Update: Quali back on the menu hooray

Hey if any sports or tech journos would like a story for the morning, perhaps quiz Kayo about why it isn’t planning to stream qualifying for the Las Vegas Grand Prix in Australia 🙃

A very happy Long Cricket Christmas Eve to all those who observe (I’m psyched)

i can smell a brick of chat gpt text from a mile off. my geiger counter starts clicking the second a screenshot enters my bubble. i am not going to read a thing that some loser did not even bother to write

We got any NSW game devs or studios focused on mobile on here? Raise your hands please, I'm Making A List (complimentary, non-threatening).

Another cool games story up today Mietta Adams and Charlie McLean in the Pilbara office. Game designed to save dying Aboriginal language wins global awards www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

Oh come on

No full F1 26 game next year. Instead, F1 25 will receive a paid DLC pack that covers off the 2026 season while the mainline series takes a year off to revamp. news.ea.com/press-releas...

Me when I get myself a paper clip

The annoying thing about the "oh we left a placeholder" generative AI slop excuse is that that is EXACTLY NOT how you should be using placeholders. Anything "not obviously terrible with a panicked hurried half-awake glance" is getting shipped.

“Our talented team with its own human hands and brains and souls decided that all this shitty art made by a computer was good enough to go in our game” is not a good defense of using AI tools to generate assets.

Spotted at the airport @serrels.bsky.social @rubyinnes.bsky.social

Cafe at the airport absolutely blasting that AI generated Portuguese TikTok song about gangbangs. It is 5AM.

If this is real, it’s about as predictable a group of noms as it gets.

Bond delivers another masterclass in empty corporate buzzwordery.

Execs are trying to muddy the waters around Gen-AI as a ‘push against all AI’ because they hear the unified dissent and they want to crush it via division. Don’t let them. Say it louder. Every time you see a statement like this, push back harder. Let them know you see them exactly for who they are.

The games industry is dominated by the dumbest people on earth

did anyone ever remake this with delta this is one of my fav mgs pics outside "are clowns patriotic"

I used to not know anything about hockey, but now I know one thing: that this is my favourite hockey team

You get to see Glenn Powell’s beautiful bare ass and they do Home Alone shit to ICE Agents so like I’m not sure what else you’d want in a movie.

Orbx, the well-known Aussie flight sim scenery and aircraft maker, just released its Jurassic World Archipelago pack onto the Flight Sim 2024 marketplace. Lets you run rescue flights and joyrides on the islands from Jurassic Park, complete with dinos. www.youtube.com/watch?v=a48d...

Mood.

literally the last person on earth we need to be consulting for opinions on the intersection between technology and the human spirit

Very funny bit from YouTube: waits until we do a video on Frosty Mini to push out our months-old video on the original Frosty Game Fest. Sick one, YouTube, thanks so much.

I grew up about a 40 minute drive from Nimbin, which might be the closest Australia gets to this.

last night at a bar I learned that they improved pinball by making machines that are entirely computers and they’re much better than what we had before

This shit is exactly why placeholders are commonly pink/black checkerboxes with PLACEHOLDER in giant text on it so that shit doesn't get missed and go to fucking retail

This is powerfully embarrassing

Started making my pasta sauces from scratch

We could not ask for a better industry ambassador 🫡

The Netflix UI on Apple TV is now so bad and made me so frustrated that I unsubbed. Reaching exciting new levels of Cranky Old Man energy.

I’ve been offline all day and have just logged on only to get punched in the head with the Trump blowjob thing what on EARTH

Didnt realise Black Ops 7 only has a co-op campaign lmfao

Every franchise across every medium getting its own version of the Marvel Studios logo is easily one of the laziest, most braindead corporate branding exercises ever accomplished. Even fkn CoD has one now.

I have a million things I could add to this and only so many characters. I have heard some version of this from almost everyone in games PR in Aus, but the names they use are News or Nine. They want normies, new audiences, not the core. Whatever they’re selling, they already expect you to buy it.

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...

The genre of mainstream writing about games that is "go to a space I've never visited or understood to find out what's *really* going on" only ever ends up with a story that is "I found lots of bad stuff!!! can you believe this?" at a surface-level, lacking context, insight or any solutions.

Ya’ll I just know this is gonna hurt me it’s too cute not to suddenly turn emotional but here I am laying myself upon the tracks willingly

*beepboop* Hey Sam, it's Die-Hardman. I'm sending you the latest in Bridges tech. Heartman took a sample of your aortic tissue while you were sleeping to power this new weapon, which we're calling the Keyblade.

thinking about how i get anxious writing emails because i don't want to sound like a moron while larry summers is apparently typing emails like this: u kno she dint want to talk tomorrow. make me bad pheel.

This week’s episode of @geeofdee.bsky.social’s Indie Game Gathering is on the best Australian indie exploration game about an elephant, @enfantgame.bsky.social! youtube.com/shorts/ouJvI...

Growing up in a time when “selling out” was the most shameful thing you could do and then being forced to live through the 2020s feels like being kicked in the head by a horse every day

Talking to people way smarter than me about the things I enjoy is, no bullshit, the best part of my job. So thanks to the folks who talked to me about why Magic’s starting to look like a Fortnite lobby and what this means for the long term health of the game

Unfortunately I also hate the PS5’s “I want attention” design, leaving me in no man’s land

the part of this article where the lady gets scared of discord servers is everything to me