Those of us designing study programmes, putting together reading lists and writing text books increasingly face the question: what are the key texts of academic game studies? Bring your perspective to our workshop in Warsaw in November (as part of CEEGS 2026): ceegs.fsv.cuni.cz/wp-content/u...

Mood after #rheinschwimmen

Amazing text by tomer dotan-dreyfus "When Germany is talking about Israel, Germany is talking about itself." substack.com/@tomerdotand...

On Israel's Right to Exist

I'm writing this on 15.07.2026, before the new law prohibiting these lines comes into effect

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Finished yesterday! Incredible puzzle design, and the way the game kept broadening its scope was amazing (not just as a game, but as a first contact story that fully commits to the process of understanding the message, slowwwly building from algebra to alien ideologies)

Kübra@mostlyindie.com · last mo.

I've already been pestering everyone I know who's into math, puzzles, or sci-fi to play this, but I'll post it here too in case it finds the right people. It's so incredibly well made and deserves more love. <3 store.steampowered.com/app/4080030/...

Frogs and micro frogs

Dr 💫 (freaking finally…)

Just a little short of $25k going to @wck.org at the moment. You could pick up the bundle and fiddle with the donation sliders to give World Central Kitchen more, and that would be groovy. www.humblebundle.com/books/john-s...

Humble Book Bundle: The John Scalzi Collection: Old Man's War & More by TOR Books

Discover your new favorite author with this bundle of books from sci-fi humorist John Scalzi! Pay what you want and support World Central Kitchen!

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Warum heißt es grant proposal und nicht science fiction

I've already been pestering everyone I know who's into math, puzzles, or sci-fi to play this, but I'll post it here too in case it finds the right people. It's so incredibly well made and deserves more love. <3 store.steampowered.com/app/4080030/...

Save 10% on The Message from Deep Space on Steam

Mission: Translate an interstellar message, using the universal languages of math &amp; science.

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I posted my History of Games keynote: - A materialist reexamination of the canonical game crises from a developer's POV - Thoughts on the ongoing game industry restructuring - Indiepocalypse, AAApocalypse, deprofessionalization, games at the knitting stage www.molleindustria.org/HistoryOfGam...

A History of Games Through Mass Extinctions

A transcript of Paolo Pedercini’s History of Games Conference keynote (2026).

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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/...

#WaZiFuBo

Finally out, this was a lot of work... a very timely treasure box of perspectives on all things AI, the result of all our work here at NTNU in the last 2-3 years. completely open access: "Humanities Perspectives on AI: An Interdisciplinary Introduction" www.scup.com/doi/book/10....

Humanities Perspectives on AI | Books

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Waiting for that storm

Reminded myself that I'm unemployed for the foreseeable future, and ordered only one of them 🥲

iam8bit@iam8bit.com · last mo.

Looking to fill out your library? Why not pick up some of the books from our Blue Prince collab! Preorders are open now for A New Clue and Swim Bird, which are 1:1 replicas of the in game books. https://bit.ly/iam8bit-blue-prince

The only thing real food rotting outside a restaurant for display is going to convince me to do is to not get into that restaurant…it never even looks appetizing, whyyy

Back home to 36 degrees 🥵 The friend Holly was staying at for the last two weeks took so many great pics of her 🥹

Palermo ⛴️➡️ Genova I’ll dream about Sicilian food for the rest of this summer

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller June 18,1959

Shy Palermo cats and a reminder that BaWü is beautiful in summer (as the end of my holiday approaches 😰)

Classic or delicious…Decisions, decisions

Shaka, when the letters fell.

Morning dip in Procida

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

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My holiday activities with an injured knee: ✅ 20.000 steps a day ✅ swimming ✅ going up and down a bazillion steps in catacombs Also me: why is this taking so long to heal?

Mood

A highly curated collection of the very few pics I took in Rome in four days

Camping cat, mid-meow