A conference with stickers to customize your name tag!

We’re excited to announce Scholar’s Codex – a new anthology where academia explores the games of FromSoftware. Beautifully produced as a premium hardcover and illustrated by acclaimed artist @nicodelort.bsky.social. #eldenring #darksouls #bloodborne 💙📚 www.tuneandfairweather.com/products/sch...

My compost bin worms after I feed them coffee grounds and old dissertation chapter printouts

Started and finished the latest Obra Dinn-like, TR-49. Very CO01

Holly’s paw print trail on my bed sheets I changed just yesterday

It's publication day! ZEN AND SLOW GAMES is officially out! The OA link should be working later today, and you can already order the book in your favourite bookshop. Hope you all like it!

Not my house, but I know my way around (?)

One month to go until the abstract deadline! Don’t forget to submit your love letters for CEEGS 2026 (Warsaw, November 20-22) by February 14 💌 ceegs.fsv.cuni.cz/ceegs-2026/

At the end of this month, I'll be at @tu-dortmund.de for the conference Contemporary Reading Cultures, and to talk about video games' fascination with books. Admission free, but you need to register. Check it out if you're in the Ruhr area 📚 anglistik.kuwi.tu-dortmund.de/crc/

The Gotham Gazette building (which happens to be in Hanover)

I stopped watching after season three, but I assume the one on the right is from the Stranger Things musical

My first and possibly biggest accomplishment of 2026

Playlist for NYE #banfireworks

Why didn't Vince frame his Pluribus shots like this? Is he stupid?

The most important post on Bluesky today

As a connoisseur of “person on TV annoyingly giving the audience a reading list contextually” this is high tier.

easy GOTY

Me to all the ai slop purveyors

Money and power are concentrating in video games in the same way as in the wider world. And games influence people’s thoughts and attitudes: the most powerful people in the world have started to realise this. I wrote about the state of play at the end of 2025: www.theguardian.com/games/2025/d...

🚨 My new article 'Antagonistic Game Design: the Author as a Player' is out on #Eludamos (Journal for Computer Game Culture)! 🚨 >> septentrio.uit.no/index.php/el... << WARNING: might contains traces of @cloobot.bsky.social @doougle.net @jzagal.bsky.social @foddy.net and @add-hawk.bsky.social XD

I love the image for this announcement 😄 I’ll indeed talk about Magic Cat Academy, as well as other things like Resident Evil and The Last of Us!

⚠️ TR-49 -- an archive of books that don't exist ⚠️ We began investigating through a simple prototype - before we built the machine. The "game" has moved far, far beyond this now. But the old prototype is "playable". You may find it revealing. ❗ www.inklestudios.com/tr-49/pinboa...

The CEEGS 2026 CfP is live! The conference will take place in Warsaw, Poland, on 20-22 November 2026. Theme: Digital Earths | Material Realities: Sustainability of/in Video Games Submit your love letters by February 14 💌 ceegs.fsv.cuni.cz/ceegs-2026/

The first half of the year: (homestretch of my PhD) too busy writing about games to actually play any

The supervisor knows me well 🐱

Can’t count until 7 I solved the daily Clues by Sam, Dec 9th 2025 (Medium), in 02:05 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟩🟩🟩 cluesbysam.com

Bei der «Stadtbild»-Debatte ging es stets um Bilder, um rassistische Phantasmen der Reinigung wie um die nostalgische Sehnsucht nach einer Vergangenheit, die nur in Bildern existiert. AI Slop nimmt nun im Imaginären vorweg, was man für die Wirklichkeit plant: die ethnische Säuberung der Innenstädte

Naming my buildings in a game be like

I like that they chose a still from a trailer of a game that is absolutely never coming out

Ew... and tl;dr the classic 'here are some facts from Germany's own history rather than anything about the Middle East, and that is why being Pro-Palestine is anti-semitic'

For some reason there are so many of these air mail envelopes in my current office at the uni, so I will send all my official letters and such exclusively in them to look like a time traveler

Serious face because she is smelling the original contents of this box (fresh mussels)

This evening! Talk by @apolitopoulos.bsky.social on the past of play and playing with the past in videogames @uni-freiburg.de

My tiny Over the Garden Wall fan game is now available for FREE! 🎉 juliaminamata.itch.io/otgw Thanks so much @patrickmchale.bsky.social, @forkfrenzy.bsky.social, @blastingcompany.bsky.social, Elijah Wood, @clickpulp.com, @grundislav.games. Thanks @requiemcafe.bsky.social & @mossmouth.bsky.social.

He should call it And Another Thing

Checked out the Booktok section at a bookstore today for research purposes. What's up with all these ugly sprayed edges

Almost a null ouvert hand, but it’s the LOTR trick-taking game (except I take no tricks)

After a long gap, pleased to share: Episode 2 of Games & Resistance, a slow-burn podcast miniseries hosted by @chadtoprak.bsky.social & me. We interview Lebanese / NYC game dev Ramsey Nasser about his work, including recent project gaza.memorial. games-and-resistance.pinecast.co/episode/739b...

I was interviewed for this article in Wired about how the far right is using and abusing LOTR in their social posts to gain support for their bullshit:

deluxe expansions are getting out of hand

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...

been feeling kinda low, so I went to cook something nice. First container I open: full of moths. 🤢

me to others: it's hard right now. be gentle with yourself me to me: wtf is wrong with you

Das Handbuch Comicforschung, an dem wir lange gearbeitet haben, erscheint im Dezember! 4 Herausgebende, 37 Beiträge, 600 Seiten, ein halbes Kilo Buch mit einem fantastischen Cover von Alice Sokal. www.degruyterbrill.com/document/isb...

objects don't enlarge and float to the center of the screen and rotate after you pick them up like they used to in games. we can trace all of the industry's ills to this

After-spiel shelfie (only 3 new games, but it still required a complete reordering to fit them in)

Back in my day, AI used to stand for Adobe Illustrator! And we hated that, too!