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James O’Connor @jickle.net · 29/09/2026

Counter offer to the RBA: eat shit

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James O’Connor @jickle.net · 29/09/2026

Legitimately incredible speaker line-up here

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James O’Connor @jickle.net · 27/09/2026

Best of luck to whoever is put in charge of cancelling this one

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James O’Connor @jickle.net · 26/09/2026

From a pure “sports narrative” perspective the hot favourite pulling a huge comeback in the last four minutes to win for a third time in a row over the team that has never won before is total horse shit

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James O’Connor @jickle.net · 24/09/2026

A VR port of *by far* the worst game in the series certainly is an interesting choice, by a broad definition of the word “interesting”

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James O’Connor @jickle.net · 23/09/2026

Hoping that I will indeed be able to See Everything in a cinema in Australia not too long after that US release date

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Michael Irving @mikeirvo.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Well, my redundancy has been finalised today. Not really sure what to do with myself now, but posting about it again feels vaguely productive.

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James O’Connor @jickle.net · 22/09/2026

I have dedicated a substantial percentage of my life into making sure that the ways I play and enjoy videogames is meaningfully constructive within my own life. But it is significant, I think, that I’ve seen so many people who work in or around games stop playing them once they don’t have to

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James O’Connor @jickle.net · 21/09/2026

You truly do not need to write an article about the thoughts and feelings of the folks who are still posting on X, the everything app

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James O’Connor @jickle.net · 21/09/2026

This popped up in my feed, and reminded me that this was the issue that broke my 90-odd issue streak as a contributor (but I was back the issue after… and then about 7 issues later the whole mag died)

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James O’Connor @jickle.net · 19/09/2026

Resident Evil (2026) is a great argument for adapting the mechanics of games to film rather than just adapting the story

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James O’Connor @jickle.net · 18/09/2026

Parallels tickets went up and sold out earlier this week while I was in the middle of hosting a stand-up meeting and I have felt bad for people on my team who missed out ever since

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James O’Connor @jickle.net · 16/09/2026

These Fire Emblem reviews are good news for me, the Fire Emblem psycho

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James O’Connor @jickle.net · 15/09/2026

Very cool that Stephen Root, maybe the all-time great “oh cool, they’re in this!” actor, has an Emmy now

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James O’Connor @jickle.net · 15/09/2026

I have really bad stick drift on two different PS5 Dualsense controllers and instead of either replacing or fixing them my thinking has been shifting more towards “well I should just avoid playing this console when possible to save my remaining controller”

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James O’Connor @jickle.net · 14/09/2026

Really excited for Continue. But for me the most exciting part is that the pages I wrote are paired with illustrations from my wife @lisavertudaches.bsky.social ❤️❤️

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Serrels @serrels.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This is how I spent my Saturday night. Poring over black & white printouts. We send the first issue of CONTINUE to print TODAY. I've worked on hundreds of magazines, this feels different. This is what we dreamed into reality. I think we've created something special. Can't wait for you to see.

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James O’Connor @jickle.net · 11/09/2026

I know we have litigated this once every three weeks for the last 30 years but it’s a *little* concerning that this critical reception is being widely read and understood as disastrous

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James O’Connor @jickle.net · 10/09/2026

Welcome back, early 2000s-era console wars, we didn’t miss you but maybe it’ll be a bit more fun to really favour Nintendo this time around

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James O’Connor @jickle.net · 09/09/2026

Free joke concept for whatever satire website wants it: GOG introduces age verification system

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James O’Connor @jickle.net · 08/09/2026

Radiohead and the Zelda concerts hitting Melbourne in the same week is very dangerous to people in my age bracket

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James O’Connor @jickle.net · 08/09/2026

Somehow I never finished the original Ocarina of Time. Maybe I will finish this one!

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James O’Connor @jickle.net · 08/09/2026

I will not be at Games Week in any significant capacity this year! I will be too busy working on games and writing about games and maybe playing some games.

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James O’Connor @jickle.net · 07/09/2026

A big difference between the Oscars and the Game Awards is that the Oscars are really fun to game out by interpreting a bunch of loose signifiers and trends and pundit chatter as a narrative takes shape whereas the Game Awards go to wherever game gets called “epic” on Twitter the most

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James O’Connor @jickle.net · 29/08/2026

I have been married for one (1) week now and a big revelation has been that wearing a wedding ring is really nice

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James O’Connor @jickle.net · 29/08/2026

Have gone out and had a few drinks tonight to talk myself into buying Elden Ring on Switch 2 when I get home

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James O’Connor @jickle.net · 27/08/2026

Putting on my galoshes and wading into the discourse bog to say that GTA VI looks very good, to me

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James O’Connor @jickle.net · 25/08/2026

I have been married for a few days now. Weddings are nice! I love my wife!

