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Flirtatiously: "And is there a Mr Dos?"

Last Friday, for the Konsigli segment on Radiotelevisione svizzera in lingua italiana (RSI), I talked about Unhinged, Netflix’s latest experiment in the world of videogames. The story is pretty silly, but the design is genuinely interesting. The podcast is now online!

“Written off as half-dead, the video game industry is making a comeback,” main Italian gaming website Multiplayer wrote, drooling over Geoff Keighley’s summer hype train. For @artribune.bsky.social, I talk about the crisis facing the industry.

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While preparing for an interview with a Japanese game developer, I was asked not to ask a certain question and not to mention that I wasn't allowed to ask it.

I started drafting this piece long before I read @letominor.bsky.social's article for Stop Caring (@stopcar.ing), and even though I strongly disagree with Filote's framing and conclusions, I think the two essays should be read in conversation with each other. www.stopcar.ing/everything-i...

Everything is Permitted"I've never been one for politics." "You are a politician in your own way."www.stopcar.ing

Today in Italian communist newspaper Il Manifesto I write about @molleindustria.org's new videogame, Future? No Thanks!, which was supposed to have already been released but is instead stuck in Valve's review limbo. "The Gramscian solarpunk of Future! No Thanks!".

"Twenty-five years since September 11, 2001, more than 1,000 days into the genocide in Gaza carried out by Israel, and after months of more or less overt U.S.-Israeli aggression against Iran and Lebanon, I’m replaying the first Assassin’s Creed game." My first for @unwinnable.com.

I curated a new feature story exploring GTA V in contemporary art for Italian art magazine @artribune.bsky.social and it's available online and in PDF. Contributions from Valentina Tanni, Laura Cocciolillo and me. (image: Leonardo Magrelli, West of Here, 2021)

Last Friday on Radiotelevisione svizzera in lingua italiana I talked about Play/Ground 3, a series of visual novels created by students from a couple of Italian schools to explore the stories and the places of their regions.

This video was more influential than the actual videogames, and I do not mean that the videogames were not influential.

I really used to love the "not X but Y" structure and AI ruined everything.

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.