What’s Fascist This Week? Games Are Fascist This Week
13th November 2025
Next time you fire up a games console, you could also be shifting the Overton Window to the far, far Right. That’s the belief behind a‘scholarly journal’ which is currently soliciting submissions. Key questions include:
? How are fascist games and play entwined with the hyper-capitalist and games industry [sic] and its exploitation of workers throughout its supply chains, from the extractive mining operations to the self-exploitative hustle of ‘independent’ developers?
? How is ludic fascism connected to resurgent patriarchy, racism, nationalism, colonialism and genocide (in Palestine and beyond), revanchist politics, and rampant and violent Transphobia?
These and other burning issues of the day will feature in a special issue of Eludamos: Journal for Computer Game Culture, an “international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the critical academic study of games and play” spawned (and no doubt respawned, FPS fans) by Septentrio Academic Publishing based in Tromsø, Norway.