David Smith
David Smith is the managing editor of Kotaku Australia. A games journalist and industry observer for nine years, he has previously written for The AU Review and PC World Australia. He has appeared on ABC Radio, covered live events around the world, and is a regular guest on industry panels and podcasts.
David specialises in predicting industry trends, emerging technologies how they affect the games we play, the intersection of video games and business. He is deeply passionate about the Australian games industry and its ever-growing potential. He is a lifelong audiophile and is known for being a tough headphone critic.
In his spare time, David confuses the Spotify algorithm with the breadth of his musical tastes and gets very worked up about Formula One.
You can find him on Twitter at @RhunWords.
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5 Open World RPG Tropes That Badly Need To Change
I will now complain about five design elements of modern open world RPGs that have come to annoy the hell out of me.
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Western Australia’s Government Wants Games To Help Boost The State’s Economy
The WA Government will fund games development for another two years via an overhauled screen industry strategy.
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Nintendo Live 2024 Coming To Sydney, But Details Are Extremely Thin Right Now
Nintendo Live, the company’s family-oriented live gaming exhibition is coming to Sydney later this year. But where? Only Mario knows.
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Stellar Blade Is Probably All You’ll Read About This Week (But There’s Lots Of Other Games Coming Out Too)
Stellar Blade is the biggest title in a week of fantastic, smaller games. Here’s everything you’ll be playing in Australia this week.