In June the @mangamecentre.bsky.social had it's annual Multiplatform conference: Poetry in Games. Martin Kratz from the Manchester Poetry Library has written his reflections, as a non-gamer, of the event. You can read it at our website here: manchestergamecentre.org/blog-db/2026...

Reflections of a Non-Gamer. Multiplatform 2026: Poetry in Games / Games in Poetry — Manchester Game Centre

A reflection by Martin Kratz on the 2026’s MGC annual conference: Multiplatform: Poetry in Games / Games in Poetry.

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Tick-Tock! Tick-Tock! The deadline to get in your submissions for the 2026 ArchaeoGaming Virtual Conference is fast approaching! Submissions close August 16th! archaeogameco.weebly.com/coninfo.html archaeogameco.weebly.com/submissions....

My sort paper on Talos Principle and Egypt for the conference is now available online from the FDG proceedings (open access): dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

Mike Cook@mtrc.bsky.social · 6d ago

We’re now in the paper session - we had a great range of papers, first exploring the representation of Egypt in Talos Principle from @jennycromwell.bsky.social - a great deep dive into what this game is made of (part of which is: Serious Sam!)

Second talk by @jennycromwell.bsky.social examining photogrammetry, mneohistory, ethics, and much more in representations of Ancient Egypt in The Talos Principle.

Kicking off the Games and Archaeological Play workshop at Foundations of Digital Gaming ‘26: @timhutchings.bsky.social on 1000-year old campfire: a non-educational archaeology game

This was an interesting piece to write, reflecting on how stories changes over time, how they both shape and are shaped by ideas of national identity, and how that feeds into my own current work. I've been following the HGN blog posts for a while now - it was lovely being invited to contribute!

Historical Games Network@historygamesnet.bsky.social · 2w ago

New post! ✍️ The first for our "Nations" theme, Stevan Anastasoff writes about the ongoing development of Tales of the Mabinogion (@mabinogiongame.bsky.social), translating Welsh history, stories and language into game design through layers of interpretation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 www.historicalgames.net/making-tales...

New Cambridge Element, Egypt and the Levant by Anna-Latifa Mourad, out now! Read for free for the next 2 weeks at https://cup.org/4x4GlCa

The schedule for our 2026 Games Workshop research & play convention is now up! some tickets are still available. Speakers include @jordansorcery.bsky.social @rosgakori.bsky.social, with a keynote by Tuomas Pirinen, and playing trench crusade and en garde! manchestergamecentre.org/events/2026/...

Games Workshop Research and Play Convention — Manchester Game Centre

We are pleased to announce that the third annual Games Workshop Research and Play Convention (note the new name) is taking place on Saturday 19th September 2026 at the International Anthony Burgess...

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🙏 Many thanks to @jennycromwell.bsky.social and Arnaud Quertimont for hosting today's online conference on Anubis in contemporary culture. A fascinating collection of talks, but Nicholas Thorp's tour of Paul Spooner's Anubis automata really stood out for me; love the style & the humour in them.

The “Rituals of Play” zine is out now-free at the link below. Resulting from the 2025 @mangamecentre.bsky.social Multiplatform conf, it includes 17 contributions & was put together by Chloé Wake & Matteo Polato, with art by Isa Alsaba & layout by Kevin Craig. manchestergamecentre.org/rituals-of-p...

Join us on Saturday for our free online conference: “Anubis in Contemporary Popular Culture” There are papers on lit, video games, metal, manga, film, automata and more. Check out the full schedule and how to join here: manchestergamecentre.org/events/2026/...

The original Hell Clock is a superb game. Super eager to dive into this reimagining of an underrepresented - and immensely impactful - period of Latin American History.

Hell Clock: a Roguelike - Exilelike!@hellclockgame.bsky.social · last mo.

🔥🕰️The Hell Clock: Cursed War expansion is now live! Hell Clock is also now available for the first time on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S. Dig in to the new Paraguayan War prequel campaign act, 10+ new biomes, 6 new Skills, 80+ new Relics, and the all-new Endless Nightmares endgame mode now!

Ai Weiwei’s “Button Up” exhibition at Factory International is incredible. Here’s part of the work “A history of bombs”. If you’re in Manchester by 6th Sept, go see it!

Day 1 of our Poetry in Games (@mangamecentre.bsky.social Multiplatform) ended in a game jam led by @jordanmagnuson.bsky.social - writing haikus and turning them into flickgame games. You can see what was made over at: itch.io/jam/multipla...

Booklets collected for our @mangamecentre.bsky.social annual conference tomorrow! They look fantastic. If you can’t make it to Manchester in person, you can join online - see the schedule on our website manchestergamecentre.org/events/2026/...

CfP deadline reminder! The deadline for the @mangamecentre.bsky.social third annual 'Games Workshop Research and Play Convention 2026' is one week away. You can read more about the event and how to submit your abstract on our website: manchestergamecentre.org/blog-db/2026...

GAMES WORKSHOP RESEARCH AND PLAY CONVENTION 2026 — Manchester Game Centre

We are pleased to announce that the third annual Games Workshop Research and Play Convention (note the new name) is taking place on Saturday 19th September 2026 at the International Anthony Burgess...

