Duncan Fyfe
@duncanfyfe.net
freelance feature writer. video game writer. not duncan't fyfe. duncan fyfe. duncanfyfe.net
excited to hear from a colleague that I'm mentioned in a podcast about why the game industry is collapsing
Rob Zacny@robzacny.bsky.social · last wk.And then @adamconover.net asked me to come on and explain why all the headlines in the games industry are so grim and I explained why it all started to go bad when my nieces and nephew didn’t like the games I bought them. youtu.be/w7GFLFQWt_g?...
"Why would Gerhard Berger lend his name to the driest, cheapest-looking, and least commercial F1 video game ever made?" @duncanfyfe.net for @essesmag.com: esses.com/stories/who-...
Who Can Solve Gerhard Berger's F1 Quiz? | Esses
The strange story of the weirdest F1 video game ever made.
esses.com
The same story repeats itself everywhere in the culture: dumb rich guys who don't know what anything is or does, who are too lazy/smug to learn and ideologically committed to the idea that everything they don't control is Woke Bullshit, wrecking stuff on principle. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/w...
How U.S.-Canada Tariff Negotiations Turned Into an All-Out Trade War
Detailed accounts of the final hours of the negotiations show that, while the United States offered Canada what it said was the best deal of any country, what Canada had to give up in exchange was see...
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The story's online, too, free to read with sign-up: esses.com/stories/who-...
Who Can Solve Gerhard Berger's F1 Quiz? | Esses
The strange story of the weirdest F1 video game ever made.
esses.com
I'm in ESSES again, with a piece on the strangest Formula 1 video game ever made - or not made, as the case may be. This is a career highlight; never before have I reported a story by enlisting a F1 driver to ask another F1 driver about Austrian hackers *during the Monaco Grand Prix*
You're all contractually obligated to read this comment Rob Paulsen made on a Tim Curry interview in 2025
Tim Curry should also be remembered for featuring in the best between takes photo of an actor in recorded history.
opened Instagram for the first time in a year and first thing up is "the dog you followed in 2014 is about to die"
I'm in ESSES again, with a piece on the strangest Formula 1 video game ever made - or not made, as the case may be. This is a career highlight; never before have I reported a story by enlisting a F1 driver to ask another F1 driver about Austrian hackers *during the Monaco Grand Prix*
New from 404 Media: we solved which AI company is buying massive shipments of rare books, scanning and destroying them to train AI. We put an Apple AirTag in a rare book, followed it. It ended up at an Amazon facility. Its logo is a dinosaur ripping through a book www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...
We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.
404media.co
kids today are literally confused about whether "partying" was real or an urban legend
I don't know if Tyranny is Obsidian Entertainment's best game, but for my money it is their most interesting and effective design. Here's my piece on the 10th anniversary of Tyranny, which people weren't in the mood for in November 2016 and may be even less so today
Rob Zacny@robzacny.bsky.social · last mo.Was Tyranny a victim of bad timing or was it a bit too honest about the subtext of its audiences’ fantasies? @duncanfyfe.net on a game that has remained topical, trenchant… and rather neglected. remapradio.com/articles/ten...
Was Tyranny a victim of bad timing or was it a bit too honest about the subtext of its audiences’ fantasies? @duncanfyfe.net on a game that has remained topical, trenchant… and rather neglected. remapradio.com/articles/ten...
Ten Years of Tyranny
Sympathy for the Devil's little helper
remapradio.com
I don't know if Tyranny is Obsidian Entertainment's best game, but for my money it is their most interesting and effective design. Here's my piece on the 10th anniversary of Tyranny, which people weren't in the mood for in November 2016 and may be even less so today
Rob Zacny@robzacny.bsky.social · last mo.Was Tyranny a victim of bad timing or was it a bit too honest about the subtext of its audiences’ fantasies? @duncanfyfe.net on a game that has remained topical, trenchant… and rather neglected. remapradio.com/articles/ten...
For our latest big story, @duncanfyfe.net dives deep the bestselling pinball game of all-time, The Addams Family.
The Addams Family pinball: An oral history
We talk to the team behind the 1992 breakout hit to learn about licensing, magnets, and how it designed the most popular pinball game of all-time.
designroom.site
Amazing piece. Obviously inspirational for me. Gonna be taking that in to the office tomorrow 💖 What a game though, not sure i realised it was the first with tons of modes and minigames?
Design Room@designroom.site · 2mo agoFor our latest big story, @duncanfyfe.net dives deep the bestselling pinball game of all-time, The Addams Family.
Such a fun read on an industry and era that I’m admittedly unfamiliar with. It’s a long feature, but well worth the read!
Design Room@designroom.site · 2mo agoFor our latest big story, @duncanfyfe.net dives deep the bestselling pinball game of all-time, The Addams Family.
This story gave me the perfect excuse to stop by a few arcades and take a bunch of photos.
Design Room@designroom.site · 2mo agoFor our latest big story, @duncanfyfe.net dives deep the bestselling pinball game of all-time, The Addams Family.
A great read even if you're not particularly into pinball. Turns out that when you take a group of people who are the best at what they do, and give them the freedom to do their best, good things happen. www.designroom.site/the-addams-f...
The Addams Family pinball: An oral history
We talk to the team behind the 1992 breakout hit to learn about licensing, magnets, and how it designed the most popular pinball game of all time.
designroom.site