In my email pile there was also the notice about the completed paperwork: "The eBook should be converted into OA within the next 2-4 weeks" - looking forward to spreading soon the Open Access version of "Cultural Game Studies: Critical Approaches"! www.routledge.com/Cultural-Gam...

Cultural Game Studies: Critical Approaches

Cultural Game Studies provides a comprehensive framework for understanding games and play as interconnected cultural phenomena, examining their roles as art, entertainment, and human experience within...

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✨BOOK UPDATE✨ "Gaming Exhaustion: Reclaiming Play from Late Capitalism" officially has a webpage: dukeupress.edu/gaming-exhau... Release Date is April 13, 2027!!! 📆 More details to come, but getting to see it on the site with its pricing and publishing details is so, so gratifying 🥲

Gaming Exhaustion: Reclaiming Play from Late Capitalism

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I am looking for new disabled voices to help give opportunities to them for their early speaking engagements!

Many Cats Studios@manycatsstudios.bsky.social · last mo.

Want to speak on our digital event, Impact Day? We are now accepting disabled speakers for a paid speaking opportunity. Submit your ideas on professional skills in games. #impact forms.office.com/r/pVraNPKEeA

Call for book pitches! Our Bloomsbury series, Video Games in Focus, is seeking pitches for mini monographs. We are particularly keen for texts focused upon the influence of critical games and their enduring legacies. Pitches on classic games are particularly welcome right now.

My June marathon is finally winding down. It was a long trip with not one, but TWO conferences in the mix and a grand total of FOUR papers I was either presenting or co-authoring. The jetlag was real, but realer still were the friends I made along the way A mini-thread:

The DiGRA Conference 2026 on the theme ‘intersectional pleasures’ will be organised 14–18 June in Maynooth, Ireland. Our research group is well represented at the event – here we have collected a list of the 16 presentations featuring our team members: gameresearchlab.tuni.fi/gamelab-at-d...

Gamelab at DiGRA 2026

The DiGRA 2026 conference on the theme ‘intersectional pleasures’ will be organised 14–18 June in Maynooth, Ireland. Our research group is well represented at the event – here we have c…

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Please note that while we cannot provide our usual stream for this talk due to the summer break season, it will be possible to join online via Zoom: tuni.zoom.us/j/6943800107...

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Game Research Lab@gameresearchlab.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Our next OASIS Lunchtime Talk will happen this Thursday 11 June at 12.00–13.00 UTC+3! Camilla Rinciari will deliver a talk on 'The Myth of Democratization: A Comparative Analysis of Unity and Roblox Studio.' Read more here: www.tuni.fi/oasis/oasis-... This talk is fully open and free to attend!

Book launch news! Read this thread for OA link and launch event details. Our researcher @matildastahl.bsky.social and Fredrik Rusk have published an OA #GameStudies book 'Learning and Identity in Competitive Gaming – An Empirical and Methodological Discussion.' Book launch event this Friday 12 June!

Törmäsin eilen tällaiseen yksittäisen ihmisen puuhasteluprojektiin, joka pyrkii tekemään kirjastojen lautapelikokoelmista näkyvämpiä yhdistämällä dataa Finnasta ja Boardgamegeekistä. Palvelu: https://www.flibbis.fi/ Tekijän reddit-postaus […]

"Ihmisiä harvemmin jaotellaan niihin, jotka katsovat elokuvia ja niihin, jotka eivät. Pelien kohdalla tällainen on kuitenkin tavallista."

Rakastetut, kiistellyt videopelit – murtautuuko pelitaide vihdoin valtavirtaan? | Taideyliopisto

Yhä useammille pelaaminen on arkista ajanvietettä. Mutta voisiko sitä tarkastella myös omana taiteenlajinaan, ja miten se asettuu osaksi nykykulttuuria? Kysyimme kolmelta pelitaiteilijalta.

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Heads up, #gamestudies and #gameresearch people, new book incoming!

Frans Mäyrä@fransmayra.bsky.social · 2mo ago

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).

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...

Our project’s TTRPG is in press & we’ll launch it next Tues! The English version will also be released soon as a free/pay-what-you-want pdf. @titaraproject.bsky.social @koneensaatio.fi www.utu.fi/fi/ajankohta...

Uusi roolipeli herättää historian henkiin – eläydy keskiajan alkemistien, astrologien ja magian harjoittajien rooliin

Koneen Säätiön rahoittamassa Tieteen ja taikuuden rajamailla -tutkimushankkeessa on kehitetty peli, jossa pääsee asettumaan keskiajan ja uuden ajan alun alkemistien, astrologien ja magian harjoitta

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Spring Seminar 2026 is a wrap and I think we nailed this! Great paper presentations on both days, excellent keynote speeches and our social program offered chances to chill down and play some games! It was super fun to host the event and attend not only as presenter but as organizer as well.

