David Smith
@rhunwords.com
Prev: Kotaku Australia, ABC Gamer. https://linktr.ee/rhunwords
A very happy Big Walk day to all who observe. A big hold-your-breath moment for House House, I’m sure.
I’ve worked with Fellow Traveller a bit over the last two years from a few different directions and I am a big fan of how they work and what they prioritise. This is a dream job for at bunch of different folks, I’d say.
Fellow Traveller@fellowtraveller.games · 3d agoWe’re hiring - come join the Fellow Traveller marketing team as a Product Manager! This is a senior role leading the marketing for some very cool games. More info and how to apply here bit.ly/FTPMJob
if I ever taught film criticism lesson one would be “you being smarter than the movie is not interesting to anyone”
The overwhelming majority of reader emails I got on KotAU looked like this, or were threats to come to the office and bash me because of woke. (Thank you to the non-deranged few who would say nice things)
Rebekah Valentine@duckvalentine.bsky.social · 3d agodo not do this
These are the words of someone who has felt the searing rage that comes with losing at Catan
Pavel@spavel.bsky.social · 3d agoThis may sound radical but "games are shit" is actually the median opinion of every Gamer.
Hey if you talk enough sauce about ModRetro and Palmer Luckey you can catch a block from Duke Nukem person George Broussard
airbnb I’m staying at unintentionally created the toughest punk album cover of 2027
When you gotta promo Cody’s Street Fighter movie but there’s just no way to make that haircut look cool IRL
When you gotta promo Cody’s move but there’s just no way to make that haircut look cool IRL
Update: Forgot what a painful slog all the Flood levels were jfc.
David Smith@rhunwords.com · 2w agoI played a few hours of Halo: Campaign Evolved. Still no good reason for it to exist imo. It feels so averse to change that I could have played the MCC version and had just as good a time. Half hearted shrug of a remake.
Ah, we've reached the "We're all trying to find out who did this" phase of the AI backlash techcrunch.com/2026/07/30/l...
LinkedIn adds a button to report AI-generated 'slop' | TechCrunch
LinkedIn is introducing new ways to reduce low-quality AI-generated posts, including a “seems like AI slop” reporting option. It's also replacing its own AI writing feature with a proofreading tool.
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Listen to fired Rockstar worker Will Masilane detail how losing his job meant losing the life he had built in Edinburgh, with his girlfriend and his beloved dogs Abby and Lonnie The four of them had made the move to the Scottish capital from Australia two and half years prior.
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Sydney Games Festival@sydneygamesfest.bsky.social · last wk.ANNOUNCING Sydney Games Festival! We are community-run game festival, organised by Sydney's various game-making groups. A jam-packed week of events organised a crossed Sydney by local game dev communities in industry, digital and tabletop games. When? 13 Oct - 18 Oct 2026 sydneygamesfestival.org
LinkedIn filling up with 'Claude just one-shotted this video game' or something and the "game" they show is 24 seconds long and looks like absolute horseshit, fantastic stuff
Blew a bit of my tax return on a Sonos Arc Ultra and let me tell you: sounds good
Apart from DOOM, any computer game before 1995 is basically long-forgotten arcane knowledge. I remember when they made a book with 1001 games you must play and it didn't have a single King's Quest but listed all the GTAs & Mario Karts.
headfallsoff@headfallsoff.com · last wk.i think one of the biggest underlinings in just how bad the western industry has been about its own legacy is like. myst isnt just an old game. it was final fantasy vii before final fantasy vii. it was that fucking huge.
To get casual fans caught up, the new Avengers movie should start with all the characters doing a rap where they say who they are and what their deal is
the temu app will be studied for generations. i opened the app. here’s my unedited, nearly two-minute launch sequence. i was just searching for a bookshelf
i fear that history has been rewritten so that the death of SimCity was as simple as “Cities: Skylines came out and was better and that was that.” let me tell you it was a lot more stupid than that
I love this. I hate this. I think developers should do this just to show how fucking cowardly games funding has gotten.
Cyan Worlds@cyan.com · last wk.Over a year ago, we built a prototype for a new Myst Universe game meant for publisher eyes only. This project is NOT in active development, but we're proud of the work the team did, and wanted to share it with you all. Presenting: Project Anglerfish. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvNGt02yZNc
I played a few hours of Halo: Campaign Evolved. Still no good reason for it to exist imo. It feels so averse to change that I could have played the MCC version and had just as good a time. Half hearted shrug of a remake.