Here’s @samuelhorti.bsky.social on how the consolidation of soccer video games has mirrored the capture of the sport itself by some of the worst actors on the world stage. remapradio.com/other/enclos...

Friends! The ITU is hiring! We're looking for a tech-savvy person who can help us develop the games program and the Center for Digital Play research profile: candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI... If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me!

Char and Martin are: a)some of the best people you will ever meet, and b) great game makers. So there's at least two reasons for you to go get the demo of their game. If you need another one: c) it's a very, very good deckbuilder.

Friends! On Friday March 13th, at 14:00, the Center for Digital Play is hosting a talk by Victor Navarro-Remesal, on The Making of Zen and Slow Games. You can read more about the talk here: digitalplay.itu.dk/event/victor...

Friends! If you are in my network, I probably asked you to do some reviews for this conference we are organizing at the Center for Digital Play: playingfutures.today

A quick update about the playingfutures.today conference. We are getting ready to send all the submissions for review, and we expect to have a preliminary program around April 6th, plus or minus the usual academic delays with these things. As usual, questions or comments, please send them my way!

Muy feliz de anunciar que CINE LUDENS: 50 DIÁLOGOS ENTRE CINE Y JUEGO está en abierto en pdf en el repositorio O2 de la UOC: hdl.handle.net/10609/154304 Espero que con ello encuentre nuevos lectores y que sea provechoso a aquellos con interés en el tema. ¡Viva la ciencia abierta! #openaccess

I'm looking for work! I love technical challenges and got a deep artistic sense. I enjoy stunning folks with visuals AND coding efficiently. I worked on games, XR and immersive art, but especially interested in museum displays, music videos, science education. DM me! Would love to chat.

Friends! Next Friday Dooley Murphy will give a talk at the Center for Digital Play. The talk is called Patiency - The Feeling of Being Acted upon in Virtual Reality and it's going to be a must for people interested in VR and human experience.

Publication announcement! I can now retire in peace: together with my friend Bo Kampmann Walther, I have written a book about football (aka soccer, fodbold, or fútbol). The book is out i April 15 from Routledge/CRC Press: www.routledge.com/The-Laws-of-... (1/5)

A couple of updates about our conference playingfutures.today Deadline extended to February 23rd! Submit your work! playingfutures.today/call-for-pap... If you have tried to contact us through the website and have not heard anything, try now! I have just fixed the email so it works!

🤩¡Vamos a Santiago a presentaros el atlas! ¿Dónde y cuándo? 📍El 18 de febrero estaremos presentando 'Las fuerzas que mueven el mundo' a las 19:00 horas en la Librería Follas Novas La entrada es libre hasta completar aforo. ¡No te lo pierdas! 👀

🤩¡Vamos a Santiago a presentaros el atlas! ¿Dónde y cuándo? 📍El 18 de febrero estaremos presentando 'Las fuerzas que mueven el mundo' a las 19:00 horas en la Librería Follas Novas La entrada es libre hasta completar aforo. ¡No te lo pierdas! 👀

The Bathysphere is a weekly newsletter with recommendations and deep dives on games and game-related culture. It's completely free and you can subscribe to get it automatically delivered to your inbox here: buttondown.com/Bathysphere

👾 ANNOUNCING 868-BACK! Dismantle capitalism one server at a time in this computer-hacking strategy roguelike game by Michael Brough! Play the free demo in Steam Next Fest on Feb. 23rd! Wishlist on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3304110/...

I'm getting some questions regarding the playingfutures.today call for papers regarding interactive works, so here's a tl;dr: - It's not mandatory that the interactive works submitted become part of the conference's itch collection. It will be up to the creators to decide! (1/3)

As you may know, we are running a conference on games, play, and climate futures in May at the ITU Copenhagen: playingfutures.today Some news: the deadline for abstracts has been extended to February 20th. Now you have no excuses left not to submit!

Friends! On Friday February 6th at 14:00, the Center for Digital Play will be hosting a talk by Maria Ruotsalainen: The rise and fall of the Overwatch League - Understanding desiring production esports.

Ya disponible Estética y videojuegos, un libro que he tenido el honor de editar y que está compuesto por las maravillosas aportaciones de numerosos académicos y especialistas en la cultura del videojuego. Disponible en la web de Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca - www.eusal.es/eusal/catalo...

A thread on ZEN AND SLOW GAMES (MIT Press, 2026)

If you have a US mailing address, you can buy the book today with a hefty 30% discount! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/798035... Use the code MITP30 for 30€ today (20/1). After that, READMIT20 will get you 20%. mitpress.mit.edu/discount-cod...

Slowness and reflectiveness have always been part of the video game medium. In "Zen and Slow Games," Víctor Navarro-Remesal challenges the dominant discourse by delving into the reflective modes of playfulness in video games. Available #OpenAccess: bit.ly/3Lh2r22 @vthewanderer.bsky.social

Veo que ya está disponible la charla que dimos Beatriz Pérez Zapata y yo en el último Bilbao International Games Conference (BIG), "Enseñar Historia del videojuego en tiempos de economía de la atención". Esperamos que os guste. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPV1...

