Nicolò Tedeschi
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I’m heading there now. Race you? he/him - Santa Ragione - Freelance Graphic designer & Art director
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December 14, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Subscribe today and get immediate access to my essay on Horses, but also get subscriber exclusives like my current posts on Christmas games: www.patreon.com/posts/christ... and older articles like my solution for A Bard's Tale! expzine.com/2025/02/20/h...
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December 14, 2025 at 5:00 AM
It's my birthday! The ONLY thing I want is more subscribers to the exp. Patreon! It's just $1/month for consistent, quality video game criticism, but my gift to you TODAY ONLY (til 11:59pm EST) is 90% off the first month with the code 09BAA.
That's like 10¢! But if you can't sub, please share!
That's like 10¢! But if you can't sub, please share!
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At the very edge of gaming's most commercially-charged evening, we bring you @midfalutin.bsky.social's interview with the embattled developers of Horses, a game conceived and executed as a corrective to the very nature of modern gaming.
vgbees.com/in-search-of...
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In Search of a Mature Medium - VGBees
Early in the latest game from acclaimed Italian developer Santa Ragione, you turn the corner and you see them: horses that aren’t horses. They are...
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December 11, 2025 at 10:00 PM
At the very edge of gaming's most commercially-charged evening, we bring you @midfalutin.bsky.social's interview with the embattled developers of Horses, a game conceived and executed as a corrective to the very nature of modern gaming.
vgbees.com/in-search-of...
vgbees.com/in-search-of...
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I was disappointed to see the store page description put his name front and center while not mentioning any of the creators of the original games. This industry’s obsession with auteurs is not healthy.
December 12, 2025 at 1:57 AM
I was disappointed to see the store page description put his name front and center while not mentioning any of the creators of the original games. This industry’s obsession with auteurs is not healthy.
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That said, I hope the game will get a more nuanced label than “new Jon Blow game”. While the creative vision is his, he didn’t make any of the original games and there are a lot of talented people at Thekla who also deserve credit.
December 12, 2025 at 1:57 AM
That said, I hope the game will get a more nuanced label than “new Jon Blow game”. While the creative vision is his, he didn’t make any of the original games and there are a lot of talented people at Thekla who also deserve credit.
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Mirror Isles:
alan.draknek.org/games/puzzle...
Skipping Stones to Lonely Homes:
alan.draknek.org/games/puzzle...
alan.draknek.org/games/puzzle...
Skipping Stones to Lonely Homes:
alan.draknek.org/games/puzzle...
December 12, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Mirror Isles:
alan.draknek.org/games/puzzle...
Skipping Stones to Lonely Homes:
alan.draknek.org/games/puzzle...
alan.draknek.org/games/puzzle...
Skipping Stones to Lonely Homes:
alan.draknek.org/games/puzzle...
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December 12, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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Heroes of Sokoban:
sites.math.washington.edu/~ostroff/puz...
Heroes of Sokoban II:
sites.math.washington.edu/~ostroff/puz...
Heroes of Sokoban III:
sites.math.washington.edu/~ostroff/puz...
sites.math.washington.edu/~ostroff/puz...
Heroes of Sokoban II:
sites.math.washington.edu/~ostroff/puz...
Heroes of Sokoban III:
sites.math.washington.edu/~ostroff/puz...
December 12, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Heroes of Sokoban:
sites.math.washington.edu/~ostroff/puz...
Heroes of Sokoban II:
sites.math.washington.edu/~ostroff/puz...
Heroes of Sokoban III:
sites.math.washington.edu/~ostroff/puz...
sites.math.washington.edu/~ostroff/puz...
Heroes of Sokoban II:
sites.math.washington.edu/~ostroff/puz...
Heroes of Sokoban III:
sites.math.washington.edu/~ostroff/puz...
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So, “Order of the Sinking Star” by Thekla was just announced, which takes several small free games (two of which are mine) and gives them a major graphical upgrade and mashes up their rulesets. I haven’t been very involved but it’s a great concept and looks cool.
