You know what they say. Tomodatchi Life, Tomodatchi Wife

Literally

This story is adapted from an interview @musophrenic.bsky.social and I did quite a while ago now for ABC Classic’s Game Show and I’ve put the full interview into the piece.

Team behind cult 2012 video game reunites on Grammy winner Art director Matt Nava and composer Austin Wintory reveal how their cult 2012 video game Journey shaped their latest offering, the Grammy Award-winning Sword of the Sea.

🗡️🌊 @mattnava.bsky.social and @awintory.bsky.social have a long career of collaboration, their two creative disciplines intertwined. I remember distinctly how exciting it was when Journey was nominated for a Grammy, and now Sword of the Sea is the latest winner.

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I’m on ABC Radio chatting about the new Bluey game right now and the shape of the Australian games scene www.abc.net.au/listen/live/...

Petrol stations tried to 'shape' the market – now it's shaping them Petrol stations in our biggest cities hiked prices ahead of global oil prices, but experts say their profit margins are now much slimmer.

In the early days of the Middle East war, petrol stations hiked prices faster than the rise of global oil prices, in what several leading experts say was an attempt to maintain their profit margins.

But since then, there has been a complete turnaround.

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A hand holding the glass statuette for Best Technology Reviewer.

A photo taken by a mini camera of the SIFTER team

A certificate with Chris Button’s name edited to be ‘Chris Mutton’

A photo of Chris and Claire holding their awards

After 10 years of writing about video games and technology, I won my first industry award: Best Technology Reviewer.

Feels pretty good!

Stunned. Grateful. Didn’t expect ABC Gamer pick up a Lizzie but utterly thrilled that we did. It’s almost like it should still be here! Please, with everything you’ve got, support the small teams still churning out great Australian games journalism every single day.

@rhunwords.com congrats fella you deserve it so thrilled 👏

If you’re a small games outlet that’s still grinding SEO, pack it in. Change your strategy. The days of taking the easy road, flipping press releases and fighting for top spots on Google News, are over.

"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.

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-...

@gumpyfunction.bsky.social is the developer behind the viral Grimace’s Birthday from a few years ago, I was thrilled to learn he lived in Melbourne. Orlando Mee is on the Yorke Peninsula in South Australia making a tactical game incorporating his Anglo-Indian heritage.

New games for an old console: Meet the new generation of Game Boy developers A small community of game developers is releasing new games for Nintendo's decades-old video game console, harnessing the nostalgia of these classic devices.

The Game Boy came out in 1989, The Game Boy Color in 1998 and in 2026 meet the Australian developers Tom Lockwood and Orlando Mee making new games for the decades old console, wrapping nostalgia and their culture into the work.

New story from me www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

When you finally start the magazine you were going on about making about at Parallels you should call it bing bong.

Huge miss not calling it bing bong what are you doing @serrels.bsky.social @jacksonwryan.com

I love that all of your recent games are just what could have been conceivably been bought at the Freo markets in the 90s. You should make a pack of cards, a digital pet and a battling spinning top physical pack

This one has a lot of twists and turns! There are bargain licensing deals where finished machines were the only price, a pinball moral panic and a lasting impact despite some regrets! I started about this time last year and it’s fun to see it here.

Iconic Australian-made pinball machines preserved for generations to come Five pinball machines, including the first licensed Star Wars unit, have been saved from the scrap heap and will eventually be made available for the public to play at a special exhibition.

During the late 1970s a Newcastle based company built a set uniquely Australian Pinball machines, Dennis Lillee 🏏 FJ Holden 🚘 and Shark 🦈 and the world’s first Star Wars pinball machine ever. These machines have been collected by the NFSA, new story by me www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

A classic of the genre

The secretive company filling video game sites with gambling and AI
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Had one of those and it was great. Hybrid well worth it

Congrats on the release Tezza

Yeah and it goes both ways, heaps of developers do not have a website or a contact email either. I’ve left games that I was keen to write about because finding a way to get in touch was too tricky!

Hell yeah mate

I read this as “hey the skills you have are transferable to other forms of journalism” not just games writing

Another ABC Classic collaboration with @musophrenic.bsky.social and you can hear our big interview together embedded in this one where I ask when Hollow Knight 3 is coming out!

Behind the music of hit Australian indie game Hollow Knight: Silksong The video game soundtrack will be performed live for the first time by Orchestra Victoria at ACMI in February.

The music of Hollow Knight Silksong is already iconic. Christopher Larkin was able to increase the number of real instrumentalists from the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra on the sequel. Another insight into the making of this blockbuster game www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

Good luck mate🤞

I was talking to someone today and wondered if it was back to back with Vivid if that would have made a difference? Another part of the year even

Small but important AWW update that adds two authors: Holly Gramazio and Olivia de Zilva.

Thanks everyone for sharing!