New game of the year just dropped.

If you lot can’t handle striped trousers how are you going to deal with me in my 1590 Dice Man outfit 🙄

Stellar new scholarship on analog games is now at your fingertips!

Well, well, well played @nintendousa.bsky.social ! @benjedwards.com and I wouldn't have predicted THIS banger of an announcement... We should plug our @mitpress.bsky.social book "Seeing Red: Nintendo's Virtual Boy" at this point., no? www.youtube.com/live/tWIEv_a...

How did Animal Crossing: New Horizons come to mean so much to so many? Travel back in time with me, five long years back, to the early days of ACNH and the Covid pandemic

H. Gunther is 100% correct when he told me to "rip & tear"! It's DOOM after all! Thanks so much for the newest addition to the @utah.edu signed-by-alumni game window!

New update for @blumakesgames.bsky.social 's Game Feel Simulator just dropped! I'll be using this in game design class later in the semester. blumakesgames.itch.io/game-feel-si...

Feeling very to have B. Miller drop by yesterday with CoD: Black Ops 6! I've heard great things about it, and I'm looking forward to enjoyed Ben's work first hand! Thanks! @utah.edu

DiGRA 2026 will be hosted at Maynooth University in Maynooth, Ireland from 14 to 18 June 2026. The 2026 conference theme is Intersectional Pleasures. digra.org/digra-2026-h...

It's been a while. Glad to be announcing a new game, and happy that it is something experimental and weird: a tiny, tense, turn-based strategy game about merging units into spectacular combinations, and then watching them evaporate thousands of bugs. store.steampowered.com/app/2396130/...

Every straight guy goes through a phase where they think that if they learn one skill like guitar or close-up magic that it will suddenly make them irresistible to women. When in reality the thing that truly makes one irresistible to women is Warhammer 40k.

Older game - but NEW SIGNATURE! Thanks T.N.! (coincidentally I'm currently playing the first game - it's really good - so, I'm excited to play this one too. As always, proud of @utah.edu game alumni and their accomplishments!

Unboxing the new Quiet Year! This is a hand-stamped box that's the perfect size to hold the how to play booklet, cards, skull tokens, and little wooden dice.

Well, @codingconduct.cc isn't this embarrassing? Is it "A Transmedia Approach" or "Transmedia Foundations"? (only in the softcover edition) Thanks to @antonioroda.bsky.social for noticing! Thankfully, there's a "new" edition....(www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...)

⭐ Important notice! ⭐ For those attending the 𝑯𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝑮𝒂𝒎𝒆𝒔 2025 conference in Kraków from 3-5 September as audience members (without presenting a talk) please note that admission is free, but 𝒓𝒆𝒒𝒖𝒊𝒓𝒆𝒔 𝒑𝒓𝒊𝒐𝒓 𝒓𝒆𝒈𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 through the following link: www.konferencje-uj.pl/rejestracja/...

New (snarky?) definition of game design that I like because it captures stuff about game design that other definitions don't: "Game design is the process of solving problems you have created for yourself in order to create problems for players to solve for themselves."

I sincerely hope that the "It took billions of dollars, but [COMPANY] finally made a [THING THAT SUCKS]" headline format becomes the default for AI stories.

Flip, trick & grind through a vibrant Japanese dystopia in Denshattack! Outsmart rival crews, crush a shady megacorp, and reclaim the rails with pure skill, speed & style. 🚅✨ 🎮 Wishlist now: fireshinegames.co.uk/Denshattack/

This semester's theme for "Critical Game Design Seminar" is "thinky" games! Selection criteria included: diversity of gameplay (within "genre"), price, whether I had played it already ("not" is preferred), ease of access, and "critical reception". class-schedule.app.utah.edu/main/1258/de...

Watching the 2006 GDC Game Designers Rant (archive.org/details/GDC_...). Interesting to think about what's changed/what's the same in ~20 years since? (other than look how young @flantz.bsky.social, Eric Zimmerman, and others look). Tempted to have game students watch it to answer those questions...

Claude can ace any online asynchronous course where there is minimum human interaction. This is the Claude test: if Claude can pass it easily, so can students, using Claude. hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/the-claude...

idk how to explain it but this is what game dev feels like from start to finish

Going to the Utah Retro GameXpo this weekend? I'll be talking about Nintendo's VirtualBoy so don't miss out! @mitpress.bsky.social utahretrogamexpo.com/speaker-panels

It would be weird and inappropriate for me to kiss L. Chan on the head for his latest achievement. So, this will have to do instead. ;-) Congrats Leigh, super proud of you and your accomplishments! @utah.edu game alumni FTW.