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James O’Connor @jickle.net · 18/08/2026

Warren Spector is retiring! I was able to interview Warren Spector a few times and present on stage with him at PAX once on the back of my PC PowerPlay monthly column about playing Deus Ex. Always a pleasure, with such a sharp sense of what makes games good and interesting. All the best to him.

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James O’Connor @jickle.net · 18/08/2026

Getting married this week. Should be good. Seems like a nice thing to do.

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James O’Connor @jickle.net · 12/08/2026

I would like to know how much of this is driven by bots being much more strongly incentivised on those other platforms, because I imagine that accounts for a lot of this “growth”

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James O’Connor @jickle.net · 12/08/2026

I did not review Pro Jank Footy, I have not played the full game, but I do have a “Special Thanks” in the credits so I think you should play it (Also it was made by talented people and it’s very clever and funny) store.steampowered.com/app/3621330/...

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Pro Jank Footy on Steam

Pro Jank Footy is an over-the-top arcade comedy-sports game. Score goals to unleash game-changing power-ups, build a deck of absurd abilities, and tackle a season where no two matches are ever the sam...

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James O’Connor @jickle.net · 09/08/2026

“It’s called the Pupcast, Lemon. We use AI to interview dogs from upcoming movies. It’s the future of vertical integration.” “I heard the one where the dog from The Odyssey gave a labrador instructions on how to commit suicide.”

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James O’Connor @jickle.net · 09/08/2026

Movies are good and I like them

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Jon Cartwright (GameConsulting.com.au) @gameconsulting.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

If you're a South Australian game developer heading to #MIGW this year, then with the support of South Australian Film Corporation I've got your prep covered! Doing GCAP, PlayNow, or PAX - there's something here for you. Register now, it's completely FREE. www.safilm.com.au/latest-news/...

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Commercial in Confidence: Prepare for MIGW 2026 with Jon Cartwright - SAFC

Calling all South Australian game developers! Heading to MIGW 2026? Get the most out of your week with this free online workshop led by games industry veteran Jon Cartwright. Melbourne International G...

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James O’Connor @jickle.net · 05/08/2026

I remember seeing Big Walk in the House House office while I was working on the Goose Game book and thinking “this is very them, but I wonder if it will have broad appeal”. Then the first trailer dropped and I felt silly to have had any doubts at all. Excited to dig into it soon.

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James O’Connor @jickle.net · 04/08/2026

I am working my way through this game right now and it’s the real deal. I liked Tangle Tower quite a bit and this is, I’d say, a big improvement even beyond that.

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James O’Connor @jickle.net · 03/08/2026

I’ve worked with Fellow Traveller a bit over the last two years from a few different directions and I am a big fan of how they work and what they prioritise. This is a dream job for at bunch of different folks, I’d say.

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James O’Connor @jickle.net · 27/07/2026

Fuck I forgot to think of a good joke to post when the alarm test happened

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James O’Connor @jickle.net · 26/07/2026

Nights of the week, ranked: 1. Friday 2. Saturday 3. Thursday 4. Sunday 5. Wednesday 6. Monday 7. Tuesday

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James O’Connor @jickle.net · 22/07/2026

Working in game dev has given me a much keener sense of how games are made, the processes people undertake, how a design comes together, and so on. But I am playing Denshattack and I truly have no fucking idea how you make a game like this. It rules.

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James O’Connor @jickle.net · 20/07/2026

Hopefully Marvel will reveal that Chris Evans is returning as Captain America four or five more times before the movie comes out, just in case anyone missed it

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James O’Connor @jickle.net · 18/07/2026

Spent the entire run time of The Odyssey with a sort of ecstatic feeling of “oh my god they are nailing this”. And the cinema was *packed*. Life is good, more or less

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Chris Edser @chrisedser.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Feezy! Adelaide’s defender of the arts. My new limited edition screen printed t-shirt available from Hobbie. www.hobbie.ink/store/p/fezz... #adelaide #adelaidearts

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James O’Connor @jickle.net · 17/07/2026

Good news for people who like AFL, people who like games, people who don’t usually like AFL but like games, and people who don’t usually like games but like AFL

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James O’Connor @jickle.net · 13/07/2026

Sam Neill should be on the legal currency both here and in New Zealand. RIP to one of the true greats.

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