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Alessandro Colantonio

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Level 34, INFP 🎲 Creative Director ⫸ @rollfest.bracciano 🕹️ Journalism ⫸ @playeritalia, @gamedivisionit 📫 Newsletter ⫸ @colpi.critici www.alessandrocolantonio.com

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Alessandro Colantonio @exaliam.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
If you're interested in article like this, you can subscribe for free to my substack! colpicritici.substack.com
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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 10 days ago.
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Alessandro Colantonio @exaliam.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
I was in an izakaya in Tokyo having beers after an interview with Hitoshi Sakimoto and Richter. We were discussing about everything when the conversation turned to Dungeons & Dragons. colpicritici.substack.com/p/quello-che... #dnd #dungeonsanddragons #ttrpg
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Quello che ho capito di D&D dopo un paio di birre a Tokyo
& altri voli pindarici sull'eredità invisibile del GDR che ha plasmato l'intrattenimento e la cultura pop
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Alessandro Colantonio @exaliam.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
And tomorrow's newsletter will start with a nice beer I had with them after the interview to embark on a mental journey through Dungeons & Dragons! You can subscribe here for free: colpicritici.substack.com
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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 9 days ago.
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Alessandro Colantonio @exaliam.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
I met Hitoshi Sakimoto and Richter at Basiscape's studios in Tokyo, one a legend of video game soundtracks, the other his talented new Italian collaborator. I chatted with both of them about how Basiscape works behind video game soundtracks. www.player.it/interviste/6... #ost #videogames #gaming
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Lavorare alle musiche dei videogiochi: Sakimoto e Richter ci spiegano Basiscape | Doppia intervista a Tokyo - Player.it
Siamo stati negli studi di Basiscape a Tokyo per una doppia intervista a Hitoshi Sakimoto, fondatore dell'azienda, e l'ultimo talento Richter
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Alessandro Colantonio @exaliam.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
To anyone reading this and not knowing what the hell is happening, here's a glimpse: substack.com/home/post/p-...
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Kojima, quindi Sniper Wolf era solo un paio di tette di origine curda?
Kojima si fa fotografare con Zerocalcare, pubblicando anche lo scatto sui social, quindi si tira indietro di fronte alle polemiche di origini turche, dimenticando di aver difeso la stessa causa.
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Alessandro Colantonio @exaliam.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
FACT 5: I will never buy a Kojima game anymore.
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Alessandro Colantonio @exaliam.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
All these facts lead to FACT 4: Talking about the Kurdish question in the 90s was OK because the Kurdish were bombed in Iraq, a country where games were not sold. Now, however, Kojima can bury his artistic and moral integrity because Turkey is a thriving video game market and he needs to sell.
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Alessandro Colantonio @exaliam.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
FACT 3: Kojima cancelled the picture with Zerocalcare and Kojima Productions made that statement after some ultranationalist-propaganda-brainwashed Turkish dudes backlash on social media. (Kobane Calling is about Kurdish vs ISIS conflict, by the way).
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Alessandro Colantonio @exaliam.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
FACT 2: Kojima in the past talked about the Kurdish question: Sniper Wolf from Metal Gear Solid is Kurdish, she talks about the war and her childhood with suffering and bombs. This situation conveys the same messages as Zerocalcare's comic book "Kobane Calling".
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Alessandro Colantonio @exaliam.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
FACT 1: Zerocalcare is not a terrorist, he has no convictions in any country, he has no extremist or divisive political views, unless you consider talking about the Kurdish question and the suffering of their people to be divisive.
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Alessandro Colantonio @exaliam.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
This hurts so much @hideokojimaen.bsky.kojimaproductions.jp As Kojima writes about "conveying facts", I'll do my part too
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Alessandro Colantonio @exaliam.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
THIS.
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Alessandro Colantonio @exaliam.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
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.
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Alessandro Colantonio @exaliam.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
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-...
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Alessandro Colantonio @exaliam.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
The newsletter will follow up on a chat we had with him at Lucca Comics & Games 2025, which you can read about in the interview article on Player: www.player.it/interviste/6...
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Alessandro Colantonio @exaliam.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
There is already an in-depth article on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, and tomorrow there will be a focus on Johan Nohr, artist of MÖRK BORG, an RPG that is overturning the canons of publishing in the sector and influencing the market.
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Alessandro Colantonio @exaliam.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Online publishing is starting to feel restrictive to me, with its algorithms and SEO practices. Here, I can express myself without filters and reach your inbox directly. Every Sunday there will be a new article to read. You can subscribe completely free of charge.
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Alessandro Colantonio @exaliam.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
I have started a Substack where I write reflections, insights, interesting facts, and stories about the world of gaming: colpicritici.substack.com
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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.
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Alessandro Colantonio @exaliam.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
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
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Alessandro Colantonio @exaliam.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
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)
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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.
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Dungeons & Dragons @dndbeyond.com · 20/01/2025
🎶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. dndbeyond.link/2024-Monster-Manual-…
An ancient gold dragon soars through the skies.

