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
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Brendan Keogh
@brkeogh.bsky.social
· Sep 4
BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT! @mahliann.bsky.social, @marcuscarter.com, and myself have combined our collective brains and written a wide-reaching introduction to the complex and interdisciplinary field of Game Studies in this forthcoming book for Polity. www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
Absolute shame on all the class traitor labour parties of this country, federal and state, that have chosen to side with violent cops and a genocidal state over their own people. Extreme moral cowardice and an absolute waste of the best majority they’ll have in a long long time.
February 10, 2026 at 1:43 PM
Absolute shame on all the class traitor labour parties of this country, federal and state, that have chosen to side with violent cops and a genocidal state over their own people. Extreme moral cowardice and an absolute waste of the best majority they’ll have in a long long time.
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In anticipation of Key Fairy's release (on the 19th of February) I have caught a cold.
To support me in this difficult time, consider wishlisting Key Fairy on Steam, and telling all your weird little friends to do the same.
Every wishlist is one step closer to health, or something, I don't know
To support me in this difficult time, consider wishlisting Key Fairy on Steam, and telling all your weird little friends to do the same.
Every wishlist is one step closer to health, or something, I don't know
February 10, 2026 at 1:01 AM
In anticipation of Key Fairy's release (on the 19th of February) I have caught a cold.
To support me in this difficult time, consider wishlisting Key Fairy on Steam, and telling all your weird little friends to do the same.
Every wishlist is one step closer to health, or something, I don't know
To support me in this difficult time, consider wishlisting Key Fairy on Steam, and telling all your weird little friends to do the same.
Every wishlist is one step closer to health, or something, I don't know
I've been at DiGRA Australia at the University of the Sunshine Coast this week and it's been really wonderful. Just such a friendly research community and absolutely killer world-leading research projects.
February 10, 2026 at 12:55 PM
I've been at DiGRA Australia at the University of the Sunshine Coast this week and it's been really wonderful. Just such a friendly research community and absolutely killer world-leading research projects.
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"interaction with police" what are we doing here?
February 10, 2026 at 10:07 AM
"interaction with police" what are we doing here?
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Chris Minns get a shout out from his idol
February 9, 2026 at 10:27 PM
Chris Minns get a shout out from his idol
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Shared with us from Sydney happening now. He had his hands up.
February 9, 2026 at 9:00 AM
Shared with us from Sydney happening now. He had his hands up.
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The brutality of these pigs in sydney as they bashed, pepper sprayed and assaulted people simply voicing their opposition to genocide is truly disgusting.
February 9, 2026 at 12:12 PM
The brutality of these pigs in sydney as they bashed, pepper sprayed and assaulted people simply voicing their opposition to genocide is truly disgusting.
Been in a conference all day but: free Palestine, ACAB, and leaders of genocidal states have no business being welcomed into our country.
February 9, 2026 at 12:50 PM
Been in a conference all day but: free Palestine, ACAB, and leaders of genocidal states have no business being welcomed into our country.
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Let Labor know this visit is unacceptable
February 5, 2026 at 1:26 AM
Let Labor know this visit is unacceptable
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Hi folks! We're planning to release a demo very soon and looking for anyone interested in playing or streaming it!
It’s a cozy exploration game with planting-based puzzles, set in a swamp overgrown with mushrooms.
Please share if you know someone. 😅
#IndieGame
store.steampowered.com/app/3243350
It’s a cozy exploration game with planting-based puzzles, set in a swamp overgrown with mushrooms.
Please share if you know someone. 😅
#IndieGame
store.steampowered.com/app/3243350
Slumbering Woods on Steam
Slumbering Woods is a hand-drawn adventure where you rebuild a forgotten village, grow floating mushroom islands, cultivate mushrooms, and uncover hidden lore in a vibrant, living world.
store.steampowered.com
February 4, 2026 at 9:49 AM
Hi folks! We're planning to release a demo very soon and looking for anyone interested in playing or streaming it!
It’s a cozy exploration game with planting-based puzzles, set in a swamp overgrown with mushrooms.
Please share if you know someone. 😅
#IndieGame
store.steampowered.com/app/3243350
It’s a cozy exploration game with planting-based puzzles, set in a swamp overgrown with mushrooms.
Please share if you know someone. 😅
#IndieGame
store.steampowered.com/app/3243350
Really incredible, critical study of Australia's public funding ecology for game production by Zainab Darbas in MIA: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Commercialisation, community, and culture: A production perspective on public arts funding for video games in Australia - Zainab Darbas, 2025
Australia has a small but robust ecosystem of video game development, which has been supported by a patchwork arrangement of public arts funding since the early...
journals.sagepub.com
February 4, 2026 at 12:37 AM
Really incredible, critical study of Australia's public funding ecology for game production by Zainab Darbas in MIA: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Great, level-headed summary.
The Epstein files reveal what powerful people see in video games: profit, coercion, and control
aftermath.site/jeffrey-epstei...
aftermath.site/jeffrey-epstei...
