The judge ruled: “An AI model such as Stable Diffusion which does not store or reproduce any copyright works (and has never done so) is not an ‘infringing copy’.” www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...

DiGRA 2026 (Ireland) CfP is now live Full paper and abstracts deadline: 1 December 2025 Workshop proposals deadline: 15 February 2026 www.digraconference2026.com #games #gamestudies

My presentation at Avatar Aesthetics workshop (#digra2025) www.slideshare.net/slideshow/ch...

Let's see if I will be in Malta today: Your connection is at risk.

My professor's lecture (that was given after promotion): A retrospect on my research www.slideshare.net/slideshow/ga...

Proton offers end-to-end encrypted emails, drive, and documents editor (no spreadsheets etc, just text editing), and calendar. Proton headquarters are in Europe. Might be worth to consider instead of Google & Microsoft ecosystems (although proton can't replace all) proton.me

In defence of Custer's Revenge, the head of the production company said, 'We no more promote sexual violence in our game than Pac-Man promotes cannabilism.' www.upi.com/Archives/198...

Qualitative analysis with EPP method and Taguette www.slideshare.net/slideshow/qu...

According to a Finnish newspaper, the US is demanding University of Helsinki to remove certain words from grants announcements (e.g. climate change) www.hbl.fi/artikel/usa-... From the land of free speech.

Trump declares all people as female in his executive order. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkBK...

Studying games: formal analysis and stimulated recall. A method lecture at PhD winter school www.slideshare.net/slideshow/st...

The USA is not well www.wired.com/story/neo-na...

The theme song for 2025 www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJUQ...

I see björk's and mine formal analysis of gameplay discussed often in relation formalism/structuralism in literature theory. The idea of for in our piece draws from the aesthetics and at theory (Clive Bell, 1914) which seems to be missed.

I finished Dragon Age: Veilguard and enjoyed it overall. - World-Building: Excellent, and in some ways, better than the previous Dragon Age games. 1/x

I started playing the Silent Hill 2 remake, but its save system makes session times a bit too long for the time I can commit. I also started playing the new Dragon Age. It has a working save system, so I can stop when I run out of time.

I gave a talk about indie porn games at the Tampere University the last spring: "OASIS Lunchtime Talk: Indie Porn Games: Contents, Ecosystems, Business Models" www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2Ij...

Press Start Journal is now on Bluesky! We are an open access, peer-reviewed journal run by and for students that publishes academic research on Game Studies🌞 For more information, please take a look at our website: press-start.gla.ac.uk #AcademicSky #Gamestudies

😂Musk's AI: Musk is the most prominent misinformation spreader on X fortune.com/2024/11/14/g...

I think this was the first one I saw, and there was no going back (although in Finland, what you could get your hands on in the late 80s and early 90s was rather random, as X-rated movies were illegal to sell/rent). The Thing, Evil Dead, and Day of the Dead were the ones that got me hooked.

I am not sure why some many places report that tax cuts are known to boos economy. I am not sure if research agree. Meta analysis did not find evidence that corporate tax cuts would boost economy www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 1/3

I uploaded my slides of presentation in the Finnish Museum of Games about a research project about location-aware games and a game we made and evaluated in 2003-2004 www.slideshare.net/slideshow/th...

Oh. I never noticed who the voice actors in Gabriel Night: Sins of Fathers, like Tim Curry and Mark Hamill. I did not even remember that the game had voice acting but maybe it has something to do with the sound capabilities of my PC when I played it in the early 1990s.

Silent Hill 2 PS5 remaster is great, at least so far. It is really interesting how it feels much like the original, but it is so different

We have a postdoc position open. One of the potential research areas is games and storytelling www.sh.se/english/sode...

Conference Proceedings of DiGRA 2024 Conference: Playgrounds now online: Full paper proceedings: dl.digra.org/index.php/dl... Abstract proceedings dl.digra.org/index.php/dl... Enjoy!

Join us in Malta for DiGRA 2025! 🔥 The Call for Papers is out! digraconference2025.org/calls-call-f... It will be hosted by our Institute of Digital Games in Valletta (Malta) >> between the 30th of June and the 4th of July 2025 << with myself and @danielvella.bsky.social as the local organizers :)

DiGRA 2025 - Games at the Crossroads CfP out; website online! We can't wait to receive your submissions, to host you in Malta next summer, and to sit with you all and drink Kinnie on the beach. June 30 - July 4 2025, Valletta, Malta digraconference2025.org

This was unexpected...

And DiGRA has a new version of its digital library dl.digra.org (also 2023 proceedings are there and not on a temporary HTML page)

They are running an abu ghraib again. PLEASE SHARE even if you don’t want to read it all.

It is rare to get present 20-year-old research: Presentation at the Finnish Museum of Game on Wed April 17, 2024 about a location-aware multiplayer game we developed and run 2003-2004 www.slideshare.net/slideshow/th...

Come to work with me: We have a senior lecturer in game design position open (tenure track) www.sh.se/om-oss/det-h... (working level Swedish knowledge required)

Digra 2023 proceedings are now online digra.org:9998 (superfast hack to get them online in some way; I have a new DL running on my test server with new proceedings but I can't get them to the digra org yet as the new DL requires a server that is not a plast from the past.

While waiting for DiGRA 2023 proceedings to go online, Tanja's and mine paper "Pornographic Games on Steam: Genres, Modes, and Milieus" can be read on my blog petrilankoski.com/2023/08/15/p...