It's been a great day for fascinating events! Really enjoyed hearing @chriskempshall.bsky.social, @mimi-mortmain.bsky.social, @drtimpeacock.bsky.social & Fruzsina Pittner (chaired by @enwright.bsky.social) discussing history and fantasy in video games (and books) tonight!

🚨 Another Video Game Library win! 🚨 The entire MARKT+TECHNIK X-GAMES series is now fully catalogued! 🎉 Weeks of research and teamwork with German collectors & authors made this possible. It’s another piece of gaming literary history preserved 📚 Check it out, SPREAD THE WORD 🙏 💙

#GameUXsummit '25 was a blast! SO MANY GREAT TALKS (see gamaste.net/game-ux-summ...) I presented my research on how players' personal, social, and game-related factors impact 𝐄𝐮𝐝𝐚𝐢𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐜 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐫 𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬. A huge thanks to the organizers! @gameuxsummit.com @celiahodent.com AP Hogeschool & Gamaste

A website about classic video game magazines. From Mean Machines and CVG to Super Play and more. With articles and interviews featuring the writers, editors and designers who were there. Visit Forgotten Worlds 👉 www.forgottenworlds.net #Sega #Nintendo #Amiga #C64 #Spectrum #Amstrad #AtariST 🌴☀️

Hey folks in the Pacific Northwest: We're going to PAX West 2025 this weekend! We've got two panels and an exhibitor table - more info here: www.patreon.com/posts/were-h...

weekend plans 🎮✨

If you missed our Gender panel event on Tuesday, you can now watch the recording of this fantastic discussion here via our Youtube Channel! Featuring @verysrsgames.com @katexe.bsky.social @tesswatty.bsky.social & @ide4fix.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtP3...

(1936) Lizzie Magie, Showing a prototype of Monopoly, Which She Invented to Warn the Dangers of Land Speculation.

Our latest VGHH podcast is a little review of what we’ve been up to, so far, this year. With the official launch of our digital library archive, livestreams of game magazine unboxing and EPROM dumping, and multiple new collections, there's lots to discuss: gamehistory.org/episode-136-...

Games and History Take Centre Stage at Royal Society of Edinburgh’s Curious Festival Unreal Pasts, Playful Presents: The growing cultural and academic significance of videogames will be highlighted this September, as the Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) hosts a fascinating panel discussion as part…

#TradeMagWeek DAY 1: Electronic Gaming Retail News From the publishers of Electronic Gaming Monthly, EGRN was one of the first video game trade magazines, running from 1991–1993. With help from @kohler.bsky.social, we've digitized 11 of its 12 issues! archive.gamehistory.org/folder/3e35f...

OTD 6 yrs ago we staged biggest 28mm tabletop wargame ever - over 24,000 figures & 120 players. Table mats formed prob biggest battle map ever printed (based on Siborne). Raised £20,000 for Waterloo Uncovered. Most insane thing l’ve ever come up with. French lost again!

If you are interested, please DM us or email our editor Cass directly at [email protected]. In addition, please note that all reviewers for Press Start must be a current student or within a year of having graduated💙(2/2)

We are looking for three peer reviewers for a manuscript titled "Third places and community environments in gaming"😊 Please check the attached image for the abstract! (1/2)

Do we even do starter packs any more on BSky? Kind of seems like the need is still there for new people joining us and old people finding us. Sooo As always, not a gatekeeper -- if you talk/post (formally write or not) abt hist game stud: hist games as history in & out of history ed, I can add you.

@katespowage.bsky.social , a new colleague-friend I have not had the chance to meet, published this year on Sid's Civilization from "the politics of language". Haven't completely read it yet but excited she took up the _Civ forums as public history practice_ that I proposed back in 2018. at Academia

That’s really all for this year! Thank you for joining #MAMG25, whether as speakers, participants, or both! The conference may be over, but that doesn’t mean you cannot go forward with reading all the awesome papers that have been delivered this year, and with asking more questions to their authors!

