Luke Mitchell 🎮🐻

With lots of new followers, I should introduce myself! Hi, I’m Luke, I’m a big gay bear in Melbourne. I run a queer/aussie focused video game radio show and website, @checkpointau.bsky.social, which just had its 10th birthday!! I also do global PR & Comms for Zero Latency VR. Nice to meet you 🥰

SO GOOD!! And doing it with people I love so dearly made it all the more special.

Today’s annoyance as an Aussie indie game publication: Receiving a review code one day after embargo lifts and then reading an article elsewhere of “here’s how long it took 5 people to finish this game”, implying 5 separate people from one site got codes while we get the scraps.

Great work from @cutiejea.bsky.social on this one!

Wolverine is great! Confused that a 78 Metacritic average means people think this is a bad game. 78 is literally “good to great”. It’s like a 4 star movie review. And it isn’t even released yet to the public so stop whinging! Games are fun! THIS IS MEANT TO BE FUN, REMEMBER!?!?

Super strange. Age verification is one thing, but forcing people to use a credit card is bonkers.

What I love about this is that at @checkpointau.bsky.social we have reviewed all the major finalists here. It feels good to cover so many Aussie games every year and give them the space they deserve!!

REVIEW: Orbitals “It’s joyful, stylistic, heaps of fun, and doesn’t outstay its welcome – a perfect excuse to cuddle up on the couch with a loved one.” checkpointgaming.net/reviews/2026...

If one good thing came out of today, it’s that everybody has been sharing wonderful articles, photos, videos and stories about Dolly Parton, en masse. She really was one of the good ones. 💔

New movie review from me. I wanted to have fun with this one - and it has SOME brief redeeming moments… but mostly I was left confused, frustrated and wanting more.

So I wrote about 18 previews from my time at Summer Game Fest, which I’m pretty proud of. Even though it was two months ago I still feel like I’m recovering from what was a whirlwind and an event that I now plan to visit each year. Super valuable.

Play Big Walk. And, contrary to “please visit our website”, don’t even read this review or anything else really if you’re at all interested in it. Go in blind and just enjoy.

Dragged my guy across the world just to hang out on my radio show, no biggie. 😇 @davecobb.com

This was so fun to check out with somebody special by my side.

I haven’t been posting much, mostly because I’ve been very loved up and focused on that as a priority rather than engaging in *gestures wildly at everything*. Anyway here’s some pics of my handsome wonderful men and my happy face for your feed.

Sending positive energy to my @checkpointau.bsky.social crew who are up as finalists tonight at the IT Journalism Awards 2026 - @cassiebara29.bsky.social @austingallagher.bsky.social @jazzathehut.bsky.social @cutiejea.bsky.social Bring home another trophy for us! 🔥

Midsumma Carnival 2026 :)

But even the classic is just 🤌

Our team always comes up with a stellar Top 10, showcasing awesome titles and maybe a few that you wouldn’t expect near the top!

Hey Bluesky 👋 We’re Big Bear Energy, a friendly, no-fluff indie game PR agency here to help small studios, solo devs and emerging game teams get noticed. We take care of launch campaigns, press kits, media outreach, store-page optimisation, social media strategy and community building

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New movie review from me! I love Wicked, and I love this movie, even though it doesn't quite solve the "Act 2" problem with the theatre musical.

Lumines Arise is a special game; I can’t stop playing it!

Support video game journalists!! Especially local indie publications!!

Reviewing Battlefield 6 felt like a huge task, particularly after flying to L.A. (on a trip that turned out to be personally life-altering) to be a part of its big reveal. Thankfully, the game is genuinely great, and even after publishing I’m itching to jump right back in.

I think one of the saddest things about being a millennial is remembering a time when technology was advancing in a way that made life better and easier and more exciting instead of actively, intentionally worse

Once again, thrilled to have roped in a bunch of incredibly talented people to have meaningful discussions during @paxaus.bsky.social 🥰

The Life of a Showgirl is fine, but I think she forgot to include an actual memorable hit on there? It all just blends.

I loved Good Boy. It’s rare for a movie to offer something completely different, and seeing horror from the perspective of a dog made for a terrifying, uncomfortable and compelling watch. Indy is easily the best pet actor in history. A must see for anybody who loves dogs.

Anyway here’s my golden child looking adorable 🦮