Surry Hills · Sydney · Est. 2019

Raw takes forged on the concrete floor.

SilverBattleWarriors.fun is an independent gaming blog running out of a warehouse in Surry Hills — hands-on reviews, frame-by-frame guides, and unfiltered esports coverage with none of the polish and all of the grit.

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Years on the floor
Gaming setup lit in blue tones inside an industrial warehouse studio
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Covered, tested, and argued about across the scene

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What we publish

Coverage built to be used, not skimmed.

Every column is written by people who actually finish the games. Free to read, member-supported, and updated weekly out of the Albion Street warehouse.

In-depth game review workstation
Flagship

Deep-Dive Reviews

Minimum 30 hours in every title before a verdict. Full scoring breakdown across performance, feel, value and staying power — free to read, published every Thursday 9am AEST.

Guides

Frame Data Guides

Boss patterns, combo trees and build spreadsheets you can actually follow. Updated within 48 hours of every major patch.

Esports

Scene Report

Weekly ANZ competitive wrap — bracket breakdowns, roster moves and travel-day dispatches from local LANs.

Hardware bench testing rig
Hardware

Bench Tests

Peripherals and rigs run through the same benchmark suite — thermals, latency and real-play notes, priced in AUD.

Members

The Foundry

Ad-free archive, monthly livestream teardown and a private Discord. Support the floor from A$8/month.

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On the floor

The crew behind the byline.

Six writers, one warehouse, and a shared refusal to score anything they haven't finished.

Portrait of Mara Voss

Mara Voss

Editor-in-Chief

RPG lifer and the final vote on every score. Started the blog on a folding table in 2019.

Portrait of Dane Kirby

Dane Kirby

Hardware Lead

Runs the bench. If it plugs in, he's already measured its latency twice.

Portrait of Priya Nadu

Priya Nadu

Esports Correspondent

Lives out of an event backpack. Files scene reports from every ANZ LAN worth the trip.

Portrait of Theo Marsh

Theo Marsh

Guides Writer

Builds the spreadsheets nobody else has the patience for. Soulslike specialist.

From the readers

The people who keep the lights on.

"Their frame data guide got me through the final boss after two weeks of failing. No fluff, just the timings that actually matter."
JL
Josh L.
Newtown · Member since 2021
"The only reviews I trust before dropping A$100 on a game. They call out the boring middle third every other site pretends isn't there."
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Renee A.
Melbourne · Reader since 2020
"Went to a Foundry livestream teardown and learned more about my own rig's thermals in an hour than in three years of owning it."
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Tom N.
Surry Hills · Member since 2022

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Got a scoop, a press key, or a bone to pick with a score? The warehouse door is open. We read everything.