Building the highwayman shot from Over the Garden Wall (2014), created by Patrick McHale, Cartoon Network Studios Storyboards by Patrick McHale, animation by Nick Cross

New paper 📝🎓

An overview of the status of women in the video game industry in Japan and in Japanese society more generally (+ a focus on the career of Miki Morimoto, the second known woman to have directed a game at Sega) vgdensetsu.net/riekokodama6 dispo en VF vgdensetsu.net/riekokodamavf6

The making of Phantasy Star, or how a female duo managed to break the mould and go beyond. An opportunity to learn a little about Chieko Aoki, one of the first female directors in the Japanese video game industry. vgdensetsu.net/riekokodama5/ dispo en VF vgdensetsu.net/riekokodamav...

To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Mark III: Rieko Kodama, Part IV: Alex Kidd in Miracle World or the birth of a Master System icon (+ Double Target/Quartet, Miracle Warriors and The Black Onyx) vgdensetsu.net/riekokodama4/ dispo en VF vgdensetsu.net/riekokodamav...

How cool is it that Japanese fighting game fans use to distribute their combo videos on VHS?

Museum of Screens v0.8 is out! A new exhibition is open, and we have a brand new game integrated to the Museum: Flappy Typer by @naejdoree.bsky.social museumofscreens.com

This conversation between ChatGPT and the young man it encouraged to commit suicide is just...my god www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...

TODAY is 11-9!!!! Happy 119 Day to all Twin Peaks fans! #oneonenine #TwinPeaks #TwinPeaksTheReturn ☕🦉🎄🥧🍩 Learn how to ask for help the right way!

⚡️"Bulb Boy"⚡️ is Free on #Steam for a limited time! Link:⬇️ store.steampowered.com/app/390290/B... 🗓️Free to keep FOREVER when you get it before 9 Nov @ 7:00pm. After that, this title will return to its regular price.🗓️ 🏖Steam Random Keys➡️ www.g2a.com/n/randomkey471

🔹 Tarragona 🔹 Enrique Bonet presenta "La araña del olvido" y "El otro mundo" en varios momentos del día. Aquí van los detalles: 🗓️ Por la mañana, a las 10h, en la Universidad Rovira i Virgili 🗓️ Por la tarde, a las 19h, en El Soterrani Dos oportunidades maravillosas para conocerle 💫

Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market. This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.

AI chatbots didn’t encourage teens to kill themselves. The people at the companies that created the AI chatbots failed to create safety guardrails that adhere to best practices in suicide prevention methods.

Really enjoyed working on mine + @doktornick.bsky.social co-authored chapter "Autoethnography as Historical Method: A Plague Tale and Authentic Experiences of the Past" for this collection, we presented the work at DiGRA25 + loved discussing the themes + methodology. The ToC for the book looks ace!

"The AI industry’s most important product at this moment is not a chatbot or a video generator; it’s the story the AI industry is telling about itself.... According to an MIT study, 95% of businesses that have deployed generative AI have gotten no value from it." www.theringer.com/2025/11/04/t...

I love how, in a 20 year timeframe, we've "transitioned to a knowledge economy" - but somehow also unilaterally decided that knowing stuff is so fundamentally worthless, it can be outsourced to a Magic 8 Ball stuffed with pages from a thesaurus by a handful of sociopaths six thousand miles away

Today is officially my 20th year on @retrogamermag.bsky.social It’s been an amazing, wild ride and I don’t want it to stop.

There are no words for how evil this is

GP Advance was a 3D GBA racing game in development at Italian studio Prograph in 2003. Marketed as having "Psx-level graphics", using an in-house engine, the game featured up to 45k polygons on screen, running smoothly. In the end, no publisher could be found and the game was cancelled.

You can do it! A slide from my "AI and the Law" presentation I gave to a bunch of lawyers:

Getting nervous for the talk I'm about to give at a workshop about "using AI to drive impact" which features slides such as these.