The Council of Europe publication Educating for a Video Game Culture – Volume 2 is finally out! Check it out for game scholars' takes on a range of topics from gaming disorder to depictions of refugees and migrancy in games.

Educating for a Video Game Culture – Volume 2 - Education - www.coe.int

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The Tampere University Game Research Lab Spring Seminar is now taking place for the 22nd time - the first seminar was back in 2005!

Aasa T 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸@rosgakori.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Spring Seminar 2026 time baby #gamestudies

"Adults who do not know how to play at all have suppressed something within themselves.”

Frans Mäyrä@fransmayra.bsky.social · 3mo ago

This lengthy “anniversary interview” focusing on my career in game studies and elsewhere is now available also in English. #gamestudies #gameculture #sciencefiction #fantasy #humanities www.tuni.fi/en/news/prof...

Akatemia avaa lokakuussa akatemiahanke- ja akatemiatutkijahaut, hyvinvointialueiden t&k-haun, ACTIVE-ohjelman haun sekä STN-ohjelmien aiehaut. Ensi vuonna siirrymme käyttämään valtionavustusten yhteistä järjestelmää, mikä aiheuttaa muutoksia tavanomaisiin hakuaikoihin. Lue lisää ⬇️

Ennakkotietoa Suomen Akatemian syksyllä 2026 avattavien rahoitushakujen aikatauluista

Suomen Akatemia julkaisee syksyllä 2026 useita merkittäviä rahoitushakuja, jotka tukevat korkealaatuista tutkimusta, tutkijanuraa sekä yhteiskunnallisesti vaikuttavaa tutkimus- ja ...

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The editorial of the second volume of our special issue on “The Dark and the Light Side of Gaming” in Frontiers has been published. The collection includes 10 great articles, all published open access! www.frontiersin.org/research-top...

Frontiers | The Dark and the Light Side of Gaming, volume II

This is the second Research Topic of a series. The first volume can be found here. In public debates, and among certain strands of scholarship, digital games...

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@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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We're starting a new Game Studies Master's program at Charles University, Prague, and the applications are now open. It's a 2-year Master's that was designed by our team at the Prague Game Production Studies research group. study.fsv.cuni.cz/study-progra... 1/2

Are you studying games and gaming? Are you either Finnish, working in Finland, or associated with a Finnish institution? Join us for Game Research Days 2026, 3.-4.11. in Jyväskylä! All fields and topics welcome, let's highlight the diversity of Finland's game research!

”Mitä te siellä Akatemiassa teette silloin, kun ei ole talvihakua?” Aika monet mieltävät Suomen Akatemian vain suurimpien hakujen toteuttajana. Mutta teemmehän me vaikka mitä muutakin! Me esimerkiksi: 1/6

Submissions have been extended to April 7!

Suomen pelitutkimuksen seura | Finnish society for game research@pelitutkimus.fi · 5mo ago

The PRAXI 2026 seminar positions game design praxiology — the study of design and development practices as situated activities — as a necessary foundation for scholarship on games and play. Sappee, Finland, June 1–5, 2026. Submissions open until March 30!

#NorthernStarSymposium #NorthernStar2026 You thought it was too late to submit, didn't you? No worries, the second deadline is April 20th, for those who did not make the first deadline. All three keynotes are now announced: www.nord.no/en/events/re...

We are excited to announce that registration for our Spring Seminar ‘Events and Communities’ is now open! We have a limited number of seats available, so please register as soon as you can: springseminar.org/2026/03/23/s... The seminar will be held at Tampere University, Finland, on 5–6 May 2026.

Spring Seminar 2026 registration is now open!

We are excited to announce that registration for Spring Seminar ‘Events and Communities’ is now open! You can register here (link opens to Microsoft Forms). Registration is free of charge. Please r…

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The PRAXI 2026 seminar positions game design praxiology — the study of design and development practices as situated activities — as a necessary foundation for scholarship on games and play. Sappee, Finland, June 1–5, 2026. Submissions open until March 30!

PRAXI 2026

Game Design Praxiology Seminar 2026 - Researching Together

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Our board member Ville Malinen of the University of Jyväskylä defends his dissertation on sim racing on 21 March 2026! See the attached post for a link to the dissertation and the remote feed of the event. Congratulations, Ville!

Simulated racing has raised its profile in the field of media sports and seeks its own position

MA Malinen’s article dissertation shows that simulated racing, sim racing, raised its status and media visibility especially during pandemic restrictions as a continuation of motorsports and a form of...

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