I made a silly little thing idk brkeogh.itch.io/automatic-fl...

The Isopod Demo is back on Steam for #MIGW! We've added a new friend to meet, a new shell to try on, and a bunch of extra polish✨ Isopod comes out on October 21st (THREE WEEKS! 😱) Check out the demo here: store.steampowered.com/app/2053910

I’m pretty excited to finally launch the Bravest Coconut demo on Steam 🐱 Give it a go and make sure to wishlist the game too! 👉 bravestcoconut.com/demo #IndieGame #CozyGame #Godot #PixelArt #GameDev

New article in @theconversation.com today reflecting on Australia’s 2024 loot box regulations and how, 1 year later, there remains widespread non-compliance - and generally really confusing age ratings for mobile games on the App Stores! theconversation.com/loot-boxes-a...

i'm sorry what the hell

I know it's a real cliché but I still think Karl Marx is one of the most important theorists to read if you want to understand capital's obsession with generative AI. This is from pg 692-93 of the Grundrisse.

Between Mars First Logistics and Silksong, it's so nice to have two big single-players I just want to sink all my time into. Feel like those are so few and far between these days. And now I have two of them! And they're both Australian!

THE MEME IS REAL

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Me all year: a functioning society would not put footy games behind a paywall Me grand final today: what do you mean I need to watch Seven

It should be illegal for an employer to mandate use of a smartphone app without providing you a smartphone.

It's the same terrain generation, just with a few extra tweaks!

I’ve been holding off on MFL until 1.0 and it’s everything I hoped for. Death Stranding + Truck Simulator + toy bricks? Yes please.

Please just develop the literacies and dispositions to play old games just like you can watch old movies.

So much for the (terrible) social media ban not including games. We’re already seeing proof that the ban’s definition of social media is broad enough to be applied to any internet service or website the minister of the day wishes to ban. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

Looks like we're going to need a new word for someone who is anti anti fascism.

The most surprising thing about this video is when it gets to the end and GDC is still in the US.

Venn diagram of two entirely disconnected circles: "my AFL followers" and "my academic followers". Me between both circles: The criticisms of the Brownlow count as not reflecting player statistics is evidence of the social dominance of quantitative methods that really needs to be challenged.

There's a wrong way and a right way to report this

Are you or someone you know skipping GDC (or considering doing so) because of worries about coming to the US/San Francisco in the current environment? If so, I want to hear from you for a piece. DM me here or kyle DOT orland AT arstechnica DOT com. Please spread the word

In the latest round on enshittification, really into Outlook now deciding that unless you drag files into a very specific quadrant of the new message window, you want to upload them to OneDrive rather than actually attaching them.

Recognition of Palestine is Not Enough, Sanctions Must Follow to Stop the Genocide. Read our full statement on Australian recognition of Palestine at: www.jewishcouncil.com.au/2025/09/jewi...

Mars First Logistics, our silly little game about building rovers and delivering stuff, will be coming out of Early Access on 26 September 2025!

This feels like it should be a real 'yeah no shit' thing if you have any literacy at all about what generative AI actually does www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

Metroidvanias are either Protestant or Catholic. Castlevania? Catholic, of course. Metroid? Protestant. Blasphemous is Catholic. Dead Cells, Protestant. Hollow Knight is Protestant, but Hollow Knight: Silksong is Catholic. That's why people are complaining the game is hard. Cause it's Catholic now.

Silksong essays I would blog if it was 2012: 1. This game’s devs live in the ‘city of churches’ and that’s kinda interesting 2. Silksong is to Bloodborne what Hollow Knight is to Dark Souls

It remains so bewildering why we as a country let entirely unexperienced non-experts who have no real knowledge of the sector run the country’s universities for million+ salaries.

getting the special starbucks order honoring charlie kirk (flat white with a hole poked in the side of the cup)

Only 4 days left before the Play for Peace: Games for Palestine charity bundle sale ends, and about $8,000USD away from hitting $100k USD. Please RT and help push this as far and to as many people as possible for this last stretch. Link: itch.io/b/2979/play-...

Australia's universities are blighted by a "culture of consequence-free, rotten failure", according to the former chair of a senate inquiry examining governance at public universities. ... "There's no other sector in the country where failure is rewarded so handsomely and with so little scrutiny."

A general reminder that torrenting still exists and is still very easy to do.

weird al has been executed by firing squad for recording a parody of the fountains of wayne song "stacys mom" titled "charlies gone"

I don't know how anyone could look at the pictures of Trump in the UK and come to any conclusion other than that capitalism is well and truly in full stagnation mode and has long outstayed its welcome.

I have defeated the Last Judge

whoa, breaking news www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

Letters to Arralla https://store.steampowered.com/app/2189310/ $13.59 Play as a turnip with a big juicy bum delivering mail to a cast of colourful characters on an Australian island. Get the mail where it needs to go by reading residents’ letters, solving puzzles, and exploring the...

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

I'm actually going to be at #MIGW this year and will be doing a few things. First, I'm on this closing keynote panel at GCAP: bsky.app/profile/gcap...

Yeah this is excellent. Though I don’t think we need to dismiss vibes so quickly. Vibes are useful! Vibes plus data, not data instead of vibes.

Sony confirmed to Kotaku that a Sucker Punch employee is no longer with the company following pressure from a right wing harassment campaign. Yotei has been making headlines in alt-right gaming culture warrior circles ever since it reveals the protagonist was a woman.

Political violence is never acceptable. anyway I hope this guy gets the death penalty

but free speech u guys

✨I’m recruiting for a research project on game monetisation!✨ I’m keen to chat to game devs about how monetisation shapes the dev process. Interviews will be 60mins via Zoom. To learn more, head to bit.ly/40mOB3f if you'd like to participate, shoot me a DM or email [email protected] 😊

OK, but you do know you're eulogizing Charlie Kirk, right? aftermath.site/charlie-kirk...

Spoke to a couple 13yo kids at the dog park yesterday about the Kirk stuff (they started the convo!). Their general read of it re kids at their own schools was that most of the kids had no idea who he was (great) and just saw a shooting on tiktok (bad) but mostly were "too busy memeing 9-11" (lmao)

The thing about this likely being a worrying escalation in political violence is like, yeah sure it probably is. But the 'escalation' is the far right being just as violent and murderous as they've been for a long time and now some people are actually responding to that.