Australia’s National Film and Sound Archive acquires world’s first licensed Star Wars pinball machine. https://bit.ly/4bmCtmw

The NFSA recently acquired all five of the only mass-produced Australian pinball machines ever made (including the world’s first Star Wars licensed machine!) Nice piece from @gdig.bsky.social on the story behind them.

Oh, uh! Hello! This is CONTINUE. We're a defiant, new videogames magazine. We have assembled an incredible roster of talented creatives, writers, artists and illustrators to build Issue 01 of our new magazine. We launched our Kickstarter today! www.kickstarter.com/projects/con...

Check out the line up for ALT GAMES April 18-19 in Sydney!! We have Shuhei Yoshida, Alanah Pearce and Billy Basso as our keynote speakers!!! Come 👍 powerhouse.com.au/program/alt-...

Calling artists with content on Floppies or CD-ROMs*!! The Digital Heritage Lab is sharing access to our specialist disk imaging equipment. We will show you how to preserve your obsolete disks* (CD-ROMs, Floppies, Zips). The #AusEAASI website has details: auseaasi.org/artist-outre...

New book now coming out very soon. Next month!

Please consider submitting to this conference if you're a community preservationist! The first Save the Games was a terrific place for the industry and community to meet together on their work

📣 Exciting news, everyone! Screen Canberra has announced a new games fund!! 🎉🎉🎉 I was pleased to hear all about it yesterday and provide a quote to be included in the announcement article Join us for Pizza & Pixels on Wednesday to learn more!

We’re so freaking back. Videogames. Board games. Role playing games. I wanna show case you at ALT: GAMES 2026! Submit in the cheeky link. Successful applications will be paid an honorarium. If you love me, please read the webpage. All the info is there. Link: powerhouse.com.au/alt-games-ca...

Screen Australia is doing a massive research project on the current state of the screen and games industries in Australia. Local devs, please consider taking the time to complete their survey survey.alchemer.com/s3/8573365/S...

So, today I'm announcing a new book project... and doing a call for papers: crpgbook.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/t... It's an anthology of video game history outside the usual US perspective - an accessible & exciting panorama of different realities - and I'll pay 300 USD per article. Please share :)

Reminder to Australian devs that @sifterhq.bsky.social does the lord's work every year by compiling every single Australian-made videogame they can find. You can submit your 2025 releases here: www.sifter.com.au/add-my-game-...

The latest Video Game History Hour podcast talks to Dr. Stephanie Harkin, lecturer at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, about her research on video games in girls’ lifestyle magazines like Girl Gamer & Total Girl: gamehistory.org/episode-141-...

1987 Australian review of the first Carmen Sandiego game: “I saw the package for sale in Sydney for $89 which I feel is exorbitant. I myself would not pay that price for it and if it wasn’t for my old mate Brian lending me his game I wouldn’t have even seen it.” (now ~$266 AUD / $170 USD)

🕹️ Ready to resurrect a galaxy of GIFs, WAVs & .BMPs? Join the DiscMaster Game Jam & make a game using assets from vintage CD-ROMs archived by #InternetArchive. 💿️ 💰 $1,750 in prizes 📅 Starts April 20 (USA) / April 21 (AUS) Sign up ➡️ itch.io/jam/discmast... #GaveDev #MediaPreservation

Very excited to be one of the judges for CanDev & @archive.org's upcoming Discmaster Jam and looking forward to seeing what emerges from the depths of discmaster.textfiles.com (image courtesy of Art Explosion 600,000)

Rollick N' Roll now has a demo! Enjoy! s.team/a/3274880 #IndieGame #GameDev

This is what I have been working on for the past decade 💅 ALT: GAMES is a new festival that brings together the Australian games community and industry. Featuring @dmullinsgames.bsky.social Richard Garfield @allyhennessy.bsky.social Playfool and atomo Kihara

Phil Spencer that's not how games preservation works, that's not how any of this works: aftermath.site/microsoft-xbox...

Please enjoy this article about an unauthorised point and click adventure game based on an Australian soap opera made by a British meteorologist: www.nfsa.gov.au/latest/archi...

Mole Power 'Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island' Super Nintendo

Bringing the rufous owl’s mournful ‘woo-hoo’ with me into 2025