I wanted to start the first “Out of curiosity” edition with a dear friend and a talented Composer. Since that guy was not available, I’ve asked Grant Kirkhope to participate instead…
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Street Photography: #8 City Life
I went for the very first time in my life at City Life only a week ago. Probably I was the only one remaining in Milan who didn’t went in that district yet. CityLife is a residential, commercial and business district, under construction, situated at short distance from the old city centre of Milan, and its a big project with the goal of redeveloping the historic neighbourhood of the Fiera Milano…
Read MoreA Mandolin for Miyamoto San
One of my dearest memories is certainly the one I associate with the day when, at E3 in Los Angeles, I had the opportunity to see Miyamoto San again in a context of celebration for the presentation of the game, with a jolly mood, and no longer in a context of tension, like when I had to present the game for the very first time…
Read MoreChernobyl drama: #10 Hospital N°134
I wanted to keep this photo for as the last one because this it is the place that impressed me the most in all of Pripyat…
Read MoreStreet Photography: #7 Sunday walks
I am about to leave Milan. Not much time is left for me in this city now. In two months and few days, I’ll be leaving Milan and move at almost 60 miles away from the city where I’m born…
Read MoreFour Past Midnight: A chat with Yuri Abietti
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Dear Yuri, it’s a pleasure having you here in my blog. We've known each other for a long time, so it’s a bit strange for me interviewing you, but I do have some curiosities which I think could be interesting for the people reading this, and all the people interested to H.P Lovecraft, Creepy-pasta, Horror, Magic and everything related to occult…
Read MoreChernobyl drama: #9 The 5th cooling tower
Around 1981, two new reactors were planned, the reactor number 5 and number 6. This photo refers to reactor number 5, which at the time of the Chernobyl accident was 70% completed…
Read MoreVideo game diaries: #4 Just Dance
In 2012 Ubisoft Milan faced the greatest challenge we could imagine. We worked on a game that was so far from our radio waves and to what we were used to, that we didn’t know how to deal with it, initially…
Read MoreStreet Photography: #6 Conca dell'Incoronata in Milan
The Conca dell'Incoronata, or Conca delle Gabelle, is an ancient navigation basin located in Milan which was used to easily overcome the difference in height between the Naviglio della Martesana and the Cerchia dei Navigli…
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If you have been as young and passionate about video games as I have been, and if you have spent part of your youth daydreaming about being able to work on your video game, then you are able to understand the rest of this story…
Read MoreStreet Photography: #5 Lockdown outlaws
This damn lockdown gets on my nerves…
Read MoreChernobyl drama: #8 The palace of culture Energetik
The palace of culture Energetik, which is a play on words since it means both "energetic (lively) and working power plant, was a multipurpose center which included a theater, cinema, library, swimming pool, boxing ring, halls rooms, meeting rooms, a polygon in the basement and a gym…
Read MoreChernobyl drama: #7 The Kindergarten
I have seen many photos about Chernobyl, Pripyat and the exclusion zone in general…
Read MoreAttack on Titans
I've always considered Reggie a true giant. Not only for his size, but also for his “Taking Notes and Kicking” ass attitude…
Read MoreChernobyl drama: #6 The lonely school desk
Before the nuclear accident occurred on Saturday the 26 April 1986 , there were 5 schools that provided education for young middle and high school students…
Read MoreDon't bother the sleeping Smasher
It is always better not to disturb a smasher who is minding his own business. This is true in the game, when two or three are found next to each other, let's look again if there are fifty of them all together. In that case it would not be very smart to shoot in the pile, much less to shoot with an area weapon and above all one with the spread of fire. In this video we were testing the behaviour of the Smasher on editor, an enemy unit in the Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle game that if hit during the players' turn, moves towards them and hits them, even outside of their turn. Poor Rabbid Luigi ... I recommend watching until the end!
Chernobyl drama: #5 Bermuda Triangle
This place struck me for this simplicity in such a context, but there’s also a simple story behind, and a much happier one, which contributed to raise the contrast between this tv and the devastation all around…
Read MoreCharles Martinet: The gentle giant
The first time I’ve met Charles Martinet it was in Italy, Milan. I already knew him, of course, as I've been following every Nintendo story for as long as I can remember, but I had never had the chance to meet Charles live…
Read MoreNendoroid - Series: Amaterasu DX Ver.
For those who are not aware of these beauties yet, the Nendoroid series is a series of brand of action figures created by the Good Smile Company, around 2006…
Read MoreStreet Photograhy: #4 Rahiblovi the traveler
This morning I got up very early, took the car and immediately went to Sempione’s park. I wanted to take a long walk and then go from Paolo Sarpi street, which always give great photographic satisfaction, to Piazza Moscova…
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