"Boid Poems" has now been published via the @ailiteraryreview.bsky.social - Combining swarming a-life algorithms with language attractors, the words of this interactive piece formate into different visual and semantic structures. Preview below, live link here: ailiteraryreview.co.uk/issue06

🌎🌎🌎NEW GAME ANNOUNCEMENT!💀💀💀 Introducing *Earth Must Die* from @danthat.bsky.social A dark comedy adventure game featuring the voices of Alex Horne, Joel Fry, Martha Howe-Douglas and more store.steampowered.com/app/3639780/... RTs extremely appreciated!!!! <3 <3

⚔️TIME ⚔️ TO ⚔️ RECLAIM ⚔️ YOUR ⚔️ BRAIN⚔️ Blanksword's Steam Demo & Kickstarter Campaign just launched as of RIGHT NOW! Play the Demo on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3484670/... Preorder the game on Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/283... Join the Discord: discord.gg/ftmCfsupyv

A new article about the long relationship between games and war for Italian communist newspaper Il Manifesto and my latest Margini videoludici (At videogame margins) column, with @kdx.re's we reshaped the immutable sky.

Following pressure, Microsoft has finally shut off Israel's access to Azure cloud technology that it used to spy on Palestinians.

Videogames as a disputed toy between war and peace. My latest for The Bunker, with comments from Marco Minoli, publishing director at Slitherine Games, and from renowned artist @josephdelappe.bsky.social about his work inside U.S. Army's recruitment videogame America's Army. Article in English

now that Disney is in the discourse, i must now share the recent conversation i had with @vickyacab.bsky.social for the UK-based TANK magazine on her upcoming book about Disney: as well as Nintendo as a Disney analog, the current state of art in culture, and much more tank.tv/magazine/iss...

In my monthly review column on Italian art magazine @artribune.bsky.social: @artis-impact.bsky.social, Benjamin Pilbrow's Clean Break, @fakefrogsonly.bsky.social, @rlnbrl.com & @stuffedwomb.at's FALLSTRUKTUR, @okomotive.ch & @panic.com's Herdling and @cathroon.itch.io's _ΩMEGA_POINT.

America 2025. Please Don’t Offend The White Supremacists

Do any of you have access to the machinima SonicJihad: A Day in the Life of a Resistance Fighter? Reposts appreciated, thank you.

INCOMING CANON FIRE! You may have heard of Asuka 120%, the legendary all girls fighter that inspired the anime fighter subgenre. But did you know the original designer collaborated with the creators of Steins;Gate and Corpse Party to create a spiritual successor? canonfire.net/post/7951417...

I keep this Kongregate image around as a reminder of how easily huge chunks of the video game scene can vanish without a trace. Similarly, ゲームアツマール (kinda like Japan's Newgrounds, but based on RPG Maker) died in 2023 without a single note on Western media... how many die without us even knowing?

Palestinian Voices in Games announced - a network of more than 50 industry professionals supporting Palestinian video game creators, with 4 games currently receiving help. (Read more: Palestinian Voices in Games)

inspired by @gua-le-ni.com

The written version, which one peer reviewer said was too ideological to be academically rigorous (lol) dl.digra.org/index.php/dl...

I haven't fleshed it out into a full article, but at DiGRA last year I presented this talk which was a Marxist analysis of the tendency of (indie) developers becoming publishers after a big hit. Maybe of interest to the current discourse I'm seeing around publishers www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ey014...

In my latest for Italian art magazine The Bunker I talk about Manuel Ghidini's Rab Sitting, a plundercore slot machine in which Super Mario is a worker in late capitalism. (article in English)

the thing with gamergate is there's no "there" there after a certain point, like there's nothing to deep to 'understand' about it. it was really a convenient convergence point for a lot of things that already existed and were going to coalesce into something sooner or later.

Super excited about this new "Art & System" TTRPG series by Central Michigan University PRESS! "The series will open with Dog Eat Dog (2012) by Liam Liwanag Burke, Princess with a Cursed Sword (2025) by Anna Anthropy, and The Mountain Witch (2005) by Tim Kleinert." www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...

OT, but I'm happy to see Dario's (and Kiel's) Don't Make Love in a cover image again. miss u Dario.

The current campaign against adult games is only the tip of the iceberg. We talked to game dev, journalist and NSFW game expert @beurkeek.bsky.social about their petition, protest against payment processors and the right of 'obscenity' to exist within art. www.gamesmarket.global/en/personali...

