Further details & the application process for this funded PhD studentship at the Imperial War Museums (IWM) & at the University of Glasgow are available at the link below 🔗 - AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) Studentship, 'Playing at War'. www.iwm.org.uk/sites/defaul...
Logo including text of the organisation titles for the Imperial War Museums (IWM), University of Glasgow, and UK Research and Innovation (UKRI).
🚨🎓Funded #PhD opportunity: AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) studentship - ‘𝗣𝗹𝗮𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝘁 𝗪𝗮𝗿’, with Imperial War Museums (IWM) & University of Glasgow @glasgow.ac.uk. Supervised by Tim Peacock, Matt Barr & Ian Kikuchi. Apply by Friday 22 May, 5pm. October 2026 start. Details in next post.
The 2026 Glasgow Indie Games Fest takes place on July 11-12. Tickets now on sale. Speakers, demos and workshop hosts all welcome.
Are you interested in games?
Are you worried about our changing environment?
Do you have an interest in trains and the rail network?
Join us for a workshop at @nationalresilience.bsky.social Crichton Campus, Dumfries, on Wednesday 28 January, 2-3.30. Sign up: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/co-great-w...
Hi, I asked some lovely developers for their favourite Christmas gaming memories. Please have a read and add your own in the comments section. Also, if you celebrate this season or not, all the very best wishes to you from the Guardian games team xx
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/d...
What happens when gaming meets nuclear diplomatic history? 🎲 Latest episode of the Stories From Glasgow podcast with @drtimpeacock.bsky.social
@uofggameslab.bsky.social @uofgwarstudies.bsky.social
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Sending this out again for more #gamingthepast interested folk to see. A new iteration of Historical Problem Space framework diagram that includes an enumeration of the most common action-choices (archetypes of action choices) that player agents have in historical board AND video games. 1/
Promoting my last book!
Interested in video games, cinema, history and/or racism in Hollywood? My last book SLAVE REVOLT ON SCREEN: THE HAITIAN REVOLUTION IN FILM & VIDEO GAMES is a great gift for yourself or someone on your gift list!🗃️📽️
www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/S/Slav...
Just a reminder that this call is open if the overlap of history, fiction and games is your thing!
Some Sunday ready over on the HGN blog! Today’s new post from @xurvermilion.bsky.social explores the potential of videogames as a way of engaging students with historical research, and key skills in critical analysis:
www.historicalgames.net/students-his...
The team behind CEASEFIRE!
Conflict resolution experts at UofG have developed an alternative to traditional wargaming. 💻
CEASEFIRE! is a 2D strategy game developed by
@uofglaw.bsky.social, @uofggameslab.bsky.social and Education Evolved which encourages players to resolve conflict peacefully.
Read more: gla.ac/47T2Izr
“Progress in Play: Board Games and the Meaning of History”, Alex Andriesse on the world of 18/19th-century board games in which players progress chronologically through history itself: publicdomainreview.org/essay/progress-in-play-b...
We hosted Dr Sunimal Mendis @tilburg-university.bsky.social at CREATe! Her NWO DIGI-APPS project digs into how copyright + regulation work in virtual worlds. Can 2D platform rules survive in XR? 👀
Read her guest post on our blog 👉 www.create.ac.uk/blog/2025/11...
The #KEAwards25 public vote is now open! ✨
We are delighted #ResearchForEveryone is shortlisted in the Knowledge Exchange UK Public Vote category. Watch our short video & vote:
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Thank you for supporting our project!
#KnowledgeExchangeUK #KEUK #KnowledgeExchange #Impact
Related to this, we would like to encourage you to come to the launch of Rebecca Sutton's game CEASEFIRE, this coming Friday in the @uofgarc.bsky.social ARC. 2:00-3:30pm all welcome!
@uofggameslab.bsky.social
📣New #podcast episode out! Listen to @drtimpeacock.bsky.social & Prof Rebecca Sutton talk about the @uofggameslab.bsky.social and their work on #Peace Gaming. Inspired by their workshop at the Spring School in May #RIELASpring25.
