killjoy. with will butler
Writing on videogames and the ways they break our hearts.
- Created by Will Butler
- Located in London, UK
- December 2025
- Free
Recent posts
July 16, 2026
Summer Game Fest/E3 Season this year struggled to get out from under a dark cloud of its own making. More than any year prior, it felt as if the blinders of commercial-inspired giddiness had fallen off revealing the Glasgow Wonka Experience that the game industry has become 1 . Amidst mass layoffs…
May 26, 2026
As part of my games preservation research, I’m always on the look for any emerging (or existing!) groups that put a premium on political advocacy with the games industry. Videogame preservation is a field largely held up by non-institutional curators and archivists (fans), the vast majority of…
May 20, 2026
I've published my first piece of original music under my MachinesMachines moniker. It's a short, plunderphonic-inspired track called Ancient, Modern. It's part of an EP I'm working on separate to all the games stuff which is inspired by Ursula K. Le Guin's unrivalled fantasy series, Earthsea. Rune…
