I did not have “Mega Man 2 electronic game” on my bingo card for today’s fieldwork. #archaeogaming 🏺

Welcome to Goblin Town is currently live on Twitch! www.twitch.tv/goblintownrpg

Gang's all here! We'll be live shortly!

Almost a full year later, and the gang is officially back together! Goblin Town makes its long awaited return tomorrow on twitch at 11:00AM PST (2:00PM EST) for a spectacular SUPER ROLL SUNDAY!

New video is out! It’s been FAR too long since I made a video in my Archaeologist’s Guide to Minecraft, so here’s a deep dive into the history/archaeology of copper mining! Aren’t the copper golems great?! youtu.be/bBSStYWf8GM ⛏️ 🏺 #archaeologysky #ancientsky #historysky

Always exciting to get the latest delivery off @dgb-history.bsky.social’s ‘Video Games and the Humanities’ conveyor belt!

Happy New Year, AGC! 🥂

As we enter the new year, we want to thank everyone who makes the Archaeogaming Collective what it is. This past year was difficult, but the care, collaboration, and solidarity within this community made all the difference.

We hope that your holidays are full of good contexts, intact stratigraphy, and just enough surprises to keep things interesting. Merry Dirtmas!

The illusive degenerate returns to twitch this week, just in time for this year's #WholesomeSnack tomorrow at 11:00PM PST, and a special livestream of the #GameAwards with @indycroft.bsky.social on December 11, at 4:00PM PST. Stay tuned for super secret surprises. Don't miss it!

Did you miss her? She missed you. 🔫 As just revealed in The Game Awards Vote in Fortnite map portal, tune in to @thegameawards.com on December 11 for a look at the future of one of gaming's most iconic franchises, Tomb Raider. #TombRaider #Fortnite #TheGameAwards

As the year wraps up, some of my favorite games of 2025: 🌙 Hades II: Complex, detailed, and epic 🪄 South of Midnight: Heartfelt, and made me explore new stories 🦸 Dispatch: Refreshing, innovative, and fun 💥 Battlefield 6: Nostalgic, cinematic, and great to play with friends On to 2026!

This Thursday at 6pm GMT I'm giving a lecture with the wonderful @archaeoplays.bsky.social about how to conceive and build living images of the past. All the in-person tickets have been snapped up, but you can still watch online for free (I think via Zoom) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/carved-in-...

Carved in Stone is HERE!!! @archaeonado.bsky.social called it “the best book on the Picts ever written,” so you should definitely check it out over at www.stoutstoat.co.uk/carvedinstone 🏺 #picts #archaeologysky #rpg #ttrpg #indiettrpg #dnd #pathfinder

This weekend Team Tomb Raider Community will be holding our annual marathon fundraising event for #ExtraLife! The action starts on Saturday Nov. 8th at 10am GMT and ends Sunday Nov. 9th at 11:30pm GMT! The full schedule can be found here: horaro.org/trcommunityt... We hope to see you there!

Sorry but this is canon now lol.

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🎃Check out SASA’s Archaeogaming #LIVE Team! 🎟️Enter our Raffle for a chance to win a SASA #Halloween Collection gift basket! 1 Entry for $15 ➡️Learn more about our Teams and donate: https://www.saveancientstudies.org/halloweenbash#LIVE

Happy Halloween!

Halloween mostly-gaming music playlist: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

🎮⚡ Join SASA Gamer Madigan Shepard with special guest Dr. Kira Jones is Ballbylon bound for Archaeogaming LIVE playing Hades II! 🗓️ FRIDAY - October 17th @ 3:00pm EDT ➡️ Watch LIVE & Subscribe on Twitch- twitch.tv/saveancientstudies #GameStudies #ClassicalReception #VideoGame #Learning

Today is Indigenous Peoples' Day.

Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola. Fuck Columbus.

Good news: I'll be speaking at #PaxWest2025 on "Wait, I can Preserve Games for a Living? - A Behind the Scenes Look"! Come learn what game preservation looks like in the industry, the challenges faced by your favourite developers, and what skills might get you in the door!

