Author profile
Gianclaudio Pontecchiani — known to everyone as Logan Singer — is a Genoese creative with deep roots in visual art and a lifelong passion for video games, with a special affection for that golden age when pixels were a language and cartridges still had a soul.
Trained at the Nicolò Barabino Art School in Genoa, he built his professional career within the video game world itself. A contributor to Sprea Editore, he worked extensively on PlayStation Magazine Italia (PSM), one of the key publications for Italian video game enthusiasts. It was an all-encompassing experience: reviews, previews and critical features, but also covers, illustrations, comics, editorial layouts and translations — all experienced from the inside, between industry fairs, events and hands-on work on every aspect of the magazine.
He has also collaborated with websites such as Everyeye.it, bringing both critical and creative contributions to the digital space. Today he is part of the Retro-Gamers.it editorial team, where his perspective as a long-time enthusiast meets that of a professional image-maker.
The most personal chapter of his relationship with video game culture is Ludenz: an independent magazine he co-founded and whose entire visual identity he curates, from covers to layouts. Ludenz does not publish reviews or rankings. It explores video games as a cultural, philosophical and anthropological phenomenon: an editorial project against the current, created for those who want to go beyond the surface and truly understand what playing means.
For Logan, retrogaming is not nostalgia for its own sake. It is a living archive of visual, narrative and sonic languages to be studied, reinterpreted and brought into the present. A starting point, not a destination.