Alex Walker

Alex Walker is a former editor of Kotaku Australia and is known for his work covering video games, industry issues, technology and esports. He has written across ABC Technology & Games, games.on.net, PC Powerplay, Techly and others. Alex broke into the industry as a specialist esports reporter and has been repeatedly nominated in the Australian IT Journalism awards for Best Gaming Journalist, Best Technical Journalist, Best News Journalist and Best Columnist. Alex has also been reporting on Australian esports since 2003, across Counter-Strike, Starcraft, Quake 3 and Call of Duty, even going as far as to have a stint as a sponsored player in Counter-Strike and Starcraft 2.
  • ELEX 2 Announced With Metal As Fuck Trailer

    ELEX 2 Announced With Metal As Fuck Trailer

    E3 2021 has been lacking a little in the “metal as fuck” department. Fortunately, THQ Nordic and ELEX 2 are here to correct that oversight. The original ELEX was a game you had to work very hard to love. It was the essence of Eurojank: a punishingly difficult RPG made harder by some atrocious lag, glitches…


  • The Most Interesting Games Of E3 2021

    The Most Interesting Games Of E3 2021

    It’s only Monday, and by the time of writing over 200 games have already been teased, revealed, One More Thing’d or received new footage and/or release dates. That’s an awful lot to process and, as you’d expect, a ton of fascinating games get buried underneath the avalanche of noise. So to make the week a…


  • Mario Party Superstars Is The Super Mario Party DLC We Never Got

    Mario Party Superstars Is The Super Mario Party DLC We Never Got

    I can’t actually think of another publisher that would neglect titles that sold even half as much as Super Mario Party. A bonafide success by any measurement, the game has received practically no support post-launch, and that seems set to continue after Nintendo announced Mario Party Superstars. Revealed during its E3 2021 conference, Mario Party Superstars is a standalone…