Hey this is on Monday and I think you should sign up and watch online. I'm going to talk about RuneScape for a while.

Just a reminder this Oxford-based roundtable on games preservation, archiving & exhibition is next week, and also is a hybrid event 🎮🌏👇

just....enjoy this

Trash Goblin won TIGA's Diversity In Games award last night! For "Shining a light on inclusion, creativity, and community"! Woo!

Finally got a phone with some decent memory, and responding in a perfectly restrained way 🤣

The next Bodleian Student Editions session will run on 11th November – it’s a great opportunity for students to learn about editing and transcribing early modern letters. Spaces are still available - find out more & sign up: digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk/event/bodlei...

Just rewatching an old GMTK video about genre mash-ups, what is the strangest genre mash-up y'all are aware of? And are there any genres that are fundamentally irreconcilable? Curious to hear your thoughts #gamestudies

This is in a couple of weeks and I'm still building my talk for it, are there any specific topics or issues people are interested in - Specifically in and around videogames in museums and videogame preservation? 🤔🎮

You may know Eizin Suzuki for being one of the big City Pop illustrators. If you've never seen his work directly, you have seen it referenced in anime. Cars and surf boards, lush love letters to a surreal, hyper saturated America..

The first LaserDisc upload today: a video art City Pop love letter to the American Southwest. A collaboration between two Japanese pop artists in the 1980s. Tatsuro Yamashita & Eizin Suzuki: Southward Bound, translated and captured on a Domesday Duplicator. archive.org/details/tats...

Where do game developers get their ideas? Like any good answer to a complicated question, it depends! @victoriatran.bsky.social asks eight indie devs (and herself, twice) about where the idea for their games came from -- featuring Inscryption, 1000xRESIST, Venba, Mars First Logistics, and more!

Really looking forward to this!

We're back on Monday! Join us for a discussion of 'play' with papers from Fiona Maxwell, Holly Nielsen @hollynielsen.bsky.social & Caitlin Hendrie. 20 October 11am at Magdalen College Sophia Sheppard Room or online via Teams. More info including how to join us online ⬇️ talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/series...

Very excited to share that on November 10 @discoxford.bsky.social are hosting a hybrid roundtable on Videogame preservation practices with @carrythezero.bsky.social, Alex Habgood, digital archivist at Rebellion studios, and @emarlow.bsky.social: digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk/event/video-...

The next Bodleian Student Editions session will run on 23rd October – it’s a great opportunity for students to learn about editing and transcribing early modern letters. Spaces are still available - find out more & sign up: digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk/event/bodlei...

Managed to get to the cinema to watch the 4K restoration of Satoshi Kon's Perfect Blue, for the first time in about 10 years - I don't know if I've just got more pretentious in the last decade, but I'm really interested in whether there's a Baudrillardian reading of the film out there?

I'll be taking my nonsense to #BSECS again :) delighted that my paper on 'Big Feelings: Small Stories, Archival Encounters in the Ludic Eighteenth-Century' has been accepted - expect queer historiography, critical fabulation, autoethnography, and Ambition: A Minuet in Power 🇫🇷🪓👑

Our next Digital Scholarship coffee morning will be on Tues 21st October: Jack Orchard @jarona7.bsky.social will talk about games & historical emotional states, Gothic literature & horror games, & French Revolutionary paranoia in games. Find out more: digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk/event/digita...

Second session of the day begins with Jakub Sindelár talking about the polyvalence of historical empathy!

Hey! Did you get an NES Classic mini console but you don't care about the manual/poster it came with? Put it to use supporting @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social! I'm seeking these out for fundraiser autograph opportunities, but need them ASAP. Let me know! Can pay!

c.f. @ckunzelman.bsky.social

The Japanese Mario 64 official strategy guide is an incredible thing. "Can we make little hand-made dioramas of all the levels?" "Sure, why the hell not."

Just defeated the Cogwork Dancers in Hollow Knight: Silksong

just learned about the content warning that open Silent Hill f and this feels like it comes from a parallel world where AAA games took on a whole different meaning for "mature" damn. more of this approach please

Brainfart moment I need Bsky's help with here is a word, starting with s, which describes the emphasis on the horror of having a body, emphasis on corpses, skeletons, that sort of thing - the stuff in the basement in Lewis's Monk is an example of this, what word am I thinking of? #Gothic #Theory

The quotes on this are a delight :)

this exists it is called thinking

Random Question - what is the canon of British game studios? I was trying to list the major ones off the other day and realised (a) I couldn't really name as many as I'd thought, and b) I completely missed some absolute classics like Rare - so wanted to see what y'all can think of without googling?

