Love seeing how a half hour interview get boiled down: Ohio Equal Rights Campaigns Two Amendments for November Ballot: www.thepostathens.com/article/2026...

Jeff Bezos’s Destruction of The Washington Post Is a Disgraceful Plutocratic Crime www.thenation.com/article/soci...

No, Punxsutawney, no.... www.cnn.com/2026/02/02/w...

SADNESSES: Catherine O’Hara, ‘Home Alone’ and ‘Schitt’s Creek’ Actress, Dies at 71 www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/a...

I don't like this is for a commercial... but I do like it because it warms my melancholic soul... www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3o5... #ladygaga #misterrogers #wontyoubemyneighbor

When two years of academic work vanished with a single click www.nature.com/articles/d41...

KULA Vol. 9 No. 1 (2026): Special Issue: Citational Politics and Justice: kula.uvic.ca/index.php/ku... #citationaljustice #academia

The risks of AI in schools outweigh the benefits, report says www.npr.org/2026/01/14/n...

A new year reminder to submit to #GenerationAnalog 2026! Deadline is two months away on March 1: analoggamestudies.org/generation-a... @analoggamestudies.bsky.social #analoggamestudies #gamestudies #greengames #green

CFP: Special issue: New Perspectives on Men and Masculinity in Gaming: septentrio.uit.no/index.php/el...

CFP: The Palgrave Handbook of Virtual Reality Literature: call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/01/...

World reacts to US bombing of Venezuela, ‘capture’ of Maduro www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/...

A.I. Is on the Rise, and So Is the Environmental Impact of the Data Centers That Drive It: www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...

Why #mediastudies #rhetoricalawareness #criticalthinking #feminism #humanities are important: Wild Taylor Swift Conspiracy Theories After Last Album Was Coordinated Effort, Report Claims www.forbes.com/sites/maryro...

I wasn't going to teach The Hunger Games in my Speculative Appalachia class... but now... www.forbes.com/sites/paulta...

#PlayStoryPress Book Talk: Suzanne Richardson @oozegod.bsky.social & Ed Chang share about Roll with Advantage: Creative, Collaborative, and Critical Responses to Dungeons & Dragons: playstorypress.org/2025/12/18/p... #analoggamestudies #creativewriting #dnd @analoggamestudies.bsky.social

Not much has changed...really: A decade on from Game.rgate, how has the games industry changed for women? www.gamesindustry.biz/a-decade-on-...

More of my childhood going into that good night... and one of my gay awakenings... farewell, Buck... www.youtube.com/watch?v=v32V...

NEW PUBLICATION: Excited to be a part of this @jcmsjournal.bsky.social dossier on "#TeachingGameStudies," edited by Ryan Banfi, featuring a lot of friendlings including @Patrick LeMieux & Stephanie Boluk, Soraya Murray, and others: quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jcms/teach...

Top 10 Video Games of 2025 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/a...

In this week's @ohiouniversity.bsky.social @ohioenglish.bsky.social Faculty Roundup: www.ohio.edu/news/2025/12...

#HolidayGiftIdeas for your #videogames #analoggames #ttrpg #gamestudies friends... Video Games, Literature, & Close Playing: www.routledge.com/.../Chang...... & Roll with Advantage: Creative, Collaborative, and Critical Responses to Dungeons & Dragons: playstorypress.org/books/roll-w...

A December reminder to submit to #GenerationAnalog 2026! Deadline is (only) three-ish months away on March 1: analoggamestudies.org/generation-a... :) @analoggamestudies.bsky.social #GameInLab

Listening to #AlendaChang on Hidden Levels #5: "Press B to Touch Grass": 99percentinvisible.org/episode/hl-0... -- you can listen here: pod.link/394775318/ep... #hiddenlevels #minecraft #videogames #environmentalgames #podcast @99pi.org

Thanks for having us!

South Korea’s Experiment in AI Textbooks Ends in Disaster futurism.com/future-socie...

Was just talking about him... Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88 www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/n...

The poem... the horror... the horror... www.theringer.com/2025/11/25/n...

Reading Games, Playing Stories: A Book Talk with Edmond Y. Chang & Timothy J. Welsh, Tuesday, 12/2, 4:00-5:15 PM, UW OSC Presentation Space: lib.uw.edu/openscholars... #videogamestudies #gamestudies #closeplaying #newbook #booktalk

Hilars...

Congrattsssssssss....

@analoggamestudies.bsky.social & #GameinLab present Generation Analog 2026, July 16-17, GREEN will be this year’s conference theme... Abstracts due by March 1, 2026: analoggamestudies.org/generation-a... #analoggamestudies #generationanalog2026

Most Americans say country is on the wrong track, blame Trump for inflation: Poll abcnews.go.com/Politics/ame...

I especially like this quote about kids and games: "At the end of the day, kids love to play games, but they don’t need RPGs like a group of adults do. The thing that kids need when they play games is a framework for resolving disputes, but they don’t need a framework for creating fiction."

Just leaving this here: Harvard's endowment was valued at $56.9 billion for fiscal year 2025...

Thanks to Asian American Studies for the invite... UPCOMING TALK: "Race, Queerness, and Gaming While Asian," November 13, 2025, 4-5:320 PM, Denney Hall, Ohio State University asianamericanstudies.osu.edu/events/race-...

Look at all the larpssessesss... The full list of #goldencobrachallenge2025 submissions have been posted... this year's theme is "Connection and Community"... including my weirdo larp "Hands Across (Another) America"... www.goldencobra.org/submissions2... #freeformlarp

OPINION: I resigned from the military because of Trump www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

No Kings protest live updates: millions march against Trump in nationwide day of protest www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

Q&A: How video games can lead people to more meaningful lives www.washington.edu/news/2025/09...

A Debate About A.I. Plays Out on the Subway Walls -- An ad campaign for a wearable A.I. companion has blanketed New York City, starting conversations and inspiring vandalism. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/s...

Why This Essay Could Cause the University of Virginia to Shut Down newrepublic.com/article/2013...

FACT FOCUS: Democrats did not shut down the government to give health care to ‘illegal immigrants’ apnews.com/article/fact...

The #DiGRA2026 conference theme is Intersectional Pleasures. The theme invites a critical and celebratory exploration of how digital games enable, mediate, or restrict pleasure across lines of identity, genre, platforms, politics and more. www.digraconference2026.com #DIGRA

Video game lets you return African artifacts from Western museums: www.cnn.com/world/africa...

I just backed Drink Coffee, Talk Fast: A Documentary About Gilmore Girls on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/ink...

DEPLORABLE: Hegseth’s decision on Wounded Knee medals sparks outrage in Native American communities apnews.com/article/indi...

Roll with Advantage: Creative, Collaborative, and Critical Responses to Dungeons & Dragons (Play Story Press 2025) edited by Suzanne Richardson & Edmond Y. Chang: playstorypress.org/books/roll-w... - in print or open access PDF! #analoggamestudies #creativewriting #dungeonsanddragons #dnd

#F4SCSTSgonnaF4SCST Trump defends use of the U.S. military against the 'enemy within' www.npr.org/2025/09/30/n...

I talked quite a bit about consent and gen AI with my students, particularly the inability to opt out: Stuffing AI Into Everything Is Backfiring Spectacularly www.vice.com/en/article/s...