From the roses and circuits emerges Waypoint Constellations at the Sydney Opera House 🎫 www.sydneyoperahouse.com/experiences/... A close collaboration with @serenade.games to celebrate Sydney's games and creators. Oct 13th, supported by Screen NSW & TVGS Tickets available now, more info to come

MinnMax genuinely one of the most fun gaming outlets out there

MinnMax@minnmax.com · 3w ago

MinnMax hit 75,000 subs on YouTube. Help us hit 100K by sharing the channel with a friend! www.youtube.com/minnmax - Share this post - Subscribe to MinnMax on YouTube - 10 random winners get a Steam code of their choice

me: technically baseball is parryslop my dad: i’m gonna assume grandchildren aren’t in the picture near term then

New Article about E3 and other “Gamer Christmas” Events. Very proud to finally write about this topic so please give it a read! And give @cassiebara29.bsky.social some love for her invaluable co-author work

Cassandra (Cass) Barkman@cassiebara29.bsky.social · 2mo ago

New article out! (My second this week hah). Co-authored with @stantium.bsky.social, its called 'Publisher Presentations as Promotional Paratexts' and the accepted version is available here: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

if you worked on destiny in any capacity, i just want you to know you've made a meaningful impact on my life. thank you.

Great piece. As always cases writes fire!

Cassandra (Cass) Barkman@cassiebara29.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Something a little different from me today - I haven't been able to stop thinking about Esoteric Ebb after my review, and wanted to spend some time unpacking its politics and TTRPG tropes, and why it feels like an RPG of the moment. @chrisbodegard.bsky.social has made something pretty special here.

Apply for the postdoc position: www.cityu.edu.hk/hro/en/job/c...

Our current postdoc, @stantium.bsky.social, will be leaving us soon to take up an exciting new position. Like him, the new postdoc will pursue their own research interests in creative media policy and help us manage our leading, continually growing gaming and gambling regulation research group.

We’re recruiting a postdoc and up to 3 research assistants at the Creative Media Policy Observatory (www.cmpo.net), City University of Hong Kong. Apply for the RA position: www.cityu.edu.hk/hro/en/job/c... Apply for the postdoc position: www.cityu.edu.hk/hro/en/job/c...

Delighted to have my words - and the words of my colleagues - published in the ABC opinion section today. As a kid growing up I wanted to be a journalist, and while my career has taken a different turn, this feels like a small taster of that dream. www.abc.net.au/religion/met...

Seeing like Meta: Smart glasses and the ethics of augmented reality - ABC Religion & Ethics

Meta’s smart glasses are not just another consumer gadget; they are a step toward enclosing perception itself within a private platform — and when the interface is your glasses, there is no “outside”.

abc.net.au

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...

Loot boxes are still rife in kids’ mobile games, despite ban on ‘gambling-like’ features

Games with ‘loot boxes’ should be classified for over-15s – but a new study shows many of the most popular mobile games completely ignore the rules.

theconversation.com

🚨LIVE NOW FOR MY PATREON SUPPORERS 🚨 The State of Games Journalism in 2025 This is by no means an exhaustive look at what once was, what is, and what will be, but it's a start. I hope to do more pieces like this! www.patreon.com/posts/state-...

The State of Games Journalism in 2025 | Alyssa Mercante

Get more from Alyssa Mercante on Patreon

patreon.com

This is so important to preserve and share games media. Please submit and share Australian game stories!

ally@allyhennessy.bsky.social · last yr.

We're working on an art project for Freakon! We want you to share games journalism that means something to you. If you have a review, a cover, a video, a headline, a quote - anything that made an impact on you please submit it! Taking earnest and dumb submissions. seasonofdecay.cargo.site

We're working on an art project for Freakon! We want you to share games journalism that means something to you. If you have a review, a cover, a video, a headline, a quote - anything that made an impact on you please submit it! Taking earnest and dumb submissions. seasonofdecay.cargo.site

GamesJournalismProject

cargo.site

seasonofdecay.cargo.site

Drăculești is LIVE on Kickstarter Play as Renfield, survive the terror of Castle Dracula, and find love in the darkest night in this seductive romantic horror narrative game. Starring Ray Chase as Dracula. Voice/Casting direction by @jennyyokobori.bsky.social 🖤 www.kickstarter.com/projects/171...

The Kojima/Miller talk was fascinating for a few reasons but mostly because it gave me a proper understanding of why people love Kojima - he just seems very charismatic and I could listen to him talk fir twice as long.

We've compiled all the instances we can find of academics standing up for higher education and democracy, as well as attacks, at WeAreHigherEd.org. Please visit, and sign our letter and/or others (bit.ly/DemocracyAndHigherEd - 13k people have signed one or more statements).

We Are Higher Ed

wearehighered.org

Daniel Laurison@daniellaurison.bsky.social · last yr.

Academics (and others!) want to fight back against the attacks on higher education and democracy (and diversity and civil rights and trans people and immigrants and and and...). Our letter is at bit.ly/DemocracyAndHigherEd and is designed so that ANYONE can sign. There are other letters - thread

ALT GAMES DAY I’m running on 2 hours sleep, an $8.95 coffee and a love of those new fangled vidya games

❄️ A SPECIAL 1000xRESIST GIVEAWAY ❄️ An anonymous fan has bought 10 copies of 1000xRESIST to GIVEAWAY!! In their own words: "A random act of kindness that maybe, hopefully, finds the right person." 🥹 To enter: 1. Follow us 2. Repost this. 3. Comment "Hekki Holidays" Winners TBA on Dec 24, 2024.

Final issue of Multiplier for 2024 just went out. In it, I sat down with @hewso.bsky.social of @player2au.bsky.social to reflect on how Australia's game journalism scene has changed over the past decade. open.substack.com/pub/multipli...

What can the last decade of games journalism tell us about the next?

Is there any hope on the horizon?

open.substack.com

I could go on, but the bottom line is this: the article is right. It doesn’t matter who you are, we’ve all been affected by layoffs, traffic roller coasters and uncertainties. But we’re also pretty scrappy and stubborn so, here’s hoping, right?

I recognise the position of privilege I have, to be able to work in this gig full time. There are so many wildly talented people who have lost that opportunity this year alone, and I don’t take it for granted - David Smith, for instance, is one of the absolute best in the game.

The Australian video game journalism piece is important and covers a lot of necessary ground, but if I’m being candid, as one of the few very lucky people to still be employed and trying to keep it alive every day, often these articles make it feel like more of an uphill battle.

Is the government about to accidentally ban kids under 16 from games? I wrote a piece with @darthtayrah.bsky.social on why they shouldn't. theconversation.com/online-games... (they also shouldn't ban social media!)

Online games should not be included in Australia’s social media ban – they are critical for kids’ social lives

Australia is set to ban kids under 16 from social media. Depending on the definition, online games with social features could be in the firing line – which would be detrimental.

theconversation.com

as horrible as it is theres something darkly comic about the Department of Efficiency having 2 chairmen

Leah McElrath@leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 2y ago

Trump announces he’s appointing Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to a new “Department of Government Efficiency.” (Yes, this is real.)