I caught up with Beethoven & Dinosaur a few times over the last year of Mixtape's development. Here are some fun stories about making the game. A rejected pitch, meeting Kojima, their approach to teenage narrative, America as pastiche fantasy, emotion through play, music budgets, and more! Wow!!

Thinking about manifesting some new Kneecap gigs in Australia but worried about the inevitable culture war their next tour might ignite www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLDH...

I signed up for Pocketcasts Plus about a year ago because I wanted to try their shuffle setting (it's neat!) but I never turned it off and ever since my subscription expired the button to disable it has become a signup button so I've just lost the ability to set up a chronological feed entirely.

Been really nice to pen more game reviews again. Wrote about Demeo X Dungeons and Dragons for Multiplier over the weekend www.multiplier.au/demeo-x-dung...

At this point, I'm honestly impressed that Google's search experience keeps finding new ways to make me goddamn livid on a Monday

Most recent Hacks is low-key one of the better episodes of the season. The final season has been full of a five-star episode premises but this felt like one that really took full advantage of the opportunity to dig into the unanswered questions and tension in the relationship between Deb and Ava.

Uninterested in the current discourse but I finally got around to Marathon and, folks, I may have waited too long to get around to Marathon because these queue times are Dire.

This is sick as hell www.rockpapershotgun.com/as-well-as-a...

After the Hours Heresy, I started reading the Drizzt books because I wanted to understand how someone could possibly get forty books out of the concept and, 15 books into this journey, I'm starting to have some theories...

I am up and down on the regular eps but Daredevil Born Again really is two for two when it comes to barn-burner season finales.

Marvelous issue of Multiplier went live today, featuring a chat with @dinopoloclub.bsky.social about RTFM and releasing smaller projects www.multiplier.au/why-did-the-...

Finally this work of art is available to a wider audience

I realise this is one of my more niche and FWP complaints but I absolutely loathe the way that the battle pass in Diablo 4 has been Helldivers-ified.

I desperately need to know if the flower permit stuff in Nate's Euphoria season 3 plotline happened to Sam Levinson.

Whoever thought to bring those old WoW raid sets to Diablo 4 as cosmetics is a genius. Very plausible this is the thing that gets me to spend money on MTX for the first time.

I have an absolutely cooked TTRPG adjacent panel that I want to pitch this year and if you want to be a part of it you should get in my DMs

my dear friend renata price has been working painstakingly hard on this, and it's possibly my favorite work of hers, which is saying something considering everything she's done is singular in craft and care. get this in front of your eyes www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoWg...

There are lots of structural and economic reasons we don't see the kind of longer TV show runs we did 20+ years ago but the way that the modern entertainment press seemingly only ever frames returning series as either "it's so over" or "we're so back" probably doesn't help with renewals

Some real good quotes on world building in this interview about the future of The Captive's War

I take a lot of photos of the cat for my phone reviews and @grifflon.bsky.social suggested it might be fun to post them here to show how smartphone cameras have changed over the years. There are quite a few pics, so I've decided to sort them by brand/series.

Oh you think it's "cool" to do a heist? To assemble a crew of specialists, each with a unique backstory, to create a beautiful ballet of theft? You think it's "cool" to purloin beautiful treasures under several redundant layers of security? You people sicken me. Next you're gonna say you use drugs.

Delighted to chat with @alexwalker.bsky.social about the aftermath of the biggest merger in video game history. If you're not subscribed to Multiplier, you can read the latest issue over on the blog now!: www.multiplier.au/did-anyone-r...

The entire cast of Hacks is stacked but it's wild how Robby Hoffman can just show up in season 4 and this funny.

Sad to see the culture turn on Euphoria with the new season, when a lot of the critiques apply just as much (if not even more so) to the two that preceded it IMO.

Owlcat games board room meeting where they discuss what happened regarding their 40k video game adaptation where instead of capturing the anticipated dork male 40k fanbase they instead attracted a Ton of insane women who don't care about dumb lore and instead want to fuck the Evil Space Twink Elf

Rings of Power revisionism here we come

SHODAN: t-t-time to ELECTROCUTE you until-til-til you're jussssst ᵉᵗᵗᵉ ᵉᵗᵗᵉ ᵉᵗᵗᵉ a BLACK SILHOUETTE and WHITE ᵛᶦˢᶦᵇˡᵉ ˢᵏᵉˡᵉᵗᵒⁿ TILLY NORWOOD: nooooo!!!!!!

I watched so much Gundam over the past six months and all I have to show for it this big guide for the website www.whistleout.com.au/PayTV/Guides...

I feel like I probably already know the answer to this but is there any functionality to Marathon on PS5 w/o an active PSN subscription?

It’s profoundly ignorant to suggest that the Pope should be fighting crime on behalf of the Catholic Church. Anyone who was remotely familiar with Roman Catholicism would know that that’s what Daredevil is for

Always Be Cancelling www.whistleout.com.au/PayTV/News/c...

Instant earworm song - sad to see it isn't available on Bandcamp or anything like that www.youtube.com/watch?v=-J-y...

Sickos.jpeg www.pcgamer.com/games/action...

It's so funny how so many scenes in the new season of For All Mankind are visually indistinguishable from BSG now

The sick thrill of actually reaching the end of a D&D campaign.

I've been playing Skull Horde! I think it's charming to play and a pretty novel riff on the games that have inspired it but I wish it had a little bit more to offer in terms of crunchy builds www.multiplier.au/skull-horde-...

The Last Ringbearer finally got mentioned on the latest episode of Shelved by Genre by @rangedtouch.bsky.social and I am going to be manifesting a bonus episode about it for the foreseeable future.

@noclipvideo.bsky.social's series on Disco Elysium has been predictably excellent but I was really moved by the end of it. Given how much ink has already been spilled on the saga around ZA/UM, it's rare to see someone reach a different emotional destination about it www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NtG...

This post has aged well.

@chloeappleby.bsky.social has been on my list of people I want to chat with for Multiplier since its inception and so I was thrilled to finally catch up with them to chat about the origins and evolution of ALT: GAMES www.multiplier.au/where-did-al...

Not to be too much of a pessimist but worth remembering the mixed track record of every other ceasefire that has Trump's name on it.

Looking to post more over on Multiplier in the months ahead but for now please enjoy this overdue write-up of the new Diablo 2 expansion pack www.multiplier.au/diablo-2-rei...

ALT is about community and making everything accessible for the industry especially in Sydney! It’s wonderful to see these satellite community events happening ☺️

Growing increasingly convinced that one of my yoga teachers has started sneaking "An Ending Once And For All" onto the playlist www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLxv...

oh my god we won!!!!

Esquire couldn’t book this actor for an interview so fed previous responses through a couple of thief machines and ‘interviewed’ a digital photocopy. Including asking personal questions about his dad. People need to be sued and then fired for this.

Sometimes you just gotta sit down at your computer and write 2000 words on something just for the love of the game www.multiplier.au/world-of-war...

Hahahahahah this is *fucked*