Inside the 12-hour world-first pull
Feature · Raid Strategy
Melbourne · Est. 2016
Every raid, read like a story.
Azure Raid Vanguard is an independent gaming journal covering raid strategy, esports culture and hardware — written by people who actually clear the content.
Newsroom line: +61 3 9629 1236
What we publish
Coverage, in four editorial lanes
Membership tiers in AUD keep the newsroom independent — no publisher ad buys, no paid reviews.
Raid Strategy
Mechanics breakdowns & prog guides
Frame-by-frame boss timelines, DPS checks and callout sheets published within 48 hours of world-first clears. Written with the raid leaders who actually called the pulls.
Vanguard membership — AUD $9/month · new guide every raid tier
Esports Culture
Long-form scene reporting
Roster moves, org finances and the human stories behind the ANZ competitive circuit — filed from events across Melbourne, Sydney and Auckland. No press-release rewrites.
Free to read · supported by Vanguard members
Hardware Lab
Benchmarks we actually re-run
GPUs, mice and monitors tested over two weeks of real play, not synthetic loops. Every rig is bought at retail, so scores stay honest and returns stay possible.
Vanguard Pro — AUD $15/month · full test data & CSVs
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By the numbers
Small newsroom, serious reach
1.4M
monthly readers across ANZ
640+
raid guides & reviews published
9 yrs
reporting the local scene
100%
reader-funded, zero paid reviews
From our readers
Why they subscribe
★★★★★
The prog guide for the last tier saved our team about three raid nights. Callout sheets were clearer than anything on the official forums.
★★★★★
I bought a monitor purely off their two-week diary review and it was spot on. Finally a site that plays on the gear instead of running synthetic loops.
★★★★★
Their coverage of the ANZ circuit is the only place actually reporting on org finances. No hype, no press-release copy-paste. Worth every dollar.
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