Incredibly generous review of our brand new Joe Hisaishi show at the Opera House and Sydney Symphony from Limelight. Still three shows to go!

Such a surreal thrill to see MFL complete and released into the world! This new 1.0 includes more than 35 mins of new music by the way which I actually suspect makes MFL the game I have written the most music for, ever. Really keen to hear what people think, because I reckon this game is brilliant.

Rehearsals for our Music of Joe Hisaishi show with the Sydney Symphony. Working at the Opera House never gets old. Very few tix remaining if anyone’s keen - see you there?

Mars First Logistics 1.0 comes out on Friday! Here are some of my favourite builds from Steam Workshop:

Mars First Logistics, our silly little game about building rovers and delivering stuff, will be coming out of Early Access on 26 September 2025!

At this point I almost feel sorry for techbros, who are stuck chasing the emotional and financial nostalgia of an era when tech was truly transformative, and are instead stuck in this one promising shareholder value on the basis of obviously unrealisable hype

“We have friends everywhere.” — Dan Gilroy accepting the award for ‘Best Writing for a Drama series’ at the #Emmys

Could not be more thrilled to see MFL as a finalist in these categories, particularly Game of the Year! One of my absolute favourite projects to have made music for, such an endlessly creative and good natured game.

At the risk of sounding like someone who might install Linux, recently I have been digging out CDs, old mp3s, listening in lossless, and watching my old dvd/blu-rays. What have we been doing with streaming? Why did we do this to our ears and eyes?

Silksong is out today - and I am so excited to share my deep-dive into the game's development. I spoke with Team Cherry about Silksong's design, its origins, and the creative principles that drive their work. I'm thrilled to share it:

Hollow Knight Silksong immediately crashed EVERY store last night when it launched, Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo and Steam. New story from me with huge thanks to the excellent @astroblob.bsky.social who secured one of the ONLY interviews with Team Cherry. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09... #silksong

If I seem a little cranky about this, it's because I was writing about this very issue in 2012 for Crikey. I'm old. web.archive.org/web/20120128...

I expect that Aus media *will* cover Silksong—but in the way culture writing happens in 2025. SatPaper will do a review. ABC will do a detailed feature cut to 800 words for news. The Guardian, a profile and syndicated review. That's probably it, because that is all that is possible anywhere anymore.

Don’t often footypost but jeez the booing of Quaynor tonight was repulsive wasn’t it?

BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT! @mahliann.bsky.social, @marcuscarter.com, and myself have combined our collective brains and written a wide-reaching introduction to the complex and interdisciplinary field of Game Studies in this forthcoming book for Polity. www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

I published precisely one piece for Meanjin, and it is the piece that I am most proud of from my entire career. This is absolutely shameful and needs to be pushed back on.

The greatest ah well, nevertheless of all time

Was lucky enough to interview Jung Jae-il about his music for Parasite, Squid Game, Mickey 17, and much more.

Over the weekend I literally bought a dvd player

Racist, pathetic, lost little losers.

I continue to have inescapable deja vu (at a larger scale) about all of this with basically all of the tech hucksterism over the last decade: gamification, metaverse, crypto, NFTs, stuff people (sometimes literally the same people) told us was inevitable until it wasn't.

In a just society Open AI would be facing closure as a result of the suicide case currently in the media. But it won't, because profits and investment are more important than people's lives.

Oof.

Did more for movies in Australia than most, fought censorship with Margaret, loved bloody good movies, ran film festivals, and titled his autobiography ”I Peed On Fellini”. Legend.

People keep saying that if we uphold the law, the business models of AI companies wouldn’t be possible and they’d go out of business, to which I say: let’s do it

given one of the few good uses for LLMs is coding assistance maybe tech council members should immediately open source all their code under a permissive license. to do otherwise would risk harming investment in the AI industry in Australia, imo

There is no hero like a union hero.

Former member of the Australian National University council Liz Allen has used a Senate inquiry investigating university governance to allege Chancellor Julie Bishop harassed, bullied, and threatened her.

Amyl and the Sniffers for the AFL GF or nobody imo

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

I'm an @apraamcos.bsky.social member and this is a strong statement - though I disagree that there is potential for ethical AI development, particularly in the creative industries. There is one IP law for the working class and another for corporations.

And the final result: www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

Over 100,000 Australians marched across the symbolic heart of Sydney today, and together we showed more leadership on one rainy afternoon than our PM and Foreign Minister have shown in 2 years from the comfort of their offices. Free Palestine. Sanction Israel. 🇵🇸 🕊️

@geeofdee.bsky.social's Indie Symphony 2 report is one of my favourite things we did all month www.youtube.com/shorts/kNWi8...

On Screen Sounds on ABC Classic this Saturday I am counting down my top ten film scores of the century so far. Any guesses as to what might rank? [I set myself some rules: one score per composer and franchise, so it won’t be all John Williams and Star Wars]

For a long time now I've been thinking about the idea of 'premature antifascism' www.latimes.com/archives/la-...

It's really time for the ill-named Job-Ready Graduates policy to go. It is demonstrably poor policy, failing to meet its own (dubious) objectives and driving more rather than less educational inequality, in direct contravention of this government's stated priorities.

It's about the bottom 1% most important thing from this book but I was entertained to see Graeme Turner fire a passing potshot at Tom Gleeson about halfway through this

Also support! What's often missing in this debate is that a BA does not limit graduates from working in and with science and engineering. Humanities is the training that helped me gain work in STEM - to become a "Senior Principal Engineer" - and translate knowledge across disciplinary boundaries.

Like millions of others, I drew on an affordable and broad based Arts degree to become who I am today. It is beyond time that the Albanese government fixed this mess - like they promised they would before coming to power three years ago.

This track is as old as I am, and today beds remain burning

Oh my god only 19, what incredible news

I must have heard this song hundreds and hundreds of times - I even voted for it - but if you told me it was a tune with a bagpipe solo I’d call you a liar

Treaty at 36 you have got to be kidding

All I can say is that I rather hope number one isn’t The Less I Know The Better, a song that proposes the radical question: what if a guitar riff was a microsleep

mate send me your address so i can visit you and explain some Australian concepts

Well, here we go

My exact reaction in order listening to the new Superman soundtrack

Never been hugely interested in the Emmys and holding a parade for the actors of Severance and The Bear over anyone from Andor makes that unlikely to change

Turns out cost of higher education probably is a deterrent to accessing it, despite Labor pretending it isn’t. Insane that under a Labor government an arts degree cost $50K, law $100K.