New article published at the Journal of Games Criticism: "Black Sun in the Land of Shadow: DLCs and Textual Depletion in Shadow of the Erdtree" by @maxcoombes.bsky.social.

The programme for DiGRA Australia's 2025 conference is out and it's shaping up to be a banger. Adelaide + online, 5–7 Feb, check it: digraa.org/post/digraa-...

Some good people are putting together a special issue on videogame theory at Media Theory Journal. CFP: mediatheoryjournal.org/cfp-videogam... #gamestudies

latest brkeogh release has dropped – essential tool👇

My buddy @poppywilde.bsky.social mixed up in not one but TWO special issues, and both out on the same day! 😎

Very excited to share the 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁𝘀 special issue of the 𝘑𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘎𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘊𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘴𝘮, edited by me and @poppywilde.bsky.social The issue considers the relationship between videogames and the post-Anthropocene, posthumanism and the post-apocalypse: gamescriticism.org/issue-6-a/ #gamestudies

godDAMN this stupid milkloving piece of shit dumbass mean spirited sale at briscoes racist sexist 40% off deck furniture piss country #MarsdenSchmarsden

Aotearoa New Zealand's govt removing all Humanities and Social Sciences funding via the Marsden Fund (the NZ equivalent of the ARC) is a national disgrace. My heart goes out to Kiwi researchers. This pushes the country backward in the worst possible way. www.beehive.govt.nz/...

It’s a dark day for research in Aotearoa New Zealand and the ramifications for the country are huge. Minister Judith Collins has just announced our blue-skies funder will no longer fund humanities & social science research and that 50% of what is funded must have economic benefit.

Registration is now open for DiGRA Australia's 2025 National Conference, which will be held at University of South Australia on 5-7 February (and online). This is the first DiGRA Australia conference held off the east coast!! events.humanitix.com/digraaustral...

I have created a starter pack for Australian & New Zealand based games academics, particularly those active in the DiGRA Australia community. Please reply if you'd like to be added! bsky.app/start/did:pl...

Very excited to be co-running the workshop "Postanthropocenic, posthumanist, postapocalyptic play" with @larru.bsky.social and Will McKeown at #DiGRA2024 - call for expressions of interest (can be short papers or engagement in wider roundtable) open till 26th April ➡️ docs.google.com/document/d/1...