Good thing about BlueSky curation: I have seen zero sexist posts about new God of War Bad thing about BlueSky curation: I have seen one million posts about how people somewhere are being sexist about God of War

17 years late, but I am finally listening to A Life Well Wasted and it is a *fascinating* time capsule of a podcast (and very much worth a listen)

📚 Applications for LudoNarraCon 2026 are now open! The original Steam festival returns for its 8th edition from Oct 8-12 PT, celebrating story-rich games and the developers who bring them to life ✍️ Submit your game for Official Selection or the Narrative Game Sale below (closes June 28 PT)! 👇

I am a month in now and it remains good to be back at a studio! Wow! I still have some freelance capacity but I am no longer reliant on it, which is nice!

This is really good stuff. A true act of adaptation - not a playable movie, very much a videogame-ass videogame starring and about James Bond.

I love the movies!!

Started 007 First Light last night and tell you what sometimes a AAA “press forward for the whole first level and look at nice environments with a general understanding that later on the game will get more complex” experience just hits

Thinking of pivoting and becoming one of those people who just posts about all their Blu-Ray discs until eventually the cool distributors start sending me stuff. I love to own movies on disc!!

This game is such a strange and beautiful delight. It has really stuck with me.

Sharing this again! Wow! I love this game and in related news would like to spend less time on social media going forward!

I don't really see why Mixtape has to be at odds with other personal coming-of-age games. You should play it! And you should play Thirsty Suitors! And Venba! And Life is Strange! And Oxenfree! And Night in the Woods! And Dosa Divas! And Mutazione! And Road 96! And Carto! And Celeste! And

Last year me and @jickle.net wrote a zine together which I illustrated. I’m currently working on a new zine about grubs and thought I should share this one. James is very funny and this was a lot of fun! I’d love to adapt this into a short film one day 🩷🪱 Part 1/2

The decimation of local Australian game journalism outlets means we have little discussion about how Mixtape is an *outsider* perspective from a non-American team that grew up in a country that idolized American culture in the period being evoked. Which is really interesting!

I talked to Mixtape director Johnny Galvatron for The Guardian about making an Australian game that is deeply nostalgic for 90s pop culture. You can read it now! www.theguardian.com/games/2026/m...

I talked to Mixtape director Johnny Galvatron for The Guardian about making an Australian game that is deeply nostalgic for 90s pop culture. You can read it now! www.theguardian.com/games/2026/m...

Just wrapped up my first week at a new job. In games! Pretty good!

Okay the piece got delayed slightly but it’s coming!!

I do not have a review of Mixtape (my interview with the game’s director will be live in the morning) but I will say this: it is, for me, pretty firmly one of the coolest games ever made

If you are awake four hours from now I will have a nice little piece up on The Guardian. If you are asleep, there is always the morning.

Buying Wax Heads the moment I get home tonight

With apologies and a lot of recency bias, here’s my 15 TV show list: Arrested Development Better Call Saul Bojack Horseman Freaks & Geeks I Think You Should Leave Mad Men Neon Genesis Evangelion The Leftovers The Pitt Seinfeld The Simpsons The Sopranos Taskmaster The Twilight Zone Twin Peaks

Worried that I am getting less critically discerning as I grow older, at least with movies. My baseline reaction to any movie is “I love da movies!!” and even when a movie is bad I almost never regret watching it.

I have at least one article in here!

The Claude Delusion (2026)

I was recovering from a bad cold over the last few days so I watched a lot of movies (just outside this last four is Kevin Smith’s The 4:30 Movie, a slightly generous three stars)

The show @lisavertudaches.bsky.social worked on as an animator has been announced ❤️ au.variety.com/2026/tv/news...

Every day we get a “new Xbox CEO says that Xbox is good now” headline and I would like them to stop

Just replayed Sayonara Wild Hearts on Switch 2 and it is still a 10/10 superbanger. One of the very best games ever made.

I saw Exit 8 tonight, which was pretty good, but perhaps the coolest thing about it is that it very naturally captures the experience of actually playing a game like this and needing to reason through environmental puzzles thoroughly. A smart, fun, spooky adaptation!

The great folks at Galla brought me back for one last ride as the script editor on the final update for Kulebra and the Souls of Limbo, which is now available! This is a substantial update with new post-credits events and a whole bunch o' closure. A beautiful game that I was so pleased to work on.

Good news, Titanium Court rules. Here’s my review! www.screenhub.com.au/news/reviews...

Good news, Titanium Court rules. Here’s my review! www.screenhub.com.au/news/reviews...

Homer buying the Itchy money. "Eleven-hundred" is the funniest number possible.

Credits rolling. Yakuza 0! A five-star masterpiece!

Trying to organise my viewing so that I have a good top 4 on Saturday morning (I am Jickle87 on there if you would like to be LB pals)

I've been playing Beyond Words on Switch, which, to describe it in enticing but reductive terms, is Balatro meets Scrabble made by Goldeneye devs. It's great so far. My exact kind of game. store.steampowered.com/app/3823370/...

Life is Strange Reunion is a true one-star game. A series of severe compromises, awkward limitations and placeholder concepts that made it through to the final release. Just really unfortunate! The worst game I have played all the way through in ages.

Some days I'll check what's new on the Nintendo eshop and find myself immediately enamoured with a game I'd never heard of before that moment. That happened today. This looks very cool.

There are dad games, like Pac-Man (haunted by ghosts, pill-addicted, repetition of the same tasks over and over), and mum games, like Ms. Pac-Man (the same thing, but more difficult; dresses better)

Maybe letting one of these freaks have a seat so we can all see how badly they fuck up will be instructive in some way

I am about 30 hours into Yakuza 0 (I am playing it slowly over many months) and it is very funny that, after spending an entire game making it very clear that the protagonists are never killing anyone, there is a sequence where you unambiguously slaughter like 25 guys

This interview I'm currently transcribing ended very politely

If this hits 100k I will be *quite pleased*.

I would like to put this prediction on the record: at some point before season 3 HBO will announce The Pitt: Night Shift as a spin-off. Same set, different cast with some overlap. Shorter seasons, definitely the “B” series, but still great. Shawn Hatosy is the lead. I would like this to happen.

A new game mag! Featuring great art & an article by our own @jickle.net. www.kickstarter.com/projects/con...

I actually didn’t have to destroy myself to write this book and have been very pleased with the publisher’s support, but that should not stop you from buying it! (It is about the making of Untitled Goose Game and the larger landscape of Australian game development) bossfightbooks.com/products/unt...

Made a pilgrimage to the great Murray Bridge bunyip, always a true delight

@mikesholars.bsky.social Mike it was funny to wake up this morning with a follow from you because I am most of the way through your Parappa book right now. It’s so good! I love it!

Hate to say it while I am mid-play-for-review but Life is Strange Reunion is one of the most spiritually juiceless games I have played in a long time. An astonishingly compromised and desperate experience. Impossible to imagine that anyone working on this was super stoked with the concept.

Anthony Albanese had to address the nation to remind us what his name is so when people ask us we don’t have to say “uhhh” and take a second to remember it