We’re looking around at a world rife with rot. More layoffs, more greed, and the birth of a whole new type of AI guy have filled the air with a foul stench. It’s tempting to imagine our community could once again become a phoenix, dying and being reborn from the ashes - but what if there’s a grosser option?
This year, FREAKON is in the world of the fungal: we will not die. When a forest giant falls, it doesn’t disappear. It becomes a hotspot of activity. Saprophytic fungi permeate it, unlocking decades of nutrients to feed a new underground fungal network.
The evidence of this season of decay is occasionally witnessed through the mushrooms that sprout on the fallen log. A glimpse of the riotous activity beneath the surface, the cycle of rot and new growth happening out of sight. These mushrooms release spores into the atmosphere, ensuring the future generations will live on to repeat the cycle.
The stench is just the beginning.
FREAKON is back, 100% free and more troubling than ever before, this year featuring confidential, off-the-record talks from the likes of JOHNNY GALVATRON (Mixtape, The Artful Escape), the FOLKMAN BROTHERS (Ratchet & Clank Rift Apart, Spider-Man 2) and an exclusive seance with the GHOST OF GAMES JOURNALISM.
Outside of a day full of talks you’ll never see again, attendees can expect to experience a playable musical mycelium, an interactive memorial for games media, a whole new line of SEASON OF DECAY merch to broadcast your cluster A and/or B personality disorders to your MIGW colleagues; and more to be revealed.
This year we’ll be debuting an IRL EVENT EXCLUSIVE merch line, complete with the ability to BYO Shirt to be screen printed. We’re working with the freaks at stillfallapparel to screen print something very special, and to experiment with more sustainable ways to make cool shit. We’re going to be so annoying about this, more to come.
Tickets are strictly limited and will be available on TUESDAY, September 9. The exact time will depend on various inscrutable factors including: when we feel like it,
FREAKON's new venue is wheelchair accessible, close to public transport and has enough space to place a chair for every multiple of the average employee salary that EA CEO Andrew Wilson was paid in 2025. That’s 260 chairs!
As a reminder, FREAKON talks are a strictly no recording, no posting zone. Everything is off the record. Nobody has ever leaked any content from FREAKON.
It's free, we can't emphasize enough how free this is. It’s not 600 dollars. It’s free.
xoxo Da Freaks