I've been invited to write the "Archaeogaming" entry for The Living Handbook of Historical Game Studies! See the abstract and links to other topics here: hgshandbook.ug.edu.pl/archeogames/

phoebe bridgers dropping a game onto itch was not on my bingo card

Corporate Memphis-Maxxing

This week in the Bathysphere we have a lovely essay from Chris about Pictonico, which I'm very keen to try myself: buttondown.com/Bathysphere/...

It's The Muppet Show with our very special guest star The Rosetta Stone!

OK now I'm excited!

Zinester @alexwrekk.bsky.social's annual poster for International Zine Month is live! 2026 features 31 ideas for making #zines and zine-related activities; one for each day of July, as well as a handful of zine-y dates to remember across the year. Download: drive.google.com/drive/folder...

I'll keep banging the drum for preserving contemporary video game play experiences, especially approaches that don't require technical or even digital methods!

God I didn't realize they were shutting down the PS3 and Vita stores too. Honestly, in our game availability study, we didn't even count PS3/Vita games as "available" because the stores were so broken that they barely worked. That's the long-term state of digital storefronts

What a great catalogue of Japanese toys from 1891 to 1923 at @publicdomainrev.bsky.social , I have so many questions eg - what is the spurting whale - how does it work - why are these boars so smug - what do you do with the magnet mice and may I have one publicdomainreview.org/collection/u...

Did you know that I've been spending years producing and distributing DIY physical releases for indie games? Because I have! And continue to! It's also a thing most anyone can easily do. (and I've been slowly building my own collection of others' games) pizzapranks.com/tapemarket/

If you're curious what a non-preservationist gaming ecosystem looks like, you can look at the mobile stores, where most of the shit you remember does not exist in any form anymore.

New Release: Magpie (v0.2 - Joy). Magpie is a visual livecoding tool made in Picotron! Some changes in 0.2: 🔮 Dive into past code with Code Explorer 🎨 Lots of new functions to call and play with 🙋 Improved controls and help text 📚 Documentation website! Get it here: illomens.itch.io/magpie

I posted my History of Games keynote: - A materialist reexamination of the canonical game crises from a developer's POV - Thoughts on the ongoing game industry restructuring - Indiepocalypse, AAApocalypse, deprofessionalization, games at the knitting stage www.molleindustria.org/HistoryOfGam...

since WHA is poppin, please look at this panel that helped me reframe the learning process

Genuinely ecstatic we have this chapter in Writing Game Histories. An amazing range of perspectives from people who care about what games do to history & vice versa. And at the core of it, a clear sense of why thinking thoughtfully & creatively about history, play (and research!!) matters so much

On the 10th July we have @archaeoplays.bsky.social coming to #Buxton to talk about #archaeology in the world of gaming including #Minecraft. Don't save the date - buy a ticket! (Like that @fenken.bsky.social?) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/playing-wi...

🐎🦵🐛 Gæmz #71 in Copenhagen 🐛🦵🐎 When: 16 July 2026 (Thu) 18:00 Where: Fælledparken Host: @horatiuromantic.bsky.social Cover art by arol, @reka_xa on Instagram RSVP: luma.com/pqnmt63z

Mr Woofmantic Games & Jazz is coming back to Copenhagen (Østerbro) on 20 & 21 November this year (2026) and our volunteer applications are open! Sign up to help us using the link below 👇👇👇 forms.gle/JBcaaFs5Rr9g... @horatiuromantic.bsky.social

My biggest pet peeve is that there's a ton of scam websites that are "Free QR Code Generator"s then the QR code stops working after a few days and then redirects you to ask you to PAY to re-activate it. I made a page on website for making ACTUALLY FREE QR Codes. Enjoy. konig.games/QRCodes/ #QRCodes

✨NEW GAME!✨ I have just submitted my entry for the next issue of Game Poems Magazine. Bubble - A Teacher's Account of Working Through The Covid-19 Pandemic. The theme for submissions was 'gaming inside.' Released soon rhubarb-games.itch.io #GameDev #PixelArt #ドット絵 #IndieGames #IndieDev

New brand of newspeak just dropped

this game made me irish store.steampowered.com/app/1041920/...

Fix your hearts or die. You know how many of us joke that Pride month should be followed by Wrath? This year I feel a deep, burning fury towards all who use transgender lives as political propaganda. We are human beings. You cannot erase us. Happy Pride. Trans liberation at any cost. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

🏺 #Conference: From the Field to the Screen The #ArchaeoInformatics Meeting 2026 invites contributions from various fields exploring the evolving relationship between archaeological practice and digital infrastructures. 🗓️ Submission deadline: 15.08.'26 📄 All details: www.dainst.org/newsroom/nos...

For #MosaicMonday this fantastic photo of a mosaic (and a lovely fish 🐟) that was discovered in the submerged ruins of #Roman Baiae. 📷 Parco Archeologico Campi Flegrei

Here's Pato on his walk why not

backrooms x nge #art

Love loren's threads, which I see as a kind of close reading, or in this case a sort of prefab design archaeology

Have you tried reading a book

wrote on two great platformers and some recent thoughts on architectural space in games. "the platformer genre emerged as a postmodern medium designed to sell itself to you (in the coin pushing of the arcade) on the challenge of navigating non-social spaces." glitchout.blog/2026/06/27/f...

つづく楽園

eggs do not lay eggs

Me whenever anything goes wrong

"I think its why people who have, over the past decade, professionalised, are now quick to roll their eyes at people who are uninterested in creating within the constraints and demands of 'professionalism,' even when they had been that person once." Hits the nail on the head

The Employment Collection is a compilation of games focused around work, capitalism, and the job market. The newest update also adds a solo ttrpg I worked on!

I visited Meta's metaverse on the day it was supposed to shut down. I ended up in a virtual reality off-brand McDonald's car park – "a horribly designed, ultra-capitalistic space—a car park with no cars, for a restaurant that can sell no food, an earthly purgatory we have built for ourselves".

After Roottrees launched I wrote a long technical blog post about how it was built that people seemed to enjoy: eviltrout.com/blog/2025-01... I’m pretty sure I will do the same for The Incident at Galley House. Hopefully peole will find it interesting.

Call for book pitches! Our Bloomsbury series, Video Games in Focus, is seeking pitches for mini monographs. We are particularly keen for texts focused upon the influence of critical games and their enduring legacies. Pitches on classic games are particularly welcome right now.

Can't wait for this new release. 🎮

🚨AFTER 33 MONTHS, I BRING YOU THE SINGLE LARGEST CREATIVE PROJECT OF MY LIFE 🚨: THE NAMCO MUSEUM MUSEUM: EVERY GAME, EVERY COLLECTION, EVERY PORT! EVERY RELEASE, EVERY REGION, NO EXCEPTIONS! I've meticulously studied & presented EVERY single instance of Namco's historic game collections, for you!

So tired of academia man

firestorm are doing a print run of the fifteen zines to raise money for the defendants, already sold out of its first run but gearing up for a reprint: firestorm.coop/products/253...

This week in the Bathy I write about Angel's Egg, and how it got me thinking about how environmental storytelling not only indicates past human activity, but the potential of a past remembered by fictional characters: buttondown.com/Bathysphere/...

PHOTOGHOST by @nightelectricity.com: addedviolence.itch.io/photoghost

Creating a little page to list some of the functions Magpie adds (on top of Picotron's existing API). With cute little gifs for ones I can illustrate easily!

Miyamoto on giving people "a shell" for their imagination, 1993. Source: Equinox #StarFoxQuote #MiyamotoQuote www.youtube.com/watch?v=khzg...