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
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…
April 9, 2026
I’m getting to an age where all it takes is a reminder of when 2009 was, a realisation that a celebrity is younger than me, or a brief changing of the winds to send me into solipsism. This is problematic for two reasons: one, I’m not that old and two, it’s the kind of indulgent thinking that leads…
