‼️Call for reviewers‼️ We're looking for three reviewers for an article concerning Pokémon and the deconstruction of the Hero's journey. Please check the attached image for the abstract. (1/2)

We reached the 100 new subscribers we needed to unlock a Final Fantasy and politics issue for you folks! We'll start production soon with the goal of publishing it in early 2026. Thank you SO much for all of your help with this drive! We couldn't have done it without you.

Open Call for Papers 2025🥰📢 Press Start is currently seeking full-length game studies papers from current grad students/recent grads. Submit by November 10, 2025, for a potential spot in our 2026 issue! More details below in this thread👇 #CallForPapers #GameStudies

Is this the new Borderlands game everyone is excited about?

This is not a good look, but: I am out of money and my car has broken down for the third time in a month. I have just moved across the country. I need a little help to make it through September: gofund.me/47e4a1856

A benefit of teaching with Bitsy is that its more or less chatgpt proof

Do you have a favorite parasocial behavior academic or popular article? I am articulating some thoughts on parasocial behavior in APs and ttrpgs and would love to hear what other folks are doing and thinking about. 🫶🏽 Gimme your research.

This is good

#TBT to 2022 paper "Adventures in TwineSpace: An Augmented Reality Story Format for Twine" from T&T alums @persephone.blue @videlais.bsky.social @jackademia.bsky.social and T&T faculty member @anasalter.bsky.social Check it out! link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

"Lines of Code per Day" is an absurd productivity metric

Rogue.site is now a reality! Thank you to everyone along the way who helped make it possible. If you like what you see, and want more of it. Consider pledging your support with a subscription. Your funds will go to support independent games journalism written by humans, for humans.

in unreal engine you plug men together

Please have a look at our schedule for #QGcon including our streaming sessions, which will be on our discord!

NEW: Tenure-track position in History at UC Berkeley in the GLOBAL HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY. We are casting a wide net here: *all* periods, places, and fields are under consideration. I'm on the search committee, so do let me know if you have questions.

once you offload a type of cognitive/creative work to the junk food high you get from AI, the process is reduced to a mere means to an end, instead of something you evaluate or create yourself, with intent, skill, and vision

I think it’s bad that someone who works on a video game series notable for accidentally portraying Gandhi as pro-nuke has more rigorous standards for historically representative images than a preeminent academic institution. not a great look!

Imagine if we understood issues with learning not as problems of understanding, attention, or excitement, but ones of resources, scale, and equity. The future all these AI losers are building fucking sucks.

"For the love of God, Montresor!"

Looking for tips to sharpen (or start 😉) your SCMS proposal? Curious how proposals are processed? We are holding a VGSSIG workshop for submission to SCMS 2026 this Tuesday, August 5th at 3 pm EST -- Please join us if you're interested in learning more or if you have a CFP to pitch to the membership!

i think a lot about how zotero is actually one of the technologies academia actually should be pushing on students and faculty versus the lake-guzzling, town poisoning, and labor exploiting chatbots

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Master and Commander is the third best Star Trek movie

HELP FUND QGCON 2025! This has been a terrible year for fundraising around the world. We are facing a budget shortfall, & we need YOUR help to keep QGCon affordable and free! www.zeffy.com/en-CA/donati...

As announced at #elo25, work toward the Electronic Literature Collection 5 (to be published in 2027) has begun and a call for submissions will soon be released. We are asking for help translating and spreading the upcoming call. Past ELCs: collection.eliterature.org

SCMS folks! I'm interested in putting together a roundtable/workshop about games, pedagogy, and digital literacies, specifically using games, game-making tools, etc. to discuss issues like mis/disinformation, AI literacies, research methods, critical reading/writing strategies, and much more.

For my local folks, I'm recruiting for a study later this month! I will have snacks!

A personal goal was to hit blue ranks in Tekken by October. Time to take 3 months off to finish my book i guess.

Find your way to our excellent Generation Analog 2025 online conference with the topic of PUNK, next Thursday July 17th *all day*. FREE to all! Program and registration here: analoggamestudies.org/generation-a...

I put down some thoughts about game design, what it’s good for, and what it isn’t good for in this zine! Plus, a short guide to help get you started making a game if you’ve never done that before: gregisonthego.itch.io/rulebooks-fo... ✂️ 🎲 ✊ 🔥

CEO compensation graphed next to employee compensation. 🙃

Took a couple weeks to go to a fencing tournament and visit some friends in Fl. But now I'm back at work writing my sample chapters and must confront the horror of rereading my own dissertation chapters. (photo credit: designcryptidhema on instagram)

The majority of people do not want this and they do not want a worse world for themselves and their families, and every day these people only sell them cruelty, violence, and a diminished world. There’s no illusion of a positive vision.

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This is a fever dream. The city is not under migrant occupation. This whole thing kicked off because ICE began an intense operation across the city to raid Home Depots and nail salons and places where random undocumented immigrants might be going about their day working a job.

Let us share the opening of the Game in Lab 2025 call for projects (deadline September 15). Research teams all around the world are invited to submit proposals about board games. All areas are welcome, social sciences, psychology, linguistics, arts, or any other. www.game-in-lab.org/en/internati...

Want to join in the fun? Like making things that look and feel great and also scary? Come join in ->

This didn't happen by random chance of the market or some neutral development of technology. The game industry, like many industries, figured out how to outsource all the risks and costs of production onto the aspirational while capturing their own cut as rent. Game devs are uber drivers now.

i dont want to be a killjoy but we desperately need to make it socially unacceptable to talk about asking chatgpt things in regular conversation

Hey #ttrpg players, writers, & devs! I'm building an undergrad course on narrative games and sims - students will be playing&writing&designing print&digital games. I'm building a library of solo/duets for students to play and analyze. I've got money to spend. Got recommendations? (hype yourself!)

Tekken is such a good game

The latest Analog Game Studies issue is live! Featuring: * Postcards from the "Role-Playing the Humanities" forum at the University of Cincinnati @taftcenter.bsky.social * Mads Grønne Bärenholdt on using UNO to promote social interaction * Evan Torner on monks in board games. analoggamestudies.org

we once did a thing where we said if we hit X patreon subscribers we would immediately begin a homestuck show, which created Homestuck Made This World what if we also did this for Twin Peaks

We’ve been playing a lot of Love Letter lately and thinking about the micro games we’ve published over the years If you’ve got a clever, small-box design you think we should see, we’d love to take a look Send a quick pitch video and sell sheet to: [email protected] 🎲✂️ #BoardGameDesign #DingDing

I teach this article and video in my game studies class. Its a personal favorite and always goes over well with students.

Other times I made a post to go alongside a video, none more extensive than the article that accompanied my video about the BLACK BOX at the heart of SIMCITY www.polygon.com/videos/2021/...

Reminder that the fully-virtual Fan Studies North America conference is still open for submissions on the theme of 'REPUTATION: Influence, Power, and Capital'. This year we're open to academics of all stages including undergrads - please share with your students! fsn-northamerica.org/fsnna-25/