Day 3 let’s goooooooo!!!! Don’t forget to stop by the @mitpress.bsky.social booth (269) at 2pm for @increment.bsky.social’s books signing for Playign at World. See you there!

@jzagal.bsky.social profesor, un gusto su charla de hoy! Muy buena la presentación y tiempo para responder preguntas. Aquí va lo que le comenté sobre el emulador del Virtual Boy: arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/...

🚨 ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨 After 4 years of work, my solarpunk game finally has a title, a trailer, and a Steam page! Wishlist... Future? No Thanks! 👉 futurenothanks.com

Todos invitados - charla en la facultad de comunicaciones de la PUC! Nos vemos alla!

30 years already?! It may have failed, but can't fault Nintendo for trying to innovate. @benjedwards.com and @jzagal.bsky.social wrote a book called Seeing Red: Nintendo's Virtual Boy, which takes a look at its tech, history and development. Worth picking up for fans or those wanting to learn more.

✨ MY BOOK IS OUT NOW ✨ "Mastering Community Management" is finally here! 😭 Learn what goes into community management for video games from pre- to post-production. ❤️ Get my step-by-step strategy for creating meaningful online spaces! Shares appreciated. AHH!! Buy: www.victoriatran.com/book

Just got back from a trip to find @squanchgames.bsky.social's High on Life signed by @utah.edu games alum Drew P. on my doorstep! Easily the best talking gun game I know about - it's great for other reasons too, so don't miss out. Thanks Drew, super proud of you and your accomplishments!

Congratulations to the 2025 DiGRA distinguished scholars, Kristine Jørgensen, Jaakko Stenros @jaakkostenros.bsky.social and Seth Giddings @sethgiddings.bsky.social digra.org/digra-2025-d...

Apple is delisting Wheels of Aurelia from the App Store, because it's... "obsolete". Our statement:

Inspired by @jennifermmorton.bsky.social piece in the @nytimes.com, I wrote about Viewpoint Diversity and the one time I interviewed the psychiatrist who the Catholic Church hires to investigate reporting of demon possessions. open.substack.com/pub/hiphinat...

Utah Games alum Keaton Hoek and my work on understanding the challenge of navigation in videogames through examining the Metroid series was presented at #DiGRA25 a few weeks ago. Read all about it here! doi.org/10.26503/dl....

I thought that @ibogost.bsky.social would get a kick out of the mere existence of this Playmobil set. But I also relish the thought of someone buying 30 of these for their special public "Arts Festival" diorama...

When in Paris you must protect Paris, even in videogames! (yes, I'm playing through my DS backlog... and Tom Clancy's EndWar for the DS is pretty good so far!)

Also at #DiGRA25, Stephanie Harkin gave a great talk on representations of gaming in lifestyle magazines for girls. With a great shout out to the Video Game History Foundation! @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social

Interactive Fantasy, the journal of interactive storytelling that I published in the mid-1990s, is no longer available from DriveThruRPG. However it is now available from itch.io instead: jameswallis.itch.io/interactive-... for the same low price of pay-what-you-want.

ROMChip shout out/sighting at #DiGRA25! This was in the context of a fascinating talk on "Diode Games" (early hobbyist electronic games) easychair.org/smart-progra... @romchip.bsky.social

Someone needs to make this game! (Seen in Malta during #DiGRA2025)

aaaaah it's starting tomorrow digraconference2025.org

Pura nostalgia! steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/...

Sharing this because some games are not crazy enough! doporto06.itch.io/crazier-taxi

It's finally up! From MAGWest 2024: Please enjoy this extremely normal panel with me and @anneladyem.bsky.social that is definitely about Final Fantasy 7. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VM5h...

I'm not sure I've played a videogame (Lunar Genesis) with a character so clearly and obviously named after me! 😜😜😜He's even cranky! #lifegoals

I love how our @utah.edu Game alumni work all over the world! R. Wei, this is so cool and Black Myth Wukong is a hell of a great game. Thanks!

I'm not sure when it got posted, but I'm so happy that my GDC talk from a couple years ago about historical games is finally publicly viewable over at the GDC vault. gdcvault.com/play/1029322...

really happy to finally get this out in the world: @romchip.bsky.social is finally launching it's FREELANCER FUND. This initiative is designed to PAY FOR original work by journalists, public historians, & others who work on a contract/freelance basis. Read more: donate.romchip.org/freelancer-f...

Geneviève is right. Since @eeoor.bsky.social and I gave our talk on burnout at GDC last year, the most common question I get from burned out devs is, “How do I keep my job and recover?” They don’t typically like my answer, but it’s honest and sourced.