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Consumer tech at and . One half of . Video games. Existential angst. Freelance bear wrestler.

Melbourne, Australia
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    12 Aug 2021

    It's been a year since we relaunched the tech newsletter, and it's one of the best parts of my week. If you're not one of the tens of thousands (!) of people that gets exposed to my weird diary on Fridays, fix that here: Syd: Melb:

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  2. Feb 23

    I'm aware that retro game music on vinyl could be viewed as fundamentally ridiculous. And yet I was compelled to treat myself anyway.

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    Feb 22

    The new newsletter is up on Substack now! This week Tim and Alice talk all things Magic the Gathering, Azul, CRT TVs and Nintendo shutting down the 3DS and Wii U eStores. Subscribers get it straight to their inbox.

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  4. Feb 15

    Nintendo has announced the Wii U and 3DS digital stores are shutting down next year. BUT it also launched this really cute memories website where you can turn your play data into charts. Did you know the Wii U even had 144 games?

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  5. Feb 15

    In which I squander all of Aloy's time playing board games and solving trivial problems instead of saving the world.

    The latest newsletter is live with Horizon Forbidden West, the greatest generation (of consoles) and whatever happened to couch co-op? Read it on the site here, and don’t forget to subscribe to get it straight to your inbox each week:
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  6. Feb 10

    Kirby bosses are now being named by central Victorian grain stookers.

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  7. Feb 10

    Notable that even Nintendo games are discounted in current eShop sales, but look at some of these indies! Limbo $1.50 Inside $3 OlliOlli Switch Stance $3.37 Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons $4.50 Rogue Legacy $5.09 Layers of Fear $6 Into the Breach $8.75 Non-indie XCOM 2 is also $9

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  8. Feb 9

    Third biggest for me was more retro stuff. I love seeing hard-to-experience games like Live A Live, Chrono Cross and Front Mission restored, translated or expanded like this. I guess Portal, Klonoa and AC could be considered retro by some, and I'm glad they'll be on Switch too.

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  9. Feb 9

    Second biggest deal was the return of Sports, which actually stands a chance of hitting audiences who remember Wii Sports, unlike the entirely ignored Sports Club on Wii U. Online play could be a huge deal for families that used to play Wii Sports together and are now apart.

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  10. Feb 9

    Biggest deal from today was 48 new Mario Kart 8 courses over a year and a half. They saw how the Smash Bros Fighters Pass kept players coming back every few months for ages, and are doing the same here. I love it.

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    Feb 8

    Latest newsletter is out! Come read all about the Forza Horizon World Cup, getting VR to be kinder to your body, Lego’s latest car and all the games to play this weekend:

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    Feb 8

    The next issue is coming out soon! Here’s last week’s in case you missed it. Don’t forget to subscribe so you can get them straight to your inbox.

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    Feb 7

    Fun little trick in the Sunday New York Times crossword yesterday: the central theme clue was "The better of two sci-fi franchises", and regardless of whether you put Star Wars or Star Trek, the crossing clues worked

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  14. Feb 5

    Analogue Dock has been updated to support "original" display modes, emulating the look of the real hardware LCD. It's great!

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    Feb 4

    Ross Symons, founder of Melbourne sports game studio Big Ant, thinks we may have seen the final generation of hardware video game systems. |

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    Feb 4

    Analysis: With competitors stealing users, and limits put on its ability to mine the data of its existing customers, Meta can’t buy its way out of trouble |

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    Feb 3

    What is the metaverse? |

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    Feb 1

    New newsletter is up! This week we talk about Pokémon, Stardew, Uncharted and the PS Vita.

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    Feb 1

    If you’re thinking of shopping around with your $12 a month, here are four alternatives to Spotify. |

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    Jan 31

    Sony gears up for content war with $5b deal for Halo creator Bungie |

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  21. Jan 28

    Prices for old video games are rising, and not about to stop, but the exposure also means more and more people are getting into the retro hobby.

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