This nomination — a second consecutive one! for journalism! — is so appreciated, not least because I had a grand total of FOUR pieces published this year, which I worried is really not very many. (I spent most of this year writing things to be published in 2026, 2027 and beyond.)

🎉 #NewYorkGameAward nominees for Games Journalism: Duncan Fyfe @duncanfyfe.net Felipe Pepe @felipepepe.bsky.social Jackson Tyler @abnormalmapping.bsky.social Joseph Earl Thomas Lewis Gordon @lewisgordon.bsky.social Nicanor Gordon @nicanor.bsky.social People Make Games @chrisbratt.bsky.social

The far right is obsessed with Lord of the Rings and Musk keeps posting about "hobbits" because modern scientific racism owes more to fantasy worlds and gaming systems than genetic science, and they see both as effective mediums for right-wing propaganda www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

This was one of the all-time bangers of deep dive journalism from Waypoint. I was a part of Sierra fandom and closely followed these developments as they happened, and it's unreal to see it retold but with all of the wild, crazy financial business shit laid bare.

Rediscovered this electric article from 2020 by the great @duncanfyfe.net about the death of Sierra, a studio that was so so important to my childhood.

And all your favourite characters from the movies are here

Friends, I am in the market for editing work at the moment. I really enjoyed a stint editing stories for BBC Future earlier this year and am currently looking for more such opportunities! Anything from news & features to book chapters and so on. I'm game. Please share!

For the FT this weekend, I wrote about the foundation and fallout of Disco Elysium: how two Estonian novelists' successes and failures in literature led to the creation of a video game masterpiece, and an endless font of strife. www.ft.com/content/5ae5...

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Terrific piece about how the team that made Disco Elyisum fell apart. They never should have set up in that Doomed Commercial Area, I guess:

Excellent long read on the weird, amazing creative folks behind a truly unique game. on.ft.com/45beFip The curse of ‘Disco Elysium’, the greatest RPG ever made

Duncan Fyfe on the making of Disco Elysium in the FT! Subscription link (I read through an iOS app subscription that is pretty reasonable fwiw) digitaleditionapp.ft.com/i9DX/8iojqfgt

Little fires everywhere; the Financial Times writes about Disco, ZA/UM, and all the offshoots. www.ft.com/content/5ae5...

I feel like the FT doing a big piece on Disco Elysium is an acknowledgment of its Marxist readers

For the FT this weekend, I wrote about the foundation and fallout of Disco Elysium: how two Estonian novelists' successes and failures in literature led to the creation of a video game masterpiece, and an endless font of strife. www.ft.com/content/5ae5...

this is like thinking the point of eating a meal is to experience having shat

From the Seattle Times website: 'The protest did get a surprise guest: Former Gov. Jay Inslee spoke to the crowd, urging people to stand up “for democracy.” Inslee called the unusual demonstration inspiring, saying “the only king” he recognizes is “Neptune, king of the sea.”' 🧜‍♂️

I just think anyone upset at the sight of a Mexican flag is clearly upset at the sight of Mexican people and are thus not rational political actors who should get to draw the lines of our discourse

also: to how many readers can this possibly be relevant

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What happened with Polygon today is so fucked. Vox Media has made some atrocious decisions in my six years here but this is really something else. And to do this in the middle of us bargaining a new union contract, where they scold us for asking for better protections, is just unconscionable.

This sounds post-apocalyptic, but aspiring filmmakers and writers really should find and collect DVD commentaries. So much applicable advice you’d never get in film school because it was discovered in the circumstances of making that movie. Big cultural step backward to lose easy access to these.

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Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

Remember: all computing history is important and should be archived and studied, so we can understand the good ideas and mistakes of history. Except this button. This button should not have been archived and remembered.

this is a good post and "decadence" is a good way to think about a lot of things. true decadence is, eg, thinking you could let an insurrection go unpunished and the country would just keep chugging along nbd

guess i'll just write my little essays

With apologies to Ireland, I will not

We have had nearly two decades of panic about Free Speech on Campus and not a single case, not even the ones they made up, were as bad as what's happening now

Here's my latest piece for @remapradio.bsky.social, about Roger Ebert, the only video game he reviewed in his life, and what that has to do (really) with how the world is now. remapradio.com/articles/a-w...

Once again, we're happy to have @duncanfyfe.net writing at Remap. This time, on trying to find Roger Ebert's favorite game and what his affection for it tells us about how we approach art. remapradio.com/articles/a-w...

"It will be important to remember the shame of this moment, both how it felt and how it worked, when it is time to build whatever will rise from it."

Here's my latest piece for @remapradio.bsky.social, about Roger Ebert, the only video game he reviewed in his life, and what that has to do (really) with how the world is now. remapradio.com/articles/a-w...

what replaces due process under fascism is the assurance of protection for favored groups. even though it’s precarious, a lot of people feel just as protected under that framework as they do under one with due process

Any day I get to read a new Duncan Fyfe piece is a good day

One from me about Roger Ebert's lone video game review, and what that has to do with [gestures broadly] how things are now remapradio.com/articles/a-w...

Here's @duncanfyfe.net on trying to find Roger Ebert's favorite game and what his affection for it tells us about how we approach art. remapradio.com/articles/a-w...

One from me about Roger Ebert's lone video game review, and what that has to do with [gestures broadly] how things are now remapradio.com/articles/a-w...

AI art is the aesthetic of 21st century fascism

Being snatched off the street for your opinions. I'll say it again. We are deciding, right now, whether the aspirations we hold for this country are finished. Whether we're going to let these hoodlums and grifters throw what's left of the American idea into the garbage for their own profit and gain.

I don't care what side of the Israel-Palestine conflict your sympathies lie on, snatching up people with a valid student visa for the crime of writing an OpEd is naked fascism and if you don't oppose this you are a threat to this country's most basic values

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Tonight, hours after the Paul Weiss news broke, an associate at Skadden Arps sent a firm-wide email: "Please consider this email my two week notice, revocable if the firm comes up with a satisfactory response to the current moment...We do not have time. It is now or it is never..."

Yeah that’s probably why

Really can't be emphasized enough that Kamala Harris, like most Democrats, did not actually run on the defense of trans people in 2024. The real ask here is for Democratic candidates to join in attacking a minority population that is being persecuted by the current administration for votes.

oh this is a big mystery

This isn't anti-DEI - it's retelling history as a story with only white men in it. The tale of the Navajo Code Talkers is essential to understanding the Allies' victory in WWII. Removing it because the people involved were non-white is segregationism.

I’m gonna go out on a limb and say the trade policies and bellicose rhetoric have less to do with it than the uncertainty about whether some maga dipshit is maybe going to indefinitely detain you in the airport because he doesn’t like your kind.