the urge is rising to watch every Saw movie and rank every trap by its game design quality
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Content Editor @ Electronic Enlightenment - Game Studies Events @ Centre for Digital Scholarship, Bodleian Libraries - Researching Video Games and Historical Emotions - PhD on Reading in C18th Women's Letters @ Swansea - Editorial Board @ Multiplay
Does anyone have access to a copy of the English language Final Fantasy Ultimania Archive Volume 3? I'm trying to track down a page reference? #gamestudiessky
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I've got sidetracked from the core topic of an article I'm writing, but the sidetrack seems fruitful enough to pursue, but I do need some help - does anyone have any recommendations.
Finally settled on my Steam Summer Sale selection: Mouthwashing - Get In The Car, Loser! - Look Outside - FINAL FANTASY VII REMAKE INTERGRADE - FINAL FANTASY® XIII Not bad for £33 - and I anticipate that I may get around to launching 1-2 of them, maybe, before the next steam summer sale 🤷♂️
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Sea Of Stars
Alt: A campfire scene from Sea Of Stars (2023), a pixel-art JRPG inspired by classics like Chrono Trigger. The GIF depicts the game's three protagonists, Garl, Valere, and Zake all relaxing in their own distinct ways. Zake is doing pushups, Valere is meditating, Garl is eating.
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Jess Pendley@jesspendley.bsky.social · 2mo agoquote with a game you're currently playing
Listening to Open World Empire on Audible (yes its on Audible, I couldn't believe it either!) - just got to the discussion of Alien: Isolation - what happened to the unkillable nemesis figure in survival horror? A:I did it, RE2 Remake did it, and both were acclaimed, but then it went away???
Didn't YouGov once have this wonderful demographics feature where you could see a breakdown of the audience for basically any mainstream media object? has that been paywalled now? Trying to get some stats for the truism that The Tudors and Wolf Hall had a primarily female audience aged 45-60 :/
Thinking about #Astrologaster (NyamNyam, 2019) through the lens of Shakespearean comedy is such a rich exercise. We have Humphrey Bell, a fictional actor playing female characters in Shax plays, characters who would themselves impersonate men, being voiced by a black voice actor deploying an
There is much to dislike about the Civilisation games, but learning that Civlisation's list of writers who define the Renaissance includes Margaret Cavendish as one of its two representative English writers (alongside Shax, obvs) is pretty cool 👍
Reinterpretation on a shoestring: In the Aftermath: Angels Never Sleep (1988). Mamoru Oshii's Angel's Egg (1985) was a commercial failure, and became prime fodder for New World Pictures. NWP picked up the American distribution rights, cutting 'n' splicing it with post-apocalyptic live action.
All uses of AI are costing someone… this sucks as the Game UI database is such a valuable resource.
Academic Parents of small children - especially academic parents who engage with long form media for work (games, tv, victorian novels, etc) - sincere question - when do you find time for critical reading/keeping up with your material? #AcWri #academicparenting #academia
Rebranding a hallucination as a ‘critical confabulation’ that can fill archival gaps is a big no from me.
"layoff embargo" has the same dystopian ring as "post-truth" did a few years ago... 80.lv/articles/ubi...
Ubisoft Closes 2 Studios, Lays Off Around 380 Employees
The company is not happy to have its "layoff embargo" broken.
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Me trying to find ways to pummel my exhausted mind into some consistent academic reading and #AcWri habits:
The Simpsons: We've Tried Nothing
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Millenials who went through the English school system - question - does anyone have particular memories of studying the Tudors generally, or The Field of the Cloth of Gold specifically, at #KS2 or #KS3? TYSM :) #education #history #newlabour #curriculum
Having a good day - after a wonderful object handling session on Retrogames at the Radcliffe Science Library I come back to the office to drop off our collection items and find this in my inbox 😀
Game Studies folx - there is an article or chapter out there somewhere which talks about Fez and the spatial imaginary - arguing that when playing a 2D game we imagine the full background rendered flat by the game, so when Fez does its 3D reveal, it becomes a site of creative tension?
Once again - it becomes a lot easier to understand this modern iteration of fascism if you remember it is constructed by many absolutely terminally online edge lord losers filtered through GamerGate and 4chan. People who have never been funny trying to tell the same in jokes & memes with dead eyes
Charlie Warzel@cwarzel.bsky.social · 3mo agowe live in hell
It's publication day for Writing Game Histories!! 🥳🎉 Please do recommend it for your library, but it's also out in paperback so not as hideously expensive as academic books can be: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/writing-g... @doktornick.bsky.social @doni.bsky.social @historygamesnet.bsky.social
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Our Spring 2026 update has now gone live - featuring the correspondence of physician, naturalist, and paragon of the Midlands Enlightenment - Erasmus Darwin - as well as 63 letters from the Bernardin de Saint Pierre project and 98 new or updated biographies. www.e-enlightenment.com
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Started reading Ayu Utami's Saman (trans. Pamela Allen) - and cannot recommend it enough - the way it constructs Indonesia as a deathworld haunted by the events of 1965–66 without ever engaging with them directly is incredibly powerful - even the natural world feels complicit: (context in alt text)
I'm sorry, what? In writing my first monograph, I spent six weeks trying to track down a citation in TWO languages I didn't know. And good thing too, because the citation was wrong. That's scholarship. That's research. You know, the thing we're trained to do?!?
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