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...

📯L'inscription au l'ACÉJ 2025 est OUVERTE!📯 Rejoignez-nous en ligne ou à Montréal pour des discussions enrichissantes, du réseautage et tout ce qui concerne les études des jeux. Le prix des billets est flexible. Ne manquez pas cette occasion! www.eventbrite.com/e/1216997013...

📯Registration for the 2025 CGSA/ACÉJ Annual Conference is officially OPEN!📯 Secure your spot today and join us online or in Montreal for insightful discussions, networking, and all things game studies. Flexible ticket pricing and cheaper day passes are available! www.eventbrite.com/e/1216997013...

Are you interested in Serious games? Educational Games? Learning Games? Or any other term around them. Come to the free, hybrid pre-conference event: Serious Game Arcade! In Montreal before the @cgsaacej.bsky.social conference, Come share, talk, and play. Full call: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

⚠️GOOD NEWS//BONNES NOUVELLES⚠️ We have decided to offer a deadline extension to Tuesday, December 17 at 11:59 PM PT. Let's go! Nous avons décidé d’offrir une extension pour la remise des soumissions jusqu’au mardi 17 décembre à 23 h 59 (HP). Allons-y ! cgsaacej202.uwaterloo.ca/openconf.php

🚨 Rappel : Le colloque annuel 2025 de l'ACÉJ/CSGA, dont le thème est « Arrêts », aura lieu au TAG de l'Université Concordia (du 7 au 10 juin, Montréal, QC) en format hybride! ⏰ Date limite de soumission : Vendredi 13 décembre 2024, à 23h59 HE.

🚨 Reminder: The 2025 CGSA/ACÉJ Annual Conference, themed “Breaks,” will be hosted by TAG at Concordia University (June 7–10, Montreal, QC) in hybrid format! ⏰ Submission deadline: Friday, December 13, 2024, at 11:59 PM ET.

(1/2) 🎇ANNONCE!🎇 L’édition 2025 du colloque annuel de l’ACÉJ/CGSA sera un événement hybride co-organisé par le TAG Lab à l’Université Concordia à Montréal, Québec, du 7 au 10 juin. Le thème cette année est « Arrêts ». La date limite de soumission est le vendredi 13 décembre 2024 à 23h59 HNE

(1/2) 🎆ANNOUNCEMENT!🎆 The 2025 CGSA/ACÉJ annual conference will be a hybrid event co-hosted by the Technoculture, Art and Games Lab (TAG) at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec from June 7–10. This year’s theme is “Breaks.” Deadline for submission is Friday 13 December 2024 11:59pm ET

I made an "Old Games Zine" for @cgsaacej.bsky.social 2024 with folks from the Residual Media Depot, LUDOV, and the Syd Bolton Collection! You can download and print it here: michaeliantorno.com/old-games-zi...

Love seeing former students do great things! Check it out - pre-order it and beef your game design game ;) www.routledge.com/Designing-Ga...

Need a reason to attend the last panel of CGSA? @hanine.bsky.social and I are presenting a paper on the troubling fact that you can cook squid in front of your octopus villagers in Animal Crossing and nobody bats an eye! Come for the slides full of memes, stay for the critique of anthropocentrism.

OLD GAME ZINES 2024

It was a pleasure to present on the Ecology, Environmentalism, and Climate Change panel today at the @cgsaacej.bsky.social annual conference. I'll have my paper, "Dreams of Extraction: The Techno-Ecological Imaginary of Bethesda Game Studios' Starfield," up on on Zenodo soon.

OUR CONFERENCE IS RELOCATING! CGSA 2024 will be held at Concordia University instead of McGill. In particular, we have secured rooms in the EV building, home of the Milieux Institute and just a 25-minute walk from our original venue. The hybrid format will remain fully intact. More news soon 🫡❤️🔥

Are you a student attending CGSA this June? Submit to this year’s Best Paper Awards for a chance at a cash prize and bragging rights! Send us your 5 to 15 min video papers by May 17th! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

CGSA/ACÉJ has landed on Blue Sky! Calling all gamer scholars to follow, like, and skeet(?) this new beginning! (And see you at our 2024 conference this June!)