please RT! if you've ever contacted a journal or publisher to have your name changed on a publication, a friend and colleague of mine wants to hear about your experience! drexel.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... #phdchat #academicchatter

”My bone chair is made from over 200 human bones, but it you think about it, a human is also made from over 200 human bones…”

We really need a more offensive and dismissive term for ‘vibe coding’ asap.

phil spencer collecting his final xbox paycheck

Good story from @jacksonwryan.com with comments from me, @brkeogh.bsky.social, Katharine Neil and others.

@katemfitzgerald.bsky.social you today

About time they started arresting the entire royal family

I really need to get back into Caves of Qud. I haven’t played for months because I got too invested in my character I don’t want to die

It's been a privilege to watch this project develop over the years via Squiggly River Game Collective. One of the more interesting and artistically confident games coming out of Brisbane in recent times.

Kinda wild I’ve (co-)written 5 books. (Killing is Harmless hiding in the back row)

The nice thing about writing books is that eventually you get a copy and this is a lovely surprise when it happens.

Drafting some early Marxist game writing and stressing out every single word that one day some Marxist theorist will quote this sentence and put "(!)" after that word.

I’m ready to at last pass judgement on the ‘is Expedition 33 a jrpg?’ debate and the answer is ‘yes’.

Videogames are good again

These detectors are rubbish, they're LLMs too and they're trying to sell the poison and the cure. It said my book was 70% AI-generated. It was published in 2016.

New book now coming out very soon. Next month!

A fun fact about QGF is it used to obscurely be called Game On: 423 (or GO423) and not many people knew this stood for Game On: The Foreplay to Freeplay, because it would be scheduled to happen just before the Freeplay festival in Melbourne.

New book now coming out very soon. Next month!

I am finally playing Expedition 33 and it is real good but I think mostly in a “finally, just a basic ass triple-a videogame” kinda way.

Here is my cartoon about Mr Jon Kudelka www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Hey if you are a press/media person, and would like a Key Fairy...key, please let us know: tally.so/r/Gxdjlo And share this with people you think might like our wiggly, ink-illustrated, pacifist bullet-hell!

new blog post: The future of public game arts festivals and non-commercial games culture, with notes on @free-play.bsky.social / indie games events around the world www.blog.radiator.debacle.us/2026/02/the-...

Big Wank

👾 ANNOUNCING 868-BACK! Dismantle capitalism one server at a time in this computer-hacking strategy roguelike game by Michael Brough! Play the free demo in Steam Next Fest on Feb. 23rd! Wishlist on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3304110/...

Thousands of people come out again and again to show they’re on the right side of history.

How good is this!

“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?” There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.

Absolute shame on all the class traitor labour parties of this country, federal and state, that have chosen to side with violent cops and a genocidal state over their own people. Extreme moral cowardice and an absolute waste of the best majority they’ll have in a long long time.

In anticipation of Key Fairy's release (on the 19th of February) I have caught a cold. To support me in this difficult time, consider wishlisting Key Fairy on Steam, and telling all your weird little friends to do the same. Every wishlist is one step closer to health, or something, I don't know

I've been at DiGRA Australia at the University of the Sunshine Coast this week and it's been really wonderful. Just such a friendly research community and absolutely killer world-leading research projects.

"interaction with police" what are we doing here?

Chris Minns get a shout out from his idol

Shared with us from Sydney happening now. He had his hands up.

The brutality of these pigs in sydney as they bashed, pepper sprayed and assaulted people simply voicing their opposition to genocide is truly disgusting.

Been in a conference all day but: free Palestine, ACAB, and leaders of genocidal states have no business being welcomed into our country.

Let Labor know this visit is unacceptable

Hi folks! We're planning to release a demo very soon and looking for anyone interested in playing or streaming it! It’s a cozy exploration game with planting-based puzzles, set in a swamp overgrown with mushrooms. Please share if you know someone. 😅 #IndieGame store.steampowered.com/app/3243350

Really incredible, critical study of Australia's public funding ecology for game production by Zainab Darbas in MIA: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Great, level-headed summary.

From the start of the year to last Friday, the Vice Chancellor of my university was paid the equivalent of an entire annual salary for a full-time Associate Lecturer. (maths based on full pay + super before tax, based on VC's reported 2024 income from the 2025 financial statement).

My politics

So many Epstein posts are like “This one proves Epstein is the reason we’re not getting Titanfall 3” and then an email screenshot that looks like this twosleevers.com/wp-content/u...

It absolutely does stand the test of time fyi

Epstein is the most garish and harrowing manifestation of this but oligarchy makes life miserable in a thousand other ways. A core point of democracy is that no one should have so much power that they can make themselves everybody's problem. We should have a political party that believes that

The wealthy have class solidarity and we'll only beat them when we have it too

i refuse to understand what you are all talking about

Everyone when videogames show up in world news in a random and silly way

@free-play.bsky.social Hey what's the deal with your website? The entire website seems unaccessible except the 2026 survey?