📢 CFP – iLRN2026 Special Track 6 🎮 Critical Game Literacies in Immersive Learning 📍 Athens & online | June 27–30, 2026 👉 Submit here: lnkd.in/ghqGwVKQ Chairs: Iro Voulgari, Elina Roinioti, Tasos Theodoropoulos, Maria Sfyroera #GameStudies #ImmersiveLearning #EdTech #CFP

The 2025 funding call is now open! Apply by Monday, 15 September, 4 p.m. EEST! If you have any questions or queries or need help with your application, we are here for you throughout the application period. Best of luck with your application ✨✨✨ koneensaatio.fi/en/news/the-...

The #demoscene has been crucial for the development of digital culture in Finland. The documentary Hands Deep – A Journey into the Demoscene provides a fascinating look into the demoscene as well as demo enthusiasts.

CFP Hybrid Symposium: The UK Tabletop Role-Playing Game Scene – Histories, Cultures, and Legacies - 16th September, @coegamecult.bsky.social Tampere University, Finland (and online) Full details in attachments. #ttrpg #boardgames #wargames #minatures #gamebooks #videogames #history #gamestudies

Hey so the thing I alluded in my latest essay? That's out now, for free! This is a project we've been working on for over a year at this point, and I'm so happy to see it out. Weird to see my name next to some amazing writers and scholars like this! playstorypress.org/books/the-ps...

Congratulations, Jaakko! The whole thread on DiGRA 2025 if definitely worth the read.

A fellow colleague from Utrecht University is conducting a survey on representation & character design in game development, from artists to writers, designers, programmers, producers, and beyond. survey.uu.nl/jfe/form/SV_...

Congratulations Olli and all the HEVGA Fellows!

Suomen Akatemian suurilta tuntuvat myönnöt herättävät keskustelua. Saako tutkija tosiaan yli puoli miljoonaa veronmaksajien rahaa omaan taskuun? Miksei niillä rahoilla hoideta vanhuksia? Seuraa pitkä ketju siitä, mihin Akatemian myöntämä tutkimusrahoitus oikeasti menee ja miten raha kulkee. 1/9

Today I'll participate in a panel on Queer and Role-playing (in Finnish) at Helsinki Pride. I'm happy and proud to be asked. I've been a role-player for almost 40 years, I've analysed RPGs for a over twenty years, and this summer is the 10 year anniversary of my first queer game studies paper.

#CFP/ Call for Abstracts: #OLHJournal Special Collection "Language Diversity in Game Studies", guest edited by Stanisław Krawczyk, Mary Anne Argo Chávez, Antonia Hargreaves Bueno, Zahra Rizvi, and Rachael Hutchinson: www.openlibhums.org/news/813/ 📅 Deadline: 18 June 2025

analoggamestudies.org/about/analog... Curious about where to start with Analog Game Studies? We’ve got a handy guide you can check out now. If we missed your book or article please DM. This is just a start and we intend to update it moving forward!!!!

Are you a man, at least 15 years old and either Finnish or living in Finland? Do you participate in game culture by e.g. playing video games, RPGs or miniature games, watching videos or through activities like cosplay? Take the questionnaire in Finnish or English at bit.ly/pelikulttuuri

Interested in researching games and advertising? We are organizing an online workshop on June 12th with @leonxiao.com and @elepetrovs.bsky.social with presentations, a workshop to utilize ad repositories, and announce a special issue call. Sign up and read more on forms.gle/pGvHbA5E7sqj...!

📣 Call for papers: Regulation of online gambling We have extended the deadline until 31 July for this call for contributions to an upcoming edited volume exploring the regulation of online gambling. Read more 👇

Multiplayer games often lack essential accessibility features and fail to support assistive technologies like screen readers or specialized controllers. Without such support, some players with disabilities are entirely excluded from gaming. Congratulations Pauliina! #hci #gamestudies #accessibility

Larp Festival Database! The first concrete and useful outcome from the Larpocracy research project is out, a list of events where larps are played and discussed. 1drv.ms/x/c/74807ba0...

Currently listening to Kishonna Gray's keynote at #nordicdigra25, and it's pure fire. Here's her blog post related to the keynote.

Rolling in to sunny Turku 🌞 for Nordic Digra 2025! Really excited for our talk exploring what we mean when we say "critical" game studies 🔥 #gamestudies #nordicdigra25

Nordic DiGRA time! #gamestudies #nordicdigra

"Stardew Valley might make us rethink the relationship we have with the very vegetables we prepare and cook." Concluding our #nordicdigra25 keynote speaker blog post series, Dr. Velvet Spors from the University of Tartu discusses the relationship between people, nature, and videogames. #gamestudies

"Why should we care about men in gaming when research shows that it is women who face issues of exclusion and harassment in videogames?" Professor Kristine Jørgensen from the University of Bergen answers the question in our #nordicdigra25 keynote speaker blog post series. #gamestudies

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

"Within a landscape of technological and cultural innovation, Blackness is implicated in the building and maintenance of gaming culture because Blackness has always been on the cutting edge of technological creation and innovation." Professor Kishonna L. Gray on Black game studies. #gamestudies

Doctoral Researcher Ville Malinen shares his thoughts in the CoE blog on the E-Gaming Symposium 2025 held in Seinäjoki (Finland), where he gave a presentation and followed the two-day program filled with insights into gaming and research.

