NARVAL Narva anti-gloss
RUEN
Pilot number

Expensive look. Living city. NARVAL is a local satirical magazine about the city, where the yellow facade competes with turquoise water, the receipt looks like a luxury product, and the package is still the main men's accessory of the season.

24 pages 300 proofs 0 news channel
NARVAL Narva anti-gloss
Covers ↗
Knight 2026paid separately
Night rateThe paths diverge, the score settles
Number verified by dispatcherthe dispatcher didn't promise anything

Fresh

The main material, city occasions and short forms that keep the site alive between paper issues.

Six red dots around a black hole in ink editorial technique
Science/Early UniverseSix points, more than 40 spectral lines and a black hole heavier than the future galaxy

Little red dots

Webb saw the early growth of black holes - and a new class of objects that does not yet add up to one explanation.

JWSTblack holes600 Ma
Ink illustration of a colonist flying on a Titan on fabric wings
Space / satireAstrophysicists have recognized Titan as the most comfortable place to live. The main thing is not to sneeze

Titan was recognized as the most comfortable area

A satellite of Saturn, where instead of rain there is gasoline, and a person can fly on fabric wings.

TitaniumSaturnwings
Ink illustration: Quake ogre with grenade launcher and chainsaw on a stone platform
Games/cultural archiveThirty years of Quake: real 3D, QuakeC, mods and a free chapter of Dawn of the Machine

30 years of Quake: a game that continues to be built

Why didn’t id Software’s shooter become a museum piece and receive nineteen more new levels for its anniversary?

Quake1996fashion
A still from the Pantheon series: a digital personality on a huge screen during the Logorhythms presentation
Books / AI / digital lifeFrom the Strugatskys to the Pantheon series: why the conversation about digital immortality begins with a switch

Candles in front of the server

What happens when a familiar voice lives on someone else’s server, and the right to switch remains with the owner of the infrastructure.

PantheonStrugatskydigital identity
Ink illustration of three hands reaching for a shared grocery basket against the background of the flags of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania
Food/neighbor cardWhy do Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania not have the same kitchen, although they often have a common food supply?

Three countries, three characters, one grocery set?

Common ingredients do not make three cuisines the same: what remains on the plate is history, neighborhood and home habit.

Baltickitchentraditions
Ink illustration: a man stands in front of a huge spaceship in a hangar
Games/Idle EconomyFourteen years of development, a billion dollars and a universe that has learned to live until release

Star Citizen: long-term construction of long-term construction

Why the unfinished space simulator didn't die and how waiting for the game turned into a way of life in its own right.

Star Citizenalphabillion
An angry witcher with black eyes cuts a monster
Games/philosophyPlato, Kant, Sartre and the witcher's contract on human innocence

At least the monster isn't lying

Why monsters are more honest than people, and human speech turns free choice into a neatly designed alibi.

Sonya + Lyolik"The Witcher"bad faith
New permanent column

Living classics

Authors are people who write to NARVAL. Personal texts, urban memory and biographies without museum dust.

Ink illustration: alien inspector looking at Earth
Alexander Myasoedov / author's column

There is no intelligent life on our Earth

The aliens arrived, looked and decided to continue the search. The Earth, meanwhile, again explains why everything works this way.

Earthinspectionintelligencecolumn
Open text →

Where to find it

The pilot should work like a city object: they pick it up, photograph it, leave it on the table and argue nearby.

Bar

Lying at the counter. Read aloud after the second confidence.

Garage

Becomes part of the interior next to the canister and calendar.

Salon

Works instead of a magazine that pretends everyone is on vacation.

Reception

It helps the queue remember that it is also a cultural phenomenon.