I was quoted in the New York Times talking about Rosalina, my favourite Mario character (a galactic mother star goddess, what's not to love?)! Check it out here: www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/04/03/arts/nintendo-mario-galaxy-movie-rosalina-princesses.html

Will Nintendo Solve Its Princess Problem in ‘The Super Mario Galaxy Movie?’

As the company releases the sequel “The Super Mario Galaxy Movie,” the need for narrative has meant a new focus on its sparse cast of female characters.

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My forthcoming book "Maiden, Mother, and Crone: Female Monstrosity in Video Games" is officially listed on Springer's website!! Ahhh it's finally happening!! It'll be published in June, just in time for me to go back to work after my maternity leave 😁 link.springer.com/book/9783032...

I was interviewed by CBC to talk about Sony's decision to end physical games. As you can imagine, I'm really disappointed but also unsurprised by the decision... Check the video out here: youtube.com/shorts/H_BvC...

Gamers want Sony to press pause on digital-only games

YouTube video by CBC News

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More info on the program here: brocku.ca/humanities/d... Tomorrow's info session registration here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/5030d7... December info session registration here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/284da8...

Master of Arts in Game Studies

The MA in Game Studies is an interdisciplinary and interfaculty program designed to provide students with a well-rounded, high-quality venue for studying and designing games in all their forms. Throug...

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Guess what? Here at Brock we have an MA program in Game Studies! That's right - you can do Game Studies at the graduate level with us! My excellent fellow game scholar @emmavphd.bsky.social also teaches in the program! Attend our info session tomorrow (or in December) to learn more! 🎮📖🎓

In retrospect, Obsidian getting Pentiment out there into the world before Microsoft exploded really feels like they pulled off the weirdest heist in gaming history.

Future? No Thanks! IS OUT NOW ON STEAM An open-world comedy adventure about workable utopias, the twilight of patriarchy, revolution, and the horrifying possibility that the younger generations might be right. 💀 Windows + Mac 💀 6+ hours of gameplay 💀 20% off at launch futurenothanks.com

I'm truly relating to @meredithgran.com 's fear of making a game known for having bannable content rather than, you know, what the game is actually about.

Aftermath@aftermath.site · 2mo ago

Who's deciding the fate of this game?' The secretive process of getting a game with sexual content on Steam aftermath.site/steam-censorsh...

📢Future? No Thanks! DEMO OUT NOW ON STEAM! Try the game for 30 minutes! An ecosocialist open-world utopia for our dark times. For Windows and Mac store.steampowered.com/app/3861870/...

Update: even after we removed the entire sex quest, Steam mis-classifies Future? No Thanks! as pornography, making it invisible to most Steam users and completely geo-locked in Germany. We are currently at Gamescom in Cologne, everybody is asking us why they can't see the PAGE of a Teen rated game.

Toronto comics enthusiasts! Come to the #PitofEden book signing and Q&A on Saturday, August 22nd at 1pm! Myself, author Malcolm Derikx, @tessreid.bsky.social , and @lukehumphris.bsky.social will all be there signing and chatting! Held at @littleghostsbooks.bsky.social !

Did you know we (@brock-ddh.bsky.social at Brock University in Ontario 🇨🇦) offer a 2-year MA in Game Studies? I teach one of our grad seminars, Methodological Paradigms in Game Studies! Feel free to DM me anytime if you have Q's about applying for Fall 2027/28! #gamestudies brocku.ca/humanities/d...

Master of Arts in Game Studies

The MA in Game Studies is an interdisciplinary and interfaculty program designed to provide students with a well-rounded, high-quality venue for studying and designing games in all their forms. Throug...

brocku.ca

Did you know we (@brock-ddh.bsky.social at Brock University in Ontario 🇨🇦) offer a 2-year MA in Game Studies? I teach one of our grad seminars, Methodological Paradigms in Game Studies! Feel free to DM me anytime if you have Q's about applying for Fall 2027/28! #gamestudies brocku.ca/humanities/d...

Master of Arts in Game Studies

The MA in Game Studies is an interdisciplinary and interfaculty program designed to provide students with a well-rounded, high-quality venue for studying and designing games in all their forms. Throug...

brocku.ca

new Stop Caring piece from yours truly in which I try to unpack my complicated feelings on Zero Parades, Disco Elysium, and the ZA/UM debacle while doing a wee bit of criticism. It would be so kind of you to read and share. www.stopcar.ing/this-sacred-...

This Sacred Body / This Bloody Mind

A Zero Parades review for Dead Spies.

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All money, minus processing fees for itch, goes to out of work game developers to pay for food, housing, healthcare, and whatever they need to make it through. Neither we as the organizers nor UVW take any of the money from the bundle. Game developers can apply here: uvw-cwa.org/hardship-fun...