Vaihteeksi vähän erilaisesta aiheesta kommentoimassa! Tämä meni kyllä enemmän kokemusasiantuntijuuden kuin minkään muun puolelle, mutta pääsinpähän hehkuttamaan Riders of Rohanin (1991) kantta. (maksumuuri)

Onko Runescape osa omaa pelihistoriaasi (tai -nykyisyyttäsi)? Hallituksemme jäsen Henry Korkeila kommentoi klassikkopeliä HS:n artikkelissa. Juttu maksumuurin takana.

Tässähän on päässyt aivan harrastamaan tieteellistä debattia! Keskustelu nuorten pelaamisesta (ja sen tutkimisesta) jatkuu Nuorisotutkimus-lehden sivuilla. Tässä vastineen vastineen vastineemme, jossa minä ja @mariaruotsalainen.bsky.social pohdimme, mitä tarkoittaakaan "pelaaminen itsessään".

We are organising a free online training for harassment contact persons on April 25. Read more and sign up at the Forms link! Note that the training is intended for game scholars in Finland or affiliated with Finnish institutions.

We are happy to announce the programme for Nordic DiGRA 2025, organised in collaboration with @coegamecult.bsky.social! Check out our excellent keynotes and sessions around the topic of hope - much needed these days. #nordicdigra25 #gamestudies

📯PUBLICATION NEWS📯 Very stoked to share this special issue that I co-edited with the world, full of great reflections on the theme of 'Meta' applied to various #GameStudies contexts. A link to the full issue is here, but let's dig in to each of the pieces, shall we? dl.acm.org/toc/games/20...

Interested in gender structures in video games? The blog post by Postdoctoral Research Fellow Matilda Ståhl & Associate Professor Fredrik Rusk gives an English summary of their book chapter originally published in Swedish, exploring hegemonic gender structures in Fallout 76 through duoethnography.

Very happy to share that our paper - "Playing with augmented bodies: Dystopian and protopian experiences of human augmentation in digital games" - on technological imaginaries of human augmentation and narrative reflection and somatic experience of them is now available in Covergence!

Is your PhD research on game design, game production, HCI, or design theory? I've got three 2-year postdoc positions in my ERC StG project to investigate what makes theory useful and usable in game design / interaction design. Reposts much appreciated. Thx! candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

If you are in Tampere this Friday and interested about game making, consider participating in our Game Industry Panel event starting 14.15 at OASIS (Pinni B, Tampere Uni main campus). I am very proud of the talented lineup we got for this panel! More info: www.facebook.com/events/10132...

Note that the Tampere University welcomes again applicants to jointly prepare successful applications for the EU Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowship program. 1/2 www.tuni.fi/en/research/...

New publication! I have written the "Role-playing games" entry in the new Elgar Encyclopedia of Queer Studies. There it sits, between Religion and Rural identities. www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/elg...

Less than two weeks left to register early-bird for Nordic DiGRA 2025! Early-bird registration is available until Friday 28 March 23:59 EET 🐦 #gamestudies #nordicdigra25

Details and calls for all eighteen DiGRA 2025 workshops are up on the website! digraconference2025.org/calls-worksh...

Teachers ❤️ game jams! Everyone loves them! They are pretty much the best way to learn anything BUT they don’t fit schools. This makes me wonder… should we do a jam on how to change schools? 🧐 tl;dr: My latest article is out! This one has been a journey: I’ve been working on it since 2018.

Tänä viikonloppuna Kansallisarkistolla tehtaillaan pelejä historiallisista kartta-aineistoista Cartographia Game Jam -tapahtumassa. Emme malta odottaa millaisia pelejä on luvassa! Kerromme tapahtumasta kuulumisia pitkin matkaa ja valmiit pelit laitetaan tottakai myös jakoon pelattaviksi!

Party Studies, here we come! Last year Leland Masek and I published a paper that was a call to create party studies as a subfield of game studies. As the next step, we are editing a special issue on the topic for Eludamos. Join party studies, you know you want to! CFP: eludamos.org/index.php/el...

Great CfP for History of videogames conference 2025 in Krakow with a focus on the 1990s. Submissions of abstracts of 500 words (not including references) are welcome Submission opens: 1 April Submission Closes: 1 May Conference: 3-5 September www.history-of-games.com/call-for-pap... #gamestudies

Kotimaiset #tiedelehdet! Onko jollain jo hyviä tai huonoja kokemuksia tekoälyn käytöstä? Oletteko tehneet linjauksia? Etsin osallistujaa paneelikeskusteluun Tiedejulkaisemien päiville. Vastaa alle tai laita privaattiviesti. Tätä sopii jakaa. #TiedeTaivas #TiedeJulki #Tiedelehdet

This is happening today!

USA:n tutkimusrahoituksen ehdoilla ei ole vaikutusta tutkimuksen vapauteen yliopistossamme. Tutkimusrahoituksen hankkiminen on tärkeä väline tieteellisen tutkimuksen toteuttamiseksi. Rahoitusta ei tule hakea hinnalla millä hyvänsä, kuten poistamalla tiettyjä sanoja tutkimussuunnitelmasta.

This special issue explores the transformative potential of games, spanning analogue and digital forms and showcasing new perspectives on how games and play can be used for personal and existential development through transformative experiences. www.gamejournal.it/g-a-m-e-issu...

Join us online next week (Wed 26, 15:00-15.30 EET/UTC+2) for a casual game research coffee to hear @jaakkostenros.bsky.social present about the new project Larpocracy: Developing Spaces for Deliberation and Democratic Skills through Role-playing! #larp #gamestudies jyufi.zoom.us/j/67912305080

Full thesis, available for free and as open access, Ville Kankainen, "Hybrid Play Experience and Design in Tabletop Gaming", with the public examination today. #gamestudies #gameculture trepo.tuni.fi/handle/10024...