New season of The Bear is extremely validating to my suspicion that the show would be significantly better if it put Sydney in the spotlight more.

luckily we can all be the top SEO result

It's a shame that the ability to play against bots in multiplayer games has been seemingly lost to time and that every game must now launch with and maintain a player base of 50,000+ concurrents or be declared a dead game ad infinitum.

Surely one of these days WOTC has got to do a Universes Beyond set that appeals to *one of my special interests!*

How do people store their wargaming/tabletop terrain? I am trying to suss out a better storage solution than the random cardboard boxes I currently rely on.

Steam Machines pricing is higher than I'd like but not so high as to kill my enthusiasm. I am now on the waitlist.

DO NOT PUBLISH UNTIL NEWS IS CONFIRMED A look back at the PM's political career

My mileage with House of the Dragon is often contingent on getting to watch people make incredibly bad decisions, so safe to say that was a thrilling hour of television.

Generally enjoying 33 Immortals but this third map is pushing on my patience for sure.

I think the thing that is so depressing to me about Destiny 2 reaching end of life is less that it's ending and more that it's ending in a configuration that never managed to fully reconcile the consequences of content vaulting.

This is siiiiiiick

Really thrilled with this week's issue of Multiplier, which features a retrospective on Good Society with @storybrewersroleplaying.com www.multiplier.au/why-is-this-...

Some next level sane-washing happening in auspol this afternoon.

Absolutely baffled that Burn Gorman isn't somehow in this Spider-Noir show.

I think the cast dynamics of the Soldier's Table are still my favorites (esp. Wick/Tyranny) but the Schemer's Table is easily the most interesting slice of Campaign 4 so far.

This ABC piece is so strange. Like, irrespective of recent changes, a "small model train business owner" is such a bizarre case study to begin with and basically any regular 18-year old wouldn't have the cash to even consider looking at buying real estate? www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...

Overdue but finally wrote down some thoughts about reaching the end of The Horus Heresy www.multiplier.au/should-you-r...

Generally enjoying the new Rogue Trader DLC but low key annoyed that they put the last segment of it behind the point of no return for the main quest.

The end of Tip Toe is, uh, certainly something to reckon with amid events in Belfast this week 😐

The downgrade is real

Sometimes you just have a funny idea for a headline and want to see how far you can take it

If I was in a room where Yoko Takahashi sang "A Cruel Angel's Thesis" I would simply die on the spot, please and thank you

I will buy & play literally any Citizen Sleeper-like

Forbidden Solitaire is unparalleled in its replication of the experience of finding a neat puzzle game to play and then being bombarded by messages from a friend who has fallen down a Wikipedia hole.

these are getting weird

"Aion....2?" #summergamesfest

New Multiplier out this week! It features a chat with one of the devs behind @samuni.bsky.social about the intriguing influences behind the Sydney-set survival horror game www.multiplier.au/would-you-ev...

May have to file 007: First Light under "I'm happy for u tho" I was intrigued by the idea of Bond x Hitman but all the comparisons to Uncharted are a bit of a red flag to me having now played and thoroughly disliked the latter.

I've got a lot of patience for silly branding choices but if Samsung really do call this new foldable the "Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 Wide" I will not hesitate to clown on it.

My article about Gundam routers finally escaped editing purgatory www.whistleout.com.au/Broadband/Ne...

I am almost done with act 2 but beginning to suspect (and sad to report) that Path of Exile 2 might be too Diablo 2 for my liking 😔

Euphoria finale was one for the books (derogative)

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I was loosely intrigued by the Starcraft miniatures game but oh my god these Australian prices!

Watching the new season of BEEF and they really did make a show that's nothing but characters living the spirit of this gif

The sheer density of the prose and the lack of voice acting made Esoteric Ebb a little more difficult to find a groove with than Zero Parades but wow does the back half of that game soar.

My first Cryo Archive run ended in tragedy but what an incredibly cool capstone it is to the Marathon experience.

A Cosmere miniatures game is troubling to think about...

A hectic one to be sure, but some new stuff went up over on Multiplier this week. First up, a chat with @scree.bsky.social about player agency: www.multiplier.au/is-is-possib...

I'm still in a hell of my own making with these Drizzt books but really keen for this. Age of Umbra was easily the most compelling non-CR thing that CR has done imo www.youtube.com/shorts/tu6f-...

Kingdom Come X Middle Earth is a very compelling pitch, but I can't wait to hear about what bad takes Vavra has about Tolkien

This season of For All Mankind has taken a little longer to find itself than the last few but the second half is really hitting for me.

Big swing but shoot your shot I guess

Increasingly adopting the position that we desperately need to make arts degrees cheaper

Dungeons of Freeport, my play-once-a-day extraction roguelike, is now fully out on steam...

I am still writing my review but my general experience with Zero Parades has been that it's a pretty normal/good videogame all things considered and that trying to evaluate its suitability as a load-bearing pillar of popular culture and revolutionary politics is a fraught way to go.

Always thrilled to see my byline crop up on a a new indie gaming outlet, and @thisweekinvideogames.com is one of the best around. Equally chuffed to have the chance to write about the state of crowdfunding and how it will shape what the folks at @moonbeast-prod.bsky.social are working on.

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