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The object is absurd in the best way: A4, 1.1 kilograms, three centimeters thick, cover art by Plastiboo printed in full color over holographic silver hot foil. Inside are 176 pages of magazine-style reviews, previews and retrospectives—fictional staff writers, period-correct layouts—for 21 games that do not exist. The stock announcement that surfaced on my feed came from All The Problems In This World, a Kreuzberg bookshop, treating an Italian import like a sneaker drop. _The Bizarre World of Fake Video Games_ is written by John Walsh, known to a few million YouTube subscribers as Super Eyepatch Wolf, and published by Hollow Press as the first of its U.D.W.F.G. essay series—edited by Michele Nitri with Marco Cirillo Pedri, who also did the design, and Tiziano Antognozzi. The first edition ran 12,000 copies in November 2025; the English version is already on a second printing of 6,000. Reviews of the unreal, in period dress. Photo via Hollow Press. The roster is the fake-game scene's whole family tree: Plastiboo’s _Vermis_ , Leon Chang’s _Bird World_ and _Return to Bird World_ , Adam Butcher’s _The Disappearance of Catastrophe Crow_ , Harry Partridge’s _GHOSTBLEED_ , Sukinapan’s _Peklo_ , LumpyTouch’s corrupted-cartridge nightmares. What binds them is a shared bet that criticism, manuals, and lore are themselves a medium—that you can build a game out of its paratext and skip the game entirely. The form is older than the boom, and we have the receipts: back in 2016 we wrote about Japan’s annual exhibition of fake Famicom games, where artists produced cartridges and box art for imaginary releases. A decade later, the same instinct has a hardcover, a second printing, and a Berlin shop announcing restocks. The alternate timeline is doing fine. More spreads from __The Bizarre World of Fake Video Games__. Photos via Hollow Press. Games that exist only as their own reviews are exactly the kind of boundary object we live for. The free Killscreen newsletter finds the next one before it gets an anthology. Get the newsletter

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