Introducing the "American Dream/American Nightmare" conference speakers! Our second roundtable is on "Perspectives within "New" and "Emerging" Media" and will feature Prof John Wills (@drjohnwills.bsky.social ), Dr Stephen Morgan (@drsmorgan.com ), and Dr Sara Polak (@sarapolak.bsky.social )...

Had the pleasure of recently guesting on @everyscififilm.bsky.social podcast alongside the brilliant Tom Docherty, talking about On the Beach (1959).

Great to present on horror videogames at #BDigra in Birmingham today. Thanks to @poppywilde.bsky.social @doktornick.bsky.social & team for a great conference day. #BritishDiGRA #DiGRA

Day one of #BDiGRA25 and we've already had excellent provocations to start - lightning talks on rougelikes, queer game studies, transgender emergence in games, ecogaming, and historical affects in our first session. Now on to panels exploring Game making and Culture, getting to more in depth papers.

Happy Martin Luther King Jnr Day.

A worrying situation at Paw Patrol HQ. Please do not ‘Yelp for Help’ and expect a speedy response!

Legend lost. RIP David Lynch.

"A reminder that frequent megafires in California are a relatively recent phenomenon" via @zacklabe.com -> @calfire.bsky.social (and not even including 2024 Park fire...)

My heart goes out to everyone affected by the current fires in Los Angeles County. Southern California, and especially LA, has been like a second home to me. Hoping it gets better soon.

Control is free on @epicgamesoffical.bsky.social for another 20mins, then another game free after that! Control is ace, and I wrote a chapter on it: "Who’s in Control?: Negotiating Hierarchies, Neoliberal Subjectivation, and Feminist Resistance in the World of Work" link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

A few GREEN BAAS announcements for 2025: - Our 1st event of the new year is a collaborative, online writing session on Zoom Thur 16 Jan 2025 at 2-4pm (GMT). Connect, set an intention, write! Register for "let's writing together" here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... @officialbaas.bsky.social

We are excited to announce our new quarterly theme: Medievalism! Guest-chaired/convened by @robehoughton.bsky.social, the theme will accept contributions from right now until March 2025. More details here: www.historicalgames.net/call-for-con... #historicalgames #gamestudies #gtp

My favorite albums of 2024. GNX Kendrick Lamar From Zero Linkin Park The Great American Bar Scene Zach Bryan Brat and Its Completely Different But Also Still Brat Charlie XCX The Death of Slim Shady Eminem + Apple informed me that I listened to the Westworld soundtrack 1,772 minutes this year!

Last week I gave an invited lecture on Doom Town and Las Vegas for the Atoms & Archives Research Group, Andrew Hook Centre for American Studies & Scottish Centre for War Studies at the University of Glasgow, research kindly sponsored by @leverhulme.bsky.social, thanks to @drtimpeacock.bsky.social

New here moots! #promosky Game Studies Film Studies Horror Writing Paranormal TV (current fav: Project Fear) Old Audi TTs and old BMWs Sega Dreamcast collector, Nintendo lover Rock, Alt, Nu-Metal, Grime Yoga & Tai Chi Running Buddhism Nicolas Cage Coffee Americana, Los Angeles, Las Vegas

Pleasure to provide a film talk on Gilda (1946) at the Gulbenkian arts centre in Kent yesterday. #universityofkent #hollywood

Intense week so I am returning to my early 2000’s self with Linkin Park’s From Zero.

Here’s my prior book on video games (Johns Hopkins UP)

Very happy to announce our call for contributions for HGN's new theme - Technology - taking a broad view of the intersection between tech, history and games. If you'd like to write/make something for the site, get in touch! #historicalgames #gamestudies www.historicalgames.net/call-for-con...

I work in game studies, film studies, Disney studies. Stuff I’m researching at mo: Doom Town & Nevada Test Site; 3D 1950’s movies; Knott’s Berry Farm; US national parks & diversity; Los Disneys; GTA & satire; video game Westerns; video games & AI.

I teach game studies. I also love games - some favourites: Animal Crossing Crush Roller Daytona USA Detroit: Become Human Fallout Fire Emblem Goldeneye 007 Grand Theft Auto Mystaria Panzer Dragoon Shenmue Until Dawn Wasteland 3 Xenogears

My most recent book, on Red Dead, coedited with the brilliant Esther Wright!