Matt
@kiwimatt.bsky.social
"Eat well, crap well, and sleep well. You can solve most of life's problems with those simple steps."
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Matt
@kiwimatt.bsky.social
· Sep 3
Yeah Nah Gaming
Where Kiwi gamers come for their fix of Aotearoa-focused news and reviews
yeahnahgaming.co.nz
Should I do a #promosky?
I'm Matt. Dad, husband, writer at yeahnahgaming.co.nz, and collector of random hobbies and hyperfixations.
Some things I like:
Rhythm games, shmups, fighting games, RPGs
Japanese history
Trying to make things
LEGO
🏈 Ravens and ⚾ Orioles
Music of all sorts but mostly metal
I'm Matt. Dad, husband, writer at yeahnahgaming.co.nz, and collector of random hobbies and hyperfixations.
Some things I like:
Rhythm games, shmups, fighting games, RPGs
Japanese history
Trying to make things
LEGO
🏈 Ravens and ⚾ Orioles
Music of all sorts but mostly metal
Mushi Futari Black Label is starting to click into place, and hoo boy, I think this is quickly turning into my favorite shmup ever.
Scoring system in Original is simple but still very interesting and fun to engage with. Juicy juicy bullet cancels. Overpowered ships.
I love.
#shmup #stg
Scoring system in Original is simple but still very interesting and fun to engage with. Juicy juicy bullet cancels. Overpowered ships.
I love.
#shmup #stg
November 11, 2025 at 10:32 AM
CAVE slowdown
November 11, 2025 at 1:49 AM
CAVE slowdown
let's go, please tell me who 💛
November 11, 2025 at 1:48 AM
let's go, please tell me who 💛
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New best on #Mushihimesama Futari Black Label OG.
Stage 5, just before end boss.
I need to get better at scoring so I can get the extends earlier.
And learn the final boss fight, because right now it feels like resource spam is the only way to survive.
#shmup #stg
Stage 5, just before end boss.
I need to get better at scoring so I can get the extends earlier.
And learn the final boss fight, because right now it feels like resource spam is the only way to survive.
#shmup #stg
November 10, 2025 at 11:06 AM
New best on #Mushihimesama Futari Black Label OG.
Stage 5, just before end boss.
I need to get better at scoring so I can get the extends earlier.
And learn the final boss fight, because right now it feels like resource spam is the only way to survive.
#shmup #stg
Stage 5, just before end boss.
I need to get better at scoring so I can get the extends earlier.
And learn the final boss fight, because right now it feels like resource spam is the only way to survive.
#shmup #stg
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(Waiter accidentally brings me the wrong dish)
Friend: "Wait, isn't that chicken? I thought you were vegan?"
Me:
Friend: "Wait, isn't that chicken? I thought you were vegan?"
Me:
November 10, 2025 at 7:18 AM
(Waiter accidentally brings me the wrong dish)
Friend: "Wait, isn't that chicken? I thought you were vegan?"
Me:
Friend: "Wait, isn't that chicken? I thought you were vegan?"
Me:
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Dead Static Drive
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1166940/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1166940/
November 5, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Dead Static Drive
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1166940/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1166940/
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Remarkable how far you can get in politics by focusing on the issues instead of whatever the fuck everyone else is doing
November 5, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Remarkable how far you can get in politics by focusing on the issues instead of whatever the fuck everyone else is doing
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Chicago deep dish is a casserole.
If Zohran wins we Midwesterners must put our pride aside and admit Chicago deep dish is a casserole.
November 5, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Chicago deep dish is a casserole.
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HEY, you know what? You could literally be playing DEAD STATIC DRIVE right now. It is out. NOW.
store.steampowered.com/app/1166940/...
store.steampowered.com/app/1166940/...
Dead Static Drive on Steam
Dead Static Drive is Grand Theft Cthulhu. An indie survival-horror game following a nightmarish road trip across a 1980s Americana. Evade police. Equip yourself and those close to you, and follow your...
store.steampowered.com
November 5, 2025 at 1:08 AM
HEY, you know what? You could literally be playing DEAD STATIC DRIVE right now. It is out. NOW.
store.steampowered.com/app/1166940/...
store.steampowered.com/app/1166940/...
@leena.reuben.games My bad for not following news closely enough, but this was a very nice surprise!! Congrats on launch!!
November 5, 2025 at 12:26 AM
@leena.reuben.games My bad for not following news closely enough, but this was a very nice surprise!! Congrats on launch!!
Happy @powerwashsimulator.co.uk launch day to all who celebrate 🎉🚿
October 24, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Happy @powerwashsimulator.co.uk launch day to all who celebrate 🎉🚿
What is even the point of putting a game like Ninja Gaiden on cloud? Literally unplayable with even the slightest amount of latency.
October 23, 2025 at 1:15 AM
What is even the point of putting a game like Ninja Gaiden on cloud? Literally unplayable with even the slightest amount of latency.
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This is one of the toughest things I've ever had to write. Hope you can make time for it. #Itagaki
"I Told Him I Loved Him, Because I Do" - A Tribute To The Late Dead Or Alive Creator Tomonobu Itagaki.
"I Told Him I Loved Him, Because I Do" - A Tribute To The Late Dead Or Alive Creator Tomonobu Itagaki
James Mielke reflect on the Team Ninja creator who treated him as a brother
www.timeextension.com
October 22, 2025 at 3:08 PM
This is one of the toughest things I've ever had to write. Hope you can make time for it. #Itagaki
@xtotl.bsky.social 4yo loves Pūkeko Who-Keko? and decided to draw his own version of his favourite page 💙
(numbers in the top right are unrelated)
Thank you for writing such a wonderful, funny book!
