
Melbourne International Games Week (MIGW) is looking a bit different this year, thanks to PAX Australia’s COVID-induced merge with PAX West. But while the convention that traditionally bookends MIGW has come and gone, the rest of the industry calendar is moving ahead — and as always, there’s a ton of interesting insights, Aussie-made projects and highlights to pay attention to.

Earlier this month, Twitch temporarily suspended a channel called Patriots’ Soapbox. The channel is not enormous, generally pulling 20-50 concurrent viewers over the course of its 24/7 talk show-style streams, sometimes spiking into the 100 range. But Patriots’ Soapbox is notorious: Some credit the organisation behind it, which has bases…

As physical comic book stores reckon with the age of the novel coronavirus, there are sea changes coming to the comic book industry as we know it. But one long-lingering aspect that’s become increasingly important is digital trade, and Archie Comics’ new team-up with Comixology is bringing it to the…