Bargain Bin Gaymers

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: 🎮 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 Whether you're a lifelong gaymer, an LGBTQ+ gamer looking for a community, or just someone who wants great game recommendations without breaking the bank, th

Bargain Bin Gaymers is a leisure podcast hosted by Davey and Mitch, with 66 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Davey and Mitch hosts Bargain Bin Gaymers, a leisure show with 66 episodes published.

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  Episode #21

  How Indie Games Actually Get Discovered feat. Alex Bestie (The IndiEXP)

  Sep 22, 202653 minS4

  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 actually does for a game, and why talking to a marketer eight months out costs a dev less than talking to one eight weeks out The creator campaign behind cozy crossword adventure Rita, including custom-built levels for ten streamers and the fake level people still ask to play Why TikTok's 1,000 follower threshold matters more than any single video, and why buying followers will get you nowhere The campaign that hit over a million views, and the accidental Sword Art Online sound that carried it Trends, SEO signals and how to tell someone a game is cozy without saying the word cozy Why queer indie games are underrepresented on agency rosters, and what Alex wants to do about it Slayblade, the Y2K battle-top roguelite from Henry's House that Alex cannot stop talking about Big Walk, Mass Effect 3, Fallout 4, Gris, and a pile of shame featuring 007 First Light Watch the video version on YouTube: https://youtu.be/9NZGsdbihdc Join the conversation in our Discord: https://discord.gg/fqC2FeHSUr Support the BQN Podcast Network on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bqn Buy us a coffee on Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/bargainbingaymers Full show notes: https://bargainbingaymer.com Email the show: bargainbingaymer@gmail.com Bargain Bin Gaymers is an LGBTQ+ gaming podcast hosted by Davey and Mitch, two Melbourne based gaymers reviewing affordable games, interviewing queer indie developers, and covering the latest news from across the LGBTQIA+ gaming community. New episodes every Tuesday.

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  Episode #20

  Gaming With a Partner Who Doesn't Game (feat. Jake)

  Sep 14, 202640 minS4

  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 occasionally tinkers with a horror game alone because the host who bought it for him is too scared to watch. In this episode: The guilt problem. Davey games at 5:30am on weekends because he feels bad playing when Anthony is in the house, and admits most of that guilt is self imposed Rot time, Mitch's term for sitting in the same room doing completely different things, and why it counts as quality time Why handheld gaming changed all of this, and whether a dedicated games room is a dream or a trap What happens when a partner is actively anti gaming, and how this podcast came out of that Gaming as escapism, decompression and genuine emotional regulation, and how to explain that to someone who has never needed it Booking it in. Davey has the GTA 6 release weekend blocked out in the shared family calendar Teaching a partner who did not grow up gaming, including the moment Jake realised Adrian needed inverted controls Finding games for your partner rather than dragging them into yours Whether queer couples are better at this, and why Mitch on designing his own Pokémon game, and telling his boyfriend about it The big question: would you actually want a gamer partner? All three say no, and explain why Why watching someone else play a game means you will never play it yourself Housemates, shared TVs, and the other relationships nobody talks about Plus advice at the end for anyone in a new relationship trying to work out how to have this conversation. Tell us where you land. Are you a gaming couple? Does your partner just like watching you play? Comment on YouTube or come and talk to us in the Discord. Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/fqC2FeHSUr Support the BQN Network on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bqn Support BBG directly on Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/bargainbingaymers

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  Bargain Bin Gaymers

  BONUS: Reacting to the Ocarina of Time Remake (Best Watched on YouTube)

