Duncan Fyfe

Profile banner

Duncan Fyfe

@duncanfyfe.bsky.social

freelance feature writer. video game writer. not duncan't fyfe. duncan fyfe.

duncanfyfe.net
Avatar
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...
The search for Claire Clairmontwww.ft.com Why has the ambitious, multilingual young writer of superlative letters been dismissed as nothing more than the mother of Byron’s child?
Reposted byAvatar Duncan Fyfe
Avatar
Reposted byAvatar Duncan Fyfe
Avatar
Here's something I wrote about the closure of Arkane Austin, my favourite game studio of the last ten years
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...
Power Fantasies and the End of Arkane Austinremapradio.com Arkane Austin told stories about power and how we try to hold onto it. With Redfall, Redfall was the termination of that tale.
Avatar
Here's something I wrote about the closure of Arkane Austin, my favourite game studio of the last ten years
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...
Power Fantasies and the End of Arkane Austinremapradio.com Arkane Austin told stories about power and how we try to hold onto it. With Redfall, Redfall was the termination of that tale.
Reposted byAvatar Duncan Fyfe
Avatar
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...
Power Fantasies and the End of Arkane Austinremapradio.com Arkane Austin told stories about power and how we try to hold onto it. With Redfall, Redfall was the termination of that tale.
Reposted byAvatar Duncan Fyfe
Avatar
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.
More than 500,000 books have been removed from our lending library due to the publishers’ lawsuit, including more than 1,300 banned and challenged titles. 📚🕳️ Sign our open letter to the publishers urging them to restore access to these books. 📖✍️ #LetReadersRead 👉 blog.archive.org/2024/06/17/l...
Reposted byAvatar Duncan Fyfe
Avatar
new favorite playlist
Reposted byAvatar Duncan Fyfe
Avatar
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.
With society on the brink of collapse, this ship you call home is humanity's last hope. Generation Exile is a solarpunk city-builder about survival, sustainability, and community at the end of the world. 🚀 Wishlist: bit.ly/genexile_steam
Avatar
Avatar
Reposted byAvatar Duncan Fyfe
Avatar
Avatar
Reposted byAvatar Duncan Fyfe
Avatar
Avatar
Pressed this so hard my phone shattered
Reposted byAvatar Duncan Fyfe
Avatar
Avatar
Avatar
Avatar
Reposted byAvatar Duncan Fyfe
Avatar
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
Some of the jobs people have offered me since my temp contract ended: - managing editor of a gaming site for no pay - a weekend editor for a place I've already worked. So, you know, great signs all around
Reposted byAvatar Duncan Fyfe
Avatar
Reposted byAvatar Duncan Fyfe
Avatar
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...
Steve Albini, Storied Producer and Icon of the Rock Underground, Dies at 61pitchfork.com The Shellac and Big Black frontman, who recorded classic albums by Nirvana, Pixies, PJ Harvey, and more, has died of a heart attack
Avatar
if you fumble a studio like Arkane Austin you should be banned from running a company for three years
Reposted byAvatar Duncan Fyfe
Avatar
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.
Reposted byAvatar Duncan Fyfe
Avatar
🚨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  🧪
The Secret World of Freelance Journalismwww.eventbrite.co.uk For ten years - and counting - science and technology journalist Chris Baraniuk has worked full-time as a freelance journalist
Reposted byAvatar Duncan Fyfe
Avatar
Preparing for Easter by reflecting on the Elizabeth Hurley tweet
Avatar
Why, who do you get your eggs from?
Reposted byAvatar Duncan Fyfe
Avatar
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...
Suicide Missionprospect.org What Boeing did to all the guys who remember how to build a plane
Avatar
After 15 years I think I finally understand what my career should look like, which is "we have Tom Bissell at home"
Reposted byAvatar Duncan Fyfe
Avatar
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...
The Long Way Home: Jordan Mechner's Odyssey to the Pastremapradio.com The Prince of Persia and Last Express creator's memoir is a meditation on the persistence of family history in the face of the present.