An important part of any game diet, it's Indiepocalypse #78. -10 curated games for $15! -Zine! -Newly commissioned game by @gensuta.itch.io -Cover by @artzomb.bsky.social pizzapranks.itch.io/indiepocalypse-78

My latest Margini videoludici column for Alias, the supplement of the Italian communist newspaper il manifesto, explores a videogame that is both an adaptation from Lewis Carroll and an introduction to a new mini game development tool.

We did it, friends! Ithaca is funded on Kickstarter! If you thought about backing it but we're hesitant because you weren't sure the goal would be met, now is the time ❤️ www.kickstarter.com/projects/ith...

Did you know that I've been spending years producing and distributing DIY physical releases for indie games? Because I have! And continue to! It's also a thing most anyone can easily do. (and I've been slowly building my own collection of others' games) pizzapranks.com/tapemarket/

Every time I see the Diablo dungeon diagram, I want to add this alternative as the only other type of acceptable level design.

Sisters, thank you for waiting so patiently for this exciting news... 1000xRESIST's 85-track OST is ✨ NOW LIVE ✨ on music streaming platforms!! Tell us which song plays during your favorite scene! Hekki. 🫡

I was in Salento for the presentation of a project aimed at promoting the historical and cultural heritage of a small town, Sternatia, through immersive art and videogames. On @artribune.bsky.social I write about this project and some of the challenges and limitations of similar initiatives.

The stunning cover artwork (Hitoshi Yoneda) ELEMENTAL GEARBOLT, a PS1 lightgun shooter with a techno-magical theme and animated cutscenes from Rintaro. The world it takes place in is a compelling mix of Panzer Dragoon's and Escaflowne's: strange bio-beasts and fantasy mecha.

wrote on two great platformers and some recent thoughts on architectural space in games. "the platformer genre emerged as a postmodern medium designed to sell itself to you (in the coin pushing of the arcade) on the challenge of navigating non-social spaces." glitchout.blog/2026/06/27/f...

I LOVE VIDEOGAMES. Do you? Do you know it the heart? I WILL PROVE IT: HERE ARE THE DEEP-HELL.COM STEAM SUMMER SALE RECOMMENDATIONS!! TELL YOUR FRIENDS: store.steampowered.com/app/3172700/... Claymation and Jim Henson inspired CRPG — cute, macabre, thrown into a huge world that wants to KILL YOU

As expected (and hoped),the ill-conceived EU campaign Stop Destroying Games for videogame preservation is dead. Long live videogame preservation! My article for Artribune.

On Friday, in my segment for Konsigli on Rete Due of RSI, I recommended @str0nkyk0ng.itch.io's Texturetown. An opportunity to talk about what may be the only true “art movement” currently existing in the videogame scene: the plunderludics/plundercore movement. Podcast online (in Italian).

Working on a video game? One of the Ithaca Kickstarter add-ons is a day of narrative consulting with yours truly. If you'd like feedback on your story, characters, dialogue, or narrative design, this is a nice way to support us and get something useful in return ❤️ www.kickstarter.com/projects/ith...

OFFBEAT hit 10,000 wishlists overnight, with nearly as many Demo downloads. Shout out to those of you realising your creative dreams and making music with your human hands and brains 🎹 store.steampowered.com/app/4468030/...

RIP Bobby Prince. His music legacy will live on, making inspired music for Commander Keen, Wolfenstein 3D, DOOM, countless others. A true legend. And such a nice man, great musician, wonderful, fun-loving man, nothing but happy memories of him. A loss to the world.

I wrote an article for @readlux.bsky.social about the need to archive vintage porn instead of sharing decontextualized, 'aesthetic' excerpts. It's something I care deeply about!! Gift link: lux-magazine.com/article/scan...

Much to celebrate today for HORSES! Over 30k units sold in six months, the Best Experience award at last week's Italian Video Game Awards, and our last update to the game adding support for French, Spanish, German, Russian, Korean, and Japanese. www.horses.wtf

I wrote about the hyper-niche job sims which are simultaneously SO NOW and very pre-2008 crash. Their fantasies are seductive: step into a petit bourgeois dream world free of economic turbulence; enjoy smoothly sequential arcs of workplace progress. Imagine! www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/a...

Bundle Hosting Revamped 📦 🎉 We've taken what we've learned over the past 10 years of co-op bundles and redesigned our bundle creation tools to make it easier than ever to host bundles of all kinds of sizes. Check it out: itch.io/t/6475377/bu...

World Cup Analysis: The crisp red of the South Korean jerseys juxtaposed w sharp white of the Czechia jerseys has a pleasing effect against the neon green grass, with its comforting geometric white lines. The slowly swaying refs in subdued turquoise kit give a mesmerizing langour to the proceedings.

My latest for Swiss public radio broadcaster RSI: I talked about about @meiacalca.bsky.social's Panthalassa, a point-and-click adventure game where Gnosticism meets marine ecology.