Here’s a friendly reminder about the conference we are running at the ITU in May: playingfutures.today Deadline for abstracts is February 16th, and the conference will take place May 20th to 22nd in Copenhagen. Look at our call for papers for more details: playingfutures.today/call-for-pap...

Our game is for Mario Party fans, algorithm please find them! Our game is for Boomerang Fu fans, algorithm please find them! Our game is for Party Animals fans, algorithm please find them! Our game is for Lego Party fans, algorithm please find them!

friends! acquaintances! help! i'm looking to hire a game designer (living in the Netherlands) to help build games in The Hidden Folks Universe, starting with a sequel to the indie hit game Hidden Folks. know someone who's a good fit? pls forward this, ty! hiddenfolks.com/job-opening/...

Making games is a LOT easier than getting eyeballs on them, lemme tell ya! Speaking of... our weird bird deckbuilder has a great new free playtest build out: 🦜 Daily flights! 🦩 Tutorial! 🦚 2 playstyles! 🦆 So… many… birds!!! Join us! Or tell a friend! store.steampowered.com/app/3473440/...

For my english-reading friends: if you want to know more about the really excellent programs for using games as part of civic literacy that Lucas Ramada is running in Barcelona, check this out! The booklet is available in English, and I think it's a must for library folks.

Hey! Que por fin se ha publicado en tres lenguas (Cat/Cas/ En) el nuevo librito de Ficció en Joc, el programa de mediación con juegos en bibliotecas públicas de la diputación de Barcelona. www.diba.cat/ca/web/bibli...

Compren este libro / Buy this book

Some good contenders for ‘father of indie games’ (‘indie’ as we understand it today, in its various senses) - Cly5m (seiklus) - Derek Yu (eternal daughter) - Charles Tumino (destruction carnival) - Kenta Cho (gunroar) - Jeff Minter (space giraffe) - Mark Overmars (game maker) - Jun’ya Ōta (touhou)

The Center for Digital Play (digitalplay.itu.dk) has a YouTube channel, and we've just published a ton of content! Seth Giddings (@sethgiddings.bsky.social) on Postdigital Playthings: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAjE...

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I’m very excited to share my latest article, “Premiers to Pixels: The Discourse of Cinema Envy in 1990s Videogame Magazines”, now published in the Hollywood and Games special issue of Convergence, edited by Helen Stuckey and Angela Ndalianis. Open access: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot

En Octubre tuve la suerte y el honor de dar la charla inaugural en DIGRA España 2025 (y además en mi tierra!). Los vídeos de la conferencia están aquí: tv.uvigo.es/series/68fb2... Mi charla inaugural, que es una ficción especulativa sobre game studies año 2251, está aquí: tv.uvigo.es/video/68ff8e...

The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow

Please buy this game, support a good game studio, and show those moralist platforms that what games can do goes beyond their dulled understanding.

The Center for Digital Play at the IT University of Copenhagen is organizing a new conference: Playing Futures. The conference will take place from May 20th to 22nd at the IT University of Copenhagen. You can read more about it here: playingfutures.today

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Does anyone happen to have a copy of any of the games I've listed on my website as "released but no longer hosted"? (the bottom 14 www.smestorp.com)

CFP for a special issue of Eludamos. What are antifascist games? Proposal deadline is December 19. eludamos.org/index.php/el...

"Det er måske det mest indviklede og massive kulturprojekt nogensinde." ITU-professor @miguelsicart.bsky.social har talt med spilmediet Arkaden om det længe ventede spil Grand Theft Auto VI, der er omgæret af forventninger, mystik og kritik 👇 #dkgame #spildebat #dkkultur arkaden.dk/features/for...

Friends! On November 26th at 16:00, in Auditorium 3 at the ITU, we are hosting a talk by Dom Ford. The talk is titled Mytholudics. You can read about it here: digitalplay.itu.dk/event/dom-fo...

Inspired by some great discussion on Q-UP from @austinwalker.bsky.social, @notquitereal.bsky.social, @sylvibullet.bsky.social, @molleindustria.org and other folks, I wrote a short piece on the design inspiration for Q-UP and what developing the game meant to me stiknork.substack.com/p/qing-up-in...

Anybody can recommend a hosting service that runs on renewable energy; is outside of the US, the UK, or similar countries with a curious disregard for privacy; and it's affordable? I need to host a number of small things, mostly a static site and maybe some interactive-ish javascript things. Thanks!

new horror story about men, women, animals and appetites please read and repost medium.com/@leighalexan...

Friends! On November 19th at 16:00, in Auditorium 3 at the ITU, we are hosting a talk by Florence Smith Nicholls. The talk is titled How to be a video game archaeologist. You can read about it here: digitalplay.itu.dk/event/floren...

Friends! On November 11th at 16:00, in Auditorium 3 at the ITU, we are hosting a talk by Kevin Marín-Rubio. The talk is titled Play Utopia - Videogames for Critical Imagination in a Barcelona Youth Club. You can read about it here: digitalplay.itu.dk/event/kevin-...

For the past decade, I've been slowly cooking a small and humble book. Part (alternative) history, part analysis, and part social critique, this is a look at what games also are and have always been. ZEN AND SLOW GAMES Out 20/1/2026 by MIT Press mitpress.mit.edu/978026255356...