M Lupetti
@mlupetti.upandpunch.red
marxist art & video game critic
Artribune, Il manifesto
matteolupetti@upandpunch.red
they/them
My book UDO. Guida ai videogiochi nell'Antropocene is out!
https://nuovesido.it/store/collezione-tebe/udo-guida-ai-videogiochi-nellantropocene/
Artribune, Il manifesto
matteolupetti@upandpunch.red
they/them
My book UDO. Guida ai videogiochi nell'Antropocene is out!
https://nuovesido.it/store/collezione-tebe/udo-guida-ai-videogiochi-nellantropocene/
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· Nov 14
My talk for the V Conference in Defence of Video game's Digital Rights is now available online (in English). If games are the art of agency, and the Anthropocene is (also) a crisis that concerns human and nonhuman agency, are games/videogames the art of the Anthropocene?
youtu.be/8O2UiT0RVCY?...
youtu.be/8O2UiT0RVCY?...
Italian main LGBTQIA+ outlet, Gay.it, let me write a short goodbye to @burgerbecky.bsky.social. Trans people built the videogame (and the game) scene.
November 20, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Italian main LGBTQIA+ outlet, Gay.it, let me write a short goodbye to @burgerbecky.bsky.social. Trans people built the videogame (and the game) scene.
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Last week, my former housemate punched me multiple times in the eye, forcing me to break the lease for the beautiful apartment we shared and move in with a trusted friend
As I try to rebuild my life and find more permanent housing, I would greatly appreciate any support you could offer Stop Caring
As I try to rebuild my life and find more permanent housing, I would greatly appreciate any support you could offer Stop Caring
Stop Caring
A publication about video games focused on the ways they evoke unique cultural conversations as well as the personal lessons we can learn from them as artistic media.
www.stopcar.ing
November 17, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Last week, my former housemate punched me multiple times in the eye, forcing me to break the lease for the beautiful apartment we shared and move in with a trusted friend
As I try to rebuild my life and find more permanent housing, I would greatly appreciate any support you could offer Stop Caring
As I try to rebuild my life and find more permanent housing, I would greatly appreciate any support you could offer Stop Caring
We should send them a "take the L" gift.
November 16, 2025 at 12:28 PM
We should send them a "take the L" gift.
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twitter has been deserted for good so i suppose i will post here too: i am currently open for work! hit me up if you know of openings that i'd be a good fit for 🫡
i updated my hireme page with a sample of the stuff i can do - videogame graphics, VFX, 2D art and so on
polclarissou.com/hireme/
i updated my hireme page with a sample of the stuff i can do - videogame graphics, VFX, 2D art and so on
polclarissou.com/hireme/
November 15, 2025 at 10:13 PM
twitter has been deserted for good so i suppose i will post here too: i am currently open for work! hit me up if you know of openings that i'd be a good fit for 🫡
i updated my hireme page with a sample of the stuff i can do - videogame graphics, VFX, 2D art and so on
polclarissou.com/hireme/
i updated my hireme page with a sample of the stuff i can do - videogame graphics, VFX, 2D art and so on
polclarissou.com/hireme/
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A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
I think Blow is part of the population reduction agenda.
November 8, 2025 at 2:11 PM
I think Blow is part of the population reduction agenda.
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An eternal (and monthly) championing of the underground game scene, it's Indiepocalypse #70!
-10 curated games for $15!
-Zine!
-Newly commissioned game by
@dorukb.bsky.social
-Cover by @fairywarriorcat.bsky.social
pizzapranks.itch.io/indiepocalypse-70
-10 curated games for $15!
-Zine!
-Newly commissioned game by
@dorukb.bsky.social
-Cover by @fairywarriorcat.bsky.social
pizzapranks.itch.io/indiepocalypse-70
November 7, 2025 at 5:47 PM
An eternal (and monthly) championing of the underground game scene, it's Indiepocalypse #70!
-10 curated games for $15!
-Zine!
-Newly commissioned game by
@dorukb.bsky.social
-Cover by @fairywarriorcat.bsky.social
pizzapranks.itch.io/indiepocalypse-70
-10 curated games for $15!
-Zine!
-Newly commissioned game by
@dorukb.bsky.social
-Cover by @fairywarriorcat.bsky.social
pizzapranks.itch.io/indiepocalypse-70
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I just want to put this out into the universe.
If you are a homebrew developer of a GB, GBC, GBA, NES, SMS, MD/Genesis, N64, or PS1 game with a free version or a free demo of you game, I’d love to ship it with SuperStation as a physical or digital demo disk.
If you are a homebrew developer of a GB, GBC, GBA, NES, SMS, MD/Genesis, N64, or PS1 game with a free version or a free demo of you game, I’d love to ship it with SuperStation as a physical or digital demo disk.