Game Worker Hardship Fund

Who is eligible to apply for this fund?This fund is for game workers in the US and Canada impacted by record layoffs & other hardships in the games industry within the timeframe of January 2024 to the...

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In response to the unprecedented number of game developers laid off this year, we have created a bundle on itch to benefit a Game Industry Hardship Fund, managed by @videogameworkers.bsky.social. More than 100 games for 10+ bucks! Please share widely and donate generously! itch.io/b/3802/game-...

If you're part of the BioWare or Sims community and want to talk about how those studios' queer characters and themes have impacted you and your fears for those series moving forward after this sale, I'd love to chat with you for a Kotaku story. Can be reached here or email kshepard@kotaku.com

Kotaku@kotaku.com · 3mo ago

Well, I guess Electronic Arts belongs to Saudi Arabia, private equity, and Jared Kushner now. https://kotaku.com/electronic-arts-officially-belongs-saudi-arabia-jared-kushner-now-2000721666

Hey, did you know I'm looking for work? It's true! I am a writer, editor, localization editor, and project manager/producer of games and games-adjacent media, best known as the creator of YOU ARE JEFF BEZOS You should really hire me! Future you will thank you

I was SO excited to find Designing a Feel for the Game: A Guide to Making Play Meaningful by @stevewilcox.bsky.social in my mailbox today!!! This book is going to come in SO handy while I design my new course for the Fall! If you teach game design please check it out! Congratulations Steve!!! ✨✨✨

"CWA & CWA Canada have jointly filed unfair labor practice complaints against Microsoft alleging the company has unlawfully fired people without giving notice to or discussing it with the union as the employer is legally obliged to do"

Game Developer@gamedeveloper.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Unions take legal action against Microsoft for allegedly mishandling Xbox layoffs

From CBC's The National last night: Quebec video game workers protested a mass layoff plan at Xbox-owned Bethesda as the province's once-thriving industry struggles with slumping sales and profitability. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWnK...

Quebec video game workers protest mass layoffs

YouTube video by CBC News: The National

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Check out our very own @emmavphd.bsky.social on the CBC: More than 320,000 people sign Winnipeg video game store's petition to keep PlayStation discs spinning www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #brocku

More than 320,000 people sign Winnipeg video game store's petition to keep PlayStation discs spinning | CBC News

Hundreds of thousands of people have signed a petition created by a Winnipeg video game store after Sony said earlier this month it plans to ditch physical PlayStation game discs.

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More on the response to Sony stopping games-on-disc feat. @emmavphd.bsky.social and @pnpgames.bsky.social One detail I do think we skim over: many games are online-only so if they shut down, the disc ain't helping you. A disc copy of Anthem today does ... nothing. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

More than 320,000 people sign Winnipeg video game store's petition to keep PlayStation discs spinning | CBC News

Hundreds of thousands of people have signed a petition created by a Winnipeg video game store after Sony said earlier this month it plans to ditch physical PlayStation game discs.

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NEW: Meta paid hundreds of contractors to pretend they were kids—and then prompt rival chatbots like Gemini and ChatGPT to talk about subjects like suicide, sex, eating disorders, and self-harm. From @dmehro.bsky.social and @joelkhalili.bsky.social

Meta Contractors Posed as Teens to Prompt Rival Chatbots About Suicide, Sex, and Drugs

Hundreds of contractors working on a project for Meta pretended to be kids—and then prompted rival chatbots like Gemini and ChatGPT to discuss high-risk subjects.

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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...

My article "The Separation of Analog and Digital Game Studies" has now been published as part of this mammoth 781-page edited volume Historiographies of Game Studies. Congrats to the editors and fellow authors for getting this into the world! punctumbooks.com/titles/histo...

Historiographies of Game Studies is out, and it contains @codingcrafter.bsky.social and Jennifer DeWinter’s chapter about the history of the Games Network mailing list, which I discovered last night cites my email ragequitting the list haha. Open access: books.punctumbooks.com/10.53288/044...

Did you know? CMRN and Michael have an essay on CLR James in the new collection HISTORIOGRAPHIES OF GAME STUDIES, which is open access and has an incredible number of essays and interviews of interest anyone interested in game studies. Congrats to all contributors! punctumbooks.com/titles/histo...

Yes! I have a bit of an angry rant about this exact topic ("The Separation of Analog and Digital Game Studies") in the new Historiographies of Game Studies volume, which is also open access: punctumbooks.com/titles/histo...

This looks incredible - between this and the Historiographies of Game Studies from last month - its a wonderful time to be an aspirant game studies scholar :)

Brendan Keogh@brkeogh.bsky.social · last yr.

BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT! @mahliann.bsky.social, @marcuscarter.com, and myself have combined our collective brains and written a wide-reaching introduction to the complex and interdisciplinary field of Game Studies in this forthcoming book for Polity. www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...