Johannesburg’s Nyamakop Studios turns African artifact repatriation into a bold heist game.
Protagonist Nomali and a crew of ordinary citizens reclaim 70 real-life artifacts taken during the colonial era.
The 30-person dev team includes people from Zimbabwe, Ghana, Nigeria, Ethiopia and Tanzania.
I guess… Pets in the Park? 🤷🏻♂️
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So, today I'm announcing a new book project... and doing a call for papers: crpgbook.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/t...
It's an anthology of video game history outside the usual US perspective - an accessible & exciting panorama of different realities - and I'll pay 300 USD per article.
Please share :)
Published research with @mitpress.bsky.social, or heck, pretty much anywhere? Check this Class Action Law Suit.
You'll get $1500 and the publisher will get $1500 (for selling your work to A.I.)
Click "Works List Lookup" then "File a Claim"
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A student alerted me to this in my Video Games and Latin America course last week. It looks amazing!
A new Peruvian mystery game about 1990s LAN parties? Yes please!!!
BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT! @mahliann.bsky.social, @marcuscarter.com, and myself have combined our collective brains and written a wide-reaching introduction to the complex and interdisciplinary field of Game Studies in this forthcoming book for Polity. www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
I supported the Kickstarter for Videojuegos hechos en Centroamérica. You should too!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/cat...
I guess… Pets in the Park? 🤷🏻♂️
Not... 40 Oz. to Freedom? *Too* dirtbag?
Neutral Milk Hotel, In the Aeroplane Over the Sea?
New Bratsu post just dropped!
We’re telling this story in english so the world can get a taste of what it means to be BR 😉
Check this out: medium.com/@bratsu.scho...
If you've assigned my work in your classes, please send me a copy of the syllabus: adrienne.shaw@temple.edu. Thank you!
My review of 'Border Tunnels' by Juan Llamas-Rodriguez (@llamasjr.bsky.social) was just published by Journal of Cinema and Media Studies. I give this book my strongest recommendation for scholars and teachers of cultural / border / game / media studies!
tinyurl.com/btunnels
I did one of these recently with my own (meager) travel funds because a) a friend organized, b) it was good networking and exposure for me and c) it helped build community on Latin America and games.
Otherwise I would offer a remote keynote? Not worth the line in the CV if it costs $$$
Dios mío, siguen los rumores de de un PDF FILTRADO de mi libro Cultural Code: Video Games and Latin America (precio $50).
Se dice que cualquiera lo puede leer GRATIS siguiendo el enlace. 😱 ...Y si la gente comparte el enlace o el PDF es posible que se difunda más aún. 😬😬😉
tinyurl.com/culturalcode
OMG I heard a rumor that my book Cultural Code: Video Games and Latin America (price $50) was LEAKED!
They say anyone who follows the link can just read it for FREE. My work is publicly accessible. 😱 If people shared this link or the PDF the word could spread further. 😬😬😉
tinyurl.com/culturalcode
órale, I'm here for that!
Genre studies of games are mostly stuck on early 2000s formalism.
These 2 companion volumes push game studies toward understandings of games as 'equipment for living' and genres as located in the social and cultural conditions of their production and consumption.
Coming Summer 2025!
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Coco Fusco with biting and much-needed perspective, humor and critique--as always!
(I'm quitting posts about politics on social media...but this is art!)
Regional game studies & Latin America folks: new special issue of the Arg. journal Cuadernos del CIESAL on video games and society.
I had the privilege of contributing along with other great folks! Please take a look and thanks to Fernando Rodríguez Herrejón for editing!
tinyurl.com/3e6prrhx
Gente de game studies regional, eche un vistazo a este nuevo número especial de la revista argentina Cuadernos del CIESAL sobre "Videojuegos y su relación con la sociedad contemporánea".
Un servidor, entre otrxs, ha contribuido a un número provocador 🔥
cuadernosdelciesal.unr.edu.ar/index.php/in...
I love this book as a resource, but no doubt it has many problems--lumping together "Africa" and "Arab World" but Austria, Germany and Ireland each get a chapter? But there wasn't a lot to build on in terms of regional game studies when it was published. The field has grown since, but more needed!
As a scholar of games in the global south I'm super-excited about all the discussion your recent article has generated! ❤️ And at the same time I see comments from people who don't know research on this subject even exists. This shoutout is 🔥🔥🔥 Souvik, Luis and others have been at it for a minute!
BTW, the amazing @thevideogamelibrary.org has a curation of books on video games from a more global perspective, it's worth a look: www.thevideogamelibrary.org/blog/hashtag...
Curious about games in India & South Asia? There's a book called "Videogames in the Indian Subcontinent", and much more! :)