This is a very impressive PS1 game by @eliasdaler.bsky.social running on SuperStation.
November 2, 2025 at 11:50 AM
I just want to put this out into the universe.
If you are a homebrew developer of a GB, GBC, GBA, NES, SMS, MD/Genesis, N64, or PS1 game with a free version or a free demo of you game, I’d love to ship it with SuperStation as a physical or digital demo disk.
If you are a homebrew developer of a GB, GBC, GBA, NES, SMS, MD/Genesis, N64, or PS1 game with a free version or a free demo of you game, I’d love to ship it with SuperStation as a physical or digital demo disk.
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A few more days to pledge @nintymedia.bsky.social's coffee table book NESBOOK: The Unofficial NES Companion on Kickstarter. I'm writing a couple of pieces for it and if you back it through the link you find here below I'll receive a small extra commission.
A few more days to pledge @nintymedia.bsky.social's coffee table book NESBOOK: The Unofficial NES Companion on Kickstarter. I'm writing a couple of pieces for it and if you back it through the link you find here below I'll receive a small extra commission.
November 7, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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A few more days to pledge @nintymedia.bsky.social's coffee table book NESBOOK: The Unofficial NES Companion on Kickstarter. I'm writing a couple of pieces for it and if you back it through the link you find here below I'll receive a small extra commission.
A few more days to pledge @nintymedia.bsky.social's coffee table book NESBOOK: The Unofficial NES Companion on Kickstarter. I'm writing a couple of pieces for it and if you back it through the link you find here below I'll receive a small extra commission.
On The Bunker Magazine and from Trieste Science+Fiction Festival and its videogame section IVIPRO Days: videogames as a sci-medium and as playable thought experiments shaping our understanding of the world. Feat Ted Chiang, @peterpunk.bsky.social, @albertbirney.bsky.social [Article in English]
November 6, 2025 at 10:12 AM
On The Bunker Magazine and from Trieste Science+Fiction Festival and its videogame section IVIPRO Days: videogames as a sci-medium and as playable thought experiments shaping our understanding of the world. Feat Ted Chiang, @peterpunk.bsky.social, @albertbirney.bsky.social [Article in English]
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do you want to play games in the grass with a big group of people?
great! then come meet us in fort greene for:
- a chill intro & warmup activities on blankets
- warm, decaf tea
- field games in the "new games" tradition
- games with two parachutes
- & more
(please read on for more details!)
great! then come meet us in fort greene for:
- a chill intro & warmup activities on blankets
- warm, decaf tea
- field games in the "new games" tradition
- games with two parachutes
- & more
(please read on for more details!)
November 5, 2025 at 12:33 AM
do you want to play games in the grass with a big group of people?
great! then come meet us in fort greene for:
- a chill intro & warmup activities on blankets
- warm, decaf tea
- field games in the "new games" tradition
- games with two parachutes
- & more
(please read on for more details!)
great! then come meet us in fort greene for:
- a chill intro & warmup activities on blankets
- warm, decaf tea
- field games in the "new games" tradition
- games with two parachutes
- & more
(please read on for more details!)
What happens when the whole hardware/software assemblage becomes a toy we can modify and tinker with? For The Bunker Magazine, I've talked with Jacopo “Pushkar Brand” Condò, one of the few people practicing and researching circuit bending on game consoles. [article in English]
November 5, 2025 at 3:48 PM
What happens when the whole hardware/software assemblage becomes a toy we can modify and tinker with? For The Bunker Magazine, I've talked with Jacopo “Pushkar Brand” Condò, one of the few people practicing and researching circuit bending on game consoles. [article in English]
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I'm writing a couple of entries for @nintymedia.bsky.social's NESBOOK: The Unofficial NES Companion. It's now on Kickstarter (and I earn a commission if you order it through this link).
November 2, 2025 at 10:01 PM
I'm writing a couple of entries for @nintymedia.bsky.social's NESBOOK: The Unofficial NES Companion. It's now on Kickstarter (and I earn a commission if you order it through this link).
I'm writing a couple of entries for @nintymedia.bsky.social's NESBOOK: The Unofficial NES Companion. It's now on Kickstarter (and I earn a commission if you order it through this link).
November 2, 2025 at 10:01 PM
I'm writing a couple of entries for @nintymedia.bsky.social's NESBOOK: The Unofficial NES Companion. It's now on Kickstarter (and I earn a commission if you order it through this link).
My article about Ghost of Yōtei is online on @artribune.bsky.social, with some comments from art director Joanna Wang. I talk about historical accuracy, samurai, cinema, nationalism, colonialism. And videogames as history/memory tools.