This Thursday I'll be on the panel of Sunderland's Lit & Phil talking about the games industry in Sunderland, the university's esports course, and my games studies research. You can grab your tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sunderland...

Good morning fellow #18thCentury #Romanticism and #DigitalHumanities friends! My monograph, British Women Novelists and the Review Periodical will be out in March 2026! I hope you'll request that your library purchases a copy, & snag one for yourself! www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

We’ve uncovered through FOI that Sex Matters were in direct contact with ONS this year. They attended a Government Statistical Service harmonisation event in April/May 2025 and followed up with their own recommendations on data. www.ons.gov.uk/aboutus/tran...

I cannot wait for this game! It goes overlooked, but Withering Rooms and the upcoming Withering Realms are both set in Wales. Realms is looking incredibly creative! Set for Early Access on Steam in Q2 2026. Wishlist here: store.steampowered.com/app/3441990/...

Kind Games: Designing for Prosocial Multiplayer is a game design report exploring "multiplayer games designed from the start with systems that deliberately promote prosocial behaviour". Come for the charts, stay for the design patterns to use in your own games: polarisgamedesign.com/2022/kind-ga...

"the International Association of Genocide Scholars: Declares that Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide in Article II of the United Nations Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948)" genocidescholars.org/wp-content/u...

it's aliiiiiveeeeeee! all 700 pages of my dissertation can be found here: hdl.handle.net/2429/92159

The EHRC Code will devastate trans people's lives. This is an emergency. Here are three ways to fight back. Take action now: www.transsolidarityalliance.com/ehrc-code

Hello everyone, I hope this Friday morning finds you as inexplicably happy as this 18th-century sea-lion

My new book #Heiresses: Marriage, Inheritance and Caribbean Slavery is published today by @oneworldbooks.bsky.social! Available now from all good bookshops: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/heir... (& Amazon: amzn.eu/d/a7dQQYJ) #skystorians #historyteacher #18c #history #academicsky #newbooks #slavery #c18

I'm happy for myself, but I'm even happier for the people who have been googling and dreaming and combing every pixel of Hollow Knight for 6 years waiting for this - there's so much darkness right now, something that makes this many people happy is to be treasured.

"This is a photograph of the alien from the movie Alien..." gizmodo.com/senator-says...

Its a beautiful night here in Greece - I'm well fed - daughter Cherry is in a super cute Daddy mood and has been happy and playing all day - and Silksong is here. #smalljoys

If you're an indie developer, you should hang this screenshot on your wall and use it as inspiration to never give up

This looks incredible - between this and the Historiographies of Game Studies from last month - its a wonderful time to be an aspirant game studies scholar :)

Its been 15 years now, and both Ginsberg and Franco have soured for me since 2010 - but I still think that the movie adaptation of Howl is one of the best literature to film adaptations out there - youtu.be/__W41tlyJNQ?...

i constantly think about this post

The Play for Peace: Games for Palestine charity bundle is now live! Nearly 400 games from creators all around the world, with proceeds going directly to Gaza relief efforts. Bundle link: itch.io/b/2979/play-... We made a launch trailer to celebrate this moment👇 Please RT.

Working my way through the incredible #OpenAccess collection Historiographies of #GameStudies - punctumbooks.com/titles/histo... - an absolute must-read, I was really struck by this phrase in Dennis Jansen's Redirecting Ludification, quoting Halfmann & Radder, 'The Academic Manifesto': #academia

So, @profkfh.bsky.social, this is what happens when you preorder, forgot you preordered, and preorder again! Twice as nice 😆 @pennpress.bsky.social

Yay, continuing my finishingbooksIstartedforeveragoandthoughtI'dneverfinish holiday reading - I finished Rebecca Kuang's Poppy War - it is not a YA novel, I cannot stress this enough! It's brilliant and interesting and I want to continue the series, but it is one of the darkest books I've ever read!

I'm excited to share that my new book ARCHIVAL IRRUPTIONS: Constructing Religion and Criminalizing Obeah in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica is coming out with @dukepress.bsky.social in October!