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I videogiochi per riflettere sulla contemporaneità selezionati per voi da Artribune Trattano di corpi simulati, superamento dei limiti, architettura i videogiochi selezionati da Artribune a febbraio 2026

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In my latest videogame review column for @artribune.bsky.social: @thegamebakers.com' Cairn, @girlypop.net, @on-together.bsky.social, the Quake Brutalist Jam III (with a focus on @radiatoryang.bsky.social's One Need Not Be a House) and @inkle.co' TR-49.

“Unemployment Simulator 2018” - RSI La noia della disoccupazione in un videogioco, con Matteo Lupetti

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My latest appearance on Radiotelevisione svizzera's Rete Due is now online. I spoke about Unemployment Simulator 2018 by Samuel Lehikoinen and turbolento.

Today on Italian communist newspaper @ilmanifesto: @icepicklodge.bsky.social & HypeTrain Digital's Pathologic 3, an attempt to reflect on the management of an epidemic. And in my Margini videoludici column I write about @alienmelon.bsky.social's latest work.

We only have the one-word form and we use videoludico as its adjective. I think most countries have some kind of calque from the English "videogame". We also have a couple of weird translations for so-called videogame genres, such as "sparatutto" for shoot 'em up and first and third person shooters.

Videogiochi come elegie ecologiche: 40 anni di Zelda e 30 di Pokémon Due serie nate come avventure per bambini diventano, a distanza di decenni, una meditazione nostalgica su natura, progresso e memoria del Giappone moderno. In copertina e lungo il testo screenshot dal...

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In late February we celebrate 40 years of The Legend of Zelda and 30 years of Pokémon. For L'Indiscreto, I wrote about these videogames as attempts to recover a lost rural Japan that perhaps never truly existed. (article in ITA)

When the new animated series of Evangelion was announced, my first reaction was “who cares” (anyone who personally knows me knows how uncharacteristic that is of me). Then I read that it’s directed by Kazuya Tsurumaki and that it's written by Yoko Taro, so… yeah, actually I do. I do care.

Black-and-white four-panel comic strip Peantus. In the first panel, Charlie Brown stands on a sidewalk wearing a safety patrol sash and holding a stop sign, shouting, “Okay, let’s move along there!” In the second panel, he continues yelling, “Just pay attention to your safety patrol! Move along, now! Move along!” In the third panel, Lucy walks past him carrying books and says, “Fuzz!” mocking him, while he looks deflated. In the final panel, Charlie Brown stands alone holding the stop sign and quietly mutters, “Okay… let’s move along… let’s move along…”

Charles M. Schulz, November 15, 1966

@stopcar.ing +1

Il gioco è una specie di “guida” che permette ai discendenti di Dante di accedere ogni 33 anni all’inferno… È uscito un nuovo videogioco su Dante e la Divina Commedia

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A new Italian video game inspired by the Divine Comedy has been announced and I had the chance to preview the demo for @artribune.bsky.social (it's now available for everyone, on Steam).

@kinmoku.bsky.social hi! You have a DM!

Hi! I have a new, quirky article out on how games use and represent the dead, but also on deadpool games, & the strange case of the #Fantamorto (an Italian fantasy sport).

>> gamestudies.org/2601/article... <<

🚨WARNING🚨: it might contain traces of @ckunzelman.bsky.social and @maurovanetti.itch.io

...that's right I can use Steam forums!

This three-game compilation has just been released on Steam and it looks interesting, but I can't find the studio online and its website is a nightmare with no contact details. Can someone help me?

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it looks like you have a christian-god-complex

Hi! You have email! 🙏

finally, I've received a PR pitching a videogame as "certain game 1 meets certain game 2" and game 2 is a game 1 clone.

@halfrobot.com Hi professor Clark, I'm Matteo and I'm an art and game critic from Italy. Is there any way I can contact you?

Lo sciopero dei lavoratori di Ubisoft Milano è la prova che la crisi dell'industria dei videogiochi è vera, grave ed è arrivata anche in Italia | Rivista Studio È il primo sciopero del settore nel nostro Paese, ma la discussione va avanti da tempo, tra sindacati, proteste, licenziamenti e inchieste.

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In my first for Rivista Studio, I wrote about the video game industry crisis and the new three-day strike at Ubisoft Milan.

Photo credits: FIOM-CGIL Milano.

Epic made provably incorrect statements about the game’s content, refused to provide details supporting their claims, and has not shared their claimed AO IARC certificate, which normally includes a link for the developer to appeal. They do not ‘love that studio’, they have effectively ghosted us

Was your pornographic, lewd, erotic, NSFW, or sexual game hosted on Steam or itch.io in July 2025? If so, consider participating in our online survey about the impacts of the changes to NSFW platform policy. More info about the project, the research team and how to participate at www.pppproject.com

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The upshot is that a Centre Pompidou-approved replica of the CD-ROM is playable at gorgomancy.net

Chris Marker’s memories come out of cold storage The film-maker’s attempt to preserve his memories on CD-ROM has been rendered obsolete. Emilie Bickerton finds out if the book version of Immemory is an adequate replacement

In the late 1990s, the film-maker Chris Marker tried to preserve his memories on CD-ROM. Now that CD-ROMs are obsolete, that attempt has been undone.

Emilie Bickerton picks up a book version of ‘Immemory’ to find out what has survived in translation

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Nintendo mantiene la promessa fatta al mondo LGBT 12 anni fa Il nuovo videogioco Tomodachi Life Una vita da sogno di Nintendo mantiene una promessa di inclusività verso le comunità LGBTQIA+ fatta più di 10 anni fa.

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12 years ago, Nintendo said that if they were ever going to make another Tomodachi Life, this time it wouldn’t be homophobic. And they did make another Tomodachi Life, and it isn’t homophobic indeed! I write about it on Gay dot it.