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Stephanie wrote a number of great pieces on girlhood and games for the previous website we don't talk about anymore, so I was very happy she could share some new know-how with Maddie!

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Hey wow it's award-winning journalist @maddie-b-a.bsky.social interrogating the current state of girl games on our cool website Featuring smart insights from everyone's favourite professional girl game expert, @saharkin.bsky.social! thisweekinvideogames.com/feature/the-...

The Enshittification of Browser-Based Girl Games is Letting Down a Generation

Earnest '90s and 2000s browser girl games have been replaced with slop that may well indicate how the industry feels about young girls

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sam | リノ 🥊 Level Up KL @rinoaskyes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Hello! I'm in Melbourne until Sunday. Looking to connect with Asian-Australian game developers, especially those from Southeast Asian diaspora. Mostly to yap about @seagshowcase.bsky.social 🙏 Reposts appreciated! 🇦🇺

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Edmond Tran @edmondtran.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Biddy Blas made me like Star Wars again

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This rules I love video games

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This Week in Videogames @thisweekinvideogames.com · 07/10/2026

Mixtape has won Game of the Year at the 2026 Australian Game Developer Awards, as well as recognition for Excellence in Visual Art and Sound Design. Rhythm action game Bits & Bops also won two awards, including Excellence in Gameplay and Accessibility. See all the winners and finalists:

Mixtape Wins Game of the Year at the 2026 Australian Game Developer Awards

Other notable winners include Schrodinger’s Cat Burgler for Excellence in Narrative and Malys for Excellence in Music.

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Edmond Tran @edmondtran.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

If you would like to see me talk to @mrsambarlow.bsky.social about Shiren the Wanderer and @jacobjanerka.bsky.social about Seinfeld for hours then LudoNarraCon is the showcase for you!

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I now have a very specific kind of tinnitus where my ears are constantly ringing with either the missile alert alarm from Ace Combat or the engine overheating alarm from Galactic Racer

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Francisco Dominguez @dominguezf.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

There was one night this week where I stayed up very late playing hours of Star Wars Galactic Racer then immediately went to bed, and I swear my dreams went by at 300km/h. Incredible videogame! Maybe Star Wars is good again

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I chatted to a boss design consultant about a boss archetype staple that everyone recognises but never had a widely-agreed name.

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please tell everyone i know, thank you 🙏

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that's... not something I would have expected

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Today I learned that I am cited at length on the dedicated Wikipedia page for the Mortal Kombat character, Kano.

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This Week in Videogames @thisweekinvideogames.com · 02/10/2026

maybe this week's ending theme will be much better

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Devolver Digital is a private company again, following a shareholder vote that saw 90% in favour of delisting from the London Stock Exchange. Devolver proposed the privitisation in August, saying its business was incompatible with the "increased pressure to deliver short-term market expectations."

Devolver Digital Is a Private Company Again

Devolver became a public company in 2021, attracting investors including NetEase and Sony Interactive Entertainment.

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Sam Barsanti @sambarsanti.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

okay -- what the heck is a boggle trophy

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This is great. I love seeing a trope get defined, much like when I famously tried to get “boggle trophy” going.

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This Week in Videogames @thisweekinvideogames.com · 01/10/2026

The "high chair boss" has been an archetype since the early God of War days. But can an old boss learn new tricks? @dominguezf.bsky.social talks to a boss fight design consultant to find out whether there’s any novelty left in the format (and to see what she thought of Wolverine's Sentinel fight).

It's Time for High Chair Bosses To Grow Up

The "high chair boss" has served as an archetype from God of War to Marvel’s Wolverine. But can an old boss learn new tricks?

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Seamus Byrne @seamusbyrne.me · 01/10/2026

Narrator voice: the games industry does not value its media.

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Edmond Tran @edmondtran.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

love my normie friends and family but i wish they would stop recommending this so much

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Edmond Tran @edmondtran.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is my third spaghetti meal in one day

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Edmond Tran @edmondtran.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Needless to say I am very fucking proud that Maddie took this one out! Maddie’s work is tremendous, her writing is sharp and funny. She has big ideas and is willing to reach for the sky. She was still studying when she came on board last year! Remarkable young journalist! So far to go!!

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Naming your Disco Elysium successor 'Red Rooster' is a sure-fire way to get the interest of any Australian but ESPECIALLY those interested in the socioeconomic divisions of Sydney which may or may not be apt for this videogame summereternal.com/redrooster

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RED ROOSTER

SUMMER ETERNAL introduces their incendiary, physics-driven RPG: RED ROOSTER.

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This is the FOURTH journalism award the TWIV team has earned for our work — we launched last year! We are not popular games personalities. But we are working real hard to prove our worth and realise a better kind of the games outlet, free from the worst traits of web media, filled with Good Shit.

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This Week in Videogames @thisweekinvideogames.com · 28/09/2026

I think Keep Driving is gonna be a desert island retirement game for me

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TWIV journalist @maddie-b-a.bsky.social has been recognised as the winner of the Journalism Impact category at the 2026 MCV/Develop Women in Games Awards. The award is designed to highlight an individual "using their voice to positively build the industry as well as hold it to account when needed."

Maddie Agne Wins 'Journalism Impact' Category at 2026 MCV/Develop Women in Games Awards

Agne thanked her team for "betting on me in an industry that affords so few bets to women."

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Mike.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ @dumbmike.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I thought this was just beautiful. Kurt Vonnegut takes a walk to mail a letter:

She calls out, “Where are you going?” And I say, “I am going out to get an envelope.” And she says, “Well, you’re not a poor man. Why don’t you buy a thousand envelopes? They’ll deliver them, and you can put them in a closet.” And I say, “Hush.”

I go next to the postal convenience center down the block at the corner of 47th Street and Second Avenue. The woman behind the counter says, “Thirty-nine cents for a stamp.” I say, “I only brought thirty-seven. When did that change?” She looked at me a long time. “Thirty-seven isn’t enough.” “Well that oughta be enough for one envelope,” I said. The line was getting longer.

The lady moved her hand into her coat. I knew this routine. I backflipped behind the man behind me in line, wrapping my elbow around his throat as I landed. By the time the stamp seller had unloaded her clip, I had full cover. The gentleman’s body dropped to the floor, six holes smoking. The package he was carrying fell to the floor with a heavy clunk. Whatever was in there, it would do.

I rolled my foot over the cardboard and did a “flick up” as they call it in soccer. I bounced the package once or twice on the back of my foot as the mail lady reloaded, then I launched it high and spun 360 to deliver my patented “Rising Phoenix kick”. The package caught fire as it shattered through the protective plexiglass window and struck the woman’s head with all the force and hatred I had learned to channel in my grueling tutelage under five fallen Wudang masters in my youth. The lady’s body exploded off of her bones, leaving just a blackened skeleton spinning in her office chair. “So it goes,” I said, but no one laughed. I guess they weren’t big readers.

And I go home. And I have had one hell of a good time.

We are dancing animals. How beautiful it is to get up and go out and do something. We are here on Earth to fart around. Don’t let anybody tell you any different.

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This Week in Videogames @thisweekinvideogames.com · 28/09/2026

Kojima's split with PlayStation says a lot about the company it is today and the difference in business attitudes between East and West. @nomoredaniels.bsky.social explores Japan's unique tendency to build commercial relationships on trust, for better or worse.