When I reconnect the remnants of Australian society IRL you're all going to be in big trouble

here comes the feeling

Anyone who has played a build of The Dungeon Experience over the last couple years will tell you that it is hilarious and incredible and Devolver has an absolute winner on their hands here. Congratulations to Jacob and Simon! ALSO GOOD TRAILER

🚨 New piece from Victoria! Ever wanted to understand all the headaches of planning and releasing and marketing a videogame but were too afraid to ask?? She's got you!

Between Gorillaz and now this Epic has well and truly remembered that elder millennials have more disposable income and a greater disposition toward chasing nostalgia to feel something, anything

mods are asleep, post 600dpi Mr. Bones box art

Chat what does it mean when my videogame website colleagues continue be characterised by their belief in vampires and ghosts and cryptids etc

Just when you thought this week couldn't be any more stacked with exceptional indie game releases, you find out that Mars First Logistics comes out of Early Access holy crap

holy oh my god Cantonese King of the Hill are such a bunch of fucking uncs in wifebeaters

Made too many sweet potato noodles for a social event and now it’s japchae all day baby

Hey Aussies - I'm gonna be on your island for around 12 days next month. Any game studios or indies in the Sydney / Melbourne area I should be chatting to while out there? PS anyone have Team Cherry's email? ;D

Found a bit of time to finally start chipping away at my ridiculous interview backlog! I've gotten such a kick out of Triband's stuff ever since What The Golf?, was really great to talk to them about their dedication to comedy as a game genre. MORE COMEDY GAMES.

I only decided to write this one to see how many references to Australian game developers and game writers I could squeeze into 400 words (six)

At the time of writing consoles currently have a concurrent user peak of 0 on Steam

Incredible timing for both this and Baby Steps to come out within seven days of one another.

Apropos of nothing if anyone's feeling particularly generous towards independent media today and also likes videogames i saw this outlet at the shops and it seems ok thisweekinvideogames.com/sign-up/

"...it’s like a cosy story, it might make you sleepy, but it doesn’t mean it’s boring or something. That’s what we want the player as well to feel… it doesn’t give you any stress. It’s very comfortable…" Thank you @maddie-b-a.bsky.social for your article on room6 and Yokaze 🌙

The first time an indie dev told me how much their PAX booth cost my view on conventions was forever changed How does anyone afford to exhibit at these things aside from subsidies and earning a free booth, and is it ever worth it??

I judged the Emmys this year btw

tbh I kinda always liked the intense rush of juggling one million breakout articles for showcases but now that I don't worry about SEO I just write up these things up in the way I would actually want to read them: One big bullet point list with trailer links

I am once again on ABC Radio National tonight (and across the weekend), joining @raejohnston.bsky.social and @rubyinnes.bsky.social on Download This Show! We're talking Silksong and gamer guilt. Chaos guaranteed. Listen on your AM radio for cool analog vibes 😎 www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

playing 2XKO with all of my friends ☹️

playstation

Join us on Sept 12 at 6am PT for a #NintendoDirect! Tune in for roughly 60 minutes of Masahiro Sakurai chain-smoking cigarettes and talking about the car he owned when he was 23.

I wonder why all these great indie games are coming out of Australia where they have a massive public funding effort for videogame creators

new blog post: mgs3 and photorealisming the painterly game www.joewintergreen.com/mgs3-and-pho...

CALL FOR INTERVIEWS: Looking for videogame performance/motion capture actors with thoughts on the use of AI in recreating games performances. If you or someone you know fits the bill, drop me a line 🤙

Weirdly proud that it only took 1.5 months for us to start talking about Love and Deepspace at some length

I have something to say about the important videogame all the cool kids were playing this past weekend: Marvel Tōkon FUCKEN WHIPS

Very fun piece from Maddie here! I had a good time.

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:

this is just Adelaidian culture

I remember going over to a cousin’s cousin’s house who brought this over from Hong Kong and seeing the split screen fighting in action blew my fucking mind

I started playing this in earnest this week and when Amyl and the Sniffers immediately came on followed by Baby Huey I started to be convinced that this might be the game for me. But yeah the AI companion is uncool and the vibe feels very squeaky clean. A little off-putting for a "hangout" game.

Feeling extremely targeted here

I'm biased ofc but I reckon Maddie is killin it at This Week in Videogames Dot Com. Gamescom was her first consumer games convention... like ever? And she somehow survived a back-to-back schedule solo, conducting interviews that were great to listen to raw, and wonderful to read written up.

This website is now a support group for people who couldn't get into Hollow Knight

♪ Oh my God, I was wrong ♪ ♪ Hell Is Us, all along ♪

I can’t believe Team Cherry erased Australia, home of the world’s best cherries

Me watching Evo

also, an all timer in the field of game journalism, “Yakuza opining on a Yakuza game”

It has long been an impossible dream of mine to have two Trans writing for one videogame website Anyway here's @victoriatran.bsky.social with a new column for TWIV Don't let ur dreams b dreams 🪄

It has long been an impossible dream of mine to have two Trans writing for one videogame website Anyway here's @victoriatran.bsky.social with a new column for TWIV Don't let ur dreams b dreams 🪄

Meet me in the Lumines Arise multiplayer demo if u want an ass kicking

Child of Eden Remastered, please. Or better yet: Digital Eclipse interactive documentary retrospective on Mizuguchi

I love this so much. This is my TikTok now. I’m going to play sad nostalgic piano music every time I browse it.

to tell you the truth I'm kinda over waking up every day and finding out more things have happened

Fortnite is for millenials again

This is a very tight, smart and novel dialog-less story about flies that let's you set the difficulty level based on the life expectancy of your country. I had a blast in the few hours it took me to roll credits. They 100% nail the game feel of being a fly, it's very neat.

This game whips so hard it finally convinced me that “Joe Musashi” was the coolest name in the world