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Where I’ll be (in-person) next week, reading from a very new project in lyric essay that I first floated to @rajivmohabir.bsky.social

Jenny Cromwell / Papyrus Stories@jennycromwell.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Our Poetry in Games / Games in Poetry conference is now hybrid and registration on Eventbrite has been updated. You can find all details on our website: manchestergamecentre.org/events/2026/... (Poetry is this year's theme for the @mangamecentre.bsky.social Multiplatform annual conf)

Our Poetry in Games / Games in Poetry conference is now hybrid and registration on Eventbrite has been updated. You can find all details on our website: manchestergamecentre.org/events/2026/... (Poetry is this year's theme for the @mangamecentre.bsky.social Multiplatform annual conf)

Multiplatform 2026: Poetry in Games/ Games in Poetry — Manchester Game Centre

Multiplatform is the annual Manchester Game Centre symposium dedicated to analogue and digital game studies and practice. In 2026, we turn to the lively, uneasy, and productive overlaps between poetr...

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Registration is now live for our @mangamecentre.bsky.social annual Multiplatform conference, 11-12 June. This year it’s on Poetry in Games and Games in Poetry. To learn more and to register, see the Eventbrite page: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/multiplatf...

MULTIPLATFORM 2026: Poetry in Games / Games in Poetry

Multiplatform is the annual Manchester Game Centre symposium dedicated to analogue and digital game studies and practice.

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“Ancient Egypt in Video Games” has arrived!! It’s been a journey getting here, thanks to DHL, but great to have my physical copies! Thanks to all the contributors. I’m really happy with it, and thanks to @rabeari.bsky.social & @degruyterbrill.bsky.social for their support plus series editors!

I’ll be speaking at this EES event next month, talking about the loss of Coptic heritage through the preservation of older Egyptian monuments. Check out the thread below for details of the full day!

The Egypt Exploration Society@theees.bsky.social · 3mo ago

‘Preserving’ Egyptian Heritage: A Tale as Old as Time? Our hybrid Study Day unpacks historical efforts to preserve Egypt’s heritage as well as the concept of ‘preservation’, what has been preserved, for whom, and why. 📅 Saturday 27 June 2026 🎫 £15-£40 for #EESFest! ℹ️ www.ees.ac.uk/whats-on/eve...

We're currently recruiting for five (yes five!) Collaborative Doctoral Partnership awards at IWM See the full list of projects and partners here, with further details of how to apply: www.iwm.org.uk/research/doc...

Collaborative Doctoral Awards

Learn more about our Collaborative Doctoral Partnership programme, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.

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There is a new, open access anthology (=great teaching resource) about _Women's healthcare in ancient Mesopotamia in the first millennium BCE_ edited by Ulrike Steinert. search.worldcat.org/title/Women'... I would then combine this with the ancient medicine sourcebook www.ucpress.edu/books/medici...

Women's healthcare in ancient Mesopotamia in the first millennium BCE : an edition of the textual sources | WorldCat.org

"Treatments for women from ancient Mesopotamia form the most extensive medical corpus on female health from antiquity beside the Hippocratic gynaecological works. This volume presents a comprehensive

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And we've got three different takes on research for medieval games from the worlds of indie TTRPGs (James Holloway, @gonzohistory.bsky.social), academia (Robert Houghton, @robehoughton.bsky.social), and AAA games (Maxime Durand): www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7WE... #research #history

Research for Games Panel (CMW6)

YouTube video by The Exilian Channel

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🚨🎓Funded #PhD opportunity: AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) studentship - ‘𝗣𝗹𝗮𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝘁 𝗪𝗮𝗿’, with Imperial War Museums (IWM) & University of Glasgow @glasgow.ac.uk. Supervised by Tim Peacock, Matt Barr & Ian Kikuchi. Apply by Friday 22 May, 5pm. October 2026 start. Details in next post.

@pfwgames.bsky.social and I are organising our 3rd annual Games Workshop event, now the Research and Play Convention. CfP is at the link below, with all the key details -12 June abstract / proposal submission deadline. Any questions, drop me a line! manchestergamecentre.org/blog-db/2026...

GAMES WORKSHOP RESEARCH AND PLAY CONVENTION 2026 — Manchester Game Centre

We are pleased to announce that the third annual Games Workshop Research and Play Convention (note the new name) is taking place on Saturday 19th September 2026 at the International Anthony Burgess...

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As an em-dash enjoyer, one more reason to be in the anti-genAI corner. And no, this post doesn’t have an em-dash. They’re precious, like semi-colons.

Ellipsus@ellipsus.com · 8mo ago

If you haven't heard, the em dash has been getting a lot of attention lately… 🧵👇

New Blog: Let Games Die "Let Code Die is rooted in a trust that if we have code that we like and we lose it, we can write it again. What would it mean to trust ourselves as game developers, designers, critics and players in the same way?" www.possibilityspace.org/blog/posts/l...

I'm very much in favour of creative approaches to games preservation! (Also this mentions my work on anticipatory grief and play preservation)

Mike Cook@mtrc.bsky.social · 4mo ago

New Blog: Let Games Die "Let Code Die is rooted in a trust that if we have code that we like and we lose it, we can write it again. What would it mean to trust ourselves as game developers, designers, critics and players in the same way?" www.possibilityspace.org/blog/posts/l...

We've now extended the paper deadline to April 12th!

Dr Florence Smith Nicholls@florencesn.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Myself and @mtrc.bsky.social are running a workshop on Games and Archaeological Play (GAP) at FDG 2026! Short papers of up to 4 pages are due by April 5th. We are interested in any work that broadly relates to video game archaeology. See the full CFP here: gapworkshop.org/call-for-pap...