Games, tested with a clear head.
No hype cycles, no paid placements. CyberQuestVanguard is a reader-funded gaming blog covering deep reviews, PC hardware, and the Australian scene from our desk on Johnston Street.
From a share-house LAN to a trusted desk
We started as a group of friends arguing about frame-time graphs. A decade on, that argument is a full editorial process.
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2014
The first 100 reviews
Publishing from a Brunswick share house, we set one rule that still holds: every game gets finished before it gets scored.
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2018
The Fitzroy test bench
We moved to Johnston Street and built a proper hardware lab, adding benchmark data and thermal testing to every PC review.
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2021
Reader-funded, ad-free
We dropped display advertising entirely and switched to memberships, so the only people we answer to are the ones reading.
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2024
40,000 members strong
Our community now shapes the review queue, votes on deep-dives, and meets monthly for playtests in the Fitzroy studio.
Before & after our tuning guides
Real captures from reader rigs, shot before and after following our optimisation walkthroughs.
Every column, explained
What members say
"The completion-time-before-scoring policy is why I trust these reviews. I bought a 90-hour RPG on their word and it held up exactly as described."
"Their stutter-fix guide got my handheld from 40fps to a locked 60 in about fifteen minutes. Clear steps, no fluff, actual explanations."
"As a small dev, the way they cover local studios is genuinely fair. They asked hard questions but gave our game a proper, honest look."
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