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What do we talk about when we talk about 4X? We think about abstract systems, resource management, efficiency, growth... But what about all the invisible things attached to eXploitation, and eXtermination? Mary Flanagan is a game designer and academic, and the author of Playing Oppression: The Legacy of Conquest and
April 28, 2026
Ross Scott is the face of the Stop Killing Games movement, which seeks to ensure games don't completely die when a developer or publisher ends support, but rather, enters an end-of-life plan that makes it reasonably playable – after which, a compliant gamemaker has no more liability. Following a
April 21, 2026
We didn't evolve for all of this. The modern world is very different to the one we evolved to compete and thrive in. But that mismatch might be more pronounced for the neurodivergent mind. Dr Clinton White has an upcoming book, Fast Mind, Slow World, which expands on
April 14, 2026