Goldie

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Looking for game recommendations: Mum loves Plants vs Zombies and Botanicula, and mahjong. She wasn’t crazy about A Little to the Left. Any recs for a *very* user friendly game she can play which ticks the puzzle, clever, easy to learn box? **Mouse controls only!** Thank :3

I've been pulling at threads on Palantir's push into Australia for ages. Some of what I found is a previously undeclared new contract with Corrections Victoria for $9m and no evidence that Palantir has been assessed against the federal supplier code of conduct. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Calls grow to ban Palantir in Australia after manifesto described by UK MP as ‘ramblings of a supervillain’

Spy tech firm says it’s just ‘a software company’ amid pressure for a ban on new contracts with government agencies

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📣 Screen Australia announces $1.4 million of funding across 26 games projects in the latest round of games funding. The 8 gamemakers travelling to BitSummit 2026 as part of the Future Leaders Delegation have also been announced. A massive congrats to all 🥳 www.screenaustralia.gov.au/sa/media-cen...

Screen Australia empowers the next games generation, including new creatives from neighbouring disciplines - Media centre - Screen Australia

Screen Australia announces the latest funding to help level-up Australian gamemakers, including a cohort of newcomers from non-games fields.

screenaustralia.gov.au

DLSS 5 has sent shockwaves through the games industry, so I asked several artists and developers what concerns them most about the technology. Unsurprisingly, their ire is about far more than ‘AI slop’. www.gadgetguy.com.au/nvidia-dlss-...

"Disgust" over Nvidia's DLSS 5 has the games industry on edge

Nvidia's controversial DLSS 5 technology drew the ire of the games industry, but the reasons run deeper than 'AI slop' imagery.

gadgetguy.com.au

I want to introduce you all to something myself and @jacksonwryan.com have been working on. A PRINT MAGAZINE about video games and video game culture. We know things have been bad for games writing recently. We're asking, "do you want to Continue?" www.kickstarter.com/projects/con...

CONTINUE: A Defiant, New Videogames Magazine

Bringing together journalists, devs and artists, CONTINUE celebrates and interrogates videogame culture, creativity and community

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