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

The Excavation of Hob's Barrow is a whopping 40% off as part of the LudoNarraCon event on Steam! It's an honour to be part of this great event, massive thanks to @fellowtraveller.games 🙏 store.steampowered.com/app/1182310/...

Announcing ArchaeOS, a speculative keepsake game made for the @archive.org DiscMaster jam by @mtrc.bsky.social and me! The game asks you to interpret digital artefacts using a deck of cards, and is made exclusively with assets from DiscMaster. 💾 🏺 illomens.itch.io/archaeos

Wishing you were choosing your next adventure from the Illithid? Join Dr. Richard Cole & Dr. Alexander Vandewalle at Hitpoints & History this weekend to discuss #Baldursgate3. Tickets 20% starting today! Https://hitpointsandhistory2025.eventbrite.com

Planning is underway for the fourth ArchaeoGaming Conference, with new collabs and features in development that build on what we’ve done before. Our recently updated website offers comprehensive info about the collective, the conference, and opportunities to get involved. archaeogamingco.weebly.com

What game would you love to watch us stream next? We would love to start a conversation about recent game releases. Indiana Jones and the Great Circle? Assassin's Creed Shadows? Let us know!

Should we do something fun for our 1k follower count? It's coming soon, we might have to do a stream for it! 🤔

Thank you to our loyal viewers and followers. Couldn't have done it without you. Anyone who has not yet followed, check us out!

We did it!!!!!!! 🎉 The ArchaeoGaming Collective is now officially an Affiliate of Twitch! www.twitch.tv/archaeogameco

We're doing something a little different tonight! I am streaming from the ArchaeoGaming Collective's Twitch Channel! Trying to help AGC get Affiliate! Please come hang out, we'd love to have you guys! twitch.tv/archaeogameco

Make sure to follow us on Twitch for future events and conferences! www.twitch.tv/videos/24109...

The ArchaeoGaming Collective (AGC) is an online, international community of archaeologists, researchers, and gaming enthusiasts. We host a gaming convention and archaeological conference to share game-based research with a broader virtual audience worldwide! www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-zh...

PLAY THIS (archaeology) GAME! Katrine Haydock, one of our brilliant undergraduates has developed a video game for her dissertation to understand the impact of archaeological methods on gameplay. Please play it and take the survey. 🏺 katrinehaydock.itch.io

We saw that. 👀

As game Senet: Households is nearing 5000 downloads (what?!?!) we want to highlight the amazing dev team that work with us! In this thread you can check out their incredible work and follow them where you can! You can download the game for free here store.steampowered.com/app/3457490/...

📜 🎮 Inspired by the recent launch of @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social’s digital archive, I wrote a little bit about how widely available archives are so valuable not just for appreciation, but also for new perspectives and even new things found inside! animalarchaeology.com/2025/01/31/a...

The Video Game History Foundation opens its digital archives to the public next week

2024 was a great year for historical game releases, but we love nothing more than arbitrary rankings! Check out the blog post, and read on for some other of my findings ludohistory.com/2025/01/21/t...

We want to take a moment and note that AGC is committed to inclusion and equality for everyone. Regardless of the current status of the US, AGC is a worldwide spanning community and we will always stand strong as a safe space for anyone/everyone in the archaeology community (and beyond).

JSTOR asks why video games are so into opera, but there's really only one answer: Opera is wicked awesome. Took an opera history/literature course in college, have taught opera adaptations here or there, and been to the SF opera house! Opera rules. daily.jstor.org/why-...

ICYMI: 🏺 🕹️ In this article I summarise an #archaeogaming paper published in 2021. I compare Lara Croft and Aliya Elasra from Heavens Vault. I show what Elasra can do, what Croft can't, and why we should play more independent games instead of AAA. #openaccess 🔗 itsmoreofacomment.com/2021/07/02/g...

This weekend, January 25-26 2025, Defeating Games for Charity returns for its second annual video game marathon on Twitch to raise money for the Video Game History Foundation. www.gamespress.com/en-GB/Defeat...

New video is out! The ADHD kicked in while playing Hellblade 2 a while back and I decided to do a mini bare-bones survey on a Longhouse featured towards the end of the game! We also got way too distracted by the biology of Icelandic fish, but don't worry about that. youtu.be/VhjwdNnBvw8?...