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Bargain Bin Gaymers is the LGBTQ+ gaming podcast that looks after your wallet and your representation. Hosted by Davey and Mitch â two self-proclaimed gaymers from Melbourne, Australia â the...
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Bargain Bin Gaymers is the LGBTQ+ gaming podcast that looks after your wallet and your representation. Hosted by Davey and Mitch — two self-proclaimed gaymers from Melbourne, Australia — the show covers affordable video games, queer indie game developers, Nintendo and retro gaming, video game movies, and the latest news from across the LGBTQIA+ gaming community. Every episode, Davey and Mitch bring their honest, funny, and unapologetically queer perspective to:
🎙️ Find us everywhere:
🌐 Website: bargainbingaymer.com
💬 Discord: discord.gg/fqC2FeHSUr
❤️ Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/bqn
📺 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@bargainbingaymers
🎮 Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/bargainbingaymer
Bargain Bin Gaymers is part of the BQN Podcast Network, produced by Double T Media
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- 🎮 Game reviews — from bargain bin finds to new releases worth your coin
- 🎬 Video game movie reviews — is it cinema-worthy or a wait-for-streaming?
- 🏳️🌈 Interviews with queer game developers, academics, and community figures
- 🕹️ Retro gaming deep dives and nostalgia trips
- 📰 Queer gaming news, pop culture, and community chat
🎙️ Find us everywhere:
🌐 Website: bargainbingaymer.com
💬 Discord: discord.gg/fqC2FeHSUr
❤️ Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/bqn
📺 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@bargainbingaymers
🎮 Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/bargainbingaymer
Bargain Bin Gaymers is part of the BQN Podcast Network, produced by Double T Media
Episodes & Posts
Episodes
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20 JUL 2026 ¡ Dr Xavier Ho from Monash University returns to Bargain Bin Gaymers, and it's Yap Week at the Bulldog â 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 Theory and Undead Labs. Is this the end of AAA as we know it â or the start of a proper double-A renaissance?
In this episode:
- What everyone's been playing â Sunderfolk (Xavier's D&D-style party game), NieR: Automata (Mitch's philosophy homework), and Assassin's Creed Black Flag Remake (Davey's current obsession)
- The Xbox reckoning â 3,200 jobs, four studios spun off, and whether Compulsion, Double Fine, Ninja Theory and Undead Labs are actually better off free
- Is gaming heading for another crash? Davey brings up the 1983 E.T. moment and asks whether GTA 6 could be the harbinger
- The double-A renaissance argument â why Gen Z doesn't care about photorealism and why the middle tier is where the best games are coming from
- Sony's tone-deaf social media moment â because reading the room is hard
- A packed Release Radar covering every game landing before end of July: Fading Echo, Tears of Metal, Avatar Legends, Disgaea Mayhem, Dino Blade (yes, a Souls-like where you're a Spinosaurus with a sword), Ronin, Splatoon Raiders, Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD, Halo Campaign Evolved, BloodRayne, Sextet, Mistfall Hunter, Truxton Extreme, and Xenoblade Chronicles X
- The Bargain Watch List: Xavier flags the Non-Binary Coded Games Steam Fest (running now) and the "Figuring It Out" itch bundle of queer identity novellas and short stories
đ§ Xavier is back next week for a deep dive on the state of LGBTQIA+ gaming â subscribe so you don't miss it.
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13 JUL 2026 ¡ 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 this episode:
- The Lylat Wars story: why Australia got a different name, how Star Fox 64 launched the Rumble Pak, and the sequel that was finished but never released
- Mitch's honest verdict on the 1997 original: genuinely inventive branching-path design, "hideous" graphics, and villains who all sounded suspiciously fabulous
- RIP Falco, lost in the very first level (famously)
- Everything you need to know about the 2026 remake: Velan Studios' shot-for-shot glow-up with a new voice cast, real-time cinematics, orchestral score and 60fps
- The big debate: is $99.95 AUD fair for a shot-for-shot remake of a 29-year-old game? ($84.95 on the eShop, $89 at JB Hi-Fi)
- Slippy Toad voice discourse, hot Falco takes, and why remakes might be the smartest way to introduce a new generation to classic franchises
- Davey's plea to Nintendo: give us a proper sequel, and remake Star Fox Adventures while you're at it
đĨ Want to actually watch Mitch play? Full gameplay videos with his live reactions are exclusively on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bqn đŦ Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/fqC2FeHSUr
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6 JUL 2026 ¡ 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 and Vita digital storefronts closing in some markets from August 2026.
The boys go full investigative journalism on the economics of it all: why pressing a disc costs cents, who actually pockets more when you buy digital, and why Sony has always hated the pre-owned market. Plus the environmental angle nobody agrees on, with one study saying discs are 100 times more carbon intensive and another saying the exact opposite, and the genuinely nuanced (drink!) conclusion that the greenest game you can buy is a second-hand disc from the very bargain bins this move is about to kill.
