On Saturday, Music with Motion celebrated (South) Australian games, studios, and composers. Such a lovely event. And completely sold out. @sagames.org

The South Australian Film Corporation launched a pilot Digital Games Fund for local game developers.

Reminder to Australian devs that @sifterhq.bsky.social does the lord's work every year by compiling every single Australian-made videogame they can find. You can submit your 2025 releases here: www.sifter.com.au/add-my-game-...

🇮🇪 Ireland to make its artists’ basic income support scheme permanent www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

Interesting thoughts by @georgeosborn.bsky.social on why Electronic Arts’ acquisition, or rather, the way it was pushed, is actually another sign of a deeply eroded American democracy: www.videogamesindustrymemo.com/p/a-kushy-de...

The #AGDAs25 Winner For Game of the Year is...

The Drifter by Powerhoof

Replaced by @sadcatstudios.bsky.social is alive. And it looks stunning. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPoy...

Guaranteed Income in the Arts: more practice, more time, more stability, better headspace artsanalytics.org/guaranteed-i...

This is really rather good, despite the goth-lite name www.theguardian.com/music/2025/a...

I won’t be at #GCAP2025, but attending this talk would be on my must-do list.

An engaging overview of how history (and, I believe, the broader humanities) was propelled into crisis as an academic discipline in Australia.
www.theage.com.au/national/his... @theageaustralia.bsky.social

"Nothing is guaranteed". "Young people [don’t] buy the myth of capitalism." "You have community and a real sense of doing something constructive" – Gen Z is flooding New York’s fine arts programmes gothamist.com/arts-enterta...

I missed the moment when Yurchak’s "hypernormalisation" went viral www.theguardian.com/wellness/ng-...

Special Issue – Journal of Management & Organization:
Systematic literature reviews, bibliometric studies, and meta-analyses. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Artists as workers? Re-imagining cultural policy for insecure and precarious artists and cultural workers — a recent stats-based study on what it's like to work in culture in Australia: doi.org/10.1177/1440...

I’m currently staying at the University of Edinburgh and travelling around Scotland as part of my PhD research on the video game industry in Australia and the UK. Let me know if you're somewhere around and would like to meet for a coffee.