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Game Blog · Chippendale, Sydney

Games worth staying up for.

Long-form reviews, indie deep dives, speedrun theory and tabletop nights — written from a cramped studio above Abercrombie Street with the volume turned up.

The archive

Eight years, one couch, thousands of hours.

InfernoFireCitadel started as a group chat and turned into Sydney's most stubbornly independent games desk. Here's how the citadel got built.

  1. 1

    2017 — First post

    A 4,000-word teardown of a forgotten PS2 RPG hit 12 readers. We were hooked on the format nobody else wanted to write.

  2. 2

    2019 — The indie beat

    We committed to covering one unheard-of indie every week. Three of those studios later thanked us on their launch pages.

  3. 3

    2021 — Speedrun lab

    Our route-analysis series brought frame data and community history together. It's still our most-linked work.

  4. 4

    2024 — Tabletop nights

    We opened the studio doors on Thursdays for board-game sessions. The waitlist now runs three weeks deep.

What we publish

Four desks under one roof.

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Where we're read

Trusted by the people who make and play.

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Say hello

Pitch, praise, or complaint.

Got a game we should cover or a Thursday tabletop seat to claim? Drop a line — we read everything, usually within a day.

Phone+61 2 9571 8113

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Studio72-74 Abercrombie Street, Chippendale NSW 2008

HoursMon–Fri 10am–6pm · Tabletop Thursdays till 10pm