(numbers in the top right are unrelated)
Thank you for writing such a wonderful, funny book!
October 18, 2025 at 3:07 AM
@xtotl.bsky.social 4yo loves Pūkeko Who-Keko? and decided to draw his own version of his favourite page 💙
(numbers in the top right are unrelated)
Thank you for writing such a wonderful, funny book!
(numbers in the top right are unrelated)
Thank you for writing such a wonderful, funny book!
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There is no better dressed MP in Parliament than Dr Lawrence Xu-Nan and he NEVER wears a tie.✌️👍🥰
#OneTermGovernment
#nzpol
#OneTermGovernment
#nzpol
October 15, 2025 at 7:38 AM
There is no better dressed MP in Parliament than Dr Lawrence Xu-Nan and he NEVER wears a tie.✌️👍🥰
#OneTermGovernment
#nzpol
#OneTermGovernment
#nzpol
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support @videogameschronicle.com @gematsu.com @rpgsite.net @trueachievements.com @vooks.net et al (there are many, many more, I know) for the love of christ
October 15, 2025 at 10:28 AM
support @videogameschronicle.com @gematsu.com @rpgsite.net @trueachievements.com @vooks.net et al (there are many, many more, I know) for the love of christ
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Videogamer's new logo a screaming exclamation mark on the 'support independent games media' argument. Legitimately thought this was someone taking the piss when it was first posted in a discord, but no, it's on the site. You have to laugh (or else you'll cry)
October 15, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Videogamer's new logo a screaming exclamation mark on the 'support independent games media' argument. Legitimately thought this was someone taking the piss when it was first posted in a discord, but no, it's on the site. You have to laugh (or else you'll cry)
OK but what if I don't want to share a road with "self-driving vehicles"?
October 15, 2025 at 10:27 AM
OK but what if I don't want to share a road with "self-driving vehicles"?
Got in car with Mr 4. The not-kid-friendly music I'd been listening to earlier came on. I hurriedly turned it off.
"I want that song."
"You sure? Bit screamy."
"Yes."
5 min later:
"I want that song again."
This is how my 4yo child got his first taste of blackgaze.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh4R...
"I want that song."
"You sure? Bit screamy."
"Yes."
5 min later:
"I want that song again."
This is how my 4yo child got his first taste of blackgaze.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh4R...
Asunojokei - Diva Under the Blue Sky
YouTube video by dogknightsofficial
www.youtube.com
October 12, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Got in car with Mr 4. The not-kid-friendly music I'd been listening to earlier came on. I hurriedly turned it off.
"I want that song."
"You sure? Bit screamy."
"Yes."
5 min later:
"I want that song again."
This is how my 4yo child got his first taste of blackgaze.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh4R...
"I want that song."
"You sure? Bit screamy."
"Yes."
5 min later:
"I want that song again."
This is how my 4yo child got his first taste of blackgaze.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh4R...
People get super weird about the idea of a PlayStation with no disc drive, but like.
Switch doesn't have a disc drive and it's one of the best-selling consoles of all time???
Switch doesn't have a disc drive and it's one of the best-selling consoles of all time???
October 9, 2025 at 9:49 PM
People get super weird about the idea of a PlayStation with no disc drive, but like.
Switch doesn't have a disc drive and it's one of the best-selling consoles of all time???
Switch doesn't have a disc drive and it's one of the best-selling consoles of all time???
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It’s kind of crazy that Nazis and the KKK have recently become controversial bad guys because a bunch of bitter online dorks assumed it was about them
Ubisoft canceled an ‘ASSASSINS CREED’ game set in the post-Civil War era
• Featured a Black Assassin who was formerly a slave
• Players would fight the emerging KKK
• Leadership canceled it after concerns with U.S. political climate & Yasuke backlash
(Source: www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...)
• Featured a Black Assassin who was formerly a slave
• Players would fight the emerging KKK
• Leadership canceled it after concerns with U.S. political climate & Yasuke backlash
(Source: www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...)
October 9, 2025 at 3:55 PM
It’s kind of crazy that Nazis and the KKK have recently become controversial bad guys because a bunch of bitter online dorks assumed it was about them
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As well as this, I feel quite strongly that the increased prominence in recent years of social media influencers who engage in nothing but ragebait content and harassment has proverbially sucked all the air out of the room, content mills producing bullshit at speed who dominate gaming conversations.
“Why isn’t anyone covering our indie games?”
1. The gaming press has been decimated by business suits, and the whims of an uncaring search engine behemoth
2. Doing the job means you get death threats and harassment
3. There are more games released in 1 week than there were in entire months in 2015
1. The gaming press has been decimated by business suits, and the whims of an uncaring search engine behemoth
2. Doing the job means you get death threats and harassment
3. There are more games released in 1 week than there were in entire months in 2015
October 9, 2025 at 2:56 PM
As well as this, I feel quite strongly that the increased prominence in recent years of social media influencers who engage in nothing but ragebait content and harassment has proverbially sucked all the air out of the room, content mills producing bullshit at speed who dominate gaming conversations.
Damn, they should have just gone ahead with it.
Anyone who gets mad about KKK being correctly portrayed as villains deserves to be miserable.
Anyone who gets mad about KKK being correctly portrayed as villains deserves to be miserable.
SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan
Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke
www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...
Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke
www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...
Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year
Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File
www.gamefile.news
October 9, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Damn, they should have just gone ahead with it.
Anyone who gets mad about KKK being correctly portrayed as villains deserves to be miserable.
Anyone who gets mad about KKK being correctly portrayed as villains deserves to be miserable.