I'll keep banging the drum for preserving contemporary video game play experiences, especially approaches that don't require technical or even digital methods!

Statement from VGHF director Frank Cifaldi on the discontinuation of physical PlayStation media, and the closure of the PS3 and PSP digital storefronts.

Love seeing these unauthorised early versions of the Mario universe!

This might be one of the most insane scandals in game history When Pokemon Go players scan PokeStops, theyve been unknowingly building a detailed visual model of the world which is being sold to a military contractor to build a no-GPS positioning for the new generation of unmanned killing machines

Join me LIVE at 9:30am as I look for new indie games to play, and I'd be very interested to hear if you have a game yourself. No I don't want a freebie or anything.

New FUNDED PhD opportunity with me, @doktornick.bsky.social, and @bomlab.bsky.social on 'Playing in Public: Game-Based Interventions for Sustainability, Community and Environmental Engagement' as part of the CreaTech Frontiers CDA scheme! Deadline: 10 April Details: www.bcu.ac.uk/research/our...

happy 30th pokemon

Lovely article by Gamesmaster legend Dominik Diamond celebrating intergenerational play and the social space games can create: www.theguardian.com/games/2026/j...

Where’s the white ball going?

Quite a cool AI powered thing: #AntiRender “Upload an architectural render. Get back what it'll actually look like on a random Tuesday in November.” antirender.com #architecture

“The Professional Grief of the Creative Industries” A Powerful, must-read, article from Alan Warburton railing against “the very messy, human impacts of tech disruption in the creative industries” #AI #ImageEmpire www.linkedin.com/posts/consid...

Exciting to see news about new digital artwork #ImageEmpire emerging on Linked In. The project by Alan Warburton will examine how AI is changing the way media is created and consumed - and the impacts this may have in the world of work. www.linkedin.com/posts/bgi-na...

Here's @marioprime.bsky.social on revisiting Animal Crossing after years away: "To return now is to open up a digital time capsule and unpack the emotional baggage inside."

Still time to apply! Exhibit & Events Technician vacancy @nvmuk.bsky.social closes for applications 20 Jan 10am ⏰

just encountered the first edition of #GAMEPOEMS, a free online zine of open-access playable poetic experiences and commentary - beautiful work www.gamepoems.com/issue01/

Friends in NYC - nice R&D fellowship opportunity @momanyc.bsky.social working with @paolaantonelli.bsky.social (closes 18 Jan) recruiting.ultipro.com/MUS1002MOMA/...

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

vampire killer, screenshot, amstrad cpc (1984) www.mobygames.com/game/73527/v...

best joke of the day, imo: downforeveryoneorjustme.com

For @vittles.bsky.social, I wrote about what happens food photography - a practice steeped in stagecraft - meets the synthetic horrors of AI images. Gorgeous original illustration by Ibrahim Rayintakath. www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/you-want-t...

Just boarded a train from Sheffield to Preston (<60 miles) and the return ticket is nearly £50. Seems like a good time to read this account from Mick Lynch of the 30+ year disaster that has been UK rail privatisation tribunemag.co.uk/2023/11/mick...

Love today’s spooky Pac-Man themed Google doodle! searchplayground.google/pacman/hallo...

Even back the day - top-left, the guy with the cap looks like he’s a ringer, trying to avoid being identified in the team photo!

Are you a #ContentCreator who loves classic shoot-'em-up arcade action & couch co-op chaos? 👀🚀 Platypus Reclayed launches September 18th & we've got Steam keys thanks to @claymatic.games 😍🔑 Fill out the form if you're interested & tag a creator who'd LOVE to play! 👇

Interesting article in @nowthenmag.bsky.social highlighting independent game makers in Sheffield and asking why videogames are not more widely celebrated as culture -

One ticket. All summer. Unlimited play. For the first time ever, we’ve introduced a new summer ticket – your key to unlimited visits to the National Videogame Museum until the 1st September. ✅ One ticket ✅ Unlimited visits ✅ All summer long! Book your ticket - thenvm.org

One for Friday post-work chatter / Man says HR are getting involved after he called the company AI Chatbot a “clanker” www.reddit.com/r/LegalAdvic...

