Israel has violated the “ceasefire” nearly 500 times in 44 days, killing 342 civilians. On October 29th alone the IOF killed 109 Palestinians, including 52 children. Where is the statement from our Minister, or anyone in Government, condemning this ongoing genocide? Cowards.

Matthew's book is finally here, and I am excited to read it during the upcoming holidays! Congratulations and thanks to @matthewleggatt.bsky.social :) #fictionalgames #dystopia

Today is the last general meeting for the https://coe-gamecult.org/. At the end of this year a big institution that has been running for eight years is ending. #gamestudies

Så kom de nye ulighedstal for 2024. Gini-koefficienten er stadig over 30, nemlig 30,4 Danmark er ca. det 10. rigeste land i verden. Alligevel levede 4,3% af børnene i relativ fattigdom i 2024.

What could possibly go wrong corp.roblox.com/newsroom/202...

“Blå Kors Danmark har nu lukket for ansøgninger til årets julehjælp, og aldrig før har så mange familier rakt ud efter hjælp. I alt har 23.253 familier søgt om julehjælp, hvilket er næsten 2.000 flere end sidste års rekord på 21.285 ansøgninger.” via.ritzau.dk/pressemeddel...

So excited that my first book “Video Games and Gender Assemblages: Understanding Gamergate and Beyond has been released!” A digital edition is forthcoming - do get in touch if you’re interested :) www.bloomsbury.com/au/video-gam...

Three (3) new postdoctoral game studies positions are now open for applications. These are related to the exit phase (2026-27) of the CoE-GameCult, and positions will situated in the Tampere University Game Research Lab, COMS/ITC, Tampere University. tuni.rekrytointi.com/paikat/index...

The EU’s failure to present a concrete climate action pledge at Wednesday’s United Nations Climate Summit in New York raises doubts over the future of the battle to stop global warming, MEPs from across the political centre have warned.

Can we interest you in being radicalized rather than leading you into despair

“Søgningen til de 4 store velfærdsuddannelser er faldet med 4%. På sygeplejerskeuddannelse er optaget 8% færre. Situationen er grotesk.” “CBS og DTU, der uddanner kandidater direkte til beskæftigelse, må ansøgere afvises selv om erhvervslivet efterspørger uddannelserne.” politiken.dk/del/EctJjrAE...

Kreitzer and Sweet-Cushman have a great summary of the research here. I am not joking in the least when I say it's easier to detect instructor gender than teaching or learning in evals. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Please share widely: “LinkedIn’s quiet decision to retract longstanding, best-practice hate speech protections for transgender and nonbinary people is an overt anti-LGBTQ move — and one that should alarm everyone," a spokesperson for @glaad.bsky.social said in a statement.

you're gonna wanna make sure your game is as friendly to payment processors as possible, something like an online casino that connects 10 year olds to 45 year old roleplaying partners

So they’re just going to genocide over two million people, half of them children? And we are supposed to just continue our lives? And people are somehow able to laugh and live and go to work? What a horrible world we are in

In retrospect it’s weird how the equivalent to “Rhodesia and French Algeria and apartheid South Africa are good and should be protected at all costs and have a right to exist” has been the mainstream position wrt the entity since the 1950s.

“Den danske økonomi har aldrig haft det bedre, alligevel lever 50.000 børn i dag i fattigdom. Ny forskning viser samtidig store konsekvenser af at vokse op i fattigdom. Det kalder på politisk handling.” Kronik af @ulrikbeck.bsky.social @thomaswilken.bsky.social jyllands-posten.dk/debat/kronik...

We’re excited to announce that the online panel discussion for our Gender theme will take place on 29 July, 16:00-17:30 UK time, featuring @tesswatty.bsky.social (chair), @katexe.bsky.social, @andreaskjeldsen.bsky.social and a third, mystery panellist. Tickets at buytickets.at/historicalga....

Boiling in a heatwave while my government ramps up military spending for no reason, cutting down environmental ambitions, and facilitating an almost two years genocide incl. tens/hundreds of thousands of children, while i’m reading about mass layoffs in the games industry

@brendansinclair.bsky.social hey Brendan just wanted to say how much I appreciated your work at gi biz. I just thought about it today and how much I’m missing it. What you did was really great for so many of us readers

“Are you saying that this evil Chtulu entity that will destroy all living beings in the universe does not have a right to exist?”

