Continue magazine surpasses Kickstarter goals, draws roughly AU$44,000

Continue (stylized as CONTINUE) is Jackson Ryan and Mark Serrels’ answer to Australia’s ever-dwindling video game media scene; a print magazine featuring some of the most important voices in Australian games journalism, which just rocketed past its $18,000 goal on Kickstarter.

Australia has seemingly been hit the hardest in the past five years, with video game journalists and websites being cut even as games remain popular. It’s certainly not due to a lack of support: Continue has pulled in roughly 44,000 Australian dollars’ worth of backing on Kickstarter in roughly 24 hours.

“It’s been a brutal time for videogames. Industry wide layoffs, studios shutting down. Games writing has suffered, too. We’ve watched on as our favourite outlets disappear — or worse, transform into AI slop factories,” writes Jackson on Continue’s Kickstarter page.

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