Extended Deadline – abstracts are now due by 03rd August. The full CfP is available here:

CfP – »It’s Dangerous to go alone! Take this [method].«

Methoden zur Analyse von digitalen Spielen am Beispiel der ›The Legend of Zelda‹-Reihe

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Phillip Brandes@litgamestudies.bsky.social · last mo.

Dear #GameCultureStudies people – @caroleinx.bsky.social, @anjalovescats.bsky.social and me are editing a volume on methods for researching digital games and game culture, using #TheLegendofZelda as an example. Abstracts are due by 20th July; find out more here:

Verlängert bis zum 03.08!

Phillip Brandes@litgamestudies.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Gern RT fellow #gamestudies bubble: @caroleinx.bsky.social, @anjalovescats.bsky.social und ich geben einen Methoden-Band zur Erforschung digitaler Spiele und Spielkulturen, hier exemplarisch aufgezeigt an #TheLegendofZelda, heraus. Abstracts bis 03. August 26, mehr hier: takethismethod.de

Die Deadline rückt immer näher, also schickt uns eure Abstracts, damit eure favorisierte Methoden nicht uneingereicht bleiben!

Phillip Brandes@litgamestudies.bsky.social · last mo.

Dear #GameCultureStudies people – @caroleinx.bsky.social, @anjalovescats.bsky.social and me are editing a volume on methods for researching digital games and game culture, using #TheLegendofZelda as an example. Abstracts are due by 20th July; find out more here:

✨🎀 NEW CFP: The Queer and Feminist Perspectives on Japanese Popular Cultures symposium (supported by the University of Tokyo, Media, Gender, and Sexualities Study Group) is coming back for its third edition!!!✨🎀 📩 Send us your abstract by August 15 at popculturesjapan@gmail.com✨ Share widely!

Call for Papers: Queer and Feminist Perspectives on Japanese Popular Cultures Symposium 2026

A platform for critical discussions about gender and Japanese animation, fashion, video games, literature and digital cultures

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Gern RT fellow #gamestudies bubble: @caroleinx.bsky.social, @anjalovescats.bsky.social und ich geben einen Methoden-Band zur Erforschung digitaler Spiele und Spielkulturen, hier exemplarisch aufgezeigt an #TheLegendofZelda, heraus. Abstracts bis 03. August 26, mehr hier: takethismethod.de

CfP – »It’s Dangerous to go alone! Take this [method].«

Methoden zur Analyse von digitalen Spielen am Beispiel der ›The Legend of Zelda‹-Reihe

takethismethod.de

The latest issue of the Journal of Replaying Japan is now accessible through the Ritsumeikan Research Depository and the replaying.jp webpages. Many thanks to all contributors, reviewers, staff and editorial board members for their contributions. #gamestudies #japanesestudies

Space and Play in Japanese Videogame Arcades is now available in paperback at @routledgebooks.bsky.social ! Follow the link below to order a copy 👇️ buff.ly/QJRn4LB #gamestudies #japanesegames #arcades

If you're someone who like a hard copy, but you've been holding off because of the price, I'm happy to say that my book is being paperbacked at the end of the month and it's available to preorder now!

Trans Histories of the Medieval Book - Arc Humanities Press

Archival collections are political spaces: the decisions that govern whose histories are preserved, when, and by whom are not neutral. They reflect the commu...

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Call for Papers – Spielerfahrung Studierendentagung der Ludobande vom 11. bis 14. März 2027 in Innsbruck gerne fleißig verbreiten www.uibk.ac.at/de/projects/...

Digital Intimacies 12 is at the University of Sydney this year from 4-5 Dec! Submit your abstracts on the (broad) theme of Intimately Disconnected by 28 Aug. Digital Intimacies is such a wonderful and generous gathering of scholars - get along if you can 👩‍💻✨💕🖱️💌 digitalintimacies12.wordpress.com

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If you'd like to start off thursday cozy at #IMC2026 check out panel 1505, which is all about protecting animals. If you prefer a high-energy start, well, I'll talk not only about cute stuff, but also about animal (medical) murder-mysteries! #medievalsky #EarlyModern #envhist

Joschka Meier@josserme.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Who's going to be at #IMC2026? There's so much stuff going on, that it's impossible to keep track of everything So I'd love to hear about what people have planned! I'll be in panel 1505 "Protecting Animals": imc-leeds.confex.com/imc/2026/pre... #medievalsky #earlymodern #skytorians

Second on the docket was my joint with @t0mm7.bsky.social called "Douchebag Games," a piece about post-9/11, pre-Gamergate masculinities and what happens when being a "loser" is made mainstream. Abstract here: dl.digra.org/index.php/dl...

First was @cgsaacej.bsky.social 's 2026 instalment. My talk explored the social politics of boredom and tried to argue that our field should invoke the concept more often to discuss how oppression persists and how we can (and should!) get fed up with that and devise new ways forward.

And finally, @matildastahl.bsky.social and @amayer.bsky.social presented "More Man vs Nature Mechanics": a project with @nickttaylor.bsky.social and Robyn Hope where survival games, survivalism, and contemporary masculinities meet. Abstract here: dl.digra.org/index.php/dl...

Next was DiGRA 2026! First, I gave @jjol33n.bsky.social and I's paper, "The Husbando Super-App" on Love and Deepspace as a one-stop shop for gamers to pour their time, money, and energy into. Abstract here: dl.digra.org/index.php/dl...

