About GameSpot AU

GameSpot Australia (www.gamespot.com) is the leading online source for gaming information, visited by more than 50,000 Australian gamers every day. Supported by a significant membership base of 360,000 Australians, our active online gaming community comes together on a daily basis to connect and discuss their interests as well as to be entertained and informed by the GameSpot AU editorial team and their peers.

The site provides gaming enthusiasts with comprehensive, engaging, and unbiased game information, backed with the breath of content and established knowledge offered by the GameSpot brand globally.

GameSpot AU features include:

Previews, reviews and interviews
News and event coverage
Strategy guides
Forums

Videos
Podcasts
Tournaments
Live Webcasts

Recent Highlights

With the 2010 Federal Election just around the corner, GameSpot AU has launched an I Game and I Vote feature, exploring which major political party has the best policies for gamers in regards to issues such as R18+, broadband, the net filter and support for the local industry in an effort to help readers decide who to vote for on August 21.
CBS Interactive Australia has been hard at work developing GameSpot AU Trax, an exclusive and ground-breaking games intelligence tool for measuring consumer interest in specific games. Set to track the behaviour of more than 1.3 million AU gamers from the GameSpot AU network, the tool has in-depth information on more than 14,000 games across all formats and has the ability to provide leading sales indicators for upcoming campaigns, from the impact of a press release to an online ad campaign.
March 2010 saw Game publisher, Sony choose GameSpot AU to host a preview showcase event in conjunction with the highly anticipated release of Heavy Rain. Fifty GameSpot AU community members attended the sneak-peek screening at Sydney's State Theatre, where they were treated to exclusive Heavy Rain. content (created especially for the GameSpot AU audience) before enjoying some hands-on time with the game.

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Audience

Male 86%/Female 14%*
56% are aged 18 - 34 years old*

Monthly Site Traffic

Over 1.27 million unique browsers monthly**
Over 21.5 million page impressions monthly**
7,600+ GameSpot AU Weekly newsletter subscribers***
More than 306,000 posts in AU Forums since launch***
Over 3,000+ podcast streams per month***
Over 23,000 entries to competitions during 2010***

Buying Power & Influence

63% of GameSpot AU users have been gaming for more than 10 years*
80% of GameSpot AU users describe themselves as in a comfortable or good financial situation with discretionary spending***
Average HH income of $100,000+*
83% of users say they frequently give advice about games to their family/friends *

*GameSpot AU Interactive Entertainment Survey 2009
**Nielsen Market Intelligence Q2 average 2011
***Internal Site Data 2011

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Meet the GameSpot AU team

Meet the faces behind the reviews, previews, podcasts, videos and more - Introducing the GameSpot AU editorial team!

Brian Haverty

Brian Haverty is Editorial Director for CBS Interactive in Australia and is responsible for the company's CNET Australia, BNET Australia, GameSpot AU, TV.com and ZDNet Australia. Read more...

Randolph Ramsay

Randolph became Editor of GameSpot AU with its launch in September 2006. Prior to this, he was Senior Editor of CNET Australia where he covered a broad number of consumer technology topics but mostly focused on gaming, particularly console and handheld gaming. Read more...

Dan Chiappini

Dan Chiappini is currently the Previews Editor at GameSpot AU. An unapologetic geek since birth, his fascination with videogames and the industry that makes them borders on the unhealthy--and naturally makes him a perfect fit for a job that involves playing games for a living! Read more...

Laura Parker

Laura joined GameSpot AU in July 2008 as news features writer, helping to set straight the gender imbalance in the team. A former freelance journalist who dreamed of becoming an archaeologist since playing Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, Laura studied journalism at university... Read more...

James Kozanecki

A GameSpotter since the site's launch in 1998, James somehow managed to complete his HSC between major sessions of Operation Flashpoint and Metal Gear Solid. Luckily, he came out the winner with news only days after his final exam that he was the new Associate Producer for GameSpot AU. Read more...

Some cool stuff we have done

Tropic Thunder Competition - Building the buzz around the box office launch

Gamers become rockstars

To celebrate the box-office launch of Tropic Thunder and get users involved, the CBS Interactive team worked with Paramount Pictures to develop a unique competition space on games site GameSpot AU where users competed to win a chance to reveal their inner-Rambo in an "Army Idol" style competition where users sent through their best army-fighter style picture of themselves with an accompanying 25 words or less. Read more...

In January 2008, the GameSpot AU team were one of the first in the country to get their hands on the hotly anticipated music game RockBand from Electronic Arts. The result was an MTV-worthy showcase of the team's rock credentials. See more...