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...
Once a year The Australian newspaper ranks Australian academics by their Google Scholar points, grouped into dubious ’fields’, and we all pretend it means something.
November 18, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Once a year The Australian newspaper ranks Australian academics by their Google Scholar points, grouped into dubious ’fields’, and we all pretend it means something.
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Our studio makes games for @xbox.com. We love play, we love all humans and we hate genocide.
@microsoft.com took some great first steps in Sept, but we implore Microsoft to stop supplying the Israeli Defence Forces with any and all technology used to commit genocide.
Background: bit.ly/4p5Bs7E
@microsoft.com took some great first steps in Sept, but we implore Microsoft to stop supplying the Israeli Defence Forces with any and all technology used to commit genocide.
Background: bit.ly/4p5Bs7E
Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its technology in mass surveillance of Palestinians
Exclusive: Tech firm ends military unit’s access to AI and data services after Guardian reveals secret spy project
bit.ly
November 15, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Our studio makes games for @xbox.com. We love play, we love all humans and we hate genocide.
@microsoft.com took some great first steps in Sept, but we implore Microsoft to stop supplying the Israeli Defence Forces with any and all technology used to commit genocide.
Background: bit.ly/4p5Bs7E
@microsoft.com took some great first steps in Sept, but we implore Microsoft to stop supplying the Israeli Defence Forces with any and all technology used to commit genocide.
Background: bit.ly/4p5Bs7E
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This afternoon, IWGB Game Workers joined together with unions from all over Europe, including @stjv.fr and @csvi-cgt.bsky.social to protest against Rockstar's union busting in Paris - on est là!
Protests continued today outside Take Two's offices in London, but also in Paris, where Le Syndicat des Travailleureuses du Jeu Vidéo (@stjv.fr) came out to show their international solidarity with the fired Rockstar workers.
November 14, 2025 at 6:56 PM
This afternoon, IWGB Game Workers joined together with unions from all over Europe, including @stjv.fr and @csvi-cgt.bsky.social to protest against Rockstar's union busting in Paris - on est là!
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Executive in charge of the GDC salary report: "when we report how much less women and POC make than their white-male counterparts, be sure to use the Fortnite font so people know that the Festival of Gaming™ is all about the Gamers *dabs*"
November 14, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Executive in charge of the GDC salary report: "when we report how much less women and POC make than their white-male counterparts, be sure to use the Fortnite font so people know that the Festival of Gaming™ is all about the Gamers *dabs*"
I did it in 1:58:48!!! With the item. One of the greatest feelings of accomplishment in a game ever.
But it didn’t register or give me the trophy 😢 😢 😢
But it didn’t register or give me the trophy 😢 😢 😢
Me all day thinking about my attempt last night to get the 'Most Punctual' achievement in Baby Steps where I finished the game in 2hrs 4min and then learned the trophy is under 2hrs and carrying a specific item.
November 14, 2025 at 11:31 AM
I did it in 1:58:48!!! With the item. One of the greatest feelings of accomplishment in a game ever.
But it didn’t register or give me the trophy 😢 😢 😢
But it didn’t register or give me the trophy 😢 😢 😢
This is possibly the most fucked thing I've ever seen but also the bit at the end where the grandmother is straight up being tricked into providing training content for the app feels particularly revealing.
November 14, 2025 at 5:39 AM
This is possibly the most fucked thing I've ever seen but also the bit at the end where the grandmother is straight up being tricked into providing training content for the app feels particularly revealing.
Me all day thinking about my attempt last night to get the 'Most Punctual' achievement in Baby Steps where I finished the game in 2hrs 4min and then learned the trophy is under 2hrs and carrying a specific item.
November 14, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Me all day thinking about my attempt last night to get the 'Most Punctual' achievement in Baby Steps where I finished the game in 2hrs 4min and then learned the trophy is under 2hrs and carrying a specific item.
Screen Australia is doing a massive research project on the current state of the screen and games industries in Australia. Local devs, please consider taking the time to complete their survey survey.alchemer.com/s3/8573365/S...
Screen Currency 2025 — Screen and Games Industry Survey
survey.alchemer.com
November 14, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Screen Australia is doing a massive research project on the current state of the screen and games industries in Australia. Local devs, please consider taking the time to complete their survey survey.alchemer.com/s3/8573365/S...
Sometimes it really trips me out that GTA3 came out 8 years after Doom
November 13, 2025 at 5:27 AM
Sometimes it really trips me out that GTA3 came out 8 years after Doom
It’s pretty wild how bad these people are at writing emails
November 12, 2025 at 10:25 PM
It’s pretty wild how bad these people are at writing emails
Microsoft: an Xbox is now really just a pc in every way! Well, except without your Steam library
Valve: interesting
Valve: interesting
November 12, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Microsoft: an Xbox is now really just a pc in every way! Well, except without your Steam library
Valve: interesting
Valve: interesting
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I went to meet the 'Rockstar 31', the developers who were suddenly fired from their work on GTA 6 for what the studio has described as gross misconduct.
That's not what the workers call it though. They have another couple of words they prefer to use: union busting.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9nO...
That's not what the workers call it though. They have another couple of words they prefer to use: union busting.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9nO...
The Rockstar Workers Fired Before They Could Finish GTA 6
YouTube video by People Make Games
www.youtube.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:43 PM
I went to meet the 'Rockstar 31', the developers who were suddenly fired from their work on GTA 6 for what the studio has described as gross misconduct.
That's not what the workers call it though. They have another couple of words they prefer to use: union busting.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9nO...
That's not what the workers call it though. They have another couple of words they prefer to use: union busting.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9nO...
This is like my theory that the people who are worried about other people pissing in the swimming pool are the only people who are pissing in the swimming pool.
“It’s important to assume every game company is now using AI.” Nexon CEO comments on role of human creativity as AI tools become the norm
automaton-media.com/en/news/its-...
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“It’s important to assume every game company is now using AI.” Nexon CEO comments on role of human creativity as AI tools become the norm - AUTOMATON WEST
In an interview following the launch of ARC Raiders, the CEO of Embark Studios' parent company Nexon shares his views on AI.
automaton-media.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:04 AM
This is like my theory that the people who are worried about other people pissing in the swimming pool are the only people who are pissing in the swimming pool.
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.