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Jam Walker

(They/Them)
Melbourne, New York
As seen in: The Kotaku Times, Press Start Australia, Stevivor, WhichCar, ArtsHub Australia, PowerUp!, GamesHub, Checkpoint Gaming, SUPERJUMP, Player2.net.au and
Covers:  Video games, tabletop games, entertainment, wrestling, tech.
Award-nominated freelance writer (GamesHub, Kotaku Aus, Stevivor, PowerUp!, Byteside, Player 2, Checkpoint). Highly opinionated on games & wrasslin'. They/Them.
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Working In Video Games Retail: The Kotaku Australia Review

Working In Video Games Retail: The Kotaku Australia Review

Kotaku Australia — Working in games retail is a special experience. And by special, we mean "frequently hellacious." Jam Walker reviews life in games retail.
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Alan Wake 2 interview with Sam Lake and Kyle Rowley

Alan Wake 2 interview with Sam Lake and Kyle Rowley

Stevivor — While in Los Angeles for Summer Games Fest, Stevivor sat down to chat Alan Wake 2 with Remedy's Sam Lake and Kyle Rowley. Here's the full interview.
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10 Key Games Industry Jobs, and Advice from Experts Who Work Them

10 Key Games Industry Jobs, and Advice from Experts Who Work Them

GamesHub — Thinking about a games industry job? Read some expert advice from people working in key development roles.
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Batman Returns For The SEGA Mega-CD: The Kotaku Australia Review

Batman Returns For The SEGA Mega-CD: The Kotaku Australia Review

Kotaku Australia — With Michael Keaton donning his own cowl for The Flash this month, what better time to revist a game from the last time he played Batman?
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I painted my PS5 faceplates and lived to tell the tale

I painted my PS5 faceplates and lived to tell the tale

gameshub.com — The official PlayStation PS5 faceplates recently launched around the world. But while the ease of restyling the monolith next to my TV to sport my favourite shade of purple was highly appealing, the AUD $84.95 price tag was simply too much for me to swallow - and I suspect plenty of people are in a similar boat.
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I Took A Warhammer 40,000 X Magic Commander Deck To PAX Aus And God Dammit, I Like Magic Now

I Took A Warhammer 40,000 X Magic Commander Deck To PAX Aus And God Dammit, I Like Magic Now

Kotaku Australia — I confess I am not much of a Magic: The Gathering fan. I adore both the art and world-building of Wizards of the Coast's legendary CCG, and I've always been fascinated at how it crafts a constantly evolving rules meta. But, frankly, the 'fun' of standard MtG never quite clicked with me.
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WWE 2K23 Review: Freshly raking the sands of the island of relevancy

WWE 2K23 Review: Freshly raking the sands of the island of relevancy

Stevivor — The marketing slogan of this year's WWE 2K title is "Even Stronger", and it may be the most accurate and apt one-liner for a video game so far in this generation. WWE 2K23 is utterly and entirely WWE 2K22 but even stronger.
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Roberta and Ken Williams are preserving adventure game history

Roberta and Ken Williams are preserving adventure game history

gameshub.com — Ken and Roberta Williams were happily retired. 'People kept asking if we'd do another game. We said no way in heck, and we meant it,' Ken tells me as the three of us sit down in the lobby of Seattle's Hotel Theodore, just across the street from PAX West.
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How to Paint Miniatures - Where to Begin Before you Begin

How to Paint Miniatures - Where to Begin Before you Begin

gameshub.com — So, you want to start painting miniatures but you don't know where to begin? Great! The hobby has truly never been more accessible or friendlier to newcomers. This article aims to give you some warm, welcoming tips to help ease you in to this incredibly fun and fulfilling hobby.
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Warhammer Quest: Cursed City - Board game review

Warhammer Quest: Cursed City - Board game review

gameshub.com — Warhammer Quest: Cursed City is a 1-4 player cooperative dungeon-crawl campaign game originally released back in April of 2021. It sold out globally within hours, and then it was bizarrely announced via Twitter that same month that it would not be seeing a reprint.
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Dead Space: The Kotaku Australia Review

Dead Space: The Kotaku Australia Review

Kotaku Australia — Dead Space (2023) is a remake of Dead Space (2008). Did you play Dead Space in 2008? Well, this is absolutely and utterly Dead Space again but given a current-gen tune-up. In fact, everything discussed in Kotaku's review of the original remains completely true in the remaster.
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Colossal Cave: The Kotaku Australia Review

