Folks, pleased to confirm the ABC Gamer team will be in Melbourne from Thursday. Where will we be? Parallels! Game Worlds! PAX Aus! I sincerely hope the pub at some point! See you there.

Find this please find this I need someone to find this oh my god

Arrested for gamer crimes, at last. Our long national nightmare is over.

An absolutely ridiculous couple of weeks for Brisbane sport.

As always, thrilled for a neat lil story like this to find a home.

when the AI bubble pops I'll be swooping in and buying those data centres and turning them into dining precincts. i'm talking a Guzman Y Gomez, a Grilld, a Rolld, a Coffee Club, a Fratelli Fresh, a Strike Bowling

Got around to playing some Baby Steps. I laughed, I raged, I respect the surprising degree of foot/leg articulation required to succeed. Character fell headfirst down the longest ditch I've ever seen, left me stranded somewhere I don't think I'm supposed to be. Decided to play something else. 3/5.

The only remaining site move I'll entertain is going back to forums and I won't be moved on that. At this point, for me, it's forums or log off forever.

Brave (and eye wateringly expensive) to open up a shop like this in any shopping centre these days. This’ll be their fifth store. Power to them, hope they smash it.

Asuka has allegedly recorded a diss track about Rei for her new album.

Hey! I’m back on Download This Show with @raejohnston.bsky.social this week! We’re talking about loot boxes, the big EA deal, the Playdate’s third anniversary and MIGW! Starts momentarily on ABC Radio National, or you can listen on your fave podcast app 🫡 www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

people will get mad at me for this but its RRR (2022)

Twitch is showing me about 13K or so live viewers in the waiting zone for Critical Role C4 kick off in about 10 mins or so. 31K on YouTube. If correct, that's far lower live numbers than C2 or C3 had.

She is the worst thing about any F1 weekend she turns up at. Sky only seems to keep bringing her back because they’ve realised Jensen Button loathes her so much he can’t see straight.

My room temperature take on the new Pokémon TCG Pocket set is that I don’t think it’s very good or been terribly well thought out. Cheers

This week on @geeofdee.bsky.social's Indie Game Gathering: Had to be @folly.studio's Dogpile. www.youtube.com/shorts/OC79J...

News days like today make me feel like I’ve got bees in my brain. So much information bouncing around in there and all of it bad.

30 bucks a month lets you buy 1-2 indie games, support an independent games media outlet of your choice, and the majority of your money will go to a human being who worked hard to make something cool

Incredible new pic from the F1/Sega collab just dropped

Every single game on this page should be marked either In Library or On Wishlist GO GO GO GO GO store.steampowered.com/sale/Melbour...

i'm not going to tell you that you have to pay for journalism. clearly, that's not definitionally true and whatever you do is up to you. but i will say: you get what you pay for. if you want thoughtful, thorough and hard word done for you (and not for other interests), you gotta pay for it.

I am so sad I'm not gonna arrive to MIGW in time to see this, but maybe you will (and should!)

Welcome to Ambrosia Sky, an immersive sim cleaning-FPS in an alien infestation on the rings of Saturn. “equal parts System Shock and Powerwash Simulator” - @pcgamer.com “beautiful, intimate, and deeply affecting” - @ign.com Wishlist now. store.steampowered.com/app/3580160/...

OpenAI employees are very excited about how well their new AI tool can create fake videos of people doing crimes and have definitely thought through all the implications of this

Dog game great

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After our CHOICE sunscreen work, the TGA has called out 20+ sunscreens with a suspect formula that folks should avoid. Absolute madness. www.choice.com.au/health-and-b...

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sale roundups are boring, so i wrote about all the cheap games in the steam autumn sale that have genuinely changed me, and made me love games more

gonna release a video game featuring copyrighted materials i don’t have a license for BUT the original license holders can opt out afterwards if they don’t wanna be chill about it that would go fine, right

Anyway seems like a great day to take up smoking or something idk

“Vibe working” lmao Microsoft that’s just bludging.

20 billion in debt there’ll be nothing but FC left

Saw the EA news. If I speak, I am in big trouble.

Aus media has now set Optus’ descriptor status to Embattled.

Brisbane having an all timer of a weekend

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Kmart’s broken street date on these btw.

Moments like this, I miss living in Brisbane. The triple shot Bundy and cokes will already be flowing at RG’s. Fortitude will be singing all night.

The Harvey Norman ad for ‘AI powered’ PCs they keep playing during the Grand Finals is so funny. Doesn’t even talk about what the AI can do for the user because all the talking points are the same ones used to market laptops for 20 years. Faster, smarter, better productivity etc.

Unreal game to be a neutral #AFLGF

This bozo (the YouTuber, that is) is never beating the misogynist loser allegations.

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Unbelievably good gear

For a wild moment I thought they were gonna ask the player to kill Bruce Lee, which seemed kind of fucked up, but you're actually protecting him which is a fun inversion of Hitman's usual thing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2Xb...

Seems very bad!

which in turn leads to some readers losing their shit if they come across a review that isn't as glowing as they wanted it to be. sometimes they resort to attacking or discrediting the critic, even when they--the readers--haven't yet had the chance to play the game themselves!

it kinda shores up this idea of game reviews only being legitimate or valid if they come from someone who is HYPED for the thing, an idea that i think has led to a lot of readers seeing game reviews as something that should validate their own hype, rather than be honest about the critic's experience

imo this issue of reviews by fans for fans has often been a problem in mainstream games crit. there's the perception that a fan of a genre/franchise can best tell other fans whether they will also like THIS game, but also you're then selecting people who are predisposed to liking the thing?

Ghost of Yotei capsule review: An incredibly busy open world game that feels overtuned on the original. I love a samurai sword fight as much as the next person and Yotei threw so many of them at me that it began to wear me out. Did any of these minor gripes make me want to stop playing? They did not