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The State of LGBTQIA+ Gaming in 2026: Where Did All the Queer Characters Go? (feat. Dr Xavier Ho)
Jul 27, 2026 ·
39m 30s
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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...
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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 disappearing. Xavier, fresh off six months of leave, has been playing nothing but indie games — and that's where all the queer stories are. In this episode:
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- Where queer representation has gone: why the good stuff has been relegated to indies while AAA plays it safe
- The "quiet chill" — Gayming Magazine's Robin Gray going from 20+ awards sponsors to four or five, and storefront Pride features vanishing
- Shadow banning, age verification, and the itch.io/PayPal delisting that made queer adult content unsearchable and unsellable
- Why the tabletop and TTRPG scene is thriving where digital is struggling — and how it got safer after 2013
- Discord's age verification problem for people who aren't out
- What good queer representation actually looks like: Mitch wants big, loud, memorable and unmissable; Xavier makes the case for slice-of-life (We Are OFK); Davey wants rebellion
- Where to actually find queer gaming spaces in Melbourne right now — including ACMI's long-running women and non-binary game nights
- The funding problem: devs literally relocating interstate to qualify for different grants
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