Max Haiven

And here is the schedule for @gamestransformed.bsky.social

Join us this weekend for the @gamestransformed.bsky.social festival in London, celebrating the radical potential of games to transform our world towards the horizon of collective liberation! Saturday night: a live game-show version of Billionaires and Guillotines!

🎮 Panel at Games Transformed 12/07/25 🎮 "From Gamergate to QAnon: How Fascists Use Games"

With @maxhaiven.bsky.social @innuendostudios.bsky.social @digital-stranger.bsky.social and Konstanze N'Guessan

📅 13.00-14.30
📍 Ground Floor Event Space

#GamesTransformed2025 #AntiFascism #GT25

Fascism and the civil war in the middle class with @maxhaiven.bsky.social :

This is happening tomorrow. Come along!

I'm thrilled to be helping out with the GAMES TRANSFORMED festival this year. Tickets are on sale now and they'll go fast. It'll include a special LIVE gameshow edition of Billionaires and Guillotines!

A reminder to apply to join us in London on July 11 for the symposium on the question WHAT IS THE ANTIFASCIST GAME. Applications due May 17!
reimaginingvalue.ca/antifagame/

Berlin friends!
♟️ Join me and others at TRUST on Weds, May 14 to learn about the politics of games and play BILLIONAIRES AND GUILLOTINES!
🤫 And come see @sarahsteinlubrano.bsky.social and me in conversation about her new book DON'T TALK ABOUT POLITICS on Tues, May 20 at Shakespeare & Sons

"it's all a game, and the game is deadly real."
makingandbreaking.org/article/max-...

My essay "It's all a game, and the game is deadly real" on how financialized capitalism incubates gamified fascism, is out now, alongside several fascinating essays, in the 4th issue of Making and Breaking --> makingandbreaking.org

A small May Day victory for me and the team at @plutopress.bsky.social - our board game Billionaires & Guillotines is funded! You can still back the project on Kickstarter til tonight and get a discount. We hope to have games in stores this autumn!
billionairesandguillotines.com

Speculative Futures: Labour, Technology, and Ecological Justice This event will explore two key visions of the near future: one through the struggles of Amazon workers for labour and ecological justice, and the other through the ecological challenges of Silicon Va...

Sherryl Vint from UC Riverside and @maxhaiven.bsky.social will be my guests. Huge thanks to Stefan Jacobsen, head of the center, and Andrea Thorup for all the support along the way. Save the date: May 21st. All are welcome! cape.ku.dk/eng/calendar...

Billionaires & Guillotines A game for 2-5 aspiring plutocrats… and their enemies

here's the billionaires + guillotines kickstarter. i have a little suspicion that lots of you following me will very much enjoy it
www.kickstarter.com/projects/plu...

YouTube video by Danny Dorling Billionaires and Guillotines: Max Haiven, Meghna Jayanth, Danny Dorling

had the most excellent discussion with @maxhaiven.bsky.social & @dannydorling.bsky.social a few weekends ago about max's fantastically raucous boardgame billionaires + guillotines (being kickstarted now!), whether video games can be anti-fascist & play as a radical force
youtu.be/W00vEhAcwgg?...

Radical Gaming A new left-wing board game puts players in the role of maniacal plutocrats trying to take over the world. Its creator explains how it responds to the wider phenomenon of ‘gamified capitalism’.

as part of my current "speculative economies" residency at au JUS in Brussels, @maxhaiven.bsky.social will be visiting 28/29 Apr. We'll be launching his new anticapitalist boardgame and going into conversation on gamification, fascism, and the endless Crusade.

Read: tribunemag.co.uk/2025/04/radi...

Radical Gaming A new left-wing board game puts players in the role of maniacal plutocrats trying to take over the world. Its creator explains how it responds to the wider phenomenon of ‘gamified capitalism’.

“In this moment of capitalism, most of us feel that our chances of securing a good life are slim, no matter how dutifully we play by the rules.”

@maxhaiven.bsky.social creator of Billionaires and Guillotines, for @tribunemagazine.bsky.social

tribunemag.co.uk/2025/04/radi...

Very pleased to write for Tribune about games and the radical imagination in a moment of gamified capitalism (and its fascist nightmares), w. words about Billionaires & Guillotines, the game I've made with @plutopress.bsky.social which you can help us crowdfund now.
tribunemag.co.uk/2025/04/radi...

Games Transformed organisers playing Billionaires and Guillotines. They are drunk.

Games Transformed THOROUGHLY ENDORSES Billionaires and Guillotines, the new game from @maxhaiven.bsky.social & @plutopress.bsky.social!

We were forced to introduce a house rule to legalise the copious amounts of cheating at our table and Max has promised it will make it into the game at release 😎

Very pleased to write for Tribune about games and the radical imagination in a moment of gamified capitalism (and its fascist nightmares), w. words about Billionaires & Guillotines, the game I've made with @plutopress.bsky.social which you can help us crowdfund now.
tribunemag.co.uk/2025/04/radi...

Join us!

Join us on Sunday!

🎲THIS SUNDAY🎲

Join @maxhaiven.bsky.social and play Billionaires & Guillotines!
Hosted by us, with Weird Economies, RiVAL, and @gamestransformed.bsky.social

🗓️Sun, Apr 13
⏰6:30pm
📍Pelican House
🎟 buff.ly/SWqtcoa

Come hang out and play a game with us!

"We live in a gamified world run by oligarchs, who fix the games we play so they always win. But with Billionaires & Guillotines we finally get a chance to take our revenge.”

My endorsement of @maxhaiven.bsky.social's excellent new game. I've backed it. You should too.

Last day to apply!

Billionaires & Guillotines A game for 2-5 aspiring plutocrats… and their enemies

Bring your friends together for a fun night of strategy, suspense, and, well… class warfare:

Join us in London!

Billionaires & Guillotines A game for 2-5 aspiring plutocrats… and their enemies

Alright, comrades, shuffle up and seize the means of play! Billionaires & Guillotines—forget Monopoly—instead of going to jail, the rich get what's coming to them:

Save the date.
12/07/25

#gamestransformed #gamesfestival #radicalgames

Billionaires & Guillotines A game for 2-5 aspiring plutocrats… and their enemies

Help fund my friend and comrade @maxhaiven.bsky.social ‘s timely board game “Billionaires and Guillotines”! www.kickstarter.com/projects/plu...