Such a great movie in desperate need of a remake!! 🤪

"Amazing! American politician's first executive order is to undo all of the previous politician's executive orders!" Absurd country.

Thank you all for your patience! Without further ado, it's This Year In Videogame Blogging 2025, complete with a bonus This Week In Videogame Blogging, December 28, 2025! critical-distance.com/2026/01/01/t...

Overall I had a pretty chill 2025 and hopefully will also have a pretty chill 2026

The Academic Work Tracker spreadsheet is now updated with 2026 dates! If you don't already, 2026 is a great time to start treating your academic work like the wage job where you are paid to work a certain amount of hours that it actually is: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

In 2025 I read about 20 Warhammer 40K books and about 6 Marxist economic theory books and I reckon the best game was Baby Steps and the good song was Genesis Owusu’s Death Cult Zombie.

I'm starting to write more reviews of smaller titles on Steam. 1. Reviews are very helpful for developers and players alike. 2. It's a nice way to cap off a fun time with a game. So not only do I recommend Babushka's Glitch Dungeon, but I also recommend writing reviews of indie games you enjoyed!

illustration, personal computing, magazine (1979) archive.org/details/Pers...

Something I’ve been reflecting on while playing Vice City is how whether the game’s camera was good or bad was something we used to discuss but now games are mostly just like ‘ah deal with it yourself’

Twenty years on and I still think this is the most breathtaking sequence ever put in a videogame. Testament to the fact that scale and awe are not virtues of graphical horsepower alone

[Calendrier de l’Avent PnT | Jour #15] 🎄 C'est après avoir lu The Videogame Industry Does Not Exist que @d4ndy-san.pointnthink.fr s'est lancé dans cette première partie d'un dossier retraçant l'hégémonie de l'industrie du JV et son aspect très mercantile. 👉 www.pointnthink.fr/fr/hegemonie...

So the NSW gov's response to the Bondi mass shooting seems to be banning mass protests that have no connection to the shooting, and to reduce the maximum number of guns an individual can own to a number higher than the number of guns that were present per shooter. Cool www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

Early this year I replayed GTA3 and was struck by how well it held up, especially in terms of the general atmosphere. Now I'm replaying Vice City and equally struck by how well it captures a radically different atmosphere, coming out only 12 months after GTA3.

Charles Wentworth Dilke, 1821. As Marx paraphrases: "Truly wealthy a nation, when the working day is 6 rather than 12 hours. Wealth is not command over surplus labour time ... but rather, disposable time outside that needed in direct production, for every individual and the whole society."

Really sad news. The Infinity Ward CoDs and the two Titanfalls are all tremendous games. www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/v...

Titanfall 2: Deluxe Edition / PlayStation 4 / Respawn Entertainment / 2016

I think the two most disappointing but least surprising things from the last week are the Coalition's willingness to exploit a tragedy for their personal gain, and Albanese and Labour's complete inability to provide any serious alternative model of actual leadership for the nation.

"The far-right Israeli government does not speak for Jewish people in Australia and is not interested in our safety." bsky.app/profile/jewi...

This makes me so angry. I'm disgusted that the premier is claiming that the 300,000 empathetic people who marched over the bridge because they were sick of babies being bombed (with our help!) are in any way responsible for the terrorist attack in Bondi.

I think people should be just as embarrassed to use genAI for that stuff as for the creative practices.

The funny thing is, the more these people double down, the more the mask comes off. You don’t want to do the work. Just be honest about it, no one has time for this.

What do people think academics do?? like this is the job???

I think this post nails the actual problem, for researchers at least—AI hallucinations would simply not be a problem in academic work if we’d not normalized citation-as-signaling rather than actual engagement—you can only cite a fake paper if you’re not in the habit of reading the papers you cite

Never forget it took less than a day for the right-wing conservative forces in Australia politics and media to turn the Bondi massacre into their own political grandstanding in order to sew division. Contemptible.

The idea that changing a definition to include criticism of Israel as being anti-Semitic and cracking down even further on anti-genocide protests would have in any way made anyone safer is madness. That the Coalition have so comprehensively jumped to blame here is insanity. Who is this speaking to?

And so it begins. Minns tries to distract from a security failure in the face of terrorist attack: by suppressing the right to protest. If he was really concerned about "community disharmony", he would stop sucking up to the Israel lobby. #nswpol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Sifter’s annual list of every Australian made videogame is out. These are a crucial resource and I’m so glad they do it every year.

When you've got less than a decade before you cark it and you still need to undo the one good thing anyone might remember you for

What I find so infuriating about all this is that those who want to pretend to act on antisemitism just to deteriorate the rights of those who have long stood against ALL fascist violence are the ones doing the most damage since they end up doing nothing to combat real antisemitism.

ANNOUNCEMENT: for the last year, I somehow resisted the temptation to begin a new life-consuming #gamedev project and instead... made 30+ minigames and demos! you're invited to the TwoPM 2025 Demo Disc, today: biscuits.twopm.studio/demo-disc

Bosses: 🥺 Lay off CEOs 🥺 Workers: 😈 Lay off CEOs 😈

It's reaching that time of year again where I update the Academic Workload Tracker so people can use it in 2026. If you used it in 2025, please let me know any bugs you encountered, things you wanted that weren't there, or just nice things about how valuable it was. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

"[Segal's] plan conflates antisemitism with legitimate criticism of the State of Israel, threatens freedom of political speech... and is an undemocratic, punitive framework that risks exacerbating instead of combating antisemitism." #auspol 1/3 www.amnesty.org.au/jewish-coali...

I still don't understand why anyone, farmers included, require a gun to be able to hold more than one bullet at one time.

Dr Max Kaiser, Executive Officer, Jewish Council of Australia, said the document reads “more like a blueprint for silencing dissent rather than a strategy to build inclusion”

Sussan Ley, touting the Antisemitism Envoy’s report, demanding that it be immediately implemented. The plan has been emphatically rejected by the Australian Human Rights Institute, Amnesty Internatjonal and a coalition of 9 Jewish groups.

Not least of all the Israeli government

wally bear and the no! gang, screenshot, nes (1992) www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCnd...

This image really couldn't be more insulting.

Discord, who recently leaked a heap of personal data in a security breach, wants my personal data to let me access a channel I created in a server I created. Thank you, Australian government.

This is so, so embarrassing from the prime minister! I hate it so much. I also am curious where Labor thinks under 16s are encountering this video.

“Too young for social media but old enough to be tried as an adult in a court of law”

🪱🪱🪱Wirm is out right now!!!🪱🪱🪱 Please enjoy this new trailer voiced by my 2-year-old son, then go buy the game on Steam! store.steampowered.com/app/1934870/...

So wild the under-16s social media ban is actually happening. What an embarrassment for our government. Best of luck to all the kids figuring out ways to circumvent it.

The Prime Minister credited 36 Months for convincing him to ban teens from social media. This group accused experts who opposed the ban of being 'bought' by big tech. Meanwhile, it was lining up brand deals, eyeing global expansion & developing an AI tool to track students www.crikey.com.au/20...

Brendan Keogh's Putting Challenge is currently 40% off on Steam! It is not Steam Deck verified but I verify that it works on Steam Deck store.steampowered.com/app/1625830/...

I’m very excited to share my latest article, “Premiers to Pixels: The Discourse of Cinema Envy in 1990s Videogame Magazines”, now published in the Hollywood and Games special issue of Convergence, edited by Helen Stuckey and Angela Ndalianis. Open access: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

I am as guilty of it as everyone but it's kinda funny we're all quoting a content mill account that doesn't cite its sources to be mad about AI slop

tfw your means of production are no longer brought into contact with living labour power