✨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

dukeupress.edu

📯NEW JOB ALERT📯 I'm proud to announce that, come July, I will be an Assistant Teaching Professor in Digital Media at Northeastern University Vancouver. I feel extremely fortunate (and elated!) to have found position that enables me to keep teaching and doing research in the field I love <3

Now that the Finnish public research database has been updated with the complete information, I can announce that I won the 2026 Academy Research Fellowship for the 4-year GenGam: Gendered Gam(bl)ing project.

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:

📝Publication day! My piece "Unpacking Unpacking" is out in the latest issue of Well Played works.hcommons.org/records/gnzf... This was a bit of a "fun one" for me - thinking through my fraught feelings about playing this game that I hadn't been able to write about until now!

Michael Austin @michaelaustin.bsky.social & I are working on a new collection Resonant Worlds: Sound, Matter, and Environmental Design in Games. Here’s the CFP.

Tell your friends!

CGSA/ACÉJ@cgsaacej.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Registration for CGSA 2026 is officially OPEN!!! Les inscriptions pour l’ACÉJ 2026 sont officiellement OUVERTES!!! event.fourwaves.com/cgsa2026/reg...

Registration for CGSA 2026 is officially OPEN!!! Les inscriptions pour l’ACÉJ 2026 sont officiellement OUVERTES!!! event.fourwaves.com/cgsa2026/reg...

Just received word my forthcoming book about how games are exhausting (but don't have to be) has now passed the FINAL step in the review process - board approval, baybee!! Just a few formatting things to finish off and then the book enters production, which is surreal to be able to write out 😵

One more week to submit to this wonderful event - gogogogogogogo!

CGSA/ACÉJ@cgsaacej.bsky.social · 7mo ago

🚨ANNOUNCEMENT!🚨 We have decided to offer a small submission deadline extension to Wednesday, January 14 at 11:59 PM PT. Please note that this will be the final deadline! event.fourwaves.com/cgsa2026

🚨ANNONCE !🚨 Nous avons décidé d’offrir une petite extension pour la remise des soumissions jusqu’au mercredi 14 janvier à 23 h 59 (HP). Veuillez noter que ce sera la date limite finale! event.fourwaves.com/cgsa2026

CGSA/ACÉJ 2026

Join CGSA/ACÉJ 2026, June 11-14, 2026. Learn more on Fourwaves.

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I'm in this post and I like it!

The Centre of Excellence in Game Culture Studies@coegamecult.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Busy week for the CoE blog! Have a look at this blog post where Matilda Ståhl, Aska Mayer (@amayer.bsky.social), Robyn Hope, Rainforest Scully-Blaker (@rainforestsb.bsky.social) and Nick Taylor (@nickttaylor.bsky.social) discuss intersections between survival games and survivalism.

The Spring Seminar 2026 CfP is out now! This time, the theme is “Events and Communities”. Please have a look at the full CfP on the Spring Seminar website: springseminar.org/2026-call-fo... ⏰Abstract submission deadline is 14 January 2026. 📍The seminar is organised on 5-6 May 2026 in Tampere.

2026 | Call for Papers

Events are at the heart of game and play cultures. They are organized for many reasons and purposes, bringing people together to play, socialize, compete, learn and teach, network, sell, perform, c…

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I am once again reminding you that this conference is great and that you should submit work here - we have some of the most robust hybrid support in the biz, so that anyone, anywhere can join in the festivities! #gamestudies #cfp

CGSA/ACÉJ@cgsaacej.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Our brand-new and bilingual website for CGSA 2026 is now live (a whole day early, go us!): event.fourwaves.com/cgsa2026 We're officially ready receive your wonderful proposals (click the "Submissions" tab in the top-left). As always, email us if you encounter any issues or have any questions. <3

Nous venons de lancer notre site web bilingue pour l'ACÉJ 2026 (un jour plus tôt!): event.fourwaves.com/cgsa2026 Nous sommes officiellement prêts à recevoir vos excellentes propositions (l'onglet "Soumissions" est en haut à gauche). N'hésitez pas à nous contacter si vous avez des questions. <3

CGSA/ACÉJ 2026

Fourwaves - CGSA/ACÉJ 2026

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Here's the abstract :) #gamestudies

Rainforest Scully-Blaker (he/him)@rainforestsb.bsky.social · 9mo ago

🚚🚚🚚New article alert! Part of a special issue on games + container technologies, it’s about truckers who play Truck Simulator in their trucks, but also simulation, battlestations, and the logistics of work and play. It's open access, so please take a look 🚚🚚🚚 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🚚🚚🚚New article alert! Part of a special issue on games + container technologies, it’s about truckers who play Truck Simulator in their trucks, but also simulation, battlestations, and the logistics of work and play. It's open access, so please take a look 🚚🚚🚚 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Truck simulator, trucker-simulators, and the containment of neoliberal capitalism

This paper discusses truckers who play games (including Truck Simulator) while on the road. Inspired by the concept of “container technologies” and more recent work which distinguishes between cont...

