexual Assualt, and Domestic Family Violence Helpline on 1800 RESPECT. If you are in danger, call 000. Top 3 things gamers need to...
Jul 05, 2022•1 hr 6 min•Season 2018Ep. 111
Top 3 things that gamers need to hear this week: 1. The Essendon Bombers have completely delisted their esports team! 2. EPIC games will launch a real competitor to Steam. 3. It's Game Awards weekend, follow @GameOn_AUS on twitter for all the updates tomorrow, our thoughts on who wins the big awards. COUCH WARRIORS! We catch up with Daniel Chlebowczyk, Strategic Director of Couch Warriors, about the history of the organisation, his history in competitive esports' fighting scene, and what's to co...
Jul 05, 2022•56 min•Season 2018Ep. 110
The 12 Games of Christmas is on now at the Game On AUS facebook page! ANZ residents and GOA facebook page community only. Dan's back - and must've been well rested, he's got what might be his joke of the year! Top 3 things gamers need to hear this week: 1. Kotaku's Alex Walker joins us to go through the Australian senate inquiry's recommendation into loot boxes. 2. We reveal every prize we're giving away in the Game On AUS 12 Games of Christmas giveaway! 3. Game On AUS has been nominated for two...
Jul 05, 2022•58 min•Season 2018Ep. 109
Top 3 things gamers need to hear this week! 1. Anthem keeps cooking it?! 2. Social media, not gaming, is to blame for depression trends 3. Why Gears 5 won't feature smoking. We got an awesome message from a CHRISTIAN gaming community. BIG QUESTION This week's big question is "the dumbest idea for a video game you've ever seen" - we read out our facebook community's answers, and reveal next week's big question! Find on socials - facebook, twitter, instagram, discord, and twitch! GAME ON! Check ou...
Jul 05, 2022•58 min•Season 2019Ep. 142
Top 3 things gamers need to hear this week: 1. Cuphead is coming to Netflix as an animated series 2. A brand new Turok game has appeared 3. Dr. Mario launched today for mobile and we're all surprised We have a special thank you to you, and to all of our community members, podcast listeners, show watchers, and fellow gamers, you'll hear what that is. BIG QUESTION: What's the game you've got but still haven't played - we read your facebook comments. Check the facebook page for next week's BIG QUES...
Jul 05, 2022•58 min•Season 2019Ep. 141
Hey Pete here. I was lucky enough to be invited onto the BiG Esports podcast by Chris Smith who is a legend in the ever growing competitive gaming industry in Australia to talk about GOA's growth, where we started, what the future of esports in Australia looks like, and what's next for our organisation. Dan and I had day job stuff to do on the night we usually record our weekly eps so unfortunately couldn't get to our usual stuff so our apologies but as different a flavour as this episode is fro...
Jul 05, 2022•1 hr 9 min•Season 2019Ep. 140