EVERYTHING SPIRALS TO A FINAL POINT OF UNIFICATION THE SACRED ΩMEGA POINT cathroon.itch.io/omega-point A MIXTAPE AT THE END OF THE WORLD [FLASHING IMAGE WARNING]

"If every nation-state is a sect". Today on Italian communist newspaper Il Manifesto: I talked with game developer @nikkijay.games about her experience growing up in a Christian sect and how this has informed her vision of society and her videogame Quantum Witch.

The Play for Peace: Games for Palestine charity bundle is now live! Nearly 400 games from creators all around the world, with proceeds going directly to Gaza relief efforts. Bundle link: itch.io/b/2979/play-... We made a launch trailer to celebrate this moment👇 Please RT.

2025: DO AMPHETAMINES NOW

The Games for Palestine charity bundle is out NOW! 🍉🎮 Get 382 games, including Atuel, for donating just $8 (or more) to humanitarian aid for Palestine and Palestinian refugees. Please help to fight against genocide by donating and spreading the word with a RT! 🙏✨

Just under a month left on the deadline for submissions on our fantastical Sidney Sime / Games Art exhibition ✨

My talk in #Mantova is tomorrow at 18:30 @ #FESTIVALETTERATURA [in Italian] 📢Ho ancora due biglietti omaggio per il mio intervento, se qualcuno e' interessato (scrivete pure qui).

no sex we're british

NEW ‼️ TWINE TEMPLATE: 🗺 DESTINATIONS a fully customizable template for the sugarcube format, featuring a navigation dropdown check out the demo and download directly on itch! gcbaccaris.itch.io/template3

This is what I've been working on all summer. It's my first book, called Escape Velocity: Explorations of Digital Culture and its Discontents 2019-2024. It's partially a retrospective of my time doing No Escape but it also features multiple revisions of old work and five entirely new essays.

In my monthly videogame review column for art magazine @artribune.bsky.social: Becoming Saint (@peterpunk.bsky.social), The End of Gameplay (@droqen.bsky.social), Time Flies (@playables.net, @panic.com), Vile: Exhumed (@dirtlord77.bsky.social) and Wheel World (@messhof.bsky.social, @annapurna.com).

After years of antidemocratic coups d'état in democratic countries the USA experimented with democratic coups d'état in antidemocratic countries. And they don't work! And they still don't understand what's wrong with their approach.

Hey, would you look at that! ATUEL is part of The Game Devs of Color Support Bundle! 🙌✨ With over 100 games for just $10, this bundle is a great deal that goes to a wonderful cause!

Microsoft shuts down questions about layoffs and Israel ties at Gamescom 2025

#Gaurodan facts ♥ Free to download and play (we just share it) ♥ Hosted on my own site (no ads or cookies) ♥ Works locally and offline (no drm or telemetry) ♥ The copy is yours to keep (you get a zip file) ♥ Supporting the project is up to you bsky.app/profile/loco...

The Death Stranding as a hyperobject. My new article is online on The Bunker Magazine.

The #HugoAward for Best Game or Interactive Work goes to Caves of Qud.

we did it! now im gonna move the goalposts! we're actually soooooo close to $100k now...... in fact we are just under $5k away. wouldnt it be nice to get more cool in-game art of vampires/ghosts kissing renfield... dont mind if i do! back the drac for more kissing! 💋 bsky.app/profile/hara...

I pride myself on my professionalism in comics. I don't talk shit about books I don't enjoy. I am happy when folks get gigs even if I wish I landed them. So when I say the transphobic bullshit in the new BLOODSHOT #1 comic is disgusting and should have never made it to print. Shameful shit.

Starting November 3, you can join me in building a living, breathing, interactive city in text using @inkle.co's amazing narrative scripting language ink. You can find out more about this 3-sessions @d6learning.bsky.social course of mine here: www.d6learning.com/course/text-...

i sincerely believe we can make it to 1000 backers if we combine our powers. after all, what's 60 more souls (or more!) in the next 6 days? "back the drac" today... if you dare! 🫵 www.kickstarter.com/projects/171...

The Observer takes on the collapse of Unbound - some truly shocking allegations, almost all of which I have seen compelling evidence of as a member of the Unbound author WhatsApp group and through my own experience of being published by them observer.co.uk/news/busines...

My latest Margini videoludici (At videogame margins) column for Italian communist newspaper Il Manifesto is about the relevance of the Panopticon model in surveillance studies and @saltedslug.net's The PANOPTICON.

No more mr Nicea guy (sorry)

would recommend listening to retro pc game radio if you're partial to the pc98 soundscape, covers a large swathe of games that were released during the late 80s and early 90s you can also learn more about the titles which the various tracks play from! gyusyabu.ddo.jp/MP3/MP3.html