My and Jan Houška's article "Czech Appeal" is out in open access! We talked to local independent game developers who make locally themed games and asked them about their motivations, production processes, and the reception of their games. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

1/5🎥🏭When platform capitalism meets local labor: A Prague perspective on global streaming production. My new article examines how Amazon's Carnival Row—filmed in Prague—embodies the contradictions of platform imperialism. 🧵👇 #StreamingMobileProduction #PlatformImperialism #CarnivalRow #Prague.

Go in and do this. I was also 'upgraded' automatically with no notice to the 30eur annually more expensive AI Bullshit Plus version of Office 365. Nothing says "this is a necessary and groundbreaking technology" like having to force-feed it down people's throats.

Happy to announce that for our game studies ERC project GAMEINDEX, we're looking for 2 PhD students. These are fully funded positions. More info here:

Be careful, if you ever played Among Us, or probably watched The Thing I guess, you might be a CEO assassin! Like fucking clockwork lol

I sense some Blue Ice/Commander Blood vibes!

Happy to announce that my ERC Consolidator Grant project "GAMEINDEX:Politics and Aesthetics of Indexical Representation in Digital Games and VR" has been selected for funding. We're starting in October 2025! gameproductionstudies.fsv.cuni.cz/2024/12/03/g...

Did you know that in Brazil, there are places where you can pay to play games for a certain amount of time? I narrated the past, present, and future of some of these spaces in the doc Um real a hora (2022) -- One real an hour --, which is now available in English! Let me tell you more below! 👇🏽