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.

yeah... that's the end of this meme

There's also a new Margini videoludici (At videogame margins) column, about an explicitly "anti-generative AI" videogame, @apehardware.bsky.social's Cognitive Reconquista.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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

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.

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.

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:

Last Friday I recommended Tides of Tomorrow, the new video game by DigixArt (Road 96) and Embracer Group, on Radiotelevisione svizzera in lingua italiana’s Rete Due. Podcast below!

@lichene.bsky.social at Artenaut* Games Festival.

Then there’s the latest Margini videoludici (At videogame margins) column featuring the philosophical game-essay HAMM-3R by @gua-le-ni.com, @amidos2006.bsky.social, @demigiant.com, Irina Tomova, Costantino Oliva and Danielius Degesys.

Today on Italian communist newspaper Il Manifesto I write about video games in Iran and within the Iranian diaspora, with comments from @thestaticman.bsky.social (Onto Maizilind Unto Infinity), Navid Khonsari (iNK Stories) and Arash Hackimi.

it's a real thing

For @artribune.bsky.social, I interviewed Simone Silvestri, art director for Saros by Housemarque/Sony, launching today on PlayStation 5.

This morning, thanks to Kenobit, I discovered this incredible Dying Gaul in California Games II for Master System.

The podcast of my latest videogame recommendation for Rete Due of Radiotelevisione svizzera is now online. This time we head to 17th-century France with MD Studio (@edwigelel.bsky.social) & @join-indie-io.bsky.social's The Abbess Garden.

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.

(🇮🇹) Sono statǝ all'apertura di Latent Rooms, la personale di @francescodisa.bsky.social a Rifugio Digitale, e ne ho scritto per @artribune.bsky.social.