My #UrbanPrehistory book, The Archaeology of Prehistory in the Contemporary World: Deep Time in Global Urban Spaces, is now available for pre-order in the UK, and I expect it to come out towards the end of 2026. I'm currently working on the proofs. www.bloomsbury.com/uk/archaeolo...

Saturday 13 June! 'Antiquity in Simulation: Global Receptions of the Classical World in Video Games'. A conference on Eastern and Western approaches to the reception of the classical world in video games. For the zoom link to join online & programme, please go to: www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/events/2026/...

If you’ve a card, betting or bluffing game/ prototype or idea for one that you’d like to grace the Car Boot Casino floor with in future then let me know this-a-way -> forms.gle/HVi9q7irnX21...

I contributed to this! I wrote about Pornonarrative Dissonance! "What's that?" I hear you ask. Read it and find out! And also find out my thoughts on writing porn stories.

✦ PARALLELS 2026 — THE CALL-OUT IS HERE ✦ Making a game, and wanna yap about it at Parallels 2026? Now is the time to let us know! Speaker submissions close on the 5th of June. That’s THREE WEEKS. Don't overthink it. Just apply here: forms.gle/j8NkrdqMnwoH...

In other news, here's the preprint of our DiGRA 2026 paper, led by @dooleymurphy.bsky.social. We propose a vocabulary for discussing the merits of theory for interdisciplinary games research -- whether "homegrown" in games studies or adopted from other fields www.researchgate.net/publication/...

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A colleague in my research group is running an online survey to find out how game devs, journalists and anyone who teaches about games in any capacity uses theory. What is theory? It could be a design framework, a concept you borrowed from another discipline or best practises you learnt on the job!

The house is an object of admiration to foxes; it is endlessly hospitable.

“Do not play games by using in-game functions in a manner other than what they were originally intended for.” - FromSoftware, Elden Ring, 2022

new blog post: i get progressively more annoyed crunching data over 17 years of bafta game award shows stanwixbuster.co.uk/blog/posts/2...

The BFI Are Creating A Criterion Collection Of Memes https://kotaku.com/the-bfi-are-preserving-vintage-memes-on-an-ever-changing-internet-2000696844

gorgeous write-up of @rasheedabueideh.bsky.social’s game about the Nakbah, made by a developer in the occupied West Bank and crowdfunding now. please, please support this vital creative work 💜 www.rockpapershotgun.com/palestinian-...

Forget actually reading the paper if you can't even check if your citations are real

Ancient amber pendants worn by hunter-gatherers during the Danish Mesolithic some 10,000 years ago! 📷 National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen en.natmus.dk/historical-k... #Archaeology

Assets that came from these concepts were also in the first Kromlech dev diary - they're bronze decorations for barrowfolk tombs and other locations. You can see repeated motifs of horned sorcerer kings and Heron who carries souls back from Danain, so they can serve as undead sentinels.

Wooden artefacts

As a reminder, Faggot Games: An Urgent Warning is available on the Wayback Machine and linked through my site, if you'd like some salient writing on calling trans women "corny" and the broad ambient transphobia we suffer from. eclipse.gay/blog/faggot-...

Been a lot of boats in my life recently

This week in the Bathysphere, I wrote about both analogue and digital hoarding, and why your Steam backlog might be an irreplaceable archive (kinda): buttondown.com/Bathysphere/...

bringing the talk where i say fa**ot 3 times to A MAZE (during the hypertalks on Friday 3PM)

Watch this if you haven't yet, it's a remarkable essay.

If you missed this webinar but were interested in learning more about digital preservation, it was recorded and is available here: 🌈🗃️ 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️

The "curiosity cabinet" of Danish antiquary Ole Worm, born #onthisday in 1588. More curiosity and cabinets in our essay "Lost Libraries" by Claire Preston, about the Renaissance preoccupation with lost intellectual treasures, real and invented: publicdomainreview.org/essay/l... #otd

The map's form: game board It shows: buildings Its purpose: to conquer

The black box archive eats its own tail

Why does the UK keep inventing these impenetrable and arcane processes for selecting a leader when "Bake Off" already exists.

a spectre is haunting indie gamedev— the spectre of domino club

In 2015, the UK was ranked first in Europe for LGBTI rights. Two years ago, just before the election of Keir Starmer, we were 16th. Today the UK is ranked 22nd.

how it feels trying to break out of gender prison

OK new question, do I get the second hand bed that kind of looks like a boat but might be cursed or buy a brand new one

Well now I have this bureau in my flat because someone was giving it away for free on facebook

also speaking of videogames and mixtapes, if you want to see me do a curation of playthroughs with commentaries on some of my favorite user-created Doom maps, my old series DOOM MIXTAPE is available here: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

If nothing else, watch it just to catch @mtrc.bsky.social's book Next Level in the background

So who is gonna make a mixtape of mixtape reviews

Disk Cleanup time! This week, @foddy.net took me through the games on his PC. We talked about friendslop, the post-Tetris history of Alexey Pajitnov, and not finishing Baldur's Gate 3. www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...

yo what's up, I've got a new lil project out. it's a zine I made in a day, featuring two reviews: one of Marathon (2026) and one of Armored Core VI (2023). it's 2 bucks for 28 pages of extremely crunchy jpegs thresholded to within an inch of their life, and also my writing. enjoy

So I have a flat in Copenhagen now

I can't thank everyone enough for the incredible support for Midnight in Jubilation! My mentor and I are talking stretch goals next week, and in the meantime I've added two community-focused goals that are already unlocked! Graphics to be added next week. 1/4 tinyurl.com/a7f2dd6f

oh uhm. youre on my house

The 17th-century philosopher John Locke's method of compiling a “commonplace book”, a notebook used to gather quotes and excerpts from one's literary wanderings — a kind of personalized encyclopedia of quotations: publicdomainreview.org/collection/j...

i made Electric Zine Maker ENTIRELY SOLO. it’s not vibe coded at all or pay to unlock… it’s free for the community… it’s also not ripping anyone off with AI use… AI was never necessary but hey 🤷

I've been in the video games industry for over 13 years and making music since I was 16 (and I'm exhausted) Watch my full talk - Tell me what to feel on @playtopia.bsky.social Youtube ✨ www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWXX...

New today on the HGN blog - the first post from our event panellists! Izzy Bartley explores the coloniality of collecting in museums and Western boardgames. www.historicalgames.net/parallel-play/ #gamestudies #historicalgames #gtp #skystorians

Yesterday evening 3 of the authors of “Scholar’s Codex” happened to be out together! Me, @domford.bsky.social, & @florencesn.bsky.social - don’t you want to read our Dark Souls musings?! Praise the sun!

I actually listened to the summary of @florencesn.bsky.social and mine's #chi2026 paper today and it is essentially 100% wrong in everything it says about the paper. I have to assume no-one at ACM used or tested this at any point. Good luck to anyone actually using these.

Tripod Fish confirmed! @dunderbeckgame.com #Dunderbeck #OurFishHaveTHREELegs

This week the Bathysphere has a lovely piece from Chris on the sense of place in Redfall: buttondown.com/Bathysphere/...

Final boss battles are typically a test of your combat abilities, and a chance to show off your powers. But what happens when the final boss is unbeatable? Emma Kent examines how Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order flips the traditional video game power arc on its head: www.eteogames.com/the-impossib...