Nvidia’s new AI tool is giving female game characters a makeover – and gamers are pushing back Why gamers are comparing Nvidia’s DLSS-5 graphics tool to a Snapchat beauty filter.

A piece I wrote for The Conversation just came out!
theconversation.com/nvidias-new-...

My chapter ‘“It always ends like this”: Temporality and the Refrain in NieR: Automata” has been published in Games That Haunt Us: Gothic Game Space as a Living Nightmare, edited by @mutanttheorist.bsky.social 😁

One of the projects I'm working on is "Teen-informed strategies to counter sexual image abuse and sextortion". We're recruiting teens for interviews and focus groups. Please share! :)
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At the end of last year, @hmblakey.bsky.social and I recorded a Meaningful Play podcast episode about my book "Video Games and Gender Assemblages" 😊

Available on podcast platforms and here: meaningfulplaypodcast.wordpress.com/2025/12/04/e...

Emerging Genres This collection expands the analytical framework of digital games by exploring them through the lens of genre analysis-the evaluation of the structural designs…

@hmblakey.bsky.social and I's book chapter on english-language dating simulators is out! It’s in the Bloomsbury anthology “Emerging Genres” www.bloomsbury.com/ca/emerging-...

I had a great time at AANZCA at UniSC, where I was given the opportunity to present two pieces of work! It was so lovely chatting with other researchers in such a welcoming and friendly atmosphere 😄

Video Games and Gender Assemblages In this book, Sian Tomkinson examines why, despite around half of gamers being female, highly-gendered stereotypical assumptions pervade the video game industry…

So excited that my first book “Video Games and Gender Assemblages:
Understanding Gamergate and Beyond has been released!” A digital edition is forthcoming - do get in touch if you’re interested :) www.bloomsbury.com/au/video-gam...

If it looks like violent extremism, and acts like violent extremism … : comparing the framing of two Sydney stabbing attacks Within one week of April in 2024, the city of Sydney was rocked by two separate violent stabbing attacks. In one case, after the stabbing of two Coptic clerics by a young Muslim man, the government...

New article published by myself and @tauel.bsky.social:
If it looks like violent extremism, and acts like violent extremism … : comparing the framing of two Sydney stabbing attacks www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

My chapter '“Ah, Traveler, we meet again!” Gnostic Themes in Genshin Impact' has been published in Well Played!

Genshin is the game that introduced me to Gnosticism and got me back into esotericism/the occult/religion <3
(thank you @hmblakey.bsky.social ~)

playstorypress.org/books/well-p...

Aw thanks so much!

Spirit of Fire - False endings and the search for gnosis in NieR: Automata YouTube video by Sian Tomkinson

I've uploaded my conference presentation on Gnosticism in NieR: Automata from #ICGAN25 to YouTube :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sJr...

Super excited that my paper [“This kind of life has no meaning”: Neru’s Vocaloid Album CYNICISM] has been published in M/C Journal! I love this album so much 😍

Thank you so much! I’m so glad I’ve been able to publish a piece on one of my most favourite interests 😊