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Ryan Stanton

@stantium.bsky.social
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Aspiring Academic || Eternal Idiot Lecturer - Gaming and Society @ UNSW PhD @ University of Sydney Bad puns and worse jokes Mostly Lurking He/Him

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Waypoint @waypoint-events.com · 04/08/2026
From the roses and circuits emerges Waypoint Constellations at the Sydney Opera House 🎫 www.sydneyoperahouse.com/experiences/... A close collaboration with @serenade.games to celebrate Sydney's games and creators. Oct 13th, supported by Screen NSW & TVGS Tickets available now, more info to come
A piece of art showing a humanoid character with circuitry lining their body, holding a rose, surrounded by roses and pillars of circuits. The words Constellations are printed in big red letters in a spikey style just behind the character. The TVGS and Screen NSW logos are at the bottom and the Sereade and Waypoint logos are at the top of the image
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Ryan Stanton @stantium.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
MinnMax genuinely one of the most fun gaming outlets out there
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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 14/05/2025
me: technically baseball is parryslop my dad: i’m gonna assume grandchildren aren’t in the picture near term then
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Ryan Stanton @stantium.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
New Article about E3 and other “Gamer Christmas” Events. Very proud to finally write about this topic so please give it a read! And give @cassiebara29.bsky.social some love for her invaluable co-author work
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gita “the formalist” jackson @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
if you worked on destiny in any capacity, i just want you to know you've made a meaningful impact on my life. thank you.
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Ryan Stanton @stantium.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Great piece. As always cases writes fire!
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Leon Xiao @leonxiao.com · 09/03/2026
Apply for the postdoc position: www.cityu.edu.hk/hro/en/job/c...
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Leon Xiao @leonxiao.com · 09/03/2026
Our current postdoc, @stantium.bsky.social, will be leaving us soon to take up an exciting new position. Like him, the new postdoc will pursue their own research interests in creative media policy and help us manage our leading, continually growing gaming and gambling regulation research group.
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Leon Xiao @leonxiao.com · 09/03/2026
We’re recruiting a postdoc and up to 3 research assistants at the Creative Media Policy Observatory (www.cmpo.net), City University of Hong Kong. Apply for the RA position: www.cityu.edu.hk/hro/en/job/c... Apply for the postdoc position: www.cityu.edu.hk/hro/en/job/c...
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Ryan Stanton @stantium.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
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Ryan Stanton @stantium.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Delighted to have my words - and the words of my colleagues - published in the ABC opinion section today. As a kid growing up I wanted to be a journalist, and while my career has taken a different turn, this feels like a small taster of that dream. www.abc.net.au/religion/met...
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Seeing like Meta: Smart glasses and the ethics of augmented reality - ABC Religion & Ethics
Meta’s smart glasses are not just another consumer gadget; they are a step toward enclosing perception itself within a private platform — and when the interface is your glasses, there is no “outside”.
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Taylor Hardwick @darthtayrah.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
New article in @theconversation.com today reflecting on Australia’s 2024 loot box regulations and how, 1 year later, there remains widespread non-compliance - and generally really confusing age ratings for mobile games on the App Stores! theconversation.com/loot-boxes-a...
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Loot boxes are still rife in kids’ mobile games, despite ban on ‘gambling-like’ features
Games with ‘loot boxes’ should be classified for over-15s – but a new study shows many of the most popular mobile games completely ignore the rules.
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alyssa mercante @alyssamerc.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
🚨LIVE NOW FOR MY PATREON SUPPORERS 🚨 The State of Games Journalism in 2025 This is by no means an exhaustive look at what once was, what is, and what will be, but it's a start. I hope to do more pieces like this! www.patreon.com/posts/state-...
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The State of Games Journalism in 2025 | Alyssa Mercante
Get more from Alyssa Mercante on Patreon
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Chloe Appleby @chloeappleby.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
This is so important to preserve and share games media. Please submit and share Australian game stories!
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ally @allyhennessy.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
We're working on an art project for Freakon! We want you to share games journalism that means something to you. If you have a review, a cover, a video, a headline, a quote - anything that made an impact on you please submit it! Taking earnest and dumb submissions. seasonofdecay.cargo.site
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GamesJournalismProject
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Drăculești 🦇 @fine-fiends.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Drăculești is LIVE on Kickstarter Play as Renfield, survive the terror of Castle Dracula, and find love in the darkest night in this seductive romantic horror narrative game. Starring Ray Chase as Dracula. Voice/Casting direction by @jennyyokobori.bsky.social 🖤 www.kickstarter.com/projects/171...
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Ryan Stanton @stantium.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
The Kojima/Miller talk was fascinating for a few reasons but mostly because it gave me a proper understanding of why people love Kojima - he just seems very charismatic and I could listen to him talk fir twice as long.
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Daniel Laurison @daniellaurison.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
We've compiled all the instances we can find of academics standing up for higher education and democracy, as well as attacks, at WeAreHigherEd.org. Please visit, and sign our letter and/or others (bit.ly/DemocracyAndHigherEd - 13k people have signed one or more statements).
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We Are Higher Ed
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Gemma Driscoll @geeofdee.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
ALT GAMES DAY I’m running on 2 hours sleep, an $8.95 coffee and a love of those new fangled vidya games
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sunset visitor 斜陽過客 | Prove You're Human - Wishlist Now! @sunsetvisitor.studio · 23/12/2024
❄️ A SPECIAL 1000xRESIST GIVEAWAY ❄️ An anonymous fan has bought 10 copies of 1000xRESIST to GIVEAWAY!! In their own words: "A random act of kindness that maybe, hopefully, finds the right person." 🥹 To enter: 1. Follow us 2. Repost this. 3. Comment "Hekki Holidays" Winners TBA on Dec 24, 2024.
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Fergus Halliday @cvamped.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Final issue of Multiplier for 2024 just went out. In it, I sat down with @hewso.bsky.social of @player2au.bsky.social to reflect on how Australia's game journalism scene has changed over the past decade. open.substack.com/pub/multipli...
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What can the last decade of games journalism tell us about the next?
Is there any hope on the horizon?
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Steph Panecasio @stephpanecasio.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
I could go on, but the bottom line is this: the article is right. It doesn’t matter who you are, we’ve all been affected by layoffs, traffic roller coasters and uncertainties. But we’re also pretty scrappy and stubborn so, here’s hoping, right?
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Steph Panecasio @stephpanecasio.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
I recognise the position of privilege I have, to be able to work in this gig full time. There are so many wildly talented people who have lost that opportunity this year alone, and I don’t take it for granted - David Smith, for instance, is one of the absolute best in the game.
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Steph Panecasio @stephpanecasio.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
The Australian video game journalism piece is important and covers a lot of necessary ground, but if I’m being candid, as one of the few very lucky people to still be employed and trying to keep it alive every day, often these articles make it feel like more of an uphill battle.
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Marcus Carter @marcuscarter.com · 13/11/2024
Is the government about to accidentally ban kids under 16 from games? I wrote a piece with @darthtayrah.bsky.social on why they shouldn't. theconversation.com/online-games... (they also shouldn't ban social media!)
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Online games should not be included in Australia’s social media ban – they are critical for kids’ social lives
Australia is set to ban kids under 16 from social media. Depending on the definition, online games with social features could be in the firing line – which would be detrimental.
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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
as horrible as it is theres something darkly comic about the Department of Efficiency having 2 chairmen
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