What a typical engagement looks like
Season
3 month minimum
$7,500 a month. A three-month season works out around $22,500.
High-performance PC gaming, dropped into your venue.
A self-serve row of high-performance gaming PCs, configured and commissioned for your venue. Players sit down, sign in to their own Steam, Epic or Battle.net account and start playing in under a minute. Five and ten stations are the headline configurations, with larger arrays available on request.
Season
3 month minimum
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Fit
Medium to large spaces that want a self-running draw.
Scale
Five and ten stations are the headline configurations, with larger arrays available on request.
Format
Ongoing residency or one-off event build.
Runs on
A five-station bank runs on standard venue power; bigger builds are power-planned at the site walk.
An arena your floor can watch.
The draw
Rows of matched, networked PCs with the lighting and sightlines of a real arena. People who came to watch end up queuing to play.
The flow
Guests sit down, sign in to their own game accounts and are playing in under a minute. Saves follow them in, stations wipe clean after them, and the row resets itself for the next session. Nothing for your staff to operate.
The layers
When you want more than open play, layer it on: an on-floor host, a bracketed tournament night, a season that connects to other venues. Each is its own line on the quote, added when the moment calls for it.
What arrives in the PC Arena cabinets.
High-performance gaming PCs in rollable, lockable five-station cabinets with branded desk fronts. Cabinets are placed and commissioned to suit the agreed footprint.
Guests sign in to their own game accounts in under a minute; their libraries and saves follow them, and every station wipes itself clean afterwards.
Venue bandwidth is used by default. Fortress-managed networking and a 5G or Starlink uplink are optional paid add-ons when the venue connection is unsuitable or unavailable.
The arena is self-serve by default. Install, configuration, bump-in and bump-out by Fortress, with remote technical support for the whole run.
The kit secures itself: everything locks inside the cabinets overnight, at your venue, with nothing for your team to pack away.
Scale
5 & 10
headline configurations; larger arrays on request
Footprint
~36–48 m² · indicative · confirmed at the site walk
five to ten stations, standard display included
Power
10A ×2
two circuits run five stations
Term
Weekend or a season
One-off events priced per event; residencies billed monthly.
Your team brings
Power, the footprint, your venue's internet connection, promotion and a duty manager who owns the floor.
In writing
The proposal, proof of insurance and the support plan.
Choose the commercial shape that fits your venue.
| Choose the shapeHire versus Own | For events and seasonsHire | For a permanent fixtureOwn |
|---|---|---|
| Owns the kit | Fortress | Your venue, outright |
| You pay | A monthly fee across the season | A one-off investment, by proposal |
| It stays | For the season, then bumps out | Permanently, built into your fit-out |
| Runs it | Fortress | Fortress, under managed service |
| Best for | A drawcard for a defined period | A permanent part of the venue |
Typical engagements for the smallest standard metro configuration. Your figure depends on configuration, duration, staffing, branding, delivery logistics and optional layers. Firm pricing comes with the proposal. Venue-owned installations are scoped and priced by proposal.
Six factors shape your proposal.
The typical engagement is shown above. Your proposal confirms the exact figure after the site walk.
Five and ten stations are the headline configurations; larger arrays are available on request.
T1 · five stations · 8.0 x 4.5 m base envelope · indicative; your exact configuration is confirmed at the site walk.
Venue-run at the floor; hosted formats and full Fortress crew above it.
Metro is the start. Regional and remote sites add freight, crew and delivery logistics, priced per site.
Residencies are monthly hire; one-off events are priced per event. Long runs are scoped as programs.
Connected Series, tournaments and hosted nights layer on top.
Hosts, production, branding, programs and resilient connectivity are scoped separately.
On the floor
- On-floor host
- Commentators and broadcast
Look and feel
- LED activation wall
- Branded activation board with live leaderboard
- Custom branding
Take it further
- Tournament-in-a-Box: bracket app, branded set, run-sheet and prizing
- Connected Series league across venues
- Fortress-managed networking
- 5G or Starlink uplink
- Delivery logistics beyond metro Melbourne and Sydney
PC competition, run every week.
PC competition is the format behind our own venues: weekly ladders to headline tournaments, and the operating model Game On took to 61,000 people at the Australian Open.
The experiences in this catalogue are the formats our venues run every week, configured and commissioned for other venues.
Fortress Melbourne · Emporium
Fortress Sydney · Central Park Mall
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flagship venues
See the venues at fortress.games →
The connected layer
One floor is a start. Connected Series links it to the network.
Your venue's ladder can join fixtures against other rooms: season nights, cross-venue finals, and players who come back weekly because their team is on the board. Layered on as a program when you are ready.
Questions venues ask before they enquire.
How much space does it need?
Five and ten stations are the headline configurations, with larger arrays scoped on request. Five stations need roughly 36 m² and ten roughly 48 m², indicative until the site walk settles exact footprint.
What does it need from our building?
Five stations require two standard 10 A circuits. Larger arenas use engineered supply confirmed at the site walk; that is part of the proposal, not your problem to solve.
Who runs it on the night?
Mostly, it runs itself. Guests self-serve from sign-in to shut-down, and Fortress supports the kit remotely for the whole run. When you want a hosted night, a tournament or a private party run for you, Fortress crew are added as their own line on the quote.
What about our internet?
Venue bandwidth is used by default. Fortress-managed networking and a 5G or Starlink uplink are optional paid add-ons when the venue connection is unsuitable or unavailable.
Do guests need to own the games?
They sign in to their own game accounts in under a minute and their libraries follow them. Every station wipes itself clean after each session.
What happens on quiet nights?
Open play carries a quiet night on its own; the row is its own reason to stay. When you want a rhythm, that program is added as an optional layer, scoped and quoted separately.
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