Chris Arneil

New book now coming out very soon. Next month!

Please consider submitting to this conference if you're a community preservationist! The first Save the Games was a terrific place for the industry and community to meet together on their work

Late response sorry Ben but we do hold a few regional variants, e.g. www.collection.nfsa.gov.au/title/1755618
Anything Australia-exclusive (hardware + software) would be of interest!

📣 Exciting news, everyone! Screen Canberra has announced a new games fund!! 🎉🎉🎉

I was pleased to hear all about it yesterday and provide a quote to be included in the announcement article

Join us for Pizza & Pixels on Wednesday to learn more!

We’re so freaking back. Videogames. Board games. Role playing games. I wanna show case you at ALT: GAMES 2026! Submit in the cheeky link.
Successful applications will be paid an honorarium.
If you love me, please read the webpage. All the info is there.
Link:
powerhouse.com.au/alt-games-ca...

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...

The Video Game History Expansion Pack – Pitch your story Today I’m putting my money where my mouth is and launching a new project — a book focused on game history outside of the usual North American perspectives.

So, today I'm announcing a new book project... and doing a call for papers: crpgbook.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/t...

It's an anthology of video game history outside the usual US perspective - an accessible & exciting panorama of different realities - and I'll pay 300 USD per article.

Please share :)

Add my game to SIFTER's Australian Made Games List Have you released a game made in Australia this year? Use this form to let us know

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-...

Episode 141: Hidden Advertising of Feminine Games | Video Game History Foundation Phil Salvador interviews Dr. Stephanie Harkin, lecturer at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) School of Design Games Program in Australia, about her research on femininity in gaming, p...

The latest Video Game History Hour podcast talks to Dr. Stephanie Harkin, lecturer at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, about her research on video games in girls’ lifestyle magazines like Girl Gamer & Total Girl: gamehistory.org/episode-141-...

(from the final issue of Big K magazine, March 1985: www.ataricompendium.com/archives/mag...)

The jewel in the crown: www.collection.nfsa.gov.au/title/1778683

cropped screenshot from yakuza 5 (2012) of Taiga Saejima having a conversation with celebrity chef Tatsuya Kawagoe (who exists in real life) SAEJIMA: So, cooking is a combination of ingredients? I'll try remembering that when I eat.

Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? review by Tony Smith from September 1987 issue of Australian Home Computer G.E.M. magazine

1987 Australian review of the first Carmen Sandiego game: “I saw the package for sale in Sydney for $89 which I feel is exorbitant. I myself would not pay that price for it and if it wasn’t for my old mate Brian lending me his game I wouldn’t have even seen it.”

(now ~$266 AUD / $170 USD)

🚨🚨🚨 ‘THRILL ME’ MENTIONED 🚨🚨🚨

A kangaroo-headed human holding a giant CD. Stylized text reads Discmaster MMXXV.

🕹️ Ready to resurrect a galaxy of GIFs, WAVs & .BMPs?
Join the DiscMaster Game Jam & make a game using assets from vintage CD-ROMs archived by #InternetArchive. 💿️

💰 $1,750 in prizes
📅 Starts April 20 (USA) / April 21 (AUS)

Sign up ➡️ itch.io/jam/discmast...

#GaveDev #MediaPreservation

Very excited to be one of the judges for CanDev & @archive.org's upcoming Discmaster Jam and looking forward to seeing what emerges from the depths of discmaster.textfiles.com (image courtesy of Art Explosion 600,000)

Rollick N' Roll now has a demo! Enjoy!
s.team/a/3274880

#IndieGame #GameDev

This is what I have been working on for the past decade 💅
ALT: GAMES is a new festival that brings together the Australian games community and industry. Featuring @dmullinsgames.bsky.social Richard Garfield @allyhennessy.bsky.social Playfool and atomo Kihara

Phil Spencer that's not how games preservation works, that's not how any of this works:

aftermath.site/microsoft-xbox...

Haha, this was a bug - for anybody playing along at home, you first have to go west inside Joe Mangel's house, then you can 'open' the envelope and 'examine' the letter.

Please enjoy this article about an unauthorised point and click adventure game based on an Australian soap opera made by a British meteorologist: www.nfsa.gov.au/latest/archi...

Mole Power 'Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island' Super Nintendo

Mole Power
'Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island'
Super Nintendo

Bringing the rufous owl’s mournful ‘woo-hoo’ with me into 2025