Alessandro Colantonio
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Alessandro Colantonio
@exaliam.bsky.social
Level 34, INFP

🎲 Creative Director ⫸ @rollfest.bracciano
🕹️ Journalism ⫸ @playeritalia, @gamedivisionit
🌀 Projects ⫸ @colpi.critici, @weirdoorgdr

www.alessandrocolantonio.com
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I have started a Substack where I write reflections, insights, interesting facts, and stories about the world of gaming: colpicritici.substack.com
Colpi Critici | Alessandro Colantonio | Substack
🎯 Dove il gioco colpisce davvero: approfondimenti, curiosità, storie. Click to read Colpi Critici, by Alessandro Colantonio, a Substack publication. Launched 2 days ago.
colpicritici.substack.com
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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...
Hideo Kojima Throws Cartoonist Under The Bus After Controversy
The Death Stranding 2 director wanted to correct 'misunderstandings' on social media
kotaku.com
November 12, 2025 at 5:24 PM
This hurts so much @hideokojimaen.bsky.kojimaproductions.jp

As Kojima writes about "conveying facts", I'll do my part too
November 12, 2025 at 5:13 PM
I've already got next Sunday's newsletter ready and I can't wait to send it out.

It's an absurd discussion, a flight of fancy that started with a beer drunk in Japan with a legendary video game personality, but it will mainly be about D&D.
November 10, 2025 at 12:34 AM
When MÖRK BORG appeared in 2020, it looked like a black metal album that had been accidentally printed in the games section.

A yellow spot that lit up the shelf.

MÖRK BORG was ugly, dirty, and evil.
And yellow.

Read and subscribe to my substack for free: colpicritici.substack.com/p/mork-borg-...
November 9, 2025 at 12:45 PM
I have started a Substack where I write reflections, insights, interesting facts, and stories about the world of gaming: colpicritici.substack.com
Colpi Critici | Alessandro Colantonio | Substack
🎯 Dove il gioco colpisce davvero: approfondimenti, curiosità, storie. Click to read Colpi Critici, by Alessandro Colantonio, a Substack publication. Launched 2 days ago.
colpicritici.substack.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:50 AM
URGENT – INTERPRETER NEEDED IN TOKYO

Italian 🔄 Japanese
OR
English 🔄 Japanese

I need an interpreter in Tokyo for an interview with some japanese video games personalities.

📅 September 19, 2025

If you know someone, send them to my DMs!
Otherwise... please, repost! 🙏

#videogames #tokyo #japan
August 14, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Last week I had a pleasant chat with @borislavslavov.bsky.social, composer of Baldur's Gate 3 OST and Music Director at @larianstudios.com.

An incredible person, deeply connected to the emotions he experiences and conveys to his audience. 👇🏻

www.player.it/interviste/5...

(Interview in Italian)
Borislav Slavov: fare musica per le persone | Intervista all'autore delle OST di Baldur's Gate 3 - Player.it
Intervista a Borislav Slavov, autore della colonna sonora di Baldur's Gate 3, un musicista genuino che parla di emozioni e condivisione.
www.player.it
January 27, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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🎶ALL THAT GLITTERS IS GOLD🎶

Take a sneak peek at the Ancient Gold Dragon's stat block from the 2024 Monster Manual through the link below. https://dndbeyond.link/2024-Monster-Manual-Stat-Block-Design
January 20, 2025 at 9:00 PM
What is haoppening with Rednote/TikTok is mindblowning but I'm unsure to download an app with so restricting rules.
January 15, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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Listening to City Pop music is boosting my skills in planning my Japan tour
January 8, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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it genuinely sucks that basically nothing on the internet works well anymore. search? barely works. social media? filled with garbage engagement-bait designed to game the algorithm. news websites? pages that refresh at random or so covered in video ads that it’s impossible to read stories
January 8, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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Dragons have jumped the shark. 🐲🦈
January 7, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Japan 2025 is happening
December 26, 2024 at 12:29 AM
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Is it weird to anyone else that Sega is much more of a RPG powerhouse than Square Enix these days, which is largely known as an action game developer
December 24, 2024 at 9:10 PM
Last night I dreamt that the new Linkin Park singer died and I was so sad about Mike Shinoda that I lied in fetal position in my SINK, crying, with hot water flowing. 🫠

I wonder what the fuck that means since I'm not even a LP fan 😂
December 19, 2024 at 8:27 PM
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Morrowind (2002)
December 18, 2024 at 1:55 PM
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Talked with PEGI and they do not see anything wrong Balatro being rated 18+, nor with EA sports FC (and similar games) having a 3+ rating

Blaming EU laws, blaming storefronts, waiting for the future. Sitting on their hands

I thought some good might come of this, this sucks
December 18, 2024 at 8:57 PM
Listening to the BG3 unreleased soundtracks that Larian's Advent Calendar gifts today, I can't understand why they have not been officially released. 🤯
December 19, 2024 at 12:21 PM
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I wrote about my process editing and "localizing" Mediterranea Inferno, the winner of Excellence in Narrative at the 2024 IGFs. Mediterranea's script was written by a non-native English speaker, and working on it was the most rewarding experience of my career to date! blog.arden.rip/editing-and-...
editing and "localizing" mediterranea inferno
Half-diary, half-postmortem about editing Mediterranea Inferno, a game written in English by a non-native speaker.
blog.arden.rip
December 11, 2024 at 6:02 PM
Watching Doechii Tiny Desk performance on repeat since days
Doechii: Tiny Desk Concert
YouTube video by NPR Music
youtu.be
December 14, 2024 at 10:06 PM
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Larian Advent Calendar 2024 is here now ❤️
advent.larian.com
A Very Larian Christmas
advent.larian.com
December 14, 2024 at 7:59 AM
Intergalactic: woke! A bald woman in space

Meanwhile, some previous sci-fi:
December 14, 2024 at 11:23 AM
Astro Bot, Metaphor and Balatro deserve all that they got. I just wished Unicorn Overlord made it as best Strategy.
December 13, 2024 at 2:32 PM