Brendan Keogh
@brkeogh.bsky.social
Associate Professor: videogames, creative labour, cultural industries. Gamemaker and critic.
The Videogame Industry Does Not Exist (MIT Press): http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262545402/
Brisbane, Australia | he/him
The Videogame Industry Does Not Exist (MIT Press): http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262545402/
Brisbane, Australia | he/him
The webpage for our upcoming book has the cover on it now which is enough of a milestone for me to write another post about the book we have coming out soon. www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
November 11, 2025 at 5:05 AM
The webpage for our upcoming book has the cover on it now which is enough of a milestone for me to write another post about the book we have coming out soon. www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
regular content updates for years because that is what the gamers who bought it for $5 in a sale deserve.
November 11, 2025 at 12:23 AM
regular content updates for years because that is what the gamers who bought it for $5 in a sale deserve.
Every live service game is a single lottery ticket, sold to investors, that costs tens or hundreds of millions of dollars and many years of labour to print
Halo Infinite will receive no further major content updates past Nov 2025, with work shifting to "multiple Halo titles in development."
Originally lauded as a title that would last 10 years, the studio formerly known as 343 Industries has seen significant upheaval since Infinite's release in 2021.
Originally lauded as a title that would last 10 years, the studio formerly known as 343 Industries has seen significant upheaval since Infinite's release in 2021.
'Halo Infinite' Comes to Finite End in November 2025
Halo Studios will release one final planned major content update and then shift its workforce to "multiple Halo titles in development."
thisweekinvideogames.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Every live service game is a single lottery ticket, sold to investors, that costs tens or hundreds of millions of dollars and many years of labour to print
This is by Melbourne studio Torus Games that only shuttered last year.
When you go into a film-licence Game Boy title expecting not much more than the usual action-platformer fare, and it instead slaps you about the face with a first-person adventure game with light RPG elements.
"Hah, take that! I'm cut from a different cloth!"
📺: DragonHeart, Torus Games, 1996
"Hah, take that! I'm cut from a different cloth!"
📺: DragonHeart, Torus Games, 1996
November 8, 2025 at 1:00 AM
This is by Melbourne studio Torus Games that only shuttered last year.
Started Babushka's Glitch Dungeon last night and it's delightful. Great thread of 2025 games I'd never heard of.
There's a round of GOTY discussion going around, and I realized that a lot of my favourite games this year have been absolute Sicko Picks.
So here's a few games I've loved so far in 2025, starting with a mild one: Babushka's Glitch Dungeon. A scrunkly lil' puzzle-metroidvania with so many fun verbs
So here's a few games I've loved so far in 2025, starting with a mild one: Babushka's Glitch Dungeon. A scrunkly lil' puzzle-metroidvania with so many fun verbs
Save 50% on Babushka's Glitch Dungeon on Steam
Oh hello dearie.. Babushka needs to clean up her big magical cellar. Use hag magic, or just hit stuff with your broom.
store.steampowered.com
November 8, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Started Babushka's Glitch Dungeon last night and it's delightful. Great thread of 2025 games I'd never heard of.
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"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 7, 2025 at 1:33 AM
"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk
Real excited about this new book from Maria O'Brien looking at "Tax Credits for Cultural Production in Europe". A really important area for critical games/media production research that hasn't received much dedicated attention. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Tax Credits for Cultural Production in Europe
This book offers a fresh perspective on the relationship between the state and the audiovisual industries, particularly in Ireland.
link.springer.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Real excited about this new book from Maria O'Brien looking at "Tax Credits for Cultural Production in Europe". A really important area for critical games/media production research that hasn't received much dedicated attention. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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sorry guys i accidentally deleted the spreadsheet with the first drafts of homophobic potato chip brands and it turns out it was somehow load bearing to the entire driving system and the only guy who knows how to fix it got fired in the union busting so
BREAKING: Rockstar has delayed Grand Theft Auto VI again, pushing the highly anticipated game from May to November 19, 2026. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
‘Grand Theft Auto VI’ Is Postponed Again — to November 2026
The release date for the game had previously slipped to May 2026 from fall 2025
www.bloomberg.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:55 PM
sorry guys i accidentally deleted the spreadsheet with the first drafts of homophobic potato chip brands and it turns out it was somehow load bearing to the entire driving system and the only guy who knows how to fix it got fired in the union busting so
I wonder how much each of these delays is really just because GTA Online is still making too much money
Grand Theft Auto VI delayed to Nov 19, 2026 www.rockstargames.com/newswire/art...
November 6, 2025 at 10:40 PM
I wonder how much each of these delays is really just because GTA Online is still making too much money
Bad take. Nothing should be banned by the social media ban because it shouldn’t exist.
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
Roblox shocks: online gaming platform should be snared by Australia’s social media ban for under-16s, experts and MPs say
Pressure mounts on Labor after Guardian Australia report documenting reporter’s week of virtual sexual harassment and violence while posing as a child avatar
www.theguardian.com
November 6, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Bad take. Nothing should be banned by the social media ban because it shouldn’t exist.
