Matteo Lupetti

Marxist art & videogame critic | @ilmanifesto @artribune | [email protected] | They/Them | My book UDO. Guida ai videogiochi nell'Antropocene is out!

[Matteo Lupetti @ilsignorm]

My talk for @ArsGames' V Conference in Defence of Video game's Digital Rights is online (in EN). If games are the art of agency, and the Anthropocene is a crisis concerning human and nonhuman agency, are games and videogames the art of the Anthropocene?

https://t.co/aJZF16txBw

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I received my personal copy of The Zium Digest direct from Italy. Thank you again to @ilsignorm for all your help in making the physical version a reality. As well as everyone involved in every bit of it.

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My latest gaming recommendations for Kappa (Radiotelevisione svizzera in lingua italiana @RSIonline) are now online: I talk about Find Your Words by @CAPYGAMES, a videogame about non-verbal communication.

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My latest videogame reviews for @artribune: @studioortica's Birds Watching, @wtheknife's Set Yourself on Fire, AP Thomson & Fellow Traveller's Titanium Court, @YazaGames & Mythwright's Scriptorium: Master of Manuscripts and Super Mario Bros. Wonder + Meetup in Bellabel Park.

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Do you remember the unproblematic YouTuber who triggered the adpocalypse by publishing one antisemitic video each month and promoting alt-right conspiracy theories?

[Dexerto @Dexerto]

Asmongold says people hate PewDiePie because he “got lucky” and made it in life

“He’s a great guy, he can live his life, be the most unproblematic person ever, run his own LLM, live in Japan ... they’re trying to find a way to pull somebody like this down”

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Scholar's Codex. Academia explores the games of FromSoftware (@tuneandfair) is out! Edited by @DomFord_, Stefano Gualeni, @Nele__VdM and Daniel Vella, with an essay of mine on the relationship between Darkness and humanity from Augustine of Hippo to Elden Ring.

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Our newest book project is live on Kickstarter and today is the last day to back it !

Dedicated to Pokemon Generation I, it covers the games, anime, movies, trading card game and more.

Join us as we celebrate 30 years of Pocket Monsters with this premium coffee table book!

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There’s also a one-hour talk of mine, in English, where I summarize one of the book’s central theses (namely that videogames are the art form of the Anthropocene), and you can find it here:

https://t.co/dQ8aVFdeq6

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Important announcement (reposts appreciated): I’ve regained the rights to UDO. Guida ai videogiochi nell'Antropocene (The Unidentified Digital Object. A Guide to Videogames in the Anthropocene), and I have about a hundred leftover copies to give away. So:

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- If you’re a publisher and would like to insert another coin, I’d love to publish a revised and updated English edition with a new title and a new structure. Get in touch.
- If you’re among the people who still don’t own it but would like a copy, get in touch.

[The Zium Digest (Available Now!) @thezium]

Digital copies are also available, and some new community copies (free copies) have been added to the itch!
https://t.co/KH1dmLbDUU
see also: The Zium Digest Oratorio: https://t.co/vNZgrlQgh7 Thank you!

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FYI this is a limited print run of fifty copies. The only fifty copies of The Zium Digest that exists! A special A Maze exclusive edition, if you will.

Purchasing a copy supports A Maze and The Zium! and independent publications, independent game makers, artists and writers!

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If you are at @AMazeFest you can find the limited run of the book I helped design!

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If you're going to A Maze Berlin,
The Zium Digest will be available to purchase exclusively at the festival!
(and later at the A Maze Shop!)

Thank you @AMazeFest and @ST0RN0 for your hand and book modelling.

Have a great festival everyone!

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Last Friday I recommended Tides of Tomorrow, the new video game by @Digixart (Road 96) & Embracer Group, on @RSIonline ’s Rete Due. Podcast below!

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@hisregard He was not the reviewer, he's a videogame industry expert.

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Then there’s the latest Margini videoludici (At videogame margins) column featuring the philosophical game-essay HAMM-3R by Stefano Gualeni, Ahmed Khalifa, Daniele Giardini, Irina Tomova, Costantino Oliva and Danielius Degesys.

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Today on Italian communist newspaper @ilmanifesto I write about video games in Iran and within the Iranian diaspora, with comments from @theStaticMan (Onto Maizilind Unto Infinity), Navid Khonsari (@iNKStories), and @arashakimi.

[Ninty Media @NintyMedia]

Freelancer? Pokemon fan? Love Gen 1, including movies, anime and the games? We've got paid work going!