India will have 500 million gamers this year and total player spending on video games will surpass $1 billion. It's the fastest growing market we track across Asia & MENA! Our latest report includes everything you need to know about India: nikopartners.com/what-you-nee...

me at the end of class: here's a little speculative exercises; imagine you wake up from cryosleep in 2085. what's the kind of tech-society r/ship you'd like to see around you? students: no AI I honestly think students' views are missing from the 'should AI be integrated in classrooms' discussion

Today we celebrate an incredible 25 years of Games That Weren't, which was first born back in 1999. Covering the history of how the site first started and some of the key events and recoveries over the years leading up to 2024. gamesthatwerent.com/2024/05/25-y...

Today we're rescanning some issues of the 80s/90s magazine Game Player's. This issue (Volume 2, Number 3) includes the First Annual Videogame and Computer Game Awards! Let's see what won in 1989...

Our pinball game for the @play.date "Devils on the Moon" is coming out this February! Can't wait for y'all to play it. you can wish it here play.date/games/devils... #indiegames #pixelart #pinball #Playdate

#gamestudies #bookmark

Afrika (PS3 / Rhino Studios / 2008)

Zagreb Film's YouTube channel is a goldmine of restored classics from the '50s onward

“Data centers are like warehouses filled with machines and cables, and there's little need for workers”

Google unintentionally spreading misinformation because it lacks the context of the existence of Morita Shogi for Famicom.

Un-Mis-Remembering Sega’s 1995 “Downfall” Which was Actually a Pretty Good Year! Even without Sonic || GTV Japan youtu.be/AqkwB-SD0-A?...

Jumping Flash! The First Great 32-Bit Action Platform Game on the Sony PlayStation || GTV Japan youtu.be/_ZW1rieqdaE?...

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si esto hubiera salido hace diez años mi tfg sobre el slow cinema habría sido muchísimo más largo 🙂‍↕️

Victor is one of the smartest people in game studies right now. get ready for his book!

This looks incredible!

Muchas ganas de leer lo nuevo de Víctor!

Already laying out my meditation mat and lighting my scented candles in preparation.

For the past decade, I've been slowly cooking a small and humble book. Part (alternative) history, part analysis, and part social critique, this is a look at what games also are and have always been. ZEN AND SLOW GAMES Out 20/1/2026 by MIT Press mitpress.mit.edu/978026255356...

"Videojuegos y propiedad intelectual" dice @videojuegosaevi.bsky.social con un cartel generado con una tecnología que se ha entrenado a través del robo de propiedad intelectual. AEVI se ha posicionado contra el sector artístico y autoral y la gente debe de enterarse.

When Elden Ring had been announced but not yet released, its subreddit started collectively pretending the game was already out. I spent far too many hours reading strategies to defeat the (completely made-up) Glaive Master Hodir. For research. This is the result: doi.org/10.1093/aest...

Recordatorio de que estamos destruyendo el planeta, la economía y la educación por una máquina de plagiar que nos dice que no existen las cosas que existen.

As promised, here are the slides I shared with students to convince them to NOT use chatGPT and other artificial stupidity. TL;DR? AI is evil, unsustainable and stupid, and I'd much rather they use their own brains, make their own mistakes, and actually learn something. 🪄

Today’s the day, #PSVR2 players! Games. Devs. Surprises? The live chat is open right now: youtu.be/lNb6jD5pCU0 Hit “🔔 Notify me” on the YouTube page so you don’t miss out!

ThinkyCon begins in just 24 hours! Find tomorrow's schedule here! thinkygames.com/even...

🎮🗾 Aquest 31 @mangabcn.bsky.social ens veiem a la Nihongo Experience de la mà de @espaidaruma.com amb la xerrada: «¿Existe el JRPG? Los orígenes del Juego de Rol Japonés» Diumenge 7 i Dilluns 8, de 12:30 a 13:45 😄

Studio Ghibli, Bandai Namco, Square Enix demand OpenAI stop using their content to train AI

We're kicking off a series of music game oral histories with a look back at Rez Infinite -- and why it's been nine years without a follow-up.