iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

M Lupetti @mlupetti.upandpunch.red · 07/10/2026

This year Curationist asked me again to curate a gallery of images from the museum archives it brings together. This time, I’m looking at the moment when Western art (and not only Western art) first encountered climate change during the Little Ice Age

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M Lupetti @mlupetti.upandpunch.red · 03/10/2026

Today two new article of mine in Italian communist newspaper Il Manifesto: I discuss the unreadability of the Anthropocene with Adam Bredenberg's Topological Boundaries and coming out with Miramar's Conversations keeping you in the closet.

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M Lupetti @mlupetti.upandpunch.red · 02/10/2026

So... hi... well.. yeah... CATTELANVANIA

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M Lupetti @mlupetti.upandpunch.red · 02/10/2026

This week, Artribune published an article of mine about Zach Cregger's Resident Evil. “Resident Evil: The horror comedy about the failure of the millennial generation.”

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M Lupetti @mlupetti.upandpunch.red · 30/09/2026

Last Friday, on the Konsigli segment of Radiotelevisione svizzera’s Kappa, I talked about The Zium Railway. Since 2017, @theziumsociety.itch.io has been inviting digital artists into increasingly ambitious digital galleries. Podcast online!

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M Lupetti @mlupetti.upandpunch.red · 24/09/2026

New World of Warcraft expansion just dropped.

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M Lupetti @mlupetti.upandpunch.red · 23/09/2026

Italian artist @francescodisa.bsky.social vibecoded a videogame about the world of contemporary art. I discuss it in Italian art magazine @artribune.bsky.social, taking the opportunity to put the arrival of AI slop in videogames into the context of longer-running processes.

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M Lupetti @mlupetti.upandpunch.red · 11/09/2026

Look at this top-down combat.

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M Lupetti @mlupetti.upandpunch.red · 11/09/2026

I was watching the trailer for the new Avatar series. I don't know anything about Avatar, I can barely distinguish the two different Avatar brands, but I saw this and thought... isn't the art direction very videogame-influenced in this one?

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M Lupetti @mlupetti.upandpunch.red · 11/09/2026

One of the things I’ve enjoyed writing the most recently was published this week in @artribune.bsky.social: @panachedgames.bsky.social's 1666: Amsterdam as a tribute to the art of the Dutch Golden Age and as a continuation of Patrice Désilets’ exploration of “a world without God.”

Isack Elyas, Merry Company (1629) and 1666: Amsterdam by Panache Jeux Numériques

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M Lupetti @mlupetti.upandpunch.red · 11/09/2026

Last week, on Radiotelevisione svizzera, I talked about The Old Flesh of Nuraga by @studioortica.bsky.social, a horror game set in a fantasy version of the Italian island of Sardinia, among the ruins of a distorted Nuragic civilization.

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M Lupetti @mlupetti.upandpunch.red · 08/09/2026

Cats (Andrew Lloyd Webber, 1981)

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M Lupetti @mlupetti.upandpunch.red · 08/09/2026

Look at this fellow in Beato Angelico.

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M Lupetti @mlupetti.upandpunch.red · 05/09/2026

Banca etica shuts down A/I funds

Autistici/Inventati’s Press Release, 5 September 2026
On Friday, September 4th, Banca Etica met the AI ODV association in a videocall and told us that they are going to shut down our bank account unilaterally, thus terminating our contract for good, and that the funds still on the account, which we raised through donations from thousands of people, organizations and collectives, will not be at the association’s disposal.

Banca Etica has been spending many words to justify their actions and pretend they are on our side, but their actions counter all of their statements, clearly showing how they are just faithful servants of the US autocrat.

And this has happened without us being notified or allowed to adequately use our funds or agree upon some kind of solution.

Banca Etica’s decision has made it impossible for us to honour our administrative committments, to pay our service providers and to provide our users with the services they have chosen us for.

The AI ODV association has no other option than to pursue all the legal tools available to counter this decision, which we deem illegitimate and unmotivated (at least as things stand at the present moment), so as to be able to access the funds people donated to us.