December 12, 2025 at 1:55 AM
So, “Order of the Sinking Star” by Thekla was just announced, which takes several small free games (two of which are mine) and gives them a major graphical upgrade and mashes up their rulesets. I haven’t been very involved but it’s a great concept and looks cool.
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Has the discourse moved on yet? I hope not, because this is the best thing I've written this year. For supporters, I go deep on a comparison you will have heard a few times: On Horses, Salò, and Pasolini's "indigestible art." expzine.com/2025/12/09/h...
Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/horses...
Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/horses...
December 9, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Has the discourse moved on yet? I hope not, because this is the best thing I've written this year. For supporters, I go deep on a comparison you will have heard a few times: On Horses, Salò, and Pasolini's "indigestible art." expzine.com/2025/12/09/h...
Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/horses...
Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/horses...
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Valve has now rejected my complaint, confirming that "I don't like muslims" is a valid reason to leave a negative review on a game on Steam
This is where we're at now.
This is where we're at now.
December 10, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Valve has now rejected my complaint, confirming that "I don't like muslims" is a valid reason to leave a negative review on a game on Steam
This is where we're at now.
This is where we're at now.
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I'm glad to see someone else talking about Vile: Exhumed, another game by an indie dev that was banned from Steam recently that deserves far more attention than it got. The creator chose to release the game for free and it's absolutely worth your time to play. Deeply affecting, raw, and unsettling
Steam are notoriously inconsistent and have been for years. For every game they block claiming one reason that's supposedly a hard line in the sand, they handwave five that drove a monster-truck over that same line.
Case, Vile: Exhumed. Banned for having real photography with *implied* nudity.
Case, Vile: Exhumed. Banned for having real photography with *implied* nudity.
Vile Is Banned
Developer Statement: VILE: Exhumed is a game about searching through an old computer, uncovering dark secrets, and experiencing the horrors […]
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December 8, 2025 at 3:51 PM
I'm glad to see someone else talking about Vile: Exhumed, another game by an indie dev that was banned from Steam recently that deserves far more attention than it got. The creator chose to release the game for free and it's absolutely worth your time to play. Deeply affecting, raw, and unsettling
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Italian art magazine @artribune.bsky.social talks about @santaragione.com's Horses and making art in a market controlled by monopolistic platforms.
December 7, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Italian art magazine @artribune.bsky.social talks about @santaragione.com's Horses and making art in a market controlled by monopolistic platforms.
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Great episode with excellent HORSES segment ❤️ thank you!
The PC Gaming Show had over 2 hours of games to show, and we try to hit some highlights. Prices for gaming hardware are skyrocketing, and we share thoughts on Metroid Prime 4, Marvel Cosmic Invasion, Routine, and much more.
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Metroid Prime 4 and PC Gaming Show - Easy Allies Podcast - Dec 5, 2025
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December 7, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Great episode with excellent HORSES segment ❤️ thank you!
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When we made our systemic game MirrorMoon EP about the manipulation of systems, the play of contingency, and the brokenness of machines, you commented, “Oh, so experimental games mean Portal guns now?”
It traumatised us so much we’ve been making games exclusively about Italian politics ever since
It traumatised us so much we’ve been making games exclusively about Italian politics ever since
The interesting, sophisticated thing about games is not whether they can tell stories as well as books or movies (they can’t) or float shocking themes as well as fine art (honestly, who cares).
It’s the manipulation of systems, the play of contingency, the brokenness of machines.
It’s the manipulation of systems, the play of contingency, the brokenness of machines.
December 5, 2025 at 6:13 PM
When we made our systemic game MirrorMoon EP about the manipulation of systems, the play of contingency, and the brokenness of machines, you commented, “Oh, so experimental games mean Portal guns now?”
It traumatised us so much we’ve been making games exclusively about Italian politics ever since
It traumatised us so much we’ve been making games exclusively about Italian politics ever since
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I had to write about Horses for @aftermath.site aftermath.site/horses-indie...
