Making Beds, Deborah DeWit, 2010. #Caturday

A really enjoyable piece on a hidden minigame you might not know exists in the game Her Story

Wondering what is going on in those Backrooms trailers? Some thought on the creepypasta, the web series, the film, and the emerging aesthetic of Institutional Gothic via @mitpress.bsky.social thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/backrooms-an...

cave of qud in it

Check out this fascinating piece by @florencesn.bsky.social on Mirror Game - a minigame hidden inside a desktop PC's Rubbish Bin in Her Story

It's out! I was very excited to be asked to write about a minigame for Eteo Games, and I chose the Mirror Game in Her Story, a digital reimagining of the 19th century board game Reversi.

We've now extended the paper deadline to April 12th!

This week in the Bathysphere we have a lovely piece by Chris on roaming in games: buttondown.com/Bathysphere/...

And a little bit of Tamagotchi Seance #4. What started as one idea spun out to be two different pieces. This one is a webserver poetry sequence that you are invited to leave a little memory to be displayed onscreen when you're done.

no way that this happens on the ONE DAY A YEAR that I'm trying to avoid the internet BUT IM SO HONORED, "an unplayable game?!" was such a small project but it's been a dream come true to see it reach so far :') play it, its free!!! congrats to all the other nominees, see you guys across the pond!

get in the press shinji

We're planning a bird-themed Steam festival and if your game features birds you are welcome to submit it here. There more the merrier! tally.so/r/lbWro6

NEW: Introducing the Bodleian Whispering Service. Too busy to read? Our expert librarians can now quietly narrate books, articles, and selected manuscripts directly to you in our reading rooms. Please note: whispering remains subject to standard library noise regulations.

🏳️‍⚧️ TRANS RIGHTS 🏳️‍⚧️

hey 💜 im a trans woman working on my next game - Encryptid. its an FMV horror game about catching cryptids featuring footage and photography caught with the Game Boy Camera and will be available this year on both PC and Game Boy 🙂 store.steampowered.com/app/4242890/...

DON'T LET THE BASTARDS GET YOU DOWN 🏳️‍⚧️ #art #tdov #transart

Announcing our 41st book! @mossrc.bsky.social tells the story of the making of AGE OF EMPIRES. www.kickstarter.com/projects/gab... #ageofempires #rts #realtimestrategy #ensemblestudios #retrogaming #pcgaming #wololo

🏳️‍⚧️ Happy #InternationalTransDayOfVisibility 🏳️‍⚧️ Trans people, please advertise yourself in this thread! Your shops, your commissions, your socmeds - everything! Show your beautiful colors <3

FUN CFP on Poetry in Games / Games in Poetry for Multiplatform at MMU Deadline: 10 April Event: 11-12 June (This chimes with my thinking about the Brontës’ juvenilia / table-top role playing games and their poetry!)

An illustration of one of my favourite cinemas in Copenhagen called Palads. Beautiful place both outside and inside, sadly set to be torn down to build a hotel. 😭 illustration made in #blender

For @jitp.bsky.social issue 29, we welcome submissions that rethink making in DH through reflections on bodies, lands, and infrastructures both implicated in and impacted by making practices and as discourses on labor, power, and colonial oppression among others: cuny.manifoldapp.org/read/jitp-ca...

Intrigued by this one!

My Pokopia museum may be tiny and without proper signage or context but it is beautiful and also free to enter.

catacombs, commodore 64 (1984) www.mocagh.org/loadpage.php...

after much deliberation and giving AI the benefit of the doubt, Wikipedia editors have had enough of AI slop. New policy bans LLM generated content, periodt www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...

Truly nothing will prepare you for how incredible this game is

We have reached 50 Bathysphere expeditions! This week I wrote a short piece on some of my favourite eggs in video games: buttondown.com/Bathysphere/...

YOU - I am a detective. INSULINDIAN PHASMID - So am I. I was born to detect sucrose rewards and semiochemicals. What were you born to detect? YOU - I was born to detect you.

aside from PHM and Everything Everywhere All At Once, what other films are on the Best Anthropomorphised Rocks List?

I like Project Hail Mary because it makes me feel vindicated in my love for anthropomorphised rocks

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Friday! Casino! Car Boot Sale Prizes! V&A! Look at all our beautiful croupiers & their games!

A five year old Hidetaka Miyazaki saw this and realized it was going to be his whole deal

Settling into Copenhagen

Alas, I won't be able to attend in person, but this workshop looks *brilliant* #archaeogaming and adjacent colleagues, be sure to check it out and submit!

Listen, academia and the games industry are completely on fire. Life is too short to write the safe, boring, iterative twenty page journal article. Write something stupid and exciting in a zine or a four pager and come hang out with us to chat about games.

Just a reminder that the deadline for short papers is April 5th!

Theater/opera person, here: this is likely due to "bleed," which is a phenomenon we're literally trained for. When acting (or in this case, role-playing) a character for a good while and there are intense situations (such as an RPG finale), the emotions of the character can literally become yours!

We wrote up a blog post explaining how we create the background art for The Incident at Galley House: eviltrout.com/blog/2026-03... #gamedev #GodotEngine

Having returned from Breakout Con, I'm excited to share what I did for a business card, which doubled as a coupon. SPINE is a game about defacing a book. What better way to promote it than a business card that you rip. And hey, maybe there's a secret message revealed in the process 👀

THE LOW POLY RAT JAM IS OPEN itch.io/jam/low-poly... #ratjam I WILL PLAY AND REVIEW EVERY GAME. GIVE ME YOUR RATS

Chapter 5, "Breaking the rules" continues the theme of what players do 'with' games to look at debates and research around transgressive play and critical play, with a particular case study on queering play.

Chapter two, "How games mean", then kicks things off with a look at how games can (and maybe also can't) be understood as cultural texts, and the ways 'play' and 'interactivity' have seemingly complicated this understanding for the field.

At the time of my greatest need, Jenny Nicholson posted once again

The Adoration of the Wieners (Carnitas, Denied), iPhone and unexpectedly good lighting, 2026

every time I remember Bernband I experience intense yearning

I just added a new full-color zine to the screamcones-verse with more lore and silliness. If you like haunted icecream, this is for you skullingway.itch.io/scream

My project The Invisible Casino will fulfil its nominatively determined promise of appearing in the Car Boot Casino! Promises to be a great collection of homebrew card and bluffing games on show! 📍 V&A South Kensington 🗓️ Next Friday 27th March, 18:30-22:00 💸 FREE!! www.vam.ac.uk/event/Wl9jvz...