A little bit of news from the Story Rich Showcase: BOTH Citizen Sleeper games are coming to Switch 2 on ⚡️June 25th⚡️ Existing switch owners will be able to upgrade for free!

Here's the official revel trailer for Ithaca, our road-trip RPG about climate resistance. The world is burning. There’s a hostage in your trunk. How far will you go? If you'd like to play this one day, please consider backing the project on Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/ith...

On Italian magazine Limina I discuss what we actually do with these digital toys called videogames.

Attention Judero fans! This is your rare chance to own part of the game. I am putting together unique lots of the models. Message me below if anything catches your interest.

The Old Flesh of Nuraga demo is out! 🎉 Link below. #SteamNextFest #indiedev #godot #horror #horrorgame

hey baby!! deep-hell.com is BACK with a brand new site design that's faster and more mobile friendly. you also finally have easier to find links to the rest of the website.

I’m super excited to see what my American game dev friends have been making, while American bombs did this to my neighbourhood

I received my personal copy of The Zium Digest direct from Italy. Thank you again to @mlupetti.upandpunch.red for all your help in making the physical version a reality. As well as everyone involved in every bit of it.

Kane & Lynch 2

The podcast of my latest gaming recommendations for Kappa (Radiotelevisione svizzera in lingua italiana, RSI) is now online: I talk about Find Your Words by @capybaragames.com, a videogame about non-verbal communication.

learning that the Queer Games Bundle is no more was depressing, but I'm very glad that @powerofpridebundle.bsky.social is keeping the concept alive

My latest videogame reviews for @artribune.bsky.social: @studioortica.bsky.social's Birds Watching, @wtheknife.bsky.social's Set Yourself on Fire, @apthomson.bsky.social & @fellowtraveller.games's Titanium Court, Scriptorium: Master of Manuscripts and Super Mario Bros. Wonder for NS2.

My latest for Italian communist newspaper il manifesto: I wrote about Cave Story: A Lyrical Walkthrough, a hip-hop album that builds an entire rapped walkthrough of Cave Story over beats from the golden age of Def Jux.

Scholar's Codex (@tuneandfairweather.bsky.social) is out! Edited by @domford.bsky.social, @gua-le-ni.com, @nelevdm.bsky.social and @danielvella.bsky.social, with an essay of mine on the relationship between Darkness and humanity from Augustine of Hippo to Elden Ring.

Just received physical copies of our volume of essays on the games of From Software, out now on @tuneandfairweather.bsky.social - and it's an even more gorgeous thing than photos can convey. I was planning on doing some work today but might just stare at this on the shelf instead.

On Thursday evening Valnet issued new contracts to writers at TheGamer instituting a minimum article viewership threshold for payment. Most writers already have pay tied to article performance, but this new system would mean that if a piece didn't get X number of clicks you wouldn't be paid for it.

hello! i worked on this! proofread, and punched up the german localization for the game. :) i'm very happy with the work we did! if you're a player from the DACH area, give it a whirl!!

My cute and silly yuri visual novel about a failgirl demon queen trying (and failing) to make her maid fear her, The Demon Queen's Dire Dilemma, now has 50 reviews on Steam! Thank you for the support, it's appreciated! ❤️✨

Over a year ago, I spoke with @rasheedabueideh.bsky.social about Dreams on a Pillow for a piece that was killed before it could be published. I am honored that he was willing to take the time to speak with me again in spite of that and tell me about his beautiful homeland: kotaku.com/upcoming-ste...

dylan dog: la regina delle tenebre, screenshot, dos (1992) www.mobygames.com/game/184709/...

It's heartbreaking that games as a medium remain out of reach for people telling the stories worth telling most. www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfe...

BIG NEWS Judero is coming to Nintendo Switch next week! Pre-order available with a very competitive price. FREE DEMO with lots of content available NOW! We’ve been working on this port for years on and off, so happy it’s coming out. Plays great on Switch.

Amazon pressured one of its teams to develop an AI game, they scrambled to make it work - then got laid off anyway. A special report on the story of Project Trident: www.eurogamer.net/amazon-ai-ga...

A federal judge in the US has overturned the Trump administration’s sanctions against Francesca Albanese, the UN's Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories and Palestinian human rights:

UDO. Guida ai videogiochi nell'Antropocene (The Unidentified Digital Object. A Guide to Videogames in the Anthropocene) is a unique contribution on the topic of videogames and climate change. Imagine @mitpress.bsky.social doing an English language release of this book 👀. One can only hope.

I thought it was a Famicom Disk System.

Important announcement (reposts appreciated): I’ve regained the rights to UDO. Guida ai videogiochi nell'Antropocene (The Unidentified Digital Object. A Guide to Videogames in the Anthropocene), and I have about a hundred leftover copies to give away. So:

Digital copies are also available, and some new community copies (free copies) have been added to the itch! theziumsociety.itch.io/the-zium-dig... See also: The Zium Digest Oratorio: theziumsociety.itch.io/the-zium-dig... Thank you!