Tag: games
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The Contagion of Reality
Kill Screen uses Tottenham Hotspur, Roger Caillois, and capitalism’s effect on sports to argue that capitalist structures corrupt play by rupturing a game’s magic circle. But we claim finance can operate inside play without destroying it, citing KmikeyM as an example that reworks the relationship between capitalism, games, and participation.
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The Bot That Finished Second
Every month, KmikeyM shareholders play a poker tournament. $50 buy-in. Real money. Real stakes. The second Tuesday of every month since 2020. (Join us!) On February 10, 2026, for the first time, an AI sat down at the table. K5M Guy was a Claude-powered AI agent and I fronted it the $50. I was in…
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Blippo+
Blippo+ has launched on Playdate. It’s a surreal streaming service from Planet Blip, part sci-fi TV experiment, and part video game. Created by YACHT with a dream team of collaborators (including me as Executive Producer) it’s now live, with a full-color PC/Switch version coming in fall 2025.
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Chess Lab
Like many people I got into chess during the pandemic. I’d played as a kid, I watched Queen’s Gambit, and for a while I even experimented with my own version of what I now know is called fairy chess. Trying to make my own version of chess came from two experiences. First was in 2015…