After 20 years, influential game jam Ludum Dare will wind down: aftermath.site/after-20-years...

The CGSA logo, le logo de l'ACÉJ

Registration for CGSA 2026 is officially OPEN!!!

Les inscriptions pour l’ACÉJ 2026 sont officiellement OUVERTES!!!

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Agreed! I think that’s the core reason why the OSR exists and how a solid, but trimmed down, game like Shadowdark has such a big following. Eat snacks, roll some dice, and maintain a (somewhat) consistent schedule to see friends.

That's right! The legendary Roberta Taylor will be teaching through play March 9 at Walkthrough and all interested in board game design are welcome to attend. RSVP at the link below and make sure you're ready for an evening of fun!

Critical Studies in Media Communication Games & Storage. Volume 42, Issue 5 of Critical Studies in Media Communication

💾The Games & Storage special issue of Critical Studies in Media Communication is officially out!

📚Thanks to editors @nickttaylor.bsky.social, @thechristinet.bsky.social, and Robyn Hope for putting this together.

📡Be sure to check out my article on Satellaview restoration, 𝘚𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘈𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘦𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘪𝘦𝘴!

We’re looking for someone at a senior level to work with the best faculty and students in game design.* come join us!

*okay, I’m a bit biased.

Replaying Japan 2026 Call for Papers

Replaying Japan 2026, the 14th International Japan Game Studies Conference, will be held August 18-21 2026 at Ritsumeikan University Osaka Ibaraki Campus.
The theme is Intersections of Popular Culture and Transmedia Entertainment.

#replayingjapan #gamestudies #japanstudies

www.replaying.jp

Save the Games 2.0 Call for Papers is open! The symposium will be held at The Strong in Rochester, NY on July 29 and 30. The deadline for submissions if February 20, 2026! www.museumofplay.org/save-the-gam...

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

🚨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

One thing I miss about Pokémon is when they'd design each Pokedex to look sort of like the handheld console you were playing the games on at the time

Hi folks! I’m currently co-editing a special issue for GAME about queer and trans games studies. Find the full cfp here www.gamejournal.it/n-132025-bey..., deadline for abstract submission is 12 January 2026!

Calling all #artist and #researchers #scholars on #nostalgia — submit to our ANNUAL NOSTALGIA SYMPOSIUM FOR 2026.

📌 nostagain.ca/cfp2026
🧷 Due Jan 6, 2026

Follow us on @nostagain.bsky.social

🌟We are still looking for reviewers for the following books:
- The Rule Book: The Building Blocks of Games
- Seeing Red: Nintendo's Virtual Boy
- Fifty Years of Dungeons and Dragons
- Run and Jump: The Meaning of the 2D Platformer
- Undertale: Can a Game Give Hope?

In Memoriam: Marsha Kinder 1940-2025

In Memoriam: Marsha Kinder 1940-2025

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Marsha Kinder, Emerita University Professor at the University of Southern California and a pioneering figure in film, television, and digital media studies.

CGSA/ACÉJ 2026 Fourwaves - CGSA/ACÉJ 2026

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

A creepy screenshot of Lavender Town from Pokemon Red & Blue

Girls will be like “I know a place” and then take you here

Meet the dynamic duo behind Strange Pixel Studio! @gcwblomquist.bsky.social is a writing wizard, music maestro, and design doctor. He relies on a deep lore of cosmic horror to build unknowable and perplexing characters for our players' delight and terror.
#IndieDev #GameDev #PixelArt #RetroHorror

Congratulations!

Next time someone asks me why I, as an assistant professor with a PhD, would spend my time researching the connections between games culture and larger political culture, I am just going to show them these two images.

Happy 25th anniversary to the release of Pokémon Gold and Silver in North America!

To mark the occasion, I wanted to share this amazing pixel art of Red Gyarados and me from the incredibly talented @coryrupert.bsky.social.

It's the opening slide for all my Pokémon talks!

Congratulations!!

10 horror movies to get to know me:

🛏️ The Exorcist (1973)
🔪 Halloween (1978)
🥚 Alien (1979)
💀 Evil Dead II (1987)
🧟‍♂️ 28 Days Later (2002)
👺 Insidious (2010)
💤 Doctor Sleep (2019)
☄️ Colour Out of Space (2019)
🧜‍♀️ The Lighthouse (2019)
🐴 Nope (2022)

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…

📣✨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...

I'm once again sharing my starter pack of Canadian Game Studies Folks!

Follow and let me know if you, or someone you know, might be a good fit. 🕹️✨

A pixel art scene of the Pokemon Gyarados at the Lake of Rage. Top down view. There is a sunset happening in the back. A fishing hut is seen in the lower right. A mountain range is seen behind the lake. At the shoreline, a trainer and their Meganium can be seen, ready for battle.

I don't repost stuff often enough
#pixelart

Gregory Blomquist is up next with his presentation “Shadowing the Shadow Broker: Transmedia Detectives and Media Heterarchy in Mass Effect” which continues a trend in #ICGAN2025 by referencing media scholar Henry Jenkins!

#uwaterloo #thegamesinstitute #researchimpact #interdisciplinaryresearch

Delighted to have given a Pokémon talk at MVC Comic-Con this weekend! While there, I was asked, “why give a talk on Pokémon?” From discussions of strategy, collecting, ethics, and preservation, Pokémon allows us to ask important questions on video games through the biggest franchise in pop culture.

In honour of Pokemon Red/Blue's North American release anniversary later this month, I decided to take a nostalgia-fueled journey through the classics!

I'm thrilled to be part of a great line-up at this year's MVC Comic-Con sharing my Pokémon research!

Thank you to the Olds (@oldslibrary.bsky.social), Carstairs, Sundre, and Didsbury Libraries for organizing and hosting the event!