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Duncan Fyfe@duncanfyfe.bsky.social |
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freelance feature writer. video game writer. not duncan't fyfe. duncan fyfe.
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Duncan Fyfe
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When Byron challenged his friends to write a scary story, Mary Shelley produced Frankenstein and Claire Clairmont didn't get around to it. I wrote about literature's relatable queen and publishing's renewed interest in "forgotten" women like her for the FT weekend magazine
www.ft.com/content/d149...
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Rob Zacny
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Here's @duncanfyfe.bsky.social on the arc of Arkane Austin and the depressing ironies of its demise. remapradio.com/articles/pow...
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Duncan Fyfe
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Here's something I wrote about the closure of Arkane Austin, my favourite game studio of the last ten years
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Duncan Fyfe
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Here's something I wrote about the closure of Arkane Austin, my favourite game studio of the last ten years
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Remap Radio
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Arkane Austin often told stories of individuals of extraordinary ability battling or subverting powerful systems. Here’s @duncanfyfe.bsky.social on how the studio’s place in the industry paralleled their own work until the system won. remapradio.com/articles/pow...
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Nico Mara-McKay 🦇 (they/iel)
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I wouldn't have been able to complete my master's in history under covid lockdowns without the Internet Archive's collection. The Internet Archive pays for books the books it copies and makes them accessible to people who could not otherwise read them. Support their work. Sign the petition. Thanks.
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Catbus
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new favorite playlist
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Marsh Davies
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I'm only just catching up with the onslaught of game announcements, but I love the sound of this sci-fi city-builder that makes sustainability a core goal. The team behind it are some of the best, too - proper mega-brains.
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Duncan Fyfe
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Duncan Fyfe
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despite the score, I enjoyed playing this game, enjoyed writing this short piece, and enjoyed most of all debating with the Guardian's sub-editors how much Kafka was into porn
www.theguardian.com/games/articl...
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Duncan Fyfe
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My latest for @remapradio.bsky.social is the untold story of the Press F to Pay Respects meme.
This one goes places!
remapradio.com/articles/cal...
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Duncan Fyfe
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My latest for @remapradio.bsky.social is the untold story of the Press F to Pay Respects meme.
This one goes places!
remapradio.com/articles/cal...
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Rob Zacny
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The history of Press F, as told to @duncanfyfe.bsky.social remapradio.com/articles/cal...
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Duncan Fyfe
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Pressed this so hard my phone shattered
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Duncan Fyfe
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"It’s really important to be suspicious of success. Effective resistance to dominant power is never rewarded with success."
For the Guardian -- for my first time in the Guardian! -- I interviewed video games' Meghna Jayanth
www.theguardian.com/games/articl...
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Duncan Fyfe
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"It’s really important to be suspicious of success. Effective resistance to dominant power is never rewarded with success."
For the Guardian -- for my first time in the Guardian! -- I interviewed video games' Meghna Jayanth
www.theguardian.com/games/articl...
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Duncan Fyfe
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Duncan Fyfe
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about a third of the current F1 grid, I would believe it
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Duncan Fyfe
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Perfect magazine journalism. The Habsburgs in Plano, TX
thebaffler.com/latest/feeli...
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Duncan Fyfe
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@robzacny.bsky.social you'll like this thebaffler.com/latest/feeli...
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Carli Velocci (👽)
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Anyway I'm back on the market. If you need: ✍️ An experienced news/tech/video game copy editor 🖊️ A tech, video games, culture journalist 🧑💼 A content lead 🎮 Somebody to hep edit your video game or assist in producing it velocci[dot]c[at]gmail[dot]com
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AK Lingus
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Goddamn, RIP to Steve Albini, aka @electricalwsop.bsky.social, one of the most titanic figures in all of music pitchfork.com/news/steve-a...
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Tim Marchman
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Awful; I’ve been listening to and reading him for more than 30 years and thought he was a model of integrity and how to grow out of being an angry young person gracefully without becoming a stooge in addition to being an incredible musician. pitchfork.com/news/steve-a...
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Duncan Fyfe
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if you fumble a studio like Arkane Austin you should be banned from running a company for three years
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Duncan Fyfe
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You rule for this. FDR is one of the funniest things I've ever seen and I've never seen it higher than like 12p.