Autistici/Inventati Collective

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M Lupetti @mlupetti.upandpunch.red · 04/09/2026

My latest reviews for @artribune.bsky.social: @smestorp.bsky.social & @finjico.bsky.social's 868-BACK, @borbware.itch.io & @coyotetimepub.bsky.social's EMUUROM, Beethoven & Dinosaur & @annapurna.com's Mixtape, Coin Drop Games's TRotEotGRPGoaT, Good-Feel & Nintendo's Yoshi and the Mysterious Book.

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M Lupetti @mlupetti.upandpunch.red · 29/08/2026

Today on Italian communist newsaper Il Manifesto: toxic yuri and OXY's GIRLKISS INFINITE CRUCIFIXION.

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M Lupetti @mlupetti.upandpunch.red · 28/08/2026

Sic transit gloria immundi.

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M Lupetti @mlupetti.upandpunch.red · 28/08/2026

Last week on Rete Due of Switzerland’s national public broadcaster RSI, I talked about @househouse.com & @panic.com’s Big Walk and the “friendslop” genre. (I'll be back today at 5PM CEST to discuss Saudi Arabia and the videogame industry).

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M Lupetti @mlupetti.upandpunch.red · 27/08/2026

Since I had the opportunity to play Terranigma on the SNES when I was in primary school and it’s the game of my childhood... Let me know if you’d like me to write something about what playing Terranigma was like for me as a child (and then again later, during high school). Reposts appreciated!

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M Lupetti @mlupetti.upandpunch.red · 21/08/2026

I wrote about Sicilian machinima artist Desirée Alagna and their queer machine cinema. On Gay.it.

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M Lupetti @mlupetti.upandpunch.red · 20/08/2026

I wrote about Saudi Arabia’s buying spree in the videogame industry and about the liberal white supremacists talking about "gameswashing". On @artribune.bsky.social.

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M Lupetti @mlupetti.upandpunch.red · 18/08/2026

Still my favourite videogame ending. (from @superbrothershq.bsky.social & @capybaragames.com's Sword & Sworcery EP)

A night sky with the moon and the text "Now we are cosmic friends forever... ok?"

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M Lupetti @mlupetti.upandpunch.red · 18/08/2026

Polaroid just unleashed the trans Pokémon camera.

A pink, light blue and dark blue Polaroid camera with the Sylveon Pokémon.

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M Lupetti @mlupetti.upandpunch.red · 18/08/2026

Lily Belmira gifts us with a game that takes one of the most (in)famous land art works, Michael Heizer’s City, and subverts it. City by Michael Heizer [Free Version] is one of the masterpieces of 2026 videogames. On @artribune.bsky.social.

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M Lupetti @mlupetti.upandpunch.red · 14/08/2026

Last week on Radiotelevisione svizzera’s Rete Due, we talked about @whetstone.games & @pantaloon.io's OFFBEAT, a videotoy dedicated to creating music (and all the music you compose within it remains yours and you can do whatever you want with it).

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M Lupetti @mlupetti.upandpunch.red · 28/07/2026

Last Friday, for the Konsigli segment on Radiotelevisione svizzera in lingua italiana (RSI), I talked about Unhinged, Netflix’s latest experiment in the world of videogames. The story is pretty silly, but the design is genuinely interesting. The podcast is now online!

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M Lupetti @mlupetti.upandpunch.red · 28/07/2026

“Written off as half-dead, the video game industry is making a comeback,” main Italian gaming website Multiplayer wrote, drooling over Geoff Keighley’s summer hype train. For @artribune.bsky.social, I talk about the crisis facing the industry.

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M Lupetti @mlupetti.upandpunch.red · 27/07/2026

yeah... that's the end of this meme

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M Lupetti @mlupetti.upandpunch.red · 25/07/2026

There's also a new Margini videoludici (At videogame margins) column, about an explicitly "anti-generative AI" videogame, @apehardware.bsky.social's Cognitive Reconquista.

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M Lupetti @mlupetti.upandpunch.red · 25/07/2026

Today in Italian communist newspaper Il Manifesto I write about @molleindustria.org's new videogame, Future? No Thanks!, which was supposed to have already been released but is instead stuck in Valve's review limbo. "The Gramscian solarpunk of Future! No Thanks!".