Time for conclusions for #MAMG25! Please join us for the concluding remarks on this year ‘The Middle Ages in Modern Games’ conference, with Robert Houghton delivering them, by the title ‘International Opportunities, International Challenges’. Read it here: middleagesinmoderngames.net?p=1065

The third and final day of #MAMG25 is about to begin! Head over to our website to check out the programme, and read two days of great papers, and our first panel for today, Fantasy Medievalism in The Witcher, will start in just 10 minutes at 10am (UTC+1)! middleagesinmoderngames.net/announcement...

It's the first full day of the Middle Ages in Modern Games conference! We're back in a bit less than an hour with our session on Global Perspectives. Check out yesterdays papers if you missed them and come and join us! middleagesinmoderngames.net

Thanks to @RobEHoughton for a great start to another promising MAMG. Stick around everyone as we have an exciting schedule of papers today, starting with the first Keynote presentation at 12:00pm (UTC+1) by Stevan Anastasoff, titled ‘Playing with the Past: Cultural Integrity in Narrative Gaming’!

The sixth Middle Ages in Modern Games Asynchronous Conference will officially begin in just 10 minutes at 10am (UTC+1) with our Opening Statement by @RobEHoughton. While you wait, you can check out the programme and more on the conference website: middleagesinmoderngames.net

We are looking for one more peer reviewer for a manuscript titled "Playfully Anachronistic and Historically Inauthentic: Understanding Resistance to Diverse Representation in Call of Duty: Vanguard"😀 Please see the attached image for the abstract (1/2)

The Middle Ages in Modern Games is back in a couple of weeks! It's a really exciting line up this year - and it's still completely free to participate.

The sixth Middle Ages in Modern Games Asynchronous Conference on the themes Globalities and Regionalities will take place from 4 to 6 June. The papers (written and video format) will be accessible on our website middleagesinmoderngames.net We hope you can join us!

I much appreciated the opportunity in March to design & lead Exercise HOPE AGE in Geneva at #HNPW with @unocha.org & @uofglasgow.bsky.social @uofggameslab.bsky.social. Using #SeriousGames we explored ways #humanitarian organisations may navigate complex environments of a hypothetical major conflict.

Fantastic to have @drtimpeacock.bsky.social and Marita from the @uofggameslab.bsky.social on Campus today for one of the CO-GREAT Workshops on Flood Resilience Gamification. A thought-provoking afternoon of discussion around flooding, transport infrastructure and storytelling.

Much appreciated hearing about fascinating work by colleagues at BISA's Global #Nuclear Order Conference last week @gnobisa.bsky.social, & to have the opportunity to speak about "Crisis #Gaming, #NuclearDeterrence History, & Human-Technology Interaction in Strategic Decision-Making". Photo by BISA.

The RESET 2025 programme offers recent graduates and career changers the chance to join Scotland's games, animation & VFX sectors.

Scotland's Games Showreel for EXPO 2025 was premiered on Thursday 17 April. The showreel is shared here exclusively on Scottish Games NW.

📯ATTENTION📯 There are still a few tickets left for our FREE Games Night and #CinemARC screening, our last events as part of the ARC Spring Fling. 🎬🎲🎥🧩 Be sure to come on down and learn about @uofglasgow.bsky.social research through our theme of Space and Place.

You can now register for the Mythological Game Studies Conference (22-24 May, online)! We'll have around 30 presentations on mythology & games, a dev roundtable, and more. Head over to mythgamescon.wordpress.com for the conference schedule and abstracts! @maciejpaprocki.bsky.social #MythGames2025

We are excited to announce our next HGN quarterly theme: Gender! Guest-chaired/convened by Dr Tess Watterson, the theme will accept contributions from this very moment until 30 June 2025. More details here: www.historicalgames.net/call-for-con... #gamingthepast #historicalgames #skystorians

A new study from @uofgcompsci.bsky.social showing how computers can be accurately controlled using only facial expressions could help make AR and VR technologies more accessible to people living with disabilities. Read more here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...