December 4, 2025 at 6:08 PM
I had to write about Horses for @aftermath.site aftermath.site/horses-indie...
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Spotify is garbage on every count: Its treatment of artists, its ICE advertising, the CEO's investment in military AI, its leading role in the commodification and AI slopification of music, its terrible audio quality—you name it.
So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:
So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:
How to quit Spotify
This Black Friday, here's a guide to finding the best Spotify alternative
www.bloodinthemachine.com
December 3, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Spotify is garbage on every count: Its treatment of artists, its ICE advertising, the CEO's investment in military AI, its leading role in the commodification and AI slopification of music, its terrible audio quality—you name it.
So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:
So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:
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December 4, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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Horses explores how bodies are constrained, operated and degraded by media technologies that range from early silent movies all the way to the grotesque and choppy sorcery of videogames. https://bit.ly/48zBsGi
December 4, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Horses explores how bodies are constrained, operated and degraded by media technologies that range from early silent movies all the way to the grotesque and choppy sorcery of videogames. https://bit.ly/48zBsGi
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Horses is being censored to the extent that the censoring storefronts dominate distribution. That should be pretty simple to understand, no?
The effects of censorship are not really from the consumer (*can I get this media?") point of view; they control what's commercially viable to make, upstream.
The effects of censorship are not really from the consumer (*can I get this media?") point of view; they control what's commercially viable to make, upstream.
December 4, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Horses is being censored to the extent that the censoring storefronts dominate distribution. That should be pretty simple to understand, no?
The effects of censorship are not really from the consumer (*can I get this media?") point of view; they control what's commercially viable to make, upstream.
The effects of censorship are not really from the consumer (*can I get this media?") point of view; they control what's commercially viable to make, upstream.
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The bans say more about a psychopathic and bigoted USA, perfectly fine with mass murder in ordinary FPS games (and IRL), yet treating nudity and sexuality as taboo no matter how intentionally or elliptically they’re approached.
December 4, 2025 at 2:43 AM
The bans say more about a psychopathic and bigoted USA, perfectly fine with mass murder in ordinary FPS games (and IRL), yet treating nudity and sexuality as taboo no matter how intentionally or elliptically they’re approached.
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Just played Horses
It's fucked up that grotesque ultra violence, pornographic depictions, and military propaganda that profits genocidal regimes is acceptable, yet critique of violence, oppression, and exploitation in the way Horses does is considered "too controversial"
www.gog.com/en/game/horses
It's fucked up that grotesque ultra violence, pornographic depictions, and military propaganda that profits genocidal regimes is acceptable, yet critique of violence, oppression, and exploitation in the way Horses does is considered "too controversial"
www.gog.com/en/game/horses
HORSES
Fourteen days, a horse farm, and a few rules to follow...
Take a break from you
www.gog.com
December 3, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Just played Horses
It's fucked up that grotesque ultra violence, pornographic depictions, and military propaganda that profits genocidal regimes is acceptable, yet critique of violence, oppression, and exploitation in the way Horses does is considered "too controversial"
www.gog.com/en/game/horses
It's fucked up that grotesque ultra violence, pornographic depictions, and military propaganda that profits genocidal regimes is acceptable, yet critique of violence, oppression, and exploitation in the way Horses does is considered "too controversial"
www.gog.com/en/game/horses
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A lot of people are talking about the controversy around the game Horses. If you are one of those people, you should buy the game, it's $5 and doesn't take long to beat.
www.gog.com/en/game/horses
THEN you can talk about it.
:D
www.gog.com/en/game/horses
THEN you can talk about it.
:D
HORSES
Fourteen days, a horse farm, and a few rules to follow...
Take a break from you
www.gog.com
December 3, 2025 at 6:17 PM
A lot of people are talking about the controversy around the game Horses. If you are one of those people, you should buy the game, it's $5 and doesn't take long to beat.
www.gog.com/en/game/horses
THEN you can talk about it.
:D
www.gog.com/en/game/horses
THEN you can talk about it.
:D
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