Call for Papers: “Vom Staat der Amazonen bis Praios’ Zorn – Die politische Ideengeschichte in der Welt von Das Schwarze Auge”. Die @lenafalkenhagen.bsky.social und ich wünschen uns da schon länger einen Sammelband und freuen uns auf Eure Zusendungen. #GameStudies spielkult.hypotheses.org/8311

Exciting news! 🎉 Join us the night before GameSoundCon for a family-friendly event celebrating diversity in #gameaudio. All proceeds support creating an inclusive #gameaudio community. 🚀 Tickets coming soon—stay tuned! Everyone's invited! 🌟 #GameSoundCon #GADA #FCSL #GameAudio #FamilyEvent

Just adding some tags to this symposium announcement! #larp, #gamestudies, #analoggames, #trpg

Do you invert your controllers? Do you think about why? Well, someone did and published a research paper on just that. #gamestudies

Out now: the latest special issue of JSMG (Volume 6, Issue 3) with a focus on "Fostering a Latin American Approach to Ludomusicological Research". Congratulations to all guest editors and authors! 🥳 #ludomusicology #gamestudies #gameaudio #vgm online.ucpress.edu/jsmg

Last weekend was the first Conference of BIPOC Game Studies at the Strong Museum in NY! A lot of great talks and networking about critical thinking in games. You can also download the book with all of the academic papers as a free pdf or purchase it here: playstorypress.org/books/procee...

Indiana Jones And The Fate Of Atlantis Is Reimagined As A ZX Spectrum Text Adventure. (Repost)

Full Professor of Virtual and Augmented Reality at @uniklagenfurt.bsky.social with application deadline: September 28, 2025 multimediacommunication.blogspot.com/2025/07/full...

For everyone who wants to participate in a hackathon/game jam but is unsure how: This is your guide! ✍️ The #acmmm2025 hackathon invites everyone to join and create some awesome games that focus on health, AI, and LLM's acmmm2025.org/hackathon/ 🕹 🎮 Stay tuned for more on the hackathon ✨

🎮 Join BAFTA Games in Concert for an epic night where game visuals meet a live orchestra. Experience music from Tomb Raider, Hitman, Baldur’s Gate, Cuphead, and Assassin’s Creed. 🎻 Tickets available now at liveconcert.games for January 31, 2026 at the Royal Festival Hall. #BAFTA #TombRaider

Technical Sound Designer on Star Citizen and Squadron 42 at cloudimperiumgames.com (Manchester, 🇬🇧) "implement audio playback systems and maintain audio project setup" cloudimperiumgames.wd503.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/CIG_Gl... #gamejobs

🚂 One month out from #TabletopTrainJam and 27 creators have already joined! I can't wait to see what folks make. 🛤️ This month, I'll be highlighting some #ttrpg entries I love from last year's jam, to help get everyone in the creative spirit for this year. 🚋 Join us >> itch.io/jam/tabletop...

Ein neuer Call for Abstracts aus dem Bereich der #GameStudies! Unter dem Motto "Diskurse, Dynamiken und Dissonanzen in #GrandTheftAuto" sind Beitragsvorschläge für einen interdisziplinären Sammelband erbeten. Einsendeschluss ist der 01. November. #GTA Genauere Infos gibt's in unserem CfA-Überblick:

Update to this chart that I share a lot. Not breaking news: Game design teams are still OVERWHELMINGLY all men. About 7% of the top 500 games have a woman or non-binary person credited as a designer. A 🧵of related charts: (1/6) 🎲✂️

Since there's been some interest in the early cracking groups, a lil thread with some info I had when speaking with people working in cracking groups in the 80s. 🧵 Some early members of Fairlight told me that cracking a Commodore 64 game took an average of eig

Get your controllers ready, kids! We're recommending Press Start to Play by Sam Gayton. In this fast-paced, laugh-out-loud poetry adventure, Carnegie-nominated Gayton celebrates every kind of play—video games, board games, word games, even “feeling sad” games. #NationalPoetryDay

‘Strikingly, even among women who spent more than five hours a day playing games, only 16% identified as a “hardcore gamer”. Our results suggest that many women feel excluded from video game culture’ #gamestudies theconversation.com/nearly-a-thi...

I am talking at Warhammer Conference 2025 about polycrisis and Age of Sigmar! Really looking forward to this, but if you want to have a deep dive into accessible academic writing about Warhammer, check out Psychgeist of Pop Culture: Warhammer in my pinned post! But I also have a second point...

It's an exciting time here at Secret Mode, which is why we're looking for a Publishing Director! You'll lead our publishing efforts for a major new AAA title currently in development, overseeing its entire lifecycle from pre-launch to live. Apply here: hr.breathehr.com/recruitment... #GameJobs

A big shout out for @rpg-o-mania.bsky.social, a treasure trove for RPG coverage, artworks, stories since 1999. With deep dives into unique perspectives on love, death, devine beings and beyond. Great source to get in touch with everything RPG related! #gaming #RPG www.rpg-o-mania.com/index.php

Devil May Cry and Street Fighter veterans are also on board. Toshihiro Nakagawa, Daigo Ikeno and others :)

Duke University Press. In "Indigenomicon," @arsavium.bsky.social examines the differences between settler colonial studies and Indigenous studies by bringing video game studies into conversation with Black studies, queer studies, and Indigenous feminist critique. Read the intro for free now:

I got to combine two of my biggest nerd obsessions for this piece with @aftermath.site: urbanism and video games. I was playing Cyberpunk 2077, a car-centric dystopia, and realised how walkable the city is. Then I began to see good urban planning practices all over. aftermath.site/cyberpunk-ur...

