Bargain Bin Gaymers

Davey and Mitch hit the show floor at PAX Aus 2026 in Melbourne and came back with seven indie games you should have on your radar. Recorded as the doors opened on Friday morning, this is a run of quick chats with the developers themselves, from Kiwi studios on their first trip across the ditch to a Brisbane favourite who is now a friend of the pod. In this episode: Star Catcher: a cosy co-op fish...

Davey is flying solo without Mitch this week, joined by Alex Bestie from Australian indie game marketing outfit The IndiEXP for an honest look at how small games actually get found. In this episode: • How Alex went from chasing a narrative design career to co-founding an indie games PR business after a single Melbourne International Games Week coffee chat that never happened What The IndiEXP actua...

Jake from the Melbourne Gaymers is back on the couch, and this week the topic is one every adult gamer eventually runs into. You love games. Your partner does not. How do you make that work? Between the three of them there is a husband who throws the controller at Mario Party's random bonus stars, a boyfriend who claims to be a gamer but owns a PS5 and neither a TV nor a couch, and a partner who o...

Heads up before you press play: this is a watch-along. Davey and Mitch are commenting live on the Zelda 40th anniversary Nintendo Direct as it plays, so this one is best enjoyed on YouTube. The audio still works, but you will get a lot more out of watching it. Watch the video version: HERE A bonus drop, recorded on the couch on a Saturday afternoon with Pike the dog, because Nintendo announced the...

Jake from the Melbourne Gaymers joins Davey and Mitch on the couch for the September yapisode, two vodka Cokes deep and ready to go. September is the business end of 2026 and there is a lot to get through. What we have been playing: Jake on Fallout 76, which is apparently good now, and replaying Halo one through five on Legendary in split screen Mitch on Darksiders Warmastered Edition, Mark Hamill...

Davey is flying solo one more time, and this week he is talking to someone building something that arguably should have existed years ago. Kevin is the founder of Gamily, a dating and friendship app built for gamers with LGBTQIA people front and centre. He built it with his husband Will and their co-founder Gabe, starting as a nights-and-weekends project during the pandemic, on the premise that th...

A bonus drop. Davey and Mitch were not supposed to record this week, but Rockstar dropped a nearly 30 minute Grand Theft Auto 6 Extended Look on Netflix and there was no way around it. Recorded on Davey's couch on Sunday afternoon, immediately after watching it together. Unstructured, unfiltered, and genuinely conflicted. In this episode: The Netflix exclusive that lasted about six minutes before...

Davey is flying solo again, and this week the show goes somewhere it has only ever skirted the edges of. Joel Medina is a writer for GAYMING Magazine and the Los Angeles Blade, and a dedicated tabletop RPG player. In this episode: What actually happens at a TTRPG session. The imagination problem, and why "I'm not creative enough" is the wrong reason to stay away The biggest misconception about TTR...

Mitch is back in the studio after several weeks of being aggressively unwell, which means he has actually finished some games for once. It is a yapisode, and August has given us plenty to yap about. Davey and Mitch cover what they have been playing, the news that has them both riled up, everything releasing before the end of August, and the bargains worth grabbing right now. What we have been play...

Davey is flying solo at for a chat with two guests who are, frankly, serious gamer couple goals. Max and Pablo are Cowboy Toad Games, the boyfriend team behind 2024's Nocturnals, the game that kicked off this podcast's love affair with LGBTQIA+ developed games. They're back with the sequel, Nocturnals: Cacti Coast, currently in development for a 2027 release. Max returns for his second appearance...

Dr Xavier Ho returns for a second week running — same shirts, narrative continuity intact — for a proper conversation about where queer gaming actually sits in 2026. It's a topic week, not a yap week, and the topic is a big one. Mitch reckons he's simultaneously never been more represented and less represented. Davey has noticed the platforms, storefront features and Pride Month spotlights quietly...

Dr Xavier Ho from Monash University returns to Bargain Bin Gaymers, and it's Yap Week at the Bulldog — three gaymers squeezed onto one couch, one associate producer named May, and enough industry talk to power a small game studio. Davey, Mitch and Xavier get into the news that's actually mattering right now: Microsoft cutting 3,200 Xbox jobs and spinning off Compulsion Games, Double Fine, Ninja Th...

Mitch thought Fox McCloud was just a Smash Bros character. Time to fix that. Gen Z Plays is back: Davey sits Mitch on the couch (with Pike the dog supervising) and hands him an N64 controller to play Star Fox 64, the 1997 classic Australians knew as Lylat Wars. Then, for the ultimate glow-up comparison, they fire up the brand new Star Fox remake on Nintendo Switch 2. Same game. 29 years apart. In...