👂➡️https://bit.ly/Peacegame
@uofgsocsci.bsky.social
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The Link to sign up for the Broken Canvas discussion-led AI game on Wednesday 29th October is below.
No prior experience of AI or gaming is required.
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Exercise: Broken Canvas - Discussion-led 'Artistic AI' Crisis Game as part of the AI Data Science Festival, on Wednesday 29th October at 1.30-3.30pm in ARC (Advanced Research Centre) 237C Abstract: The near future. An experimental AI has escaped from its test server into computers across Glasgow. Following its programming, MacAIntosh was designed to analyse existing materials and develop innovative artistic and creative outputs, in image, audio, video or other forms. Now, its unchecked efforts at producing or editing what it (wrongly) identifies as creative works are causing major disruption. Join a crisis team in the ARC trying to deal with the situation in this group discussion-led AI crisis game. Make choices around how to respond while reflecting on relationships between creativity, new technology and society. No prior experience required. Link to sign up is in the next post.
Sign up now for "Broken Canvas" - A discussion-led 'Artistic AI' Crisis Game on Wednesday 29th October at 1.30-3.30pm in the Advanced Research Centre. (QR code or link via the post below.)
This event is part of the University of Glasgow's Data Science and AI Festival from 27-29 October. #AI
We now have confirmation that this gem will go live by early November!
#gamestudies
Opening slide for an event. It has a colourful background with a pair of hands holding a game controller (in the top right corner). White text says: Talk Unreal pasts, playful presents: history and fantasy in games and media 10 September 2025
It's been a great day for fascinating events! Really enjoyed hearing @chriskempshall.bsky.social, @mimi-mortmain.bsky.social, @drtimpeacock.bsky.social & Fruzsina Pittner (chaired by @enwright.bsky.social) discussing history and fantasy in video games (and books) tonight!
A collection of over 100 Markt+Technik X Games books
🚨 Another Video Game Library win! 🚨
The entire MARKT+TECHNIK X-GAMES series is now fully catalogued! 🎉
Weeks of research and teamwork with German collectors & authors made this possible.
It’s another piece of gaming literary history preserved 📚
Check it out, SPREAD THE WORD 🙏 💙
#GameUXsummit '25 was a blast! SO MANY GREAT TALKS (see gamaste.net/game-ux-summ...)
I presented my research on how players' personal, social, and game-related factors impact 𝐄𝐮𝐝𝐚𝐢𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐜 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐫 𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬.
A huge thanks to the organizers! @gameuxsummit.com @celiahodent.com AP Hogeschool & Gamaste
A website about classic video game magazines.
From Mean Machines and CVG to Super Play and more. With articles and interviews featuring the writers, editors and designers who were there.
Visit Forgotten Worlds 👉 www.forgottenworlds.net
#Sega #Nintendo #Amiga #C64 #Spectrum #Amstrad #AtariST 🌴☀️
Hey folks in the Pacific Northwest: We're going to PAX West 2025 this weekend! We've got two panels and an exhibitor table - more info here: www.patreon.com/posts/were-h...
weekend plans 🎮✨
If you missed our Gender panel event on Tuesday, you can now watch the recording of this fantastic discussion here via our Youtube Channel! Featuring @verysrsgames.com @katexe.bsky.social @tesswatty.bsky.social & @ide4fix.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtP3...
(1936) Lizzie Magie, Showing a prototype of Monopoly, Which She Invented to Warn the Dangers of Land Speculation.
Our latest VGHH podcast is a little review of what we’ve been up to, so far, this year. With the official launch of our digital library archive, livestreams of game magazine unboxing and EPROM dumping, and multiple new collections, there's lots to discuss: gamehistory.org/episode-136-...
Games and History Take Centre Stage at Royal Society of Edinburgh’s Curious Festival
Unreal Pasts, Playful Presents: The growing cultural and academic significance of videogames will be highlighted this September, as the Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) hosts a fascinating panel discussion as part…
