Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

You all can stop searching, because I found the worst academic book cover of all time.

Quite possibly one of the best/unfortunate typos from an academic text I've ever run across. (From MacKenzie's Human-Computer Interaction 2E textbook.)

teachers! excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone. take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE against-a-i.com

We've acquired the historic game magazine Computer Entertainer. As in, we got the rights. We own the magazine. And we're putting it into the Creative Commons for anyone to use for free. Learn more: gamehistory.org/computerente...

This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen. By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza

🎮📜 It’s that time of year game history friends! 📜🎮 The July 2025 issue of ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories is HERE! 🕹️📖 www.romchip.org 🌟 get cozy, get reading 📚✨ SUBSCRIBE: eepurl.com/crCul1 DONATE: bit.ly/3ve1oqZ 🧵 below!

Look at this beautiful screenshot

UCSC dining hall workers need support for their May 1st strike. Their goal is a modest $500, so please kick in if you can. gofund.me/03fde845

I'm hoping to have Cherry Cough Syrup finished by summer. All mainline levels are in place. Brand new UI. Lots of quality of life improvements. Now all the hard work of wrapping up loose ends.

This would be both a great look and a great sound design approach to a motorcycle racing/traversal game.

At some point, I'll share more about my new class, Games as Technical Culture (now on my second iteration), but for now I'm excited to finally have a class that incorporates @ibogost.bsky.social 's How to Talk About Video Games as a means to talk about culturally-informed game criticism.

It's CHARITY MEGABUNDLE TIME! And there's some absolute gems in this one, including Tunic which is just an all-timer and everyone should have it in their library. So let's do a little thread showcasing some of the games, and also the tools you might find handy to navigate this & other Itch bundles.

It’s the @romchip.bsky.social fundraiser stream today!! 12 hours of game goodness streamed by various cool people to raise money to keep ROMchip going and open to everyone. Watch and donate! twitch.tv/romchipjournal

Exceptionally thoughtful writing about exceptionally interesting games. 👇

Kendrick’s boldest move might’ve been bringing back ragged boot cut jeans with the early 00s wash.

we can and should be candid about what it means if someone says that they want to accumulate and centralize (and therefore validate or invalidate) the entire world in the form of data. what does that kind of central authority describe? on its face we're describing systems of authoritarian nature.

I've developed a new slide design style this quarter that I'm really happy with. It has a touch of 90s editorial graphic design.

gonna tell my kids this was Skibidi Toilet

The AI industry’s seizure of other people’s property, declaring it to be worthless, then pricing it at a premium once “processed” through them, has a historical precedent, and it’s not a good look. Yup. It’s good old colonialism. open.substack.com/pub/joelmorr...

“How do you live a digital life whose primary byproduct isn’t resentment? The most straightforward way: you stop posting. You leave the party.”

Have I mentioned that I really enjoy making class slides?

Made a gif for my upcoming Games as Technical Culture class, and I felt the Internet deserved to have it.

It’s honestly hard to imagine a scenario more engineered to enrage the current higher ed workforce— exhausted, demoralized, precarious, and all around out of fucks—than the idea that their institutions would be investing large sums of money in fine-tuning their algorithmic doppelgängers.

Every 1996 Weekly Famitsu has been scanned and uploaded! Such a great year with lots of PSX! Please RT and spread the word and post any cool things you find in these! Going to be taking a break for a bit after scanning all these 😅 Enjoy! www.gamingalexandria.com/wp/magazine-...

Game scholars: I'm writing a paper on game compilations, with a specific emphasis on historicizing anthologies like Namco Museum, Intellivision Lives!, Metal Slug Anthology, and the like. Is there any scholarly work on game compilations? I'm coming up empty on standard lit searches.

Good news, gamers—I found it.

My game, Pinball Spire, launches on Steam October 2! Get ready to explore the mysterious Pinball Spire! Join our little hero Pip on an exciting journey that combines pinball with action-adventure! store.steampowered.com/app/2601940/... #gamedev #indiegames #pinball #gaming #steam #steamdeck

Public writing is hard, but I try to say something about language games, “A.I.”, and the couch. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Surprise! My friend/colleague Kristen Gillette and I have been working on a new game called 🍒 Cherry Cough Syrup 🍒 for many months, and you can play the demo for free now! It's an arcade platformer heavily inspired by Mighty Bomb Jack: ex-writer.itch.io/cherry-cough...

We can't believe we're less than 24 hrs from ROMchip's TWITCH FUNDRAISER!! Tune in tmw @ 11AM EDT twitch.tv/romchipjournal We're lucky enough to be 45% of the way to our Tier 1 $6K goal! We're doing so well I HEREBY COMMIT to smashing a pinata live in my office if we break our Tier 2 goal of $8K

bluesky: * Everybody's gay * They're skeets * Alt text required * Trans folks are in charge * Kindness is the currency * Everybody is super horny but the cishet bros need to understand it's not really for them * Make it weird keep it weird * Acab and mutual aid

📣 Next Friday ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories 🎮hosts @aarontram.bsky.social for a talk abt his recent book THE PRIVILEGE OF PLAY and the racialized history of hobby games 🎲 LIVE on TWITCH 🧑‍💻 FEB 16 @ 2PM EST. 🎟️RSVP: tickettailor.com/events/romch... SIGN UP FOR OUR NEWSLETTER: bit.ly/3wa331m

Might’ve witnessed the greatest work email thread this morning.

The only two timelines academia can operate within are ‘I need this by EOD tomorrow’ and ‘publication date: two years from now.’

First day of winter quarter slide.