Do you enjoy owning the things you pay for? Sony has other plans. This week Davey and Mitch dig into the biggest shake up gaming has seen in years: Sony announcing that physical disc production for all new PlayStation games ends from January 2028, GTA 6 launching in November with no disc at all (that pre order box you paid up to $159.95 AUD for contains a download code and a dream), and the PS3 an...

To round off Pride Month, Davey and Mitch get personal with an episode close to both their hearts: their favourite queer characters in gaming. From the ones that helped them figure themselves out to the queer-coded icons hiding in plain sight, this is a warm, funny, and genuinely reflective celebration of LGBTQIA+ representation in games. Characters we celebrate: Dorian, Sera and Krem from Dragon...

Happy Pride Month, gaymers! Davey and Mitch are reunited (and both a little under the weather) for a proper Pride Month catch-up, complete with a Northside-Mitch makeover, a heartfelt chat about what Pride means in 2026, and a mountain of gaming goodness. In this episode: What we're playing: the Batman Arkham trilogy, Lego Batman, Pokémon Black 2, Assassin's Creed Shadows and a nostalgic Star Fox...

Mitch is back from the moving boxes (now officially a Fitzroy/Collingwood gay) and reunited with Davey for a proper catch-up, a Summer Game Fest debrief, and a full reaction to the 2026 Gayming Awards. Fresh off last week's solo interview with Gayming founder Robin Gray, the boys react to the winners of queer gaming's biggest night, brought to you by World of Wonder, hosted by Erica Ishii and Drag...

Mitch is moving house, so Davey is flying solo this week with a guest who needs no introduction in queer gaming circles: Robin Gray, co-founder of Gray Jones Media and the founder of Gayming Magazine, the world's leading LGBTQIA+ video game publication, reaching over a million readers a month. Recorded on a Friday morning Robin's time with the Gayming Awards just around the corner, this is a wide-...

Two husbands. One Nintendo-themed game room. 25,000 Instagram followers. And it all started with a first date on Animal Crossing during the COVID lockdown. This week, Davey and Mitch are joined by Connor and Nic, the couple behind @iconnicgames — the wholesome corner of gaymer Instagram everyone's been forwarding to their partners — from across the ocean. The boys swap origin stories, gaming room...

Australia's most iconic LGBTQIA+ gaming radio show turns 12, and we got its co-host to tell us the whole story. Elliot from Checkpoint Gaming on Joy 94.9 joins Davey and Mitch at the Bulldog to share the origin story, the standout moments, and what 12 years of putting queer voices at the centre of gaming actually means. Checkpoint Gaming pioneered queer gaming media in Australia, and this is the s...

Mitch is in his element this week as Bargain Bin Gaymers dives deep into Pokémon Champions — Nintendo's brand new free-to-play competitive battler. With a lifetime of competitive Pokémon behind him, Mitch brings the expert take while Davey plays devil's advocate, putting the community's biggest criticisms to the test. They cover everything you need to know before you download: What Pokémon Champio...

What actually makes a game a bargain? Davey and Mitch are fresh off their appearance on 94.9's Checkpoint Gaming — Melbourne's LGBTQIA+ community radio show — and it got them thinking about the very roots of Bargain Bin Gaymers: gaming on a budget. In this episode, the boys break down every tier of game bargain hunting, from full-price AAA releases to 95% off Steam sales, and debate whether the pr...

Is the Super Mario Galaxy Movie worth full cinema ticket prices — or is it a wait-for-streaming job? Davey and Mitch, your resident queer gaming critics, blast off into Nintendo's latest animated film to give you the honest verdict. In this episode of Bargain Bin Gaymers, the boys break down the Super Mario Galaxy Movie's visuals, story, character moments, and nostalgia factor — with a special foc...

Pokémon is officially turning 30 — and Gen 10 is on the way. In this episode of Bargain Bin Gaymers, Davey and Mitch break down everything revealed at Pokémon Presents 2026, including the 30th anniversary celebrations and the first details on the Generation 10 Pokémon games launching in 2027. As the show’s resident Pokémon super fan, Mitch dives deep into what the announcements could mean for the...

Adaptory is finally here, and we got to sit down with the developer who made it happen. Davey and Mitch reunite with Jevon Wright (she/her), the solo developer behind Stormcloak Games, to celebrate the Steam Early Access launch of Adaptory: a cozy base-building colony sim inspired by Oxygen Not Included, RimWorld, and Dwarf Fortress. In this episode, Jevon shares the full journey: four years of de...