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Alessandro Colantonio @exaliam.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
What is haoppening with Rednote/TikTok is mindblowning but I'm unsure to download an app with so restricting rules.
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Borislav Slavov @borislavslavov.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
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Frank Reynolds in Baldur's Gate 3
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Alessandro Colantonio @exaliam.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Listening to City Pop music is boosting my skills in planning my Japan tour
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becca laurie @imbeccable.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
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
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Dungeons & Dragons @dndbeyond.com · 07/01/2025
Dragons have jumped the shark. 🐲🦈
An adult bronze dragon defends the deep from a ravenous giant shark.

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Alessandro Colantonio @exaliam.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Japan 2025 is happening
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Imran Khan @imrankhan.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
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
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Alessandro Colantonio @exaliam.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
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 😂
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pc2000s @pc2000s.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Morrowind (2002)
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localthunk @localthunk.com · 18/12/2024
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
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Alessandro Colantonio @exaliam.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Listening to the BG3 unreleased soundtracks that Larian's Advent Calendar gifts today, I can't understand why they have not been officially released. 🤯
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Arden Ripley @arden.rip · 11/12/2024
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-...
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editing and "localizing" mediterranea inferno
Half-diary, half-postmortem about editing Mediterranea Inferno, a game written in English by a non-native speaker.
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Alessandro Colantonio @exaliam.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Watching Doechii Tiny Desk performance on repeat since days
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Doechii: Tiny Desk Concert
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Borislav Slavov @borislavslavov.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Larian Advent Calendar 2024 is here now ❤️ advent.larian.com
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A Very Larian Christmas
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Alessandro Colantonio @exaliam.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Intergalactic: woke! A bald woman in space Meanwhile, some previous sci-fi:
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Alessandro Colantonio @exaliam.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Astro Bot, Metaphor and Balatro deserve all that they got. I just wished Unicorn Overlord made it as best Strategy.
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Alessandro Colantonio @exaliam.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Have you ever seen someone reading just one book, watching just one movie, eating just one type of pudding? Yet gamers who invest effort and time in one and only video game exist. Because psychological and time-consuming mechanisms exist and are exploited.
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Alessandro Colantonio @exaliam.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
An entire AAA industry that focuses only on shareholders profit, unable to educate its users to a heterogeneous consumption of its products that could enable mutual growth of the business, of its content and its users.
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Alessandro Colantonio @exaliam.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
An entire industry waiting for a single cog to turn (GTA). AAA market is saturated and in crisis 'cause it's constantly copying itself, unable to foster new ideas 'cause it's too risky in a world where F2P games rule by slot-machine mechanisms consuming players' only real currency of value: time.
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Alessandro Colantonio @exaliam.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
So another day, another politician blaming video games for violence. Someone explain me this weird equation by which video games turn people violent but can't turn people Pokémon trainers or space dwellers 🤔
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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
tired of this blaming video games for violence thing. I've been playing angry birds for years and I don't even smack stuff
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Alessandro Colantonio @exaliam.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Deeper and more thoughtful words about Mythic in the next weeks, review is planned
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Alessandro Colantonio @exaliam.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Trying my best using Mythic - GM Emulator with different systems. I think it works damn well with OSRs, but clunky as hell with bigger TTRPGs. Still not *my thing*. The beauty of TTRPGS is the storytelling that emerges from social interaction, playing them as a solitarie feels just like training.
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Dungeons & Dragons @dndbeyond.com · 10/12/2024
Gather your party for the series premiere of Secret Level featuring Dungeons & Dragons! Watch it now on Prime Video!
A mage holds a fiery spell in her hands.A bearded dwarf rests comfortably against a rock.A knight stands in the darkness.A budding adventurer looks toward the light.
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Alessandro Colantonio @exaliam.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
The Sims, the first one.
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Jen Gentleman @jenmsft.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
"Video games cause violence" Meanwhile, me reloading my save because I accidentally made one of the characters sad
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Millennial PC Gaming Aesthetics @millennialpcaest.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
'Homeworld' - 1999
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