November 2, 2025 at 9:24 PM
My article about Ghost of Yōtei is online on @artribune.bsky.social, with some comments from art director Joanna Wang. I talk about historical accuracy, samurai, cinema, nationalism, colonialism. And videogames as history/memory tools.
It's still Halloween on Italian communist newspaper Il manifesto and I wrote about @fixgritt.bsky.social's Exquisite Cadavre and @bilgetbd.itch.io's Pager.
November 1, 2025 at 11:02 AM
It's still Halloween on Italian communist newspaper Il manifesto and I wrote about @fixgritt.bsky.social's Exquisite Cadavre and @bilgetbd.itch.io's Pager.
It's Halloween on @artribune.bsky.social and I review the new Silent Hill f and four horror games from @cr-games.bsky.social's catalogue: @housefiregames.com's Eclipsium, @wrongorgan.bsky.social's Mouthwashing, @trioskaz.bsky.social's No, I’m Not a Human and @pataloon.bsky.social's Threshold.
October 31, 2025 at 6:57 AM
It's Halloween on @artribune.bsky.social and I review the new Silent Hill f and four horror games from @cr-games.bsky.social's catalogue: @housefiregames.com's Eclipsium, @wrongorgan.bsky.social's Mouthwashing, @trioskaz.bsky.social's No, I’m Not a Human and @pataloon.bsky.social's Threshold.
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Our two most recent games, both at their deepest discount ever. 90%+ positive Steam reviews, 80+ Metacritic. store.steampowered.com/developer/sa...
October 29, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Our two most recent games, both at their deepest discount ever. 90%+ positive Steam reviews, 80+ Metacritic. store.steampowered.com/developer/sa...
Again about hantologie/hauntology and nostalgia for a lost future/present on The Bunker Magazine: @panic.com and YACHT's Blippo+, in which we watch an alien television. A videogame made together with over 100 artists from L.A. underground scene. [article in English]
October 28, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Again about hantologie/hauntology and nostalgia for a lost future/present on The Bunker Magazine: @panic.com and YACHT's Blippo+, in which we watch an alien television. A videogame made together with over 100 artists from L.A. underground scene. [article in English]
[Article in Italian] "The internet is a perpetually burning Library of Alexandria”. I wrote about internet, digital media, videogames and their preservation for Italian cultural magazine L'Indiscreto.
October 27, 2025 at 2:31 PM
[Article in Italian] "The internet is a perpetually burning Library of Alexandria”. I wrote about internet, digital media, videogames and their preservation for Italian cultural magazine L'Indiscreto.
When we talk about videogames and movies I think we often miss how videogames are represented as history/memory tools in Chris Marker's Level Five. I wrote about it for The Bunker Magazine through @gua-le-ni.com and Fassone's book "Fictional Games. A Philosophy of Worldbuilding and Imaginary Play".
October 27, 2025 at 8:14 AM
When we talk about videogames and movies I think we often miss how videogames are represented as history/memory tools in Chris Marker's Level Five. I wrote about it for The Bunker Magazine through @gua-le-ni.com and Fassone's book "Fictional Games. A Philosophy of Worldbuilding and Imaginary Play".
Another article of mine about (video)games and war for The Bunker Magazine: gamification of drone war in Ukraine and drones as an attempt to turn war into its computational simulation. [article in English]
October 25, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Another article of mine about (video)games and war for The Bunker Magazine: gamification of drone war in Ukraine and drones as an attempt to turn war into its computational simulation. [article in English]
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For the first column I talk to @essaygames.bsky.social!
October 23, 2025 at 11:28 PM
For the first column I talk to @essaygames.bsky.social!
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Next month will mark my debut column for @debugmag.com: The Anthropocene Medium.
Special thanks to @afterclimate.com.au & @mlupetti.upandpunch.red. Their work has been fundamental during this stage of my writing career ❤️.
Potentially more big news on the subject coming soon.
Special thanks to @afterclimate.com.au & @mlupetti.upandpunch.red. Their work has been fundamental during this stage of my writing career ❤️.
Potentially more big news on the subject coming soon.
Debug #12 | Debug Magazine
Debug #12 is packed with previews, reviews, features, and interviews... The Last Caretaker, Unboxing Mr. Coo, Hollow Knight: Silksong, and more!
www.teamdebug.com
October 23, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Next month will mark my debut column for @debugmag.com: The Anthropocene Medium.
Special thanks to @afterclimate.com.au & @mlupetti.upandpunch.red. Their work has been fundamental during this stage of my writing career ❤️.
Potentially more big news on the subject coming soon.
Special thanks to @afterclimate.com.au & @mlupetti.upandpunch.red. Their work has been fundamental during this stage of my writing career ❤️.
Potentially more big news on the subject coming soon.
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Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.
October 13, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.