Colossal Cave: The Kotaku Australia Review

Kotaku Australia — Colossal Cave Adventure is a text adventure game developed by avid spelunker Will Crowther in 1976. A year later, programmer Don Woods discovered the game on a computer at Stanford University, and with Crowther's blessing, released an expanded version with fantasy elements added to wild popularity (relative to the internet and gaming landscape of the times, at least).
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WWE 2K22 Review: A welcome, balanced return

WWE 2K22 Review: A welcome, balanced return

Byteside: technology + digital culture — For years the WWE 2K series has been barrelling down an increasingly divergent path to the very company it represents. World Wrestling Entertainment has spent much of the last decade reshaping itself into a Disney-esque family entertainment empire, engineered to help anyone jump on board and understand the product with ease.
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Warhammer 40K: Shootas, Blood & Teef - Flash, Fun & Frustrations | Player2.net.au

Warhammer 40K: Shootas, Blood & Teef - Flash, Fun & Frustrations | Player2.net.au

Player2.net.au — Warhammer 40,000: Shootas, Blood & Teef i an action platformer that gleefully embraces the inherent silliness of its source material and makes the entire intellectual property feel fresher for it.
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Colossal Cave: The Kotaku Australia Review

Colossal Cave: The Kotaku Australia Review

Kotaku Australia — Filed to: 3d Colossal Cave Adventure is a text adventure game developed by avid spelunker Will Crowther in 1976. A year later, programmer Don Woods discovered the game on a computer at Stanford University, and with Crowther's blessing, released an expanded version with fantasy elements added to wild popularity (relative to the internet and gaming landscape of the times, at least).
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How COVID helped tabletop RPGs go mainstream - GamesHub

How COVID helped tabletop RPGs go mainstream - GamesHub

GamesHub — For well over a year now we've all been living under social gathering restrictions at best and full lockdowns at worst, thanks to the Covid-19 pandemic. The fact that video game sales have skyrocketed during this time probably won't be shocking news to anybody.
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The Best Games of 2021, according to GamesHub's Wordplay cohort

The Best Games of 2021, according to GamesHub's Wordplay cohort

gameshub.com — To help reflect on the year that was, GamesHub has asked contributors, Australian game developers, and friends of the site to talk about some of their favourite games or gaming-related highlights of 2021. Ring of Pain's Simon Boxer and Unpacking's Wren Brier gave us some of theirs, as well as ACMI curator Jini Maxwell and games researcher Brendan Keogh .
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WWE 2K25 IS A WONDERFUL MESS, PERFECTLY REPRESENTING ITS SOURCE

WWE 2K25 IS A WONDERFUL MESS, PERFECTLY REPRESENTING ITS SOURCE

lifebarmag.com — WWE 2K25 IS A WONDERFUL MESS, PERFECTLY REPRESENTING ITS SOURCE by JAM WALKER II play the WWE 2K games annually. Typically only for the few months following their release, but every year regardless, (and for full disclosure, for the past few years it's been via review codes supplied by the publisher, 2K Games).
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Equity, Intimacy, and Investment - A Preview of the Esports Australia Summit 2025

Equity, Intimacy, and Investment - A Preview of the Esports Australia Summit 2025

newgameplus.tv — The Esports Australia Summit 2025 is soon to happen as part of the stacked Melbourne International Games Week 2025 lineup. I caught up with co-organisers Dr. Emma Witkowski and James Manning of RMIT U......
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Jackbox Party Pack 11 Brings You & Friends Together For 5 New Games

Jackbox Party Pack 11 Brings You & Friends Together For 5 New Games

lt3.tv — I miss my wife. I’m an Australian who recently eloped with their American partner after being together, mostly long-distance, for almost four years. Long-distance is never easy, but we’re incredibly fortunate to have found each other in a time where we can remain connected via video call pretty much round-the-clock.
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Yakuza Kiwami 3 & Dark Ties Review

Yakuza Kiwami 3 & Dark Ties Review

jetsonplaysgames.com — Yakuza Kiwami 3 & Dark Ties is a depressingly tired experience and an absolute low point for the series.
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