Interrupted the dissertation wrap-up for a small sidequest: Had the pleasure of spending the last week at DiGRA for co-presenting some of our initial findings of SURVIVE! While waiting for the upcoming publications, in the meantime you can find a brief write-up here: dl.digra.org/index.php/dl...

matildastahl.bsky.social@matildastahl.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Some highlights from DiGRA 2026 in Maynooth, Ireland: the beautiful old campus, @mellowne.bsky.social presenting his first peer-reviewed paper (proud supervisor moment!) and having the opportunity to represent SURVIVE together with @amayer.bsky.social and @rainforestsb.bsky.social!

Amazing call by some dear colleagues for an edited anthology (in German/English) on methodologies & methods for game cultural studies, exemplified through the use for 'The Legend of Zelda' series. There is also an English CfP linked on the website! Abstract Deadline: August 03, 2026

Phillip Brandes@litgamestudies.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Gern RT fellow #gamestudies bubble: @caroleinx.bsky.social, @anjalovescats.bsky.social und ich geben einen Methoden-Band zur Erforschung digitaler Spiele und Spielkulturen, hier exemplarisch aufgezeigt an #TheLegendofZelda, heraus. Abstracts bis 03. August 26, mehr hier: takethismethod.de

My thesis “Archaeological Game Design: Video Game Archaeology as Interpretive Play and Play Preservation” is now online and open access! You can access the official version here, however this has some figures redacted: qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle...

Just because a piece of technology is being rolled out in a not-for-profit or public-service context, it doesn't mean it's "tech for good" or "responsible technology". It can still be extractive, janky as hell, and basically no good at all.

Routledge has now confirmed that the volume we have been working on for some time, Cultural Game Studies: Critical Approaches,will be out on 10 July 2026 and is available for preorder from 19 June 2026. There is a 20 % discount code attached, and there are also review copies (links in comments).

In addition to our book being OA, the teacher association SMLF (Swedish as L1 and Literature Education in Finland), gave us the opportunity to discuss our findings in their member magazine ARENA. I am so happy that we were able to make our research accessible this way! www.smlf.fi/arena/#flipb...

Still some time to go, but really looking forward to the publication of this, edited by @chriskempshall.bsky.social, @katexe.bsky.social and @robehoughton.bsky.social! Got the chance to contribute a chapter on medieval hagiographies, saintly bodies, and how they connect to medievalist RPGs... 👀

Dr Kate Cook@katexe.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Delighted to see that the Routledge Companion to Video Games and History now has a webpage and a cover! There will be an ebook (which given the length of this I imagine will be many people's preferred reading approach), it just doesn't show on the page yet. www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...

Teenies, pimples and gaming: In our new case study for @chludens.bsky.social, @pachuki.bsky.social, @eugenpfister.bsky.social, Corinne Hirter & me investigate Bravo Screenfun, one of the first German gaming magazines to address a broader audience than gamers #GameStudies chludens.hypotheses.org/5121

Teenies, Pimples and a Gaming Magazine: Case Study on Bravo Screenfun (1997-2007/2009)

by Aurelia Brandenburg, Arno Görgen, Corinne Hirter, and Eugen Pfister By the late 1990s, gaming and gaming magazines had turned mainstream in the German-speaking countries. Popular characters like La...

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Are you teaching feminist HCI? Critical theory for tech students? Join us at our NordiCHI workshop A Feminist Salon: Finding and Making Our Carrier Bags for Feminist HCI w @gotdairyya.bsky.social Joo Young Park, Stacy Hsueh @payberah.bsky.social Vasiliki Tsaknaki sites.google.com/view/nordich...

NordiCHI '26 Workshop

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Our (Ståhl & Rusk) Open Access book "Learning and Identity in Competitive Gaming - An Empirical and Methodological Discussion" is finally published! link.springer.com/book/10.1007... It is based on in-game material of CS:GO recorded by the youth participants, a group of Finnish men, themselves.

Some people may remember that the majority of series editors resigned last summer in protest against Amsterdam University Press' sale of their film and media program to Taylor & Francis/Routledge. T&F and Routledge, while formerly respectable publishers, are now / mediastudies.hypotheses.org/6850

Sale of the Amsterdam University Press (AUP) film, media and communication list to Taylor & Francis – Resignation of series editors and editorial board members

It is with great dismay that we, the undersigned, learned that the film, media and communication list of Amsterdam University Press (AUP) has been taken over by Taylor & Francis, a subsidiary of Infor...

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Do you make games? Do you study or teach games? Do you create videos or blog about games? -- What theories or ideas help make good games? -- Share your opinion in our 10min online survey w @dooleymurphy.bsky.social & @florencesn.bsky.social res58.itu.dk/limesurvey/I...

Sharing a CFP for a special issue titled "titled “Interactive Digital Narratives: Creativity, Theory, and Emerging Practices,” on behalf of the editors: think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...

Co-authored with actor and researcher Samuel Kujala, our new publication “Rehearsing Disruption. A cross-disciplinary reflection on augmented actor training and Playful Somaesthetic Technology Practices” is out now! doi.org/10.65872/tea... (1/6)

Co-authored with actor and researcher Samuel Kujala, our new publication “Rehearsing Disruption. A cross-disciplinary reflection on augmented actor training and Playful Somaesthetic Technology Practices” is out now! doi.org/10.65872/tea... (1/6)