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Josh Scherr
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The Strain Wreck continues apace. First Crop Circle & Prytania, now Possibility Space. My heart goes out to everyone at PS; they were making something truly unique & it's a shame we'll never get to play it.
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Chris Baraniuk
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🚨Everyone, I have news! 🚨
In 2024, I’m celebrating TEN YEARS of freelancing full-time! 🥳
To mark the occasion, I’m giving a talk at UCL on 16th May where I’ll share some secrets on how to get by in this crazy industry. Details here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-secret...
#GreenSky #EnergySky 🧪
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Brendel
@brendelbored.bsky.social
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Preparing for Easter by reflecting on the Elizabeth Hurley tweet
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Duncan Fyfe
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Why, who do you get your eggs from?
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David_j_roth
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Incredible post from the best writer on Boeing that we've got. The level of willful negligence from executives on something that carries human beings through the sky is astonishing and should be a crime. Sorry I forgot to make a joke. prospect.org/infrastructu...
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Duncan Fyfe
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if that makes sense
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Duncan Fyfe
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After 15 years I think I finally understand what my career should look like, which is "we have Tom Bissell at home"
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Duncan Fyfe
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Rob and I ended up speaking about this book and Jordan Mechner for over an hour. Could have gone longer! remapradio.com/podcasts/epi...
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Duncan Fyfe
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For @remapradio.bsky.social, I reviewed the new memoir by Jordan Mechner, creator of Prince of Persia, together with his journals from the 80s and 90s. Mechner is less interested in games than making a romantic hero of his great-aunt, and the book is far better for it. remapradio.com/articles/jor...
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Duncan Fyfe
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Thank you!
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Jim Rossignol
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The quote here is illustrative, but the real issue is that the UK has been pushed into a state where public services are ruined and people are starving and dying. It has been gradual enough, and ignored enough by the press, that we are not rioting in the streets, and so the Tories have won.
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Duncan Fyfe
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For @remapradio.bsky.social, I reviewed the new memoir by Jordan Mechner, creator of Prince of Persia, together with his journals from the 80s and 90s. Mechner is less interested in games than making a romantic hero of his great-aunt, and the book is far better for it. remapradio.com/articles/jor...
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Rob Zacny
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I'm biased because I am obsessed with Mechner's work and have been stoked about this memoir for ages, but I think @duncanfyfe.bsky.social wrote a beautiful review of it for us at Remap. We're gonna have a pod conversation about it up later today.
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Remap Radio
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Duncan Fyfe looks at Jordan Mechner’s fascinating new memoir alongside his published journals and the arc of his career to try and piece together the self portrait the Prince of Persia designer has created. remapradio.com/articles/jor...
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videogame history
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round-up, flyer, arcade (1981) flyers.arcade-museum.com?page=flyer&d...
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Luke O'Neil
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This is something I often think about. Do they have foresight about the barren world they're pushing us toward and just don't care because they assume their desires will be met, or do they not see it?
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Amy A
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Hacks like Lovecraft say the monster is so horrifying we can’t even begin to describe it with human language, real artists like Frank Herbert say big worm
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David_j_roth
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It is both funny and instructive how eager so many powerful individuals and institutions with massively grandiose understandings of their own significance have been to discard every value they've ever professed or pretended to in order to protect the dumbest, shittiest rich guy of his generation.
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Catelli
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Apparently this Road and Track story about F1 racing was pulled and is only available through this archive link. That’s enough reason to read it. The content, is another good reason.
web.archive.org/web/20240301...
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Duncan Fyfe
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yeah sure. I'll "consider" it
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Lincoln Michel
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1994: internet is ephemeral 2004: internet is forever 2014: only internet is forever. Print pubs and owning physical media are for idiots 2024: your favorite shows have been removed for tax breaks and private equity firms bought up the websites you worked for and deleted your entire life's work
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Adam Morgan
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We need to start calling this what it is: executive theft. Vice was valued at $5.7 billion in 2017 and its c-suite has been paying itself six-figure *bonuses* as recently as LAST YEAR. Now they can't afford employees or a website? Theft.
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Defector
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Vice’s avaricious stewards finally succeeded at bleeding it dry: defector.com/vices-avaric...
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