We’re launching a zine about games and play called GUTSPILL! A place to shamelessly gush about play experiences that embed themselves in our hearts and brains and GUTS! No industry talk, no metrics ~ just SPILL! #1 features words by me and the Jameseses: @jickle.net + @omgmorejames.bsky.social

I wrote a little something for @tier-review.com On 24 Killers and what a home really is Thank you to @gracemachine.bsky.social and @phoenixsimms.bsky.social for the opportunity and the great edits.

The @lil-pink-clouds.bsky.social team should feel super proud. I reckon a perfect post-MIGW game that makes you want to put down the controller and flee to the nearest body of water (in a good way!)

Super stoked to be included here (for the second time!) and would like to draw particular attention to the coverage of Palestinian Voices in Games 🍉 by @ignasvieversys.bsky.social

These AI scraped summary blog posts of a recent piece are killing me dead

Respect to anyone who took time out of MIGW or Fringe to attend this week's demonstration bsky.app/profile/dave...

Killed the final boss of PAX (the cringe that tells you not to buy a dagger)

Another lovely bunch of smart and creative people let me ask them the hard-hitting question; what if play, but not video game?!?

It's Melbourne International Games Week and @josefinahuq.bsky.social spoke to a raft of Melbourne-based developers to chat about showing up, money and vibes

Another lovely bunch of smart and creative people let me ask them the hard-hitting question; what if play, but not video game?!?

Disturbingly high levels of gratitude and affection for everyone who spoke to me 💛 I couldn’t include even 20% of what was discussed, but boy howdy did I learn a bunch!

My board game 📦 FRAGILE 🃏 will be playable at the next ACMI WIP night !

From 'Fairy Bred' by Elizabeth Tan. Read more: bit.ly/3IcxhHu

ACMI Game Worlds unsurprisingly good + important

I wrote a piece for ACMI ahead of their new Game Worlds exhibit, about old arcade games and physical spaces… www.acmi.net.au/stories-and-...

General tickets for Parallels 2025 are now on sale 🎟️ Speaker and playable showcase line-up on our website 📺 www.freeplay.net.au/parallels25

Letters to Arralla is OUT NOW on Steam with a limited time 20% launch discount!! 🏝️💌 After 5 long years of development and lots of fruit & veggies eaten to power our developers, this cheeky game is finally ready to be delivered directly into your hands!! ☺️ Play now on Steam! youtu.be/7GbGTEpsoIM

Slowly and finally circling “the real world” again after a breakup and house move and reiterating; neo-nazis microsoft-execs ai-losers pro-genociders should shut the fuck up forever. Hopefully not leaving out any new and concerning freaks 💛🔥

Hello pals, I am looking to either start a new 2 person home in the heart of North Melbourne or move into an already existing nice one. Please let me know if you or any cool people you know wanna live with a nice clean dweeb who loves the pub 💛

Hello pals, I am looking to either start a new 2 person home in the heart of North Melbourne or move into an already existing nice one. Please let me know if you or any cool people you know wanna live with a nice clean dweeb who loves the pub 💛

YES! YEEESSSSS !! glad to see people I admire doing nice things !!

Only got onto these games early this year and I’m a big dummy for it! Don’t be a loser like me! Be gay and play with rocks and pebbles this weekend!! 🪨

We try to only put our games on sale during Pride for gay-reasons. But then we forget to do even that. So Pebble Witch and Queer Man Peering are now in the Steam Summer Sale! WOW! It's basically Delayed Pride! Arrested Pride? Tardy Pride? Buy our f*ggy games! store.steampowered.com/app/1711420/...

I am still so in love with this game

"AI serves fascism and its bosom buddy, capital, and nothing else. It is a nihilistic Moloch that can exist solely via the sacrifice of sanity, soul and, more tangibly, our environment. Like anything fascist, there is only one real solution to it: swift and brutal elimination, by any means."

Did Koji Kondo accidentally compose the same melody twice? Or was he inspired by a city pop track from 1982? Or were they both doing a riff on Chopin?

This is so so cute

Everything sucks and I’ve been hanging a lot of shit on the Switch 2 *BUT* truly nothing assembles the cousins faster than Mario Kart

Switch 2 thoughts: the device feels much more premium than I thought, with some weirdness exceptions, everything feels like it had a super solid iteration, free Palestine, and Mario Kart World free roam is pretty fun but not as realized an experience as just doing races.

Just now realising whenever I’m slightly stressed I start playing Giraffe Song on a loop in my head

In a week where Nintendo failed to excite me, Frosty Games absolutely came through🍦

Wow new open world Mario kart really is different

"... When Australia sells weapons components to Israel, Israel doesn’t turn them into water filters or bouncing castles or ice cream cake. Israel turns them into weapons. Weapons they use to unleash holocaust on Palestine."

Woaw Critical Distance included my Despelote write up alongside some other great writing !🤘! Hell yeah

To celebrate the end of semester, Unimelb's Screen & Cultural Studies program are hosting a free screening of Grand Theft Hamlet, followed by a conversation between myself and @dangolding.com. Feel free to come along and talk GTA shenanigans with us! www.eventbrite.com.au/e/grand-thef...

Critiquing solo indie Melbourne creators is always super hard but I hope clearly comes from a place of deep love and respect! 🎺

🏠 At long last I have a prototype for my board game I can lug around and make people playtest!! hehe 🔑

🏠 At long last I have a prototype for my board game I can lug around and make people playtest!! hehe 🔑

Annual tradition of forcing my writing students to learn about Australian video games 🙂

REVIEW // Despelote Despelote is yet another juicy example of the ability of hyper specific stories to unlock universally human feelings, rather than the often misguided attempts to generalise settings and identities to reach more people Read: www.well-played.com.au/despelote-re...

I am soaking up all of the Despelote responses and feeling very much part of humanity today. Here are mine. Games, ⚽️💛⏰, they're good!

⚽ despelote is OUT NOW on Steam, PlayStation 4 & 5, and Xbox Series X|S. Coming soon to Switch. A bittersweet and sometimes dreamy semi-autobiographical tale of youth taking place in 2001 Quito, Ecuador. Hecho con pasión.

Panel people! I write and research about games (+1), am vaguely ethnic (+2), have never been on a games panel (-5) but think it could be real fun (+8)! If my work/vibe seems relevant to your idea please hmu!

I have shared this story, this thread, before - but I think given the state of the world, it's worth telling once again. Maybe it can help, especially if like me, you make art, and you wonder what the use of all of it is right now.

Desperately reading waaay too much into this

“The contrived goofiness distracts from the troubling reality that, as Musk grew more deranged, his power increased.” Read Oscar Schwartz on Walter Isaacson’s biography of Elon Musk: www.thedriftmag.com/a-bullshit-g...

Anyone else feeling insane

Hello! If you are a junior/mid-level games journo who is excited by news reporting, loves to interview people, knows how to read a financial report, and tends to be awake during a UK-ish timezone, I wanna know who you are! Here's a job ad, DM me any questions: www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/41...

Reaping the benefits of generational wealth (my older cousin bought this two years ago and forgot about it)