STRONG poster! 😍 Keynotes speakers: Timotheus Vermeulen (University of Oslo) & Sonia Fizek (TH Köln - University of Applied Sciences). For more info: www.gamesbeyond.org #gamestudies #gamedesign #gamedev

Walking down a dark alley #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #pixelart

Excited to announce I’m hosting a panel at Fan Expo Canada on Sun. Aug. 24! Join me & talented local developers from Ubisoft Toronto, @bhvr.com, @mightyyell.bsky.social & @playhilltop.bsky.social as we unpack Canada’s massive gaming industry & share advice for aspiring game makers. 🇨🇦 🎮

The 11.3 issue of FMH is live! 🤩🥳 This issue is devoted to the 30th anniversary of Lara Croft, with every article discussing the character and the Tomb Raider franchise! You can read the editors' introduction, written by Amanda Phillips and Josef Nguyen, below: online.ucpress.edu/fmh/article/...

Hello come look at our money and tell us if it's good? 🙂 #gamedevjobs doublefine.pinpointhq.com/en/postings/...

We’ll be hosting GachaCon 2026, a hybrid academic conference on gacha games with Genshin Impact as the theme, on 12–13 February 2026 at the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong. 🇭🇰🇨🇳 Call for Papers: tinyurl.com/gachaconcfp

The Video Game History Foundation (@gamehistoryorg.bsky.social) has digitised 1980s magazine "Computer Entertainer" and released it for free use. What's the big deal? It's a rare window into the US console industry at the time, says @philsalv.bsky.social thisweekinvideogames.com/feature/vide...

NYC game narrative friends! Rockstar's hiring a FT, salaried Narrative Editor for their video production department. Just spreading the word, not affiliated. #gamejob #gamejobs gamejobs.co/Narrative-Ed...

The Canadian Game Studies Association @cgsaacej.bsky.social is an org made up of game researchers, educators, and practitioners with expertise in a wide array of topics. We've published a list of experts related to Steam/itch to help journalists connect with members. gamestudies.ca/media-inquir...

Any Asia game dev participating in East Asia Indie Games Celebration (EAIGC)? Drop your games below so I can help quote retweet your game #indiedev #EAIGC #EastAsiaIndieGamesCelebration

👀We got a mention from Scottish Games Network! Check out their news story on ProtoPlay... 🎮 scottishgames.net/2025/08/04/h...

8BitDo's C64 & NES-Style Retro Mechanical Keyboards Are Getting European Layouts www.timeextension.com/news/2025/02... #retrogaming

How does QA really differ between AAA and indie studios? Just dropped a short comparing how quality assurance teams function at both ends of the industry, and why it matters for devs. #GameDev #GameQA #StudioCulture #AAAvsIndie #GameTesting #QAWorkflow #DevTips #IndieGameDev #GameCareers

I don’t see many VR game jams around. Curious to see what people come up with! #gamdev #indiegames itch.io/jam/reality-...

My July column asks a simple question and tries to answer it. Please enjoy!

It's always nice when very successful people acknowledge how much of their success comes down to luck, ie, the things that fall your way that you personally had no control over. www.gamesradar.com/games/valve-...

We just learned about the passing of Pik-Sen Lim (June 9th, 2025), the iconic narrator of the Dark Souls series. She had a trailblazing career and will always be remembered dearly. May she rest in peace. You will always be a Star Player ⭐ #Dames4Games & #DarkSouls & #PikSenLim

New publication alert for my #gamestudies folks www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...

Historiographies of Game Studies is now published open access with @punctumbooks.bsky.social ! This massive collection examines why game studies is the way it is, and how it might change and grow in the future. Congrats to all contributors, and please share! punctumbooks.com/titles/histo...

Europe’s biggest developer conference is back! #ddc2025 | Aug 17–19 | Cologne 🎯 5,000+ devs, 350+ speakers, 200+ sessions 🎮 Kick off your gamescom week at devcom.bsky.social! 💡 indie expo, workshops, networking & more 🔜 Prices increase after July 31! www.devcom.global

Love this interview with my work partner-in-crime, Sarah. She and her team bring our cool Cyberpunk story to life 🦾✨️ www.linkedin.com/posts/cd-pro...

Audio Director at www.nintendo.com/en-us/ (Redmond, 🇺🇸) "manage the audio team directing the design, development, and implementation of all sound and music" careers.nintendo.com/job-openings... #gamejobs

I wrote something new for History Respawned today. It's a review of a new book about Red Dead, but it's really about academic writing and historical game studies as a field. Please read, but also know, I really really really really REALLY didn't want to write this review.

Commodore® is officially back after 30 years! This is the first official hardware from the brand since production ended in 1994. I'm excited to share that some of my tracks will now also be featured on the brand-new C64 Ultimate machine👾Pre-order: commodore.net @wearecommodore.bsky.social

#bluelz #games #gaming #Rechtsextremismus #Handbuch #gamestudies

Our extended abstract is now available in the DiGRA Library! We describe our thoughts on save-scumming, which will (eventually) become a fully-fledged article on our exploratory qual work. @derryacademic.bsky.social @jonesrincon.bsky.social dl.digra.org/index.php/dl...

If "AI" was as valuable as they say it is, they wouldn't be selling it to you. They'd be using it themselves in secret to make the next Minecraft, the next Avatar, the next Hello Kitty and then they'd sell that to you. They're trying to sell you a sick goose, while pretending it lays golden eggs.