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M Lupetti @mlupetti.upandpunch.red · 22/07/2026

"Twenty-five years since September 11, 2001, more than 1,000 days into the genocide in Gaza carried out by Israel, and after months of more or less overt U.S.-Israeli aggression against Iran and Lebanon, I’m replaying the first Assassin’s Creed game." My first for @unwinnable.com.

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M Lupetti @mlupetti.upandpunch.red · 15/07/2026

I curated a new feature story exploring GTA V in contemporary art for Italian art magazine @artribune.bsky.social and it's available online and in PDF. Contributions from Valentina Tanni, Laura Cocciolillo and me. (image: Leonardo Magrelli, West of Here, 2021)

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M Lupetti @mlupetti.upandpunch.red · 13/07/2026

Last Friday on Radiotelevisione svizzera in lingua italiana I talked about Play/Ground 3, a series of visual novels created by students from a couple of Italian schools to explore the stories and the places of their regions.

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M Lupetti @mlupetti.upandpunch.red · 04/07/2026

My latest Margini videoludici column for Alias, the supplement of the Italian communist newspaper il manifesto, explores a videogame that is both an adaptation from Lewis Carroll and an introduction to a new mini game development tool.

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M Lupetti @mlupetti.upandpunch.red · 30/06/2026

I was in Salento for the presentation of a project aimed at promoting the historical and cultural heritage of a small town, Sternatia, through immersive art and videogames. On @artribune.bsky.social I write about this project and some of the challenges and limitations of similar initiatives.

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M Lupetti @mlupetti.upandpunch.red · 26/06/2026

As expected (and hoped),the ill-conceived EU campaign Stop Destroying Games for videogame preservation is dead. Long live videogame preservation! My article for Artribune.

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M Lupetti @mlupetti.upandpunch.red · 23/06/2026

On Friday, in my segment for Konsigli on Rete Due of RSI, I recommended @str0nkyk0ng.itch.io's Texturetown. An opportunity to talk about what may be the only true “art movement” currently existing in the videogame scene: the plunderludics/plundercore movement. Podcast online (in Italian).

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M Lupetti @mlupetti.upandpunch.red · 08/06/2026

My latest for Swiss public radio broadcaster RSI: I talked about about @meiacalca.bsky.social's Panthalassa, a point-and-click adventure game where Gnosticism meets marine ecology.

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M Lupetti @mlupetti.upandpunch.red · 05/06/2026

On Italian magazine Limina I discuss what we actually do with these digital toys called videogames.

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M Lupetti @mlupetti.upandpunch.red · 29/05/2026

The podcast of my latest gaming recommendations for Kappa (Radiotelevisione svizzera in lingua italiana, RSI) is now online: I talk about Find Your Words by @capybaragames.com, a videogame about non-verbal communication.

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M Lupetti @mlupetti.upandpunch.red · 28/05/2026

My latest videogame reviews for @artribune.bsky.social: @studioortica.bsky.social's Birds Watching, @wtheknife.bsky.social's Set Yourself on Fire, @apthomson.bsky.social & @fellowtraveller.games's Titanium Court, Scriptorium: Master of Manuscripts and Super Mario Bros. Wonder for NS2.

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M Lupetti @mlupetti.upandpunch.red · 27/05/2026

My latest for Italian communist newspaper il manifesto: I wrote about Cave Story: A Lyrical Walkthrough, a hip-hop album that builds an entire rapped walkthrough of Cave Story over beats from the golden age of Def Jux.

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M Lupetti @mlupetti.upandpunch.red · 26/05/2026

Scholar's Codex (@tuneandfairweather.bsky.social) is out! Edited by @domford.bsky.social, @gua-le-ni.com, @nelevdm.bsky.social and @danielvella.bsky.social, with an essay of mine on the relationship between Darkness and humanity from Augustine of Hippo to Elden Ring.

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M Lupetti @mlupetti.upandpunch.red · 13/05/2026

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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