Just want to go on the record to say that if a military org is committing a known genocide and shooting the folk they are starving in camps as they line up for food, I think they are fair game for a chant calling for their death.

This pre-print research article by Jiesi Ma on the mass layoffs and economic turbulence the games industry has undergone the last 3 years is really gold osf.io/preprints/os... #gamestudies

BREAKING: An Israeli airstrike on a school-turned-shelter has killed at least 25 Palestinians, mostly women and children, Gaza's Health Ministry said. The school was hit three times while people slept, setting their belongings ablaze, they added.

Going through Dmitri Williams' "old" research article on the games industry when PC and console platforms hadn't converged yet, the genre diversity segmentation reflects my own experience in the late 90s with PC game genres (RTS, sim, point n click adventures) versus console genres

Not many people know this, but Denmark is almost worst in the world in terms for inequality in dental health. Esben Øzhayat’s research field is social dentistry : uniavisen.dk/en/taking-on...

As Brendan says later down in his thread, the major problem here is the profit motive - there's really nothing you can do about "deprofessionalization" without addressing what it does to corrode creative labour.

Printing this out and hanging it up everywhere

If you (or anyone you know!) is interested in doing a PhD in critical social science on "digital first" topics in the UK, my research centre is looking for expressions of interest: digitalsociety.mmu.ac.uk/2025/05/14/c...

I’m excited to share that I’ll be giving a keynote at the Playing the Field conference in Bucharest focused on video games and labor. You can find the call for paper and submission details on the website islk.kuwi.tu-dortmund.de/gamestudies/... #gamestudies

I’m reading @jesperjuul.bsky.social’s Commodore 64 book and it’s very much in line with my own experience and knowledge with games growing up in Northern Europe as these paragraphs verbalizes the disconnect I have with so much retro video game discourse in both games academia and in games media.

The work that @afterclimate.com.au is doing with Greening the Games Industry project is one of the best and most important areas of work I'm seeing in games and I heartily recommend subscribing to the extremely excellent and informative newsletter that Ben sends out. gtg.benabraham.net

I'm happy to share the great news that I've started my new postdoctoral position at the University of Copenhagen on this project veluxfonden.dk/en/projekt/l... where I’ll do work on gaming, platforms, finance, gambling, while also continuing my work on the games industry and political economy

The new owners of polygon looks like a very generous company that pays its writers incredibly well it looks like (I’m being sarcastic ofc)

Seeing games media getting gutted and everything moving to personality-driven patreons and substacks or AI generated slop makes me wonder when/if that’ll apply to academia and researchers as well.

When Nicole was a freelancer years ago, we got to work with her very briefly at Waypoint and we immediately were like “we have to hire Nicole.” We never got the opportunity to do that, so listen, if you have that opportunity: You have to hire Nicole.

Its funny how the enshittification of the internet, forums, search engines, and social media has meant that I now as some old person have started to subscribe to curated email newsletters that honestly feel like breaths of fresh air in terms of clarity and no-nonsense information

Thanks to a friend I recently realized that Nintendo is now comparable to Disney with an expensive and exclusive brand power that Nintendo Adults eagerly pay top dollar for

Joost did a really interesting dive into the very high numbers of preorders for Switch 2. Nintendo has maintained its spot as a premium brand in games which is quite rare. superjoost.substack.com/p/gamings-co...

option: tuning car battle / psx MTO, 1998

This looks like some really good stuff

📖My book is out! My book Mytholudics: Games and Myth is now available. In it, I propose a way of understanding and analysing games as and through myth. @degruyterbrill.bsky.social doi.org/10.1515/9783...

"In our hyperindividual culture corporate girlies are just following a script that tell them they can only perform leadership by disavowing solidarity" www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgMo...

"The Legality of Logistics: On Techno-Orientalism and Geopolitics in Semiconductor Production" New from @ranjodhdhaliwal.com in IEEE Annals of the History of Computing

Me when I hear that the US wants to move high tech cost efficient manufacturing back home:

I think it’s extremely important for game scholars and even game journalists to understand the mechanisms driving the US escalation against China with the current trade war. The tariffs will have massive impact on the games industry and its products:

And if you'd like to speak to a classicist about women you could feature in your games/as protagonists, get in touch! Or I can put you in touch with other historians who can help outside of my period if need be... whatever we can do to help improve these numbers, I am sure we will.

Love to be part of History