Saturday hike near Gnejna Bay #Malta (pics by @danielvella.bsky.social)

Saying «AI is just a tool» might be the laziest form of aggressive ignorance. As a statement, it's ultimately both trivial and almost meaningless, serving only to free you from further thought so that you can use the gadgets without caring about their preconditions, implications, and consequences

🏹The Hunger Games builds its narrative around a fictional game. What can the (fictional) games we play reveal about the values held by society? 🎙️ @gua-le-ni.com chats with @matthewleggatt.bsky.social & @dystopiajunkie.bsky.social on @utopiaanddystopia.bsky.social 🔗 www.um.edu.mt/newspoint/li...

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Did you see this cat? #Mising #Malta

Gross tbh. Zerocalcare is a GIANT, and he actually spent time in war zones to understand human stories, instead of writing centrist conspiratorial nonsense where the baddie is called EVIL MAN. kotaku.com/hideo-kojima...

We’re looking for an experienced 3D game animator to bring our human characters to life! Can you handle IK setups, cyclical animation loops and export/import between Blender and Unity? Are you familiar with root motion and setting up blend trees? Send us your cv to [email protected]

Oh hey, that's me! Very much looking forward to giving this talk at ITU next week!

For the past decade, I've been slowly cooking a small and humble book. Part (alternative) history, part analysis, and part social critique, this is a look at what games also are and have always been. ZEN AND SLOW GAMES Out 20/1/2026 by MIT Press mitpress.mit.edu/978026255356...

When Elden Ring had been announced but not yet released, its subreddit started collectively pretending the game was already out. I spent far too many hours reading strategies to defeat the (completely made-up) Glaive Master Hodir. For research. This is the result: doi.org/10.1093/aest...

I asked Microsoft PR about this—specially the DHS using Halo IP to recruit for ICE—and the company declined to comment.

I wrote a short summary of the below recently published paper for the New Work in Philosophy blog. open.substack.com/pub/newworki... Thanks @marcusarvan.bsky.social for hosting this!

When we talk about videogames and movies I think we often miss how videogames are represented as history/memory tools in Chris Marker's Level Five. I wrote about it for The Bunker Magazine through @gua-le-ni.com and Fassone's book "Fictional Games. A Philosophy of Worldbuilding and Imaginary Play".

Sunday hike in Marsascala #Malta

In case you missed it, I talked about my latest novel - a speculative sci-fi detective story - at the 'Utopian and Dystopian Fictions Podcast.' Check it out! :) >> youtu.be/eFW_XltfW-k?... << @indigitalgames.bsky.social @utopiaanddystopia.bsky.social @matthewleggatt.bsky.social

Git fud! >> soup.gua-le-ni.com << (This is an old game we made in 2017, not related to the hilarious picture below)

GAME IDEA Top half and bottom half of the same game sold separately

Christmas comes early, this year :)

Saturday hike (and a swim) close to Gnejna Bay, #Malta

Check out this nice review of FICTIONAL GAMES that @steinea.bsky.social did for ARB a while back: ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2023/05/26/i...

Finally you can hear me pontificate on stuff like fictional #games and #utopia! 📢 Episode 16 of 'Utopian and Dystopian Fictions Podcast ( @utopiaanddystopia.bsky.social, with @matthewleggatt.bsky.social).

Episode 16 on all things playful in utopian and dystopian fiction is available to stream now via Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and YouTube. We had a lot of fun talking to the brilliant Stefano Gualeni. Take a listen and let us know what you think. open.spotify.com/episode/3Pz0...

"mid-sip nod"

DiGRA 2026 (Ireland) CfP is now live Full paper and abstracts deadline: 1 December 2025 Workshop proposals deadline: 15 February 2026 www.digraconference2026.com #games #gamestudies

Three (3) new postdoctoral game studies positions are now open for applications. These are related to the exit phase (2026-27) of the CoE-GameCult, and positions will situated in the Tampere University Game Research Lab, COMS/ITC, Tampere University. tuni.rekrytointi.com/paikat/index...

This is a great piece, shows not only how games are an intrinsic part of our cultures but also how you can use them to tell wider stories. Excellent stuff

"Is your mother worried? Would you like us to assign someone to worry your mother?"

Ambiance (via @ivan-ehlers.bsky.social // www.instagram.com/p/DOJOWtRkaa...)

If you have stuff in Academia.edu, it might be good to reconsider?

Egun on! Abrimos exposición en Donostia: CINE GÊMU: FANTASÍA Y TERROR EN EL VIDEOJUEGO JAPONÉS Comisariada para la Semana de Cine Fantástico y de Terror y Fundación Japón, Madrid, junto a Marçal Mora Cantallops y a Alejandro Rodríguez. www.sansebastianhorrorfestival.eus/2025/index.p...

Did you miss the stream? You can still watch @gua-le-ni.com discuss What We Owe The Dead, philosophy, worldbuilding, and games with @konstantinosd.bsky.social on YouTube. Here's the video: www.youtube.com/live/uZQjsKK...

all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago

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)

📢 Tomorrow I will be speaking about fictional games and speculative literature. Join us online at 17:30 CET [email protected] @konstantinosd.bsky.social @indigitalgames.bsky.social #gamestudies #scifi

We'll be recording this with guest @gua-le-ni.com in just over a week! Will be a fun one!

"In the yard was a shed. In the shed was a pig. It was the pig sighing. 'It is probably bewitched,' the girl thought hearing it grunt." (p. 8)

The haunting landscapes of New Zealand surrealist painter Brent Wong (born 1945)

✈️ LS239 from Leeds back to Malta

Excited to share that my new novel, 'What We Owe the Dead,' is now available to readers across the Americas. It is a strange detective story set against the backdrop of ecological collapse. You can now find 'What we Owe the Dead' through all major booksellers! CC @freeklomme.bsky.social

Happy 40th anniversary to "Thundercats". Opening animated by Masayuki (who was only 22 years old at the time).

A reminder that this is happening on Thursday!

✈️ FR3219 from Milan Bergamo to Manchester (on my way to York)

“I worry that such use of AI is normalizing new ways of thinking and making us susceptible to new grammars of reality and truth telling. It distorts our comprehension. It allows the dead to pass as living and lets fragments scraped from the past be assembled in the present tense.”

Next Thursday (September 11th), join @florencesn.bsky.social & myself in discussing #game archaeology and speculative #fiction in relation to my latest novel! The presentation starts at 6 PM at Village Bookstore in Leeds (UK): >> villagebooks.co/blogs/blog/w... <<

Saturday hike at Lago Aviolo (BS), Italy.

DiGRA 2026 will be hosted at Maynooth University in Maynooth, Ireland from 14 to 18 June 2026. The 2026 conference theme is Intersectional Pleasures. digra.org/digra-2026-h...

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).