February 3, 2026 at 9:47 PM
Great, level-headed summary.
From the start of the year to last Friday, the Vice Chancellor of my university was paid the equivalent of an entire annual salary for a full-time Associate Lecturer.
(maths based on full pay + super before tax, based on VC's reported 2024 income from the 2025 financial statement).
(maths based on full pay + super before tax, based on VC's reported 2024 income from the 2025 financial statement).
February 2, 2026 at 5:12 AM
From the start of the year to last Friday, the Vice Chancellor of my university was paid the equivalent of an entire annual salary for a full-time Associate Lecturer.
(maths based on full pay + super before tax, based on VC's reported 2024 income from the 2025 financial statement).
(maths based on full pay + super before tax, based on VC's reported 2024 income from the 2025 financial statement).
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So many Epstein posts are like “This one proves Epstein is the reason we’re not getting Titanfall 3” and then an email screenshot that looks like this twosleevers.com/wp-content/u...
February 1, 2026 at 2:15 AM
So many Epstein posts are like “This one proves Epstein is the reason we’re not getting Titanfall 3” and then an email screenshot that looks like this twosleevers.com/wp-content/u...
It absolutely does stand the test of time fyi
"Go back and play Morrowind and tell me that’s the game you want to play again," said Bruce Nesmith, who worked for Bethesda for over 17 years, adding that playing The Elder Scrolls 3 "would not stand the test of time." https://bit.ly/4q4GoKh
February 1, 2026 at 12:43 AM
It absolutely does stand the test of time fyi
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Epstein is the most garish and harrowing manifestation of this but oligarchy makes life miserable in a thousand other ways. A core point of democracy is that no one should have so much power that they can make themselves everybody's problem. We should have a political party that believes that
The Epstein emails should really end the debate over whether society should have billionaires. "Do you want there to be a class of people so powerful they can fuck your kids and no one will even try to do anything" seems like an easy sell if everyone in politics wasn't trying to get on their payroll
January 31, 2026 at 9:55 PM
Epstein is the most garish and harrowing manifestation of this but oligarchy makes life miserable in a thousand other ways. A core point of democracy is that no one should have so much power that they can make themselves everybody's problem. We should have a political party that believes that
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The wealthy have class solidarity and we'll only beat them when we have it too
every epstein file drop underscores how elite power operates through shared socio-economic networks, regardless of people's ideological differences, populist posturing, or public feuds
January 31, 2026 at 12:19 AM
The wealthy have class solidarity and we'll only beat them when we have it too
i refuse to understand what you are all talking about
January 31, 2026 at 5:23 AM
i refuse to understand what you are all talking about
Everyone when videogames show up in world news in a random and silly way
January 31, 2026 at 12:31 AM
Everyone when videogames show up in world news in a random and silly way
@free-play.bsky.social Hey what's the deal with your website? The entire website seems unaccessible except the 2026 survey?
January 30, 2026 at 4:52 AM
@free-play.bsky.social Hey what's the deal with your website? The entire website seems unaccessible except the 2026 survey?
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SECOND HAND COMPUTER IS OUT!
SHC is a sort of vibes-based programmable #FantasyComputer designed to mimic my own experiences getting a second-hand computer too crappy to run graphical games.
#IndieGames #IndieDev #GameDev
SHC is a sort of vibes-based programmable #FantasyComputer designed to mimic my own experiences getting a second-hand computer too crappy to run graphical games.
#IndieGames #IndieDev #GameDev
Second Hand Computer is out!
There comes a time in every project's life where you have to kick it out of home. You know you're going to be supporting it and helping it out for some time to come, but it's time for it to leave so y...
funtimeelectrics.itch.io
January 30, 2026 at 4:01 AM
SECOND HAND COMPUTER IS OUT!
SHC is a sort of vibes-based programmable #FantasyComputer designed to mimic my own experiences getting a second-hand computer too crappy to run graphical games.
#IndieGames #IndieDev #GameDev
SHC is a sort of vibes-based programmable #FantasyComputer designed to mimic my own experiences getting a second-hand computer too crappy to run graphical games.
#IndieGames #IndieDev #GameDev
I'm looking through old financial reports for a thing and it's been real interesting. Favourite thing so far is EA using the exact same paragraph about how they retain staff because they are such a great place to work for over a decade... even when they fired 1,300 people.
January 30, 2026 at 1:07 AM
I'm looking through old financial reports for a thing and it's been real interesting. Favourite thing so far is EA using the exact same paragraph about how they retain staff because they are such a great place to work for over a decade... even when they fired 1,300 people.
Another reason to embrace the metric system.
“One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss.”
“Which means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million a year on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike.” #CityMakingMath
Some costs aren’t costs.
“Which means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million a year on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike.” #CityMakingMath
Some costs aren’t costs.
One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss
Copenhagen, the bicycle-friendliest place on the planet, publishes a biannual Bicycle Account, and buried in its pages is a rather astonishing fact.
grist.org
January 28, 2026 at 7:49 AM
Another reason to embrace the metric system.