Sydney's raid dispatch since 2011

"We don't just clear the raid — we write the strategy the whole server copies."

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Long-form boss guides, honest indie reviews and hardware teardowns from a small crew posting out of Darlinghurst. New drops every Tuesday and Friday.

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Raid Breakdown Weekly

Phase-by-phase mechanics for the newest MMO and soulslike bosses, with tank/heal/DPS positioning maps and a printable cheat sheet. Members get early access — full guides land every Tuesday, free tier follows 48 hours later.

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Indie Radar Reviews

We buy the game with our own money, play at least 12 hours, and score it out of 10 with no publisher fluff. Expect two deep reviews a week plus a monthly "under 500 sales" spotlight for the games nobody's covering.

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Rig Teardown Lab

Thermals, frame-time graphs and value-per-dollar verdicts on the gear you can actually buy in Australia, priced in AUD. From a $180 budget mechanical keyboard to a $4,200 full 1440p build, we test it on the bench in Darlinghurst.

From the archive

Featured guides

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Raids

The Molten Vault: a no-death clear

Every add-spawn timer and the exact interrupt rotation our guild used to first-clear on patch day.

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Indie

Hollow Tide — 9/10 review

A two-person Melbourne studio built the best underwater metroidvania of the year. Here's why it stuck with us.

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Hardware

The $1,500 AUD 1080p rig

Part list, thermals and frame-time graphs for a quiet build that hits a locked 144fps in most current titles.

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Raids

Twin Serpents mythic guide

The stack-and-spread call-outs, healer cooldown map and the pull we wiped on 41 times before it clicked.

The numbers

Fifteen years of posting

2,140+
Guides published
380k
Monthly readers
96
Rigs benched
4
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Reader mail

What the crew says

Video thumbnail of a guild raid night Raid night replay — Twin Serpents mythic first clear

"I printed the Molten Vault cheat sheet and my pug group cleared it first night. No other guide bothered with the interrupt order."

— Dylan R., Newtown NSW · March 2026

"Their Hollow Tide review is the reason I bought it. Honest score, no publisher spin — rare these days."

— Amara K., Brisbane QLD · January 2026

"I built the $1,500 rig part-for-part. Silent, cool, and it holds 144fps exactly like they measured."

— Josh T., Perth WA · February 2026

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