  Sep 14, 202640 min

  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 Ocarina of Time remake during the week and there was no way of waiting until the next episode. The setup is the best one this show has: Davey has played Ocarina of Time more times than he can count, on the N64, on the Master Quest disc, on the Wii Virtual Console, on the 3DS and on Nintendo Switch Online. Mitch has never touched it. Before recording, Davey sat him down with the original on Switch Online, CRT filter on, and walked him through Kokiri Forest, Hyrule Field and Castle Town. Mitch's verdict on the 1998 version was, in a word, hideous. Then they watched the Direct together. In this episode: Why Ocarina of Time is the game that made Davey fall in love with gaming, and why Twilight Princess was Mitch's way in Mitch's honest reaction to playing the N64 original for the first time in 2026, including a genuine appreciation for how individual every NPC in Castle Town is The first look at Kokiri Forest, and why it stopped both of them dead Child Link's new design, the doll-like face, and the glossiness debate Camera control and manual jumping, and why both are a much bigger deal than they sound The loading screens Nintendo kept deliberately, and whether being faithful is the real reason Two minutes to dry off after a swim, and Navi's embroidered wings The new item wheel replacing the C button hotkeys Hyrule Field, Death Mountain actually looking like a volcano, and Castle Town giving off Fable meets D&D energy The Threads of Time tapestry, a new way of tracking progress The day night cycle now running inside towns Being able to hum your ocarina songs instead of memorising button combinations, or order an actual ocarina peripheral Voice acting in cutscenes, and the Zelda voice problem The 40th anniversary concert coming to Melbourne next May The special edition Switch 2 console and dock, already sold out, already being scalped Out 5 November 2026. Both of them are more excited about this than GTA 6. Tell us what you think of Link's new design in the YouTube comments or in the Discord. Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/fqC2FeHSUr Support the BQN Network on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bqn Support BBG directly on Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/bargainbingaymers

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  Episode #19

  Let's Yap: Gamescom, Sony's Worst Week Yet, and Mario Kart 8 Gets Eight Player Split Screen (feat. Jake)

  Sep 7, 20261h 4mS4

  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, and the sexy part of Catholicism. Plus a Bloodborne replay and the case for it being a top three game Davey on picking up Grand Theft Auto 5 for $20 on disc at JB Hi-Fi, thirteen years after he last played it, and worrying he will be over GTA before November Everspace 2 on Switch 2, the three endings of The Adventures of Elliot, and why Davey has turned on Duskfade after being excited about it News of note: Mario Kart 8 Deluxe gets a surprise Switch 2 update out of nowhere, with 4K output and eight player split screen on one console Gamescom, and everyone's picks: Stage Tour from the original Guitar Hero team, Rainbow Six Tactics, Gears of War E-Day, Crazy Taxi World Tour, Fable, RollerCoaster Tycoon, Silent Hill Townfall and more Witcher 3 Remastered, free if you already own the game, and why CD Projekt Red has set a bar everyone else is falling short of Mitch on the soulslike problem, and why he is done with games that rip off Dark Souls with barely a change of paint The PlayStation State of Play, where the best part was the live chat. Sony killing physical media, the shift from buying to leasing, and a PlayStation 1 Lego set that is about as useful as a Blu-ray player in 2028 Xbox disc to digital, how it actually works, and whether it is a genuine consumer win or just warming us up for a digital only future Delisted games, Pokémon Home behind a paywall, and what any of us actually own Plus the full Release Radar for 8 to 22 September, and a Bargain Watchlist featuring A Plague Tale: Innocence at 90 percent off, Cyberpunk 2077 on Switch 2 for $50, and Inside for $3.50. Jake is back next episode to talk about gaming as adults with non gaming partners. Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/fqC2FeHSUr Support the BQN Network on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bqn Support BBG directly on Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/bargainbingaymers

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  Episode #18

  A Dating App for Queer Gamers: Kevin on Building Gamily

  Sep 2, 202645 minS4

  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 the best way to get to know somebody is by playing with them. In this episode: What Gamily is, who it is for, and the gap Kevin saw between apps for gay people, apps for straight people that merely allow gay people, and apps for nerds Why there is both a dating mode and a friends mode, and why they are kept completely separate Squeezing into a crowded dating app market, and why niche apps are having a moment What people are actually looking for when they want a partner who games, and why being able to pretend together as adults is rarer than it should be How the matching works, from the four games you are playing right now to unlimited favourites, board games and genres, with conversation starters built in The technical challenge of designing gender identity properly, so it is not just man seeking man or man seeking woman Why Gamily does not sell data, track users or run ads, and why that matters more when your users hold vulnerable identities Where the app is now, why New York City is the current focus, and what it would take to reach Australia Success stories so far, including a Valorant team and a queer streamer squad The feedback that genuinely surprised him, and what it says about what people will trade for free Why marketing turned out to be the hardest part, and the message that finally worked Plus Kevin on EarthBound, The Binding of Isaac and Mario Kart, and a pile of shame that includes 80 hours of Elden Ring and 75 per cent of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. Gamily is available now in the US and Canada at gamilyapp.com, and on Instagram at @gamilyapp. Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/fqC2FeHSUr Support the BQN Network on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bqn Support BBG directly on Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/bargainbingaymers

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