Then it's a proper pros-and-cons showdown. True ownership, preservation and price competition versus instant access, convenience and the fact that digital distribution is the reason most queer indie games exist at all. The conversation gets real about deplatforming, payment processor pressure on Itch and Steam, and shadow banning of queer content, because when digital is the only copy, delisting can mean erasure.
Also in this episode: Davey falls for The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales (the cozy JRPG that screams $45 but costs $90), Mitch grabs NieR:Automata The End of YoRHa Edition on Switch 2 for just $22 AUD, the Release Radar covers Moonlight Peaks, Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced, Granblue Fantasy: Relink, Digimon Story Time Strangers, Echoes of Aincrad, Palworld 1.0, Ascend to Zero and Dtopia, and the Bargain Watchlist rounds up the Steam Summer Sale, PlayStation's July Savings and the eShop's shockingly cheap Final Fantasy VII deals. All prices in beautiful Australian dollarydoos.
It's Dry July! Davey is raising money for cancer research. Donate here: https://www.dryjuly.com/users/david-willett
Support the show and the BQN Network at https://www.patreon.com/bqn or shout us a coffee at https://ko-fi.com/bargainbingaymers.
Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/fqC2FeHSUr
29 JUN 2026 ¡ 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 Age: Inquisition
- Ellie from The Last of Us
- Tyler Ronan from Tell Me Why, gaming's first trans protagonist from a major studio
- Vivian from Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
- Zagreus and MelinoÃĢ from Hades
- Judy Alvarez (Cyberpunk 2077), Steve Cortez and Kaidan Alenko (Mass Effect)
- Queer-coded legends: Sander Cohen, Birdo, Sheik, Bayonetta and a very flamboyant corner of PokÊmon
- Plus a deep cut: Caper in the Castro, possibly the first ever LGBTQ video game (1989)
It's Pride Month, queerness is under attack in parts of the world, and talking about queer people out and proud will always be a revolution. We're queer, and we're not going anywhere. Who are your favourites?
Get in touch on Discord, socials, or email bargainbingaymer@gmail.com.
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â¤ī¸ Support the BQN Network on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bqn
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22 JUN 2026 ¡ 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, PokÊmon Black 2, Assassin's Creed Shadows and a nostalgic Star Fox demo
- Why Pride feels more important than ever this year, and why corporates pulling out might not be all bad
- Gaming's back, baby: the Nintendo Direct highlights, Xenoblade Genesis, Kingdom Hearts coming to Switch 2, the Pokopia underwater DLC and one very big Zelda announcement
- The Release Radar for the next fortnight
- The return of the Bargain Watchlist with the best End of Financial Year gaming deals in Australia
Next episode, we're rounding off Pride Month with our favourite queer gaming characters, so stick around.
đŦ Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/fqC2FeHSUr
â¤ī¸ Support the BQN Network on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bqn
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9 JUN 2026 ¡ 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 Race favourite Dawn. In this episode:
- What we're playing: 007 First Light (Davey finished it in one weekend), Breath of the Wild on Switch 2, Lego Batman, and a surprisingly good Bleach gacha game
- Summer Game Fest debrief: Final Fantasy VII, a Resident Evil: Code Veronica remake, Alien: Isolation 2, two new Cuphead games, Palworld 1.0 and a TMNT: The Last Ronin reveal from the Bayonetta team
- Gayming Awards 2026 reaction: Date Everything, South of Midnight, Trixie Mattel, Jennifer English, Dungeons & Drag Queens and more
- Why this year's awards are absolutely worth watching back, even now, you know who won
- A Pride Month message: don't just repost, show up
- The Release Radar (and a heated discussion about why Star Fox has a double chin)
Now the ceremony has aired, head over to Gayming's socials for the full winners list and watch the show back at gaymingmag.com.
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1 JUN 2026 ¡ 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-ranging, generous, and very funny conversation about building queer media against the odds. In this episode:
- The 90-minute train journey in 2019 that turned into Gayming Magazine
- A behind-the-scenes preview of the Gayming Awards 2026 and the World of Wonder partnership
- Trixie Mattel, Dawn, Erica Ishii, Rock M Sakura and Farrah Moan are building (and giving away) a gaming PC
- The Gayming Foundation and what "ethical capitalism" looks like in practice
- The hard stuff: industry layoffs hitting diverse staff hardest, the collapse of corporate Pride support, and why Robin is genuinely considering going back to print
- Why Robin is a proud champion of Easy Mode (and would call his own podcast that)
- The Sims, Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead 2 are the games that shaped him, plus the open letter to Rockstar that actually changed GTA
Depending on when you press play, the Gayming Awards may be days away or freshly wrapped. Either way, the winners go up on Gayming's socials, and Robin makes a great case that the show is worth watching regardless.
Follow Robin and Gayming at gaymingmag.com and @gaymingmag.
