What a game. Deserves every award it gets

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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Head of Xbox Game Studios Matt Booty have been in the media recently, saying that the biggest competition for Xbox is TikTok. Nathan Brown of @hitpoints.bsky.social isn't quite sure they know what that means... thisweekinvideogames.com/feature/bonu... [PAYWALLED]

perhaps the most egregious thing that happened with the Future Class was when The Game Awards took money from Old Spice in the name of the FC & simply... pocketed it it wasn't used to fund Future Class initiatives, it wasn't used to help lift marginalised developers they just profited from us

Absolutely wild that this article is how we found out about this and not via official sources or on the Discord for FC members

On the Take-Two earnings call this morning, an investor asked Strauss about using AI for "non-creative” parts of videogame development such as “quality control" and "artwork" or "whatever"

Got a marketing email from Nintendo about a Kirby Air Riders Direct and just about had a heart attack thinking there was a third one

Take Two CEO Strauss Zelnick: "It's always painful when we move a date. We have done so occasionally in the past, and we've never regretted it." "...we have certain competitors that in the event where more polish was required... they chose not to slip the date, and they did so at their peril."

So. To recap. Discord, a company NOT included in Australia's social media age restriction law, had its age verification partner breached and leaked around 68,000 Australian PII details. Even though it isn't included in the ban. Which hasn't started yet. Such a great start before we've even started.

This is a JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure villain

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If I was in charge of this thing I would simply make Physical 100 and Culinary Class Wars the same show

One of the more challenging parts of your kid growing up is having to help them understand math. The reason this is hard is because I don’t understand math

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Nintendo says 84% of the 10.36 million Switch 2 owners out there transitioned from Switch 1.

If BlueSky has taught me anything about the US it's baseball and/or election

australian indie developer deciding on a setting: australia

Australians will be getting 3 hours of free electricity a day because of how many people have installed solar - this is seriously huge considering the massive solar uptake in Australia happened while the federal government delayed action on climate www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

Absolutely crazy that so few videogame award events have a Best Puzzle Game category Literally where are all the best new games from 2025 actually going to get their due

One month out from the under-16s ban and almost all of the users caught up in the Discord data breach caused by age assurance appeals were based in Australia, OAIC has finally confirmed. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

In this month's edition of Parallax, @nomoredaniels.bsky.social reports back from Gamescom Asia 2025. Bigger, better, and more well-attended by game publishers, Daniel says it's a positive step up, especially at a time when people in the region can't (and won't) attend events in Europe and the US.

This is an absolutely *bonkers* amount of money being spent seemingly to prop up Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves - a game that, by most available metrics, has flopped.

wise gamer once said: SSS-tier combos speak louder than words

Videogame industry having a dogshit weekend for respecting unions

As much as I agree with this, something I am also frequently reminded of is that fact that young people (at least in my region) tend to have a better understanding of the basics coding and a rough idea of programming/gamedev pipelines than probably most games media i know

"A friend of mine once told me that when a game isn’t clicking for him, he says “I am going to die one day” out loud, and lets his instincts guide whether he turns the game off and moves on. " - @edgarallanbro.bsky.social buff.ly/AROmTbv

Clocking on for two hours of serving trick-or-treaters and blasting Vince Guaraldi on repeat

Just got a long, anonymous letter from "A Concerned Christian Neighbour" in regard to our Halloween decorations -- a cardboard Jack Skellington, a few plastic pumpkins, and some wonky-ass cardboard bats with googly eyes my kids cut out

This is an extremely hyper-specific Sydneysider post but it's giving City Extra menu

am I crazy or did they change the blue on the BlueSky app

This is a steal for a must-play adventure game. Strong vibes.

The devs behind Ninja Gaiden 4, Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound, AC: Shadows and a few ninjutsu practitioners told me how history, acrobatics and ingenuity made one of history's most elusive figures become a gaming icon. thisweekinvideogames.com/feature/year...

Charlie Brown is the Vega of the peanuts roster. Snoopy is Ryu and Woodstock is Ken.

Absolute whopper of a long-form feature from cool word guy @dominguezf.bsky.social, who simply wanted to talk to anyone and everyone about ninjas GET IN

Dispatch good. Telltale Games is back baby.

remember how good Hi-Fi Rush was

This op-ed from Maddie, who was extremely ready to die dramatically on this hill, has so many good bits in it, not least of which is the idea that we've largely lost our ability to find joy in imperfect games. Also the idea that hobbits are supposed to be kinda gross and weird and a bit boring

Holy crap the BBC actually gave the keys to Bluey to an Australian game dev this time. A Brisbane dev, even! www.bluey.tv/blog/blueys-...

sorry i know this has probably been covered already but practically speaking does Sonic the Hedgehog run faster or slower than the cars he drives in Sonic Racing

have faith in your own experiences and interpretations!!! let your personal experience of something have meaning, as opposed to trying to find the “correct” meaning

More people need to see that Crash Bandicoot watched Notting Hill in Sydney for the launch of Crash Team Racing in 1999. Go to the PlayStation AU Instagram account it’s beautiful.

Yessssss

Last week the ABC asked if they could come to my house and film me playing fighting games really badly for national TV (and also get some background on the increasing Saudi involvement in the games industry) (also Ronaldo was there for some reason) iview.abc.net.au/video/SEGS20...

In MGS4 snake and otacon blow up the massive AI driven data servers which have created a war without end. In the original screenplay they were sent to the electric chair but the ghouls at Konami said the ending would be too sad. I can’t help but think this will become true one day

It's fixed! Isopod is now out! Please go buy it! store.steampowered.com/app/2053910/...

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a game is never truly "accessible" unless it can be played in the browser