…And then a flying visit to see the @gameslondon.bsky.social team and collect a mysterious & beautiful object they were looking after, for a future display @nvmuk.bsky.social. (thanks @ustwogames.co.uk - more soon!)

On the road today for a change - returning some loan items to Lumino City makers State of Play (models that starred in @nvmuk.bsky.social’s Art of Play exhibition.)

UK's oldest Flymo inducted into the British Lawnmower Museum in Southport. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

🎙️ If you missed the most recent episode of FUTURE KNOWLEDGE, now’s a great time to listen. Cory Doctorow talks about THE INTERNET CON: his guide to loosening Big Tech’s grip & reclaiming a more open web. 🎧 Listen & subscribe ⤵️ futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/the...

"We can have clean water or privatised water but we can’t have both" "The British public is right, the evidence supports them" The new people's commission report is crystal clear that PUBLIC OWNERSHIP is the answer after 35 years of failed privatisation www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Great post by @zoyander.cc reflecting the uncanny loneliness of the internet and sharing some strategies for escaping the algorithmic void:

In other news, the train I’ve boarded this afternoon has had to be turned around due to a sinkhole developing in Mirfield. 🕳️ #uktrains #Mirfield #sinkhole

The semiliterate people who use chatgpt like to point to calculators as a precedent of assistive technology but the thing is: calculators actually calculate. A calculator really does let you outsource calculation. It does exactly what it is supposed to do, and marketed as doing, reproducibly.

Similar to asbestos or unexploded munitions, the fallout of the LLM era will persist long after the apps are abandoned, because their outputs have been snuck into the corpus by copy-pasting fools. The longer chatbots force themselves into every workflow, the longer it will take to decontaminate.

This is your reminder that nothing human-made is inevitable and you hereby have all the permission you need to reject bad/harmful social, technological, and political paradigms and to work toward something better.

Am about to walk through these sacred doors for the first time 🤩🎮✨ @nvmuk.bsky.social

One last post before I rest for the weekend. Truly a bit overwhelmed to receive this review from a writer who I respect so much. Thanks @lucywebster.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

@ukrunchat.bsky.social #UKRunChat

@helpsheffield.co.uk Runners Wristwatch found (not the one pictured) Norton Playing Fields, Warminster Road, Sheffield - if it could be yours, let me know. (Also any other suggestions where to post? Or let me know if anyone’s seen a “lost” post that could be the one!)

“No film left unscanned.” 🎞️ Film historian Rick Prelinger (@footage.bsky.social) explains why motion picture film is vanishing, and why digitization is crucial to saving our cinematic history. Full video ➡️ youtu.be/AdtZtvlFi9o #DigitalPreservation #FilmHistory #MemoryHole #Film

folks formerly of volition have made a massive donation to the strong national museum of play to preserve the studio's history, and this should absolutely be the new standard

On this day in 1983: 42 years ago today. Canadian snooker player Cliff Thorburn completed the first televised maximum break of 147 during the World Snooker Championships at the Crucible Theatre, in Sheffield 🇬🇧 #OTD

You wake up. It’s all been a dream. It’s July 1991 and Lemmings has just been released by Psygnosis on the Atari ST…

Ministers don't want the Water Commission to look at public ownership. New research shows that under any price tag, taking over the firms saves at least £3 billion a year. Support public ownership? Submit your view to the Commission before it closes. 👇 weownit.org.uk/act-now/wate...

It’s the first day of @nowplaythis.bsky.social today and they kindly reprinted a bunch of Games For People zines for the event. Also they are hosting a digital version of the zine here and @v21.bsky.social wrote a little intro for it! nowplaythis.net/game/games-f...

Now Play This has started! There's a day of talks today, you can watch online here: www.youtube.com/live/j3xql52...

Just saw some footage on the news of king prince Charles and some other people in Rome walking past these enormous fucking guards. What the hell is with these chewbacca sized guards? They are fucking enormous! Why are they so tall??

Huge congratulations to @jamescarbutt.bsky.social and @wonttodd.bsky.social of Coal Supper for winning Best British Game at last night's BAFTA Games Awards for Thank Goodness You’re Here—a hilarious and wonderfully Yorkshire game! Thoroughly deserved! Read more: tinyurl.com/from-Barnsle...