New AP headline: ‘US court convicts Japanese yakuza for trafficking nuclear material”

Many thoughts. Broadly understood, but the game just didn’t have the quality needed to cut through in a saturated space. End result of AAA insisting sole success metric is shareholder return ahead of any other considerations. Crisis point now firmly reached, player/publisher schism wider than ever.

You asked for it! The long-awaited sequel to You Are Jeff Bezos is finally here: YOU ARE ELON MUSK 200+ passages. 7 endings. Secrets. In-jokes. Giant robots. All with the purpose of doing one thing: SPENDING ALL OF ELON MUSK'S FUCKING MONEY direkris.itch.io/elon

Embracer subsidiary Tripwire Interactive has laid off 23 employees

Australia-based mobile studio Halfbrick has cut 41 roles and ended "a number of engagements internationally" www.gamesindustry.biz/halfbrick-cu...

Turn on. Tune it. Drop out. MIXTAPE debuts MAY 7, 2026. Coming to PC, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 5, and Switch 2.

Oh my god www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

I can’t express how sad this made me to read

In May '25, a beloved Australian games website was sold off. It went dark then, a month later, rose from the dead but stuffed full of gambling links and AI authors. It wasn't the first time, or the last time, this exact thing had happened. And it's still happening. My months-long investigation 👇

Exciting news… The Frosty Games team is officially up and running for 2026! ❄️ This year we're working with two wonderful partners who share our passion for ANZ-made indie games, @nz-code.nz and @strangescaffold.bsky.social! 🎉

AI could never

sometimes the berserk local weather page I follow posts something that I instantly know is going to be stuck in my brain for months

Checking out some Steam Next Fest demos this weekend? 🧜‍♀️Try The Mermaid Mask!🗡️ Like Ace Attorney, Monkey Island, Professor Layton, Tintin & Indiana Jones had a detective adventure game baby We have over 65k wishlists so far, help us reach 100k by launch! store.steampowered.com/app/1696770/...

If America still had the rule of law, this would be the easiest prosecution ever, but we all know absolutely nothing will happen.

i love video games so much but im so tired of covering the industry attached to them

If you see this you MUST open blender and make a low-poly rat. I just did it and it made me happy

Joe Dante and Hideo Kojima are close seconds but no director was more right about the future of war than Barry Levinson with the 1992 box office flop Toys.

Small complaint in the scheme of things but it’s annoying me that Leaf Green for Switch doesn’t seem to have a GBA filter. These pixels are a little too hard on the eyes for me, I need a bit of fuzz

All but destroyed one of the most decorated American movie studios ever built and he wants to talk about the shareholders

Ah man :( www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...

FUCKEN 🫠🫠

Fucken 🫠

Banger from @shepardcdr.bsky.social. A proper blog. This is the gear I want to see.

Assuming the RE9 review discourse is driven by maidenless energy and getting on with my day

*taps sign again* "any news outlet neglecting video game coverage is neglecting readers" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

love the account specifically targeted to stop people from clicking on articles and thus put more journalists out of work, itself earning money from people clicking on links

After watching @jesszam.bsky.social play through Resident Evil Requiem, my backseat review is that it’s perfected the series’ gameplay to the extent that its familiarity in a sea of live service brings great joy. Sadly, its story comes unstuck in its final hours, leading to a clanger of an ending.

Looking forward to hearing what this means for Big Ant 👀

I think they should extend the metro to Hurstville by next week just for me

The evening wrap on this across BSky and Insta is: Huge number of recs for Japanese makers, Mazda and Suzuki in particular. Some recs for hybrids, a few for EVs. Most folks perfectly happy with a 20 year Swift and I personally love that. And I will never buy American.

I am considering a car purchase because I once again require a daily drive. Please tell me about the normal cars you like.

Had to go on Twitter for work tonight. First post I see is an AI generated scene from The Office where Avengers characters keep appearing and the characters react. “The era of AI slop is over!!” OP proudly asserts. Video looks awful. Site hasn’t changed a jot.

You don’t always gotta be NiGHTS. Sometimes you just need to take a train and relax.

Dream blunt rotation

Important historical footnote: the boat was already half sunk at the time he became the captain, having watched the previous captain flee in a rowboat

I DON'T WANT TO "SHARE AND CREATE MY OWN STORY" I DON'T WANT A SHARED PLATFORM I WANT YOU TO MAKE SOMETHING COOL, AND THEN I PLAY WITH IT ALONE, NOT IN A SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT HOW IS THIS HARD TO UNDERSTAND

Nadella next week:

the immediate impact is one thing, but this is one of those weeks in the industry that's gonna ripple out over years, in ways we'll only learn about through reporting. so i guess i'm saying, now is a great time to support and read the work those reporters are doing, so they can chase it.

This is all Don Mattrick’s fault.

No one has any reason to believe you, Asha! None whatsoever!

RIP Xbox 2001-2026

I thought ABC News 24 might have the name cornered but I spose they don’t use that anymore

Walking into EB Games the day they set up their GameCube station and playing Star Wars Rogue Leader. Felt like being allowed to touch the future

Huge

Shocking, utterly baffling decision