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"I think I threw up in that spot 10 years ago." This or a variation of this line is something we've heard a lot over the last year. I have a lot of fond memories of late nights and good gigs when the corner of Brunswick St and St Paul's was The Step Inn, but wasn't...

Netherworld Arcade has been winning over the hearts of Brisbane folk since doors opened nearly a year ago, and we are looking to expand the team inside the kitchen (also known as the Hellmouth Diner), with an opening for an experienced chef/cook now available....

On Monday, the 18th of December, we held the first of our Hellmouth Feasts. Emerging from the depths of the Hellmouth diner, our denizens offered up a feast of epic proportions, accompanied with a cultish pagan theme. Our vegan banquet had a focus on using local and...

We were pretty bloody stoked to host Australia’s first ever ‘Kong Off’ original Donkey Kong showdown with the company of American arcade legend Richie Knucklez, who started the Kong Off across the pacific many years ago. He was flown over with the help of our friends...

It’s probably not a very well kept secret, but we really love Halloween at Netherworld. Also, dressing up – so we gave ourselves a fair few excuses to do just that over the course of October. Between our first Monster Menagerie Beer Festival that included 16 unique...

Denizens, 4 new wizard pins designed by Emetic Art launch today! This is our third round of 4 high score pins at Netherworld. You can't buy them - you have to earn it. To get an enamel wizard pin, simply be very good at a particular game, take a photo of the score for...

On October 7th and 8th, we're holding our first major beer themed event - the Monster Menagerie Beer Festival. It's a celebration of collaboration and monsters, so to help bring those nightmares to life, we got the artist responsible for the epic Netherworld arcade...

  Comics Etc and Netherworld are forming a special Halloween team-up for “And Then I Woke Up!” -  a spooky, blood curdling one page horror comic challenge . We’re putting the call out to artists across Brisbane to submit a single page of comic art that tells a...

We’re throwing out another set of 4 wizard challenges, each with its own enamel pin reward. This time out, the designs are by comic book artist Mathew Hoddy (http://mkhoddy.tumblr.com/) and can be claimed by scoring the right amount of points on a machine, taking a...