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Maybe biased since I'm helping to organize this, but this is such a wonderful event for anyone doing work in and around games - we welcome submission formats of all sorts and the event is fully hybrid! Please consider submitting something #gamestudies

CGSA/ACÉJ@cgsaacej.bsky.social · 10mo ago

📣✨Call for Papers!📣✨ CGSA 2026 will take place at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec from June 11-14th, 2026. This year’s chosen theme is “On Repeat”. Submissions are due January 7th, 2026 at 11:59 PM PST Full CfP here: gamestudies.ca/conference-c...

📣✨Appel à communications !📣✨ L’ACÉJ 2026 aura lieu du 11 au 14 juin 2026, à Montréal (l'Université Concordia). Le thème pour cette année est « La Répétition ». La date limite pour soumission est le 7 janvier 2026 à 23 h 59 HNP. Appel complet ici: gamestudies.ca/conference-c...

Conference // Conférence

Version française ci-dessous The 2026 CGSA/ACÉJ annual conference will be a hybrid event co-hosted by the Technoculture, Art and Games Lab (TAG) at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec&nbs…

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#Cfp: Call for Book Chapters - #videogames, #gamedesign, game communities, & playthings that trouble what we mean by #nostalgia “ #Games and its Nostalgia for the Future” is edited by yours truly and likely published with Play Story Press. Abstracts due Nov 3, 2025 Full CfP: shorturl.at/NCkzU

CfP: Nostalgia for the Future Book

Nostalgia for the Future? Any books on this? No? Let's write one, together.

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Ready for Part 2? After much writing and re-writing, I'm thrilled to announce that my first book, "Gaming Exhaustion" (working title) is now under contract with Duke University Press. There are too many people to thank for this in 140 characters or less, but know that you're all so appreciated <3

Rainforest Scully-Blaker (he/him)@rainforestsb.bsky.social · 11mo ago

July and August were full of Life Stuff™ and meeting some writing deadlines, but it's looking like I'll have some exciting news to share pretty soon 👀

Ready for Part 2? After much writing and re-writing, I'm thrilled to announce that my first book, "Gaming Exhaustion" (working title) is now under contract with Duke University Press. There are too many people to thank for this in 140 characters or less, but know that you're all so appreciated <3

Rainforest Scully-Blaker (he/him)@rainforestsb.bsky.social · 11mo ago

July and August were full of Life Stuff™ and meeting some writing deadlines, but it's looking like I'll have some exciting news to share pretty soon 👀

Ok here's Part 1: My Finnish postdoc is now my finished postdoc, but I'm thrilled to announce what's next: I'm now a Research Associate at the U of Michigan's School of Information, where I'm proudly working with the Intersectional Tech Lab! ✨🖥️ www.kishonnagray.com/lab-staff Part 2 coming soon!

Rainforest Scully-Blaker (he/him)@rainforestsb.bsky.social · 11mo ago

July and August were full of Life Stuff™ and meeting some writing deadlines, but it's looking like I'll have some exciting news to share pretty soon 👀

Ok here's Part 1: My Finnish postdoc is now my finished postdoc, but I'm thrilled to announce what's next: I'm now a Research Associate at the U of Michigan's School of Information, where I'm proudly working with the Intersectional Tech Lab! ✨🖥️ www.kishonnagray.com/lab-staff Part 2 coming soon!

Rainforest Scully-Blaker (he/him)@rainforestsb.bsky.social · 11mo ago

July and August were full of Life Stuff™ and meeting some writing deadlines, but it's looking like I'll have some exciting news to share pretty soon 👀

An open letter of resignation from myself and many other book series editors at Amsterdam University Press, following its recent acquisition by the notoriously exploitative academic publishing conglomerate Taylor & Francis.

Vinzenz Hediger@vinzenzhediger.bsky.social · last yr.

The time has come to reinvent academic publishing. Over the last years conglomerates have bought up once respectable publishers and turned them into rent extraction machines, generating obscene profits from tax-payer funded research and unremunerated academic labor./ mediastudies.hypotheses.org/6850

July and August were full of Life Stuff™ and meeting some writing deadlines, but it's looking like I'll have some exciting news to share pretty soon 👀

Happy to share that my book, Digital Game Culture in Korea: The Social at Play, is now available on the Bloomsbury U.S. site! Thank you again to those who took the time to review and engage with the work! 🙏🏼 #syllabus #gamestudies #communication www.bloomsbury.com/us/digital-g...

Warhammer Conference 2 is coming in September! Catch me on Friday talking about Age of Sigmar, polycrisis, and Stormcast Eternals. Once again, I'll be attending remotely, and these videos will be uploaded to YouTube after the conference. warhammer-conference.com #gamestudies #warhammer #aos

I now have a website! It's pretty bare-bones, but at least it rhymes! I'm hoping to get more stuff on there in the next month. Give it a look if you're so inclined - www.rainforestsb.me

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...