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/
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.
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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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]
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]
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.
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]
Now he looks like this.
October 4, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Now he looks like this.
A new article about the long relationship between games and war for Italian communist newspaper Il Manifesto and my latest Margini videoludici (At videogame margins) column, with @kdx.re's we reshaped the immutable sky.
September 27, 2025 at 8:22 AM
A new article about the long relationship between games and war for Italian communist newspaper Il Manifesto and my latest Margini videoludici (At videogame margins) column, with @kdx.re's we reshaped the immutable sky.
Videogames as a disputed toy between war and peace. My latest for The Bunker, with comments from Marco Minoli, publishing director at Slitherine Games, and from renowned artist @josephdelappe.bsky.social about his work inside U.S. Army's recruitment videogame America's Army. Article in English
September 25, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Videogames as a disputed toy between war and peace. My latest for The Bunker, with comments from Marco Minoli, publishing director at Slitherine Games, and from renowned artist @josephdelappe.bsky.social about his work inside U.S. Army's recruitment videogame America's Army. Article in English
In my monthly review column on Italian art magazine @artribune.bsky.social: @artis-impact.bsky.social, Benjamin Pilbrow's Clean Break, @fakefrogsonly.bsky.social, @rlnbrl.com &
@stuffedwomb.at's FALLSTRUKTUR, @okomotive.ch & @panic.com's Herdling and @cathroon.itch.io's _ΩMEGA_POINT.
@stuffedwomb.at's FALLSTRUKTUR, @okomotive.ch & @panic.com's Herdling and @cathroon.itch.io's _ΩMEGA_POINT.
September 25, 2025 at 9:18 AM
In my monthly review column on Italian art magazine @artribune.bsky.social: @artis-impact.bsky.social, Benjamin Pilbrow's Clean Break, @fakefrogsonly.bsky.social, @rlnbrl.com &
@stuffedwomb.at's FALLSTRUKTUR, @okomotive.ch & @panic.com's Herdling and @cathroon.itch.io's _ΩMEGA_POINT.
@stuffedwomb.at's FALLSTRUKTUR, @okomotive.ch & @panic.com's Herdling and @cathroon.itch.io's _ΩMEGA_POINT.
In my latest for Italian art magazine The Bunker I talk about Manuel Ghidini's Rab Sitting, a plundercore slot machine in which Super Mario is a worker in late capitalism. (article in English)
September 15, 2025 at 2:57 PM
In my latest for Italian art magazine The Bunker I talk about Manuel Ghidini's Rab Sitting, a plundercore slot machine in which Super Mario is a worker in late capitalism. (article in English)
And in my column Margini videoludici (At videogame margins) I discuss Chia Amisola's here, flower picking, manila north, commissioned for @pizzapranks.bsky.social'Indiepocalypse 67.
September 6, 2025 at 10:31 AM
And in my column Margini videoludici (At videogame margins) I discuss Chia Amisola's here, flower picking, manila north, commissioned for @pizzapranks.bsky.social'Indiepocalypse 67.
"If every nation-state is a sect". Today on Italian communist newspaper Il Manifesto: I talked with game developer @nikkijay.games about her experience growing up in a Christian sect and how this has informed her vision of society and her videogame Quantum Witch.
September 6, 2025 at 10:31 AM
"If every nation-state is a sect". Today on Italian communist newspaper Il Manifesto: I talked with game developer @nikkijay.games about her experience growing up in a Christian sect and how this has informed her vision of society and her videogame Quantum Witch.
In my monthly videogame review column for art magazine @artribune.bsky.social: Becoming Saint (@peterpunk.bsky.social), The End of Gameplay (@droqen.bsky.social), Time Flies (@playables.net, @panic.com), Vile: Exhumed (@dirtlord77.bsky.social) and Wheel World (@messhof.bsky.social, @annapurna.com).
August 25, 2025 at 4:21 PM
In my monthly videogame review column for art magazine @artribune.bsky.social: Becoming Saint (@peterpunk.bsky.social), The End of Gameplay (@droqen.bsky.social), Time Flies (@playables.net, @panic.com), Vile: Exhumed (@dirtlord77.bsky.social) and Wheel World (@messhof.bsky.social, @annapurna.com).
After years of antidemocratic coups d'état in democratic countries the USA experimented with democratic coups d'état in antidemocratic countries. And they don't work! And they still don't understand what's wrong with their approach.
August 24, 2025 at 2:19 PM
After years of antidemocratic coups d'état in democratic countries the USA experimented with democratic coups d'état in antidemocratic countries. And they don't work! And they still don't understand what's wrong with their approach.
August 22, 2025 at 10:49 AM