Grab your joystick and get ready to game, boy. In the biggest crossover event since Super Smash Bros, Luke and Elliot from the team at Checkpoint port over to the naughty side on Hide and Seek. Giving a 1-up to gaming, Checkpoint is JOY's weekly show for for game news, reviews, interviews where you can catch all the latest releases and big discussions as we break down the most popular and constantly evolving medium in the world, from a uniquely queer perspective.

This week, we're exploring the world of gaming, hot gay nerds, sex tech and teledildonics for games - and what is happening in the industry for forward momentum of telling queer stories in gaming. We chat about community building with platforms like Twitch and Discord, through to romanceable vacuum cleaners, and our sexual awakenings in video games... and of course horny Bowser art.

Find Checkpoint's award winning reviews and game features at checkpointgaming.net and listen live on Saturdays at 2pm, or grab the podcast from your favourite podcast app.

Checkpoints many awards include:

Winner of CBAA 2019 Community Radio Award for Excellence in Innovative Programming & Content

Winner of 2020 Addam Stobbs Award for Broadcasting Excellence

FeedSpot's #1 Australian Gaming Podcast of 2024

Winner of 2024 IT Journalism Awards for Best Independent Coverage

Find your gaymer community

Melbourne Gaymers - facebook.com/MelbourneGaymers

Sydney Gaymers - facebook.com/SydneyGaymers

Australian Gaymers - gaymers.org.au

* This episode originally aired Tuesday, August 6 2024 on JOY *

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This episode was recorded on the lands of the Yalukut Weelam clan of the Boon Wurrung peoples. We pay our respects to their elders, past, present and emerging, and acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded.

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