Duncan Fyfe
@duncanfyfe.net
freelance feature writer. video game writer. not duncan't fyfe. duncan fyfe.
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"rich dipshit owner doesn't understand the industry he's bought into and clumsily destroys what made it good" feels less like a narrative unique to the washington post and more like the music that's been playing in the background of all our lives for at least 40 years
February 4, 2026 at 2:53 PM
"rich dipshit owner doesn't understand the industry he's bought into and clumsily destroys what made it good" feels less like a narrative unique to the washington post and more like the music that's been playing in the background of all our lives for at least 40 years
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in 2026, let's bring back the concept of "selling out" and once again make it contemptible
February 3, 2026 at 7:05 PM
in 2026, let's bring back the concept of "selling out" and once again make it contemptible
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I think it's important to know that an oral history of Tim Curry's greatest line delivery exists
here it is
(and yes, it was his first take, and yes, they kept it anyway because how could you not)
here it is
(and yes, it was his first take, and yes, they kept it anyway because how could you not)
February 2, 2026 at 9:44 PM
I think it's important to know that an oral history of Tim Curry's greatest line delivery exists
here it is
(and yes, it was his first take, and yes, they kept it anyway because how could you not)
here it is
(and yes, it was his first take, and yes, they kept it anyway because how could you not)
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26 // Space is the final frontier and it’s where Tim Curry’s Soviet Premier wants to go in Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3. You can learn more than you ever wanted to know about the game’s most infamous scene in this oral history from @duncanfyfe.net.
videogameresearchlibrary.com/an-oral-hist...
videogameresearchlibrary.com/an-oral-hist...
An Oral History of Tim Curry’s Escape to the One Place Uncorrupted by Capitalism – Waypoint: Games By Vice (2022) – Video Game Research Library
videogameresearchlibrary.com
January 29, 2026 at 9:01 AM
26 // Space is the final frontier and it’s where Tim Curry’s Soviet Premier wants to go in Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3. You can learn more than you ever wanted to know about the game’s most infamous scene in this oral history from @duncanfyfe.net.
videogameresearchlibrary.com/an-oral-hist...
videogameresearchlibrary.com/an-oral-hist...
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
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
December 22, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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.)
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🎉 #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
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
December 16, 2025 at 2:08 PM
🎉 #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
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
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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...
Why Elon Musk Needs Dungeons and Dragons to Be Racist
The fantastical roots of “scientific racism”
www.theatlantic.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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...
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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.
How Sierra Was Captured, Then Killed, by a Massive Accounting Fraud
Sierra was one of the biggest game publishers of the 90s. Then they got an offer that was way too good to be true, but too good to decline.
www.vice.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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.
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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.
How Sierra Was Captured, Then Killed, by a Massive Accounting Fraud
Sierra was one of the biggest game publishers of the 90s. Then they got an offer that was way too good to be true, but too good to decline.
www.vice.com
November 8, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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
October 26, 2025 at 1:05 PM
And all your favourite characters from the movies are here
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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!
Please share!
October 20, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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!
Please share!
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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...
www.ft.com/content/5ae5...
The curse of ‘Disco Elysium’, the greatest RPG ever made
How the success of a singular video game led to crises for almost all its creators
www.ft.com
August 3, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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...
www.ft.com/content/5ae5...
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First 300 clicks free here, thereafter you have to register or subscribe:
The curse of ‘Disco Elysium’, the greatest RPG ever made
[FREE TO READ] How the success of a singular video game led to crises for almost all its creators
on.ft.com
August 3, 2025 at 3:06 PM
First 300 clicks free here, thereafter you have to register or subscribe:
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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:
The curse of ‘Disco Elysium’, the greatest RPG ever made
How the success of a singular video game led to crises for almost all its creators
www.ft.com
August 3, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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:
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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
on.ft.com/45beFip The curse of ‘Disco Elysium’, the greatest RPG ever made
The curse of ‘Disco Elysium’, the greatest RPG ever made
How the success of a singular video game led to crises for almost all its creators
on.ft.com
August 3, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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
on.ft.com/45beFip The curse of ‘Disco Elysium’, the greatest RPG ever made
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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
Subscription link (I read through an iOS app subscription that is pretty reasonable fwiw) digitaleditionapp.ft.com/i9DX/8iojqfgt
Financial Times
News, analysis and comment from the Financial Times, the worldʼs leading global business publication
digitaleditionapp.ft.com
August 2, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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
Subscription link (I read through an iOS app subscription that is pretty reasonable fwiw) digitaleditionapp.ft.com/i9DX/8iojqfgt
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Little fires everywhere; the Financial Times writes about Disco, ZA/UM, and all the offshoots.
www.ft.com/content/5ae5...
www.ft.com/content/5ae5...
August 2, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Little fires everywhere; the Financial Times writes about Disco, ZA/UM, and all the offshoots.
www.ft.com/content/5ae5...
www.ft.com/content/5ae5...
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I feel like the FT doing a big piece on Disco Elysium is an acknowledgment of its Marxist readers
August 3, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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...
www.ft.com/content/5ae5...
The curse of ‘Disco Elysium’, the greatest RPG ever made
How the success of a singular video game led to crises for almost all its creators
www.ft.com
August 3, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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...
www.ft.com/content/5ae5...
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this is like thinking the point of eating a meal is to experience having shat
Really a sad way to go through life www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/b...
June 27, 2025 at 2:04 PM
this is like thinking the point of eating a meal is to experience having shat
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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.”' 🧜♂️
June 14, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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.”' 🧜♂️
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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
Mexican Flags Have Become Republican Fodder, but Protesters Keep Waving Them (Gift Article)
Images of Los Angeles protesters waving Mexican flags have gone viral in conservative circles this week. Many protesters say they are aware of the political reaction but won’t put their flags away.
www.nytimes.com
June 11, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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
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also: to how many readers can this possibly be relevant
June 7, 2025 at 5:26 PM
also: to how many readers can this possibly be relevant
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Pledge now to -
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🏍️ make deliveries by day, street race by night
💋 kiss your friends on the mouth??
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