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25 MAY 2026 ¡ 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 â the wholesome corner of gaymer Instagram everyone's been forwarding to their partners â from across the ocean. The boys swap origin stories, gaming room envy, and what it really takes to build a content creation career as an out gay couple online. In this episode:
- The Animal Crossing first date that turned into a marriage (and a picnic on a log)
- How a Mario Party x Squid Game meme racked up 6 million views and changed everything
- Pride, followers, and the post that cost them 400 of them â and why they don't care
- Building a Twitch communityÂ
- The dream: going full-time as Nintendo and PokÊmon ambassadors
- Each of their most influential games (spoiler: one of them learned to read because of Ocarina of Time)
- The Pile of Shame confessions
Plus: Davey's review of Mixtape, the South of Midnight Switch 2 port, the Switch 2 price hike, Delta Goodrem getting robbed at Eurovision, and the Release Radar from 26 May to 9 June.
Follow Connor and Nic on Instagram: @iconnicgames
đŦ Join our Discord:Â https://discord.gg/fqC2FeHSUr
â¤ī¸ Support the BQN Network on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bqn
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11 MAY 2026 ¡ 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 story of how it happened. In this episode:
- How Checkpoint Gaming came to exist on Joy 94.9, and why a queer gaming show on the radio felt like such a radical idea in 2013
- Elliot's journey from fresh-out-of-university superfan to running content at the station
- The moment Checkpoint won a National Broadcasting Award and went national on the Community Radio Network, now heard on 20+ stations across Australia
- Getting flown to LA to preview LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight
- The PAX Australia moment that reminded them why it all matters, and the mother and child who changed Elliot's perspective on the show's impact
- Why queer gaming media still matters in 2026, and how the industry has changed (and hasn't)
- Elliot's three most influential games.
- His pile of shame: every single BioWare game he's never finished (Mass Effect fans, brace yourselves)
Plus: Davey shares how hearing Checkpoint on Joy 94.9 while driving into Melbourne in 2017 was his first introduction to queer Melbourne, and why that moment stuck with him.
And the Release Radar covers everything landing in the next fortnight, including Indiana Jones and the Great Circle on Switch 2, Subnautica 2 Early Access, Forza Horizon 6, Darksiders Remastered, Paralives, and the Star Fox 64 remake announcement.
đī¸ Find Checkpoint Gaming: checkpointgaming.net đī¸ Listen on Joy 94.9: joy.org.au/checkpoint
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27 APR 2026 ¡ Mitch is in his element this week as Bargain Bin Gaymers dives deep into PokÊmon Champions â Nintendo's brand new free-to-play competitive battler. With a lifetime of competitive PokÊmon 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 PokÊmon Champions actually is â and why competitive PokÊmon finally has a home of its own
- The free vs paid breakdown â is the $10.50 AUD Starter Pack worth it, or is this secretly predatory?
- The tiny PokÊdex problem â only 186 out of 1,025 PokÊmon available at launch
- Performance issues â why is a turn-based game struggling at 30fps on Switch 2?
- The identity crisis â is this game for newcomers, casual fans, or competitive veterans?
- Why fan-made PokÊmon Showdown still beats the official product (Mitch's controversial take)
- The live service trap â will PokÊmon Champions still have players in 12 months?
Plus: a roundup of every notable game releasing before the end of April 2026 â including Diablo 4's Lord of Hatred expansion, Saros on PS5, and the surprise hit Inkonbini: One Store, Many Stories.
đŽ Download PokÊmon Champions free: https://champions.pokemon.com
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Bargain Bin Gaymers is the LGBTQ+ gaming podcast that looks after your wallet and your representation. Hosted by Davey and Mitch â two self-proclaimed gaymers from Melbourne, Australia â the...
show more
Bargain Bin Gaymers is the LGBTQ+ gaming podcast that looks after your wallet and your representation. Hosted by Davey and Mitch — two self-proclaimed gaymers from Melbourne, Australia — the show covers affordable video games, queer indie game developers, Nintendo and retro gaming, video game movies, and the latest news from across the LGBTQIA+ gaming community. Every episode, Davey and Mitch bring their honest, funny, and unapologetically queer perspective to:
🎙️ Find us everywhere:
🌐 Website: bargainbingaymer.com
💬 Discord: discord.gg/fqC2FeHSUr
❤️ Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/bqn
📺 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@bargainbingaymers
🎮 Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/bargainbingaymer
Bargain Bin Gaymers is part of the BQN Podcast Network, produced by Double T Media
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- 🎮 Game reviews — from bargain bin finds to new releases worth your coin
- 🎬 Video game movie reviews — is it cinema-worthy or a wait-for-streaming?
- 🏳️🌈 Interviews with queer game developers, academics, and community figures
- 🕹️ Retro gaming deep dives and nostalgia trips
- 📰 Queer gaming news, pop culture, and community chat
🎙️ Find us everywhere:
🌐 Website: bargainbingaymer.com
💬 Discord: discord.gg/fqC2FeHSUr
❤️ Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/bqn
📺 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@bargainbingaymers
🎮 Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/bargainbingaymer
Bargain Bin Gaymers is part of the BQN Podcast Network, produced by Double T Media
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| Website | www.bargainbingaymer.com |
| bargainbingaymer@gmail.com |
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