Jason Imms

I finished Gears of War: E-Day, and it was great! All of the popcorn chompin’ action of the past games, it with a sprinkling of open world exploration. And it was long! Good stuff.

Let’s guillotine the internet

Every time I see one of those ads for “The Book,” my brain remakes this video but with the sentiment “THEY INVENTED THE ENCYCLOPAEDIA AGAIN BUT MADE IT STUPID” youtube.com/shorts/448Tw...

PlayNow is such a vital event for Australian game makers, pre-selected face-time with publisher scouts? Astonishing. Huge props to the Vicscreen team for their efforts, and to the Vic government for keeping it open to developers from all corners of the country. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...

Ah yes thank you for reminding me to cancel this genuinely useless subscription.

Why do we keep on doing this? Praising a 'small core team' for a game with 1100+ people in the credits is incredibly misleading. This PR narrative hurts, hides the massive shadow workforce of outsourced developers and testers, and sets impossible standards for actual indie teams.

This should be Halloween's "All I Want For Christmas Is You"

“I don’t think unionization would meaningfully affect our business.” Yeah, this is why. Straight-up mafia-ass union busting. Your workers are the lifeblood of your business and you treat them like enemies within.

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

While I don't have my own piece in CONTINUE Issue 1, I am there in spirit quoted by the ever wonderful @jickle.net, decrying the death of longform value on the internet. So happy to have received my copy, huge congrats to all contributors, and of course @serrels.bsky.social and @jacksonwryan.com ❤️

I've had the privilege to have a bit of an inside peek into the studio and development of Beyond These Stars, I'm very excited for this release!

Like one time I was at valve and they told me about a chandelier Gabe had made that was just literally a collection of his swords hanging from cables above the main stairwell, chandelier of Damocles. something that if it fell on you you'd not just be killed, but slain. they made him take it down

Remember when I asked if "Australia Did It: End-of-the-World Railway Defense Business" would be superior a title to "Australia Did It" & y'all agreed & I said I'd go talk to the publisher about it? Oh, before I forget: launching November 10th! Please do wishlist :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBFl...

So glad I can finally do this! 🐍

It's wild seeing the major games retail stores clamouring for people to pre-order GTA VI to "secure your copy" when there is literally no disc in the box. It's just a code, and they're selling it for the same price as the platform stores. If you've purchased from a physical store, why?

My dear friend @hey.paris was celebrated at the Australian Game Development Awards this year, and has written a stunningly beautiful piece to commemorate the moment. Goodbye Argos, you will be missed and never forgotten. Congratulations Paris, your career has helped so many find a home in games.

every single team I have talked to that actually measures their velocity/productivity has come to this same conclusion. Every team that has never measured productivity and just asks their devs if they think they are going faster disagrees with this. CEOs love teams that never verify shit I guess.

This is a very weird way to phrase this.

Paris will never admit this, but he deserves this recognition and we love him and his heart for his community ❤️

#GCAP26 has been wonderful this year. What a privilege to hang out with all you amazing people. Next: PlayNow, Parallels, and PAX!

lol already at Boatbuilders #MIGW

Waving gday to Don on the way into the city, as is MIGW tradition

Heading to the airport, see you soon #MIGW!

Watching Mayday on Apple TV, a Ryan Reynolds vehicle set during the Cold War, he is a recon pilot shot down in a Blackbird over Russia. He and Kenneth Branagh’s ex-KGB character attempt to exfil under myriad comedic circumstances. Getting such a Wes Anderson vibe from a lot of the cinematography!

Art.

*automation used to be: symbolic decision making (ie old-school AI). People these days just bolt on an LLM to do their testing, but LLMs are not deterministic so you have to check their work. Symbolic is repeatable. 99% of what people are automating with LLMs can be done with a script for pennies.

This is good summary of why AI is bad at QA: paulbrodner.dev/2026/can-ai-... I am a HUGE fan of automated* testing, but we always used to joke that automation can do Quantity Assurance, but for Quality Assurance you need humans. LLMs do not change that, they make it more important if anything.

Looking up some tax-related information and just stumbled across one of my freelance journalism contracts, it was a full-time contract for six months with one of the major mastheads. $197 per day. Good grief, what a nightmare of a sector.

Are you or have you ever been a narrative designer (as your official job title)? I would like to interview you for a video! Pls reply to this if you’re interested ❤️.

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How did we get to the point that big stupid collector's editions don't come with a copy of the fkn game? How did that happen?

I have no idea whether this specific example is a good or bad thing, but it'd be chill if some Australian politicians could realise that yes, it is actually possible to renationalise things. You can unring that bell.

Who do I know considering going to Megadev this year?

Nowadays I would say: National Film and Sound Archive would love that stuff! (for aussie made games at least) I am generally presuming that there are similar archival projects in other countries that would be into this stuff (even the cheap plastic crap, maybe especially the cheap plastic crap!)

Just filed a complaint with our state's consumer protection group due to Appliances Online's local service provider refusing to honour a warranty. What a frustrating waste of time, not to mention the fine they're about to received, over a genuinely braindead failure of bureaucracy.

When I was a journalist, you would get inundated with promotional stuff. Sometimes it was amazing, most of the time it was cheap plastic garbage that is awkwardly sized and takes up huge amounts of space. You’re allowed to get rid of unsolicited things you don’t want.

I'm suddenly thinking about The Dark Crystal for some reason