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
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The Scottish Greens stand with the dozens of workers sacked by @rockstargames.com for exercising their right to organise with @gameworkers.co.uk @iwgbunion.bsky.social
Reinstate them now, then get around the table & give your staff the pay & conditions they deserve for making you billions.
Reinstate them now, then get around the table & give your staff the pay & conditions they deserve for making you billions.
November 6, 2025 at 2:06 PM
The Scottish Greens stand with the dozens of workers sacked by @rockstargames.com for exercising their right to organise with @gameworkers.co.uk @iwgbunion.bsky.social
Reinstate them now, then get around the table & give your staff the pay & conditions they deserve for making you billions.
Reinstate them now, then get around the table & give your staff the pay & conditions they deserve for making you billions.
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We won't back down - we will fight @rockstargames.com & @taketwointeractive.bsky.social for our members' reinstatement.
No one should be fired for union activity.
You can support our campaign here: actionnetwork.org/fundraising/...
No one should be fired for union activity.
You can support our campaign here: actionnetwork.org/fundraising/...
November 6, 2025 at 11:53 AM
We won't back down - we will fight @rockstargames.com & @taketwointeractive.bsky.social for our members' reinstatement.
No one should be fired for union activity.
You can support our campaign here: actionnetwork.org/fundraising/...
No one should be fired for union activity.
You can support our campaign here: actionnetwork.org/fundraising/...
IWGB Game Workers is running a fundraiser to supper the workers unfairly laid off by Rockstar for trying to unionise: actionnetwork.org/fundraising/...
Support Rockstar Workers Fighting Unfair Dismissals!
Last week over 30 members of staff at Grand Theft Auto VI developer Rockstar were fired en masse in a “calculated attack on workers”. The IWGB described Rockstar’s actions as ‘the most blatant and rut...
actionnetwork.org
November 5, 2025 at 10:42 PM
IWGB Game Workers is running a fundraiser to supper the workers unfairly laid off by Rockstar for trying to unionise: actionnetwork.org/fundraising/...
ABC what are you doing
November 5, 2025 at 10:02 AM
ABC what are you doing
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AVERAGE BLUESKY USER: I just got kicked in the head by a horse. I think I’ll go check the Discover Feed and reply to strangers’ posts there
October 20, 2025 at 4:06 AM
AVERAGE BLUESKY USER: I just got kicked in the head by a horse. I think I’ll go check the Discover Feed and reply to strangers’ posts there
A vile comment about a horrible ghoul of a war criminal who is finally rotting in hell? Say it ain’t so
UChicago professor posts vile social media comment on Dick Cheney hours after his death
UChicago professor posts vile social media comment on Dick Cheney hours after his death
A University of Chicago professor who was recently arrested for aggravated assault at an anti-ICE rally unloaded on former Vice President Dick Cheney upon the news of his death.
www.fox32chicago.com
November 4, 2025 at 8:57 PM
A vile comment about a horrible ghoul of a war criminal who is finally rotting in hell? Say it ain’t so
Oh so New York actually does have an election eventually? They sure they don’t just want to talk about it for another year first?
November 4, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Oh so New York actually does have an election eventually? They sure they don’t just want to talk about it for another year first?
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Spoke to @australia.theguardian.com about what DEWR's job numbers continue to quietly reveal: that the main purpose of employment services is to outsource billions of dollars to punish people, rather than help them into meaningful opportunities
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
November 3, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Spoke to @australia.theguardian.com about what DEWR's job numbers continue to quietly reveal: that the main purpose of employment services is to outsource billions of dollars to punish people, rather than help them into meaningful opportunities
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
I’m going to be sick
November 4, 2025 at 11:27 AM
I’m going to be sick
lol. lmao.
November 4, 2025 at 3:42 AM
lol. lmao.
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‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...
‘Opposing the inevitability of AI at universities is possible and necessary’ | Radboud University
Since the widespread release of ChatGPT in December of 2022, AI has taken over much of the world by storm – including academia. Most of this happened with very little pushback, despite a myriad of iss...
www.ru.nl
November 1, 2025 at 10:26 PM
‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...
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fish eyes II, print ad (1999) www.mobygames.com/game/54589/r...
November 3, 2025 at 8:05 AM
fish eyes II, print ad (1999) www.mobygames.com/game/54589/r...
Microsoft if I needed your help I would ask for it
November 3, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Microsoft if I needed your help I would ask for it
IWGB statement on Rockstar firing a bunch of staff for trying to unionise iwgb.org.uk/en/post/staf...
Staff at Grand Theft Auto VI developer Rockstar fired en masse in “calculated attack on workers”
Over 30 members of UK staff at Rockstar Games, developers of the Grand Theft Auto series, were fired on Thursday 30th October due to trade union activity.
iwgb.org.uk
November 2, 2025 at 1:08 AM
IWGB statement on Rockstar firing a bunch of staff for trying to unionise iwgb.org.uk/en/post/staf...