🆕| Vector Ludo Webpage🐜 We have launched our new webpage to showcase the amazing development of Vector Ludo and its journey so far🌍 Download the printable board and get playing!🎲 Go explore the page: cvr-engagement.co.uk/vector-ludo @uofggameslab.bsky.social

🚆 We are pleased to be hosting @uofglasgow.bsky.social Games Lab for the CO-GREAT Workshop: Flood Resilience Gamification. Open to anyone interested in flooding, rail transport resilience, and/or gaming, broadly defined. No prior experience required. Free to attend. 💠 Book here: bit.ly/42kUFcV

🚨 ‘Are You Prepared?’—our interactive resilience card game—has landed in 1,988 primary schools across Scotland! Helping young minds learn about natural hazards & community resilience in a fun, engaging way. Let the conversations begin! Want to know more or download a free printable: bit.ly/3RnHFgn

In the latest Game History Hour podcast, VGHF's Phil Salvador and lawyer Kendra Albert digest, discuss, and dissect the 2024 DMCA exemption petition to make it easier for libraries and archives to preserve video games: gamehistory.org/episode-128-...

Hi, I wrote this for GamesRadar and filled it with references to my favourite 1970s British Sci-fi and folk horror, you’re welcome www.gamesradar.com/games/action...

Our Game History Gallery at GDC 2025 is getting great traffic! (Come check it out until Friday on the GDC Expo Floor.)

Scotland’s Games Action Plan V2 The second version of Scotland's Games Action Plan is now available for industry consultation, feedback and review. The plan is a series of recommendations to the Scottish Government to increase knowledge and understanding of the games ecosystem across all levels of…

Look forward to running HOPE AGE, #Humanitarian Operations Planning Exercise in Assertive Governance Environments, co-designed with UN OCHA, in a hybrid #HNPW2025 workshop in Geneva, Tuesday 25 March, 2-3.30pm CET/1-2.30pm UK-time. More information & sign up in next post's link. #HNPW

Conference report ✍️ 2 law students from @bathspauni.bsky.social share their perspective on Press Start, the conference on creative and innovation regulation in video games we co-organised with BSU and More Than Just a Game 🤝

At GDC on Wed, March 19 at 3pm, VGHF founder Frank Cifaldi will be presenting Preserving Game History: It's Just Us, a sort of state-of-the-industry keynote about Frank's 25 years in game history & what it actually takes to preserve our past, present, and future: schedule.gdconf.com/session/pres...

I spoke to Julian Rignall about his new book The Games of a Lifetime and also to Matt Bielby and Teresa Maughan about making games mags in the 1980s! This was so fun to write 👾 www.theguardian.com/games/2025/m...

I missed this one by @tlecaque.bsky.social! Great discussion here on the erasing of Native Americans from the history of colonial Massachusetts in #Fallout4. 🗃️ #gtp Love to see more & more great scholarship by historians analyzing video games!

Had a great talk to @robehoughton.bsky.social about his new book "The Middle Ages in Computer Games. Ludic Approaches to the Medieval and Medievalism" for my #podcast Game Studies! LISTEN, ppl., LISTEN! //cc @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social #gamestudies newbooksnetwork.com/the-middle-a...

Hey, Medieval History/Games fans [& everyone else!]. The next HGN discussion panel is happening 19th March 2025 with special guests @robehoughton.bsky.social, Blair Apgar, James Baillie, and Katie Newell. Sign up: ⬇️🏰🎲🎮 buytickets.at/historicalga... #gamingthepast #historicalgames

It’s less than a week before our collaboration with the Centre for Fantasy Literature Studies, Taras Shevchenko Institute of Literature, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and we are so excited! 1/2