Dr. Emma Vossen

Did you know we (@brock-ddh.bsky.social at Brock University in Ontario 🇨🇦) offer a 2-year MA in Game Studies? I teach one of our grad seminars, Methodological Paradigms in Game Studies! Feel free to DM me anytime if you have Q's about applying for Fall 2027/28! #gamestudies brocku.ca/humanities/d...

I was quoted in the New York Times talking about Rosalina, my favourite Mario character (a galactic mother star goddess, what's not to love?)! Check it out here: www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/04/03/arts/nintendo-mario-galaxy-movie-rosalina-princesses.html

My forthcoming book "Maiden, Mother, and Crone: Female Monstrosity in Video Games" is officially listed on Springer's website!! Ahhh it's finally happening!! It'll be published in June, just in time for me to go back to work after my maternity leave 😁 link.springer.com/book/9783032...

I was interviewed by CBC to talk about Sony's decision to end physical games. As you can imagine, I'm really disappointed but also unsurprised by the decision... Check the video out here: youtube.com/shorts/H_BvC...

More info on the program here: brocku.ca/humanities/d... Tomorrow's info session registration here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/5030d7... December info session registration here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/284da8...

Guess what? Here at Brock we have an MA program in Game Studies! That's right - you can do Game Studies at the graduate level with us! My excellent fellow game scholar @emmavphd.bsky.social also teaches in the program! Attend our info session tomorrow (or in December) to learn more! 🎮📖🎓

In retrospect, Obsidian getting Pentiment out there into the world before Microsoft exploded really feels like they pulled off the weirdest heist in gaming history.

Future? No Thanks! IS OUT NOW ON STEAM An open-world comedy adventure about workable utopias, the twilight of patriarchy, revolution, and the horrifying possibility that the younger generations might be right. 💀 Windows + Mac 💀 6+ hours of gameplay 💀 20% off at launch futurenothanks.com

I'm truly relating to @meredithgran.com 's fear of making a game known for having bannable content rather than, you know, what the game is actually about.

📢Future? No Thanks! DEMO OUT NOW ON STEAM! Try the game for 30 minutes! An ecosocialist open-world utopia for our dark times. For Windows and Mac store.steampowered.com/app/3861870/...

Update: even after we removed the entire sex quest, Steam mis-classifies Future? No Thanks! as pornography, making it invisible to most Steam users and completely geo-locked in Germany. We are currently at Gamescom in Cologne, everybody is asking us why they can't see the PAGE of a Teen rated game.

Toronto comics enthusiasts! Come to the #PitofEden book signing and Q&A on Saturday, August 22nd at 1pm! Myself, author Malcolm Derikx, @tessreid.bsky.social , and @lukehumphris.bsky.social will all be there signing and chatting! Held at @littleghostsbooks.bsky.social !

All money, minus processing fees for itch, goes to out of work game developers to pay for food, housing, healthcare, and whatever they need to make it through. Neither we as the organizers nor UVW take any of the money from the bundle. Game developers can apply here: uvw-cwa.org/hardship-fun...

In response to the unprecedented number of game developers laid off this year, we have created a bundle on itch to benefit a Game Industry Hardship Fund, managed by @videogameworkers.bsky.social. More than 100 games for 10+ bucks! Please share widely and donate generously! itch.io/b/3802/game-...

If you're part of the BioWare or Sims community and want to talk about how those studios' queer characters and themes have impacted you and your fears for those series moving forward after this sale, I'd love to chat with you for a Kotaku story. Can be reached here or email kshepard@kotaku.com

Hey, did you know I'm looking for work? It's true! I am a writer, editor, localization editor, and project manager/producer of games and games-adjacent media, best known as the creator of YOU ARE JEFF BEZOS You should really hire me! Future you will thank you

I was SO excited to find Designing a Feel for the Game: A Guide to Making Play Meaningful by @stevewilcox.bsky.social in my mailbox today!!! This book is going to come in SO handy while I design my new course for the Fall! If you teach game design please check it out! Congratulations Steve!!! ✨✨✨

"CWA & CWA Canada have jointly filed unfair labor practice complaints against Microsoft alleging the company has unlawfully fired people without giving notice to or discussing it with the union as the employer is legally obliged to do"

From CBC's The National last night: Quebec video game workers protested a mass layoff plan at Xbox-owned Bethesda as the province's once-thriving industry struggles with slumping sales and profitability. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWnK...

Check out our very own @emmavphd.bsky.social on the CBC: More than 320,000 people sign Winnipeg video game store's petition to keep PlayStation discs spinning www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #brocku

More on the response to Sony stopping games-on-disc feat. @emmavphd.bsky.social and @pnpgames.bsky.social One detail I do think we skim over: many games are online-only so if they shut down, the disc ain't helping you. A disc copy of Anthem today does ... nothing. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

NEW: Meta paid hundreds of contractors to pretend they were kids—and then prompt rival chatbots like Gemini and ChatGPT to talk about subjects like suicide, sex, eating disorders, and self-harm. From @dmehro.bsky.social and @joelkhalili.bsky.social

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...

Historiographies of Game Studies is out, and it contains @codingcrafter.bsky.social and Jennifer DeWinter’s chapter about the history of the Games Network mailing list, which I discovered last night cites my email ragequitting the list haha. Open access: books.punctumbooks.com/10.53288/044...

Did you know? CMRN and Michael have an essay on CLR James in the new collection HISTORIOGRAPHIES OF GAME STUDIES, which is open access and has an incredible number of essays and interviews of interest anyone interested in game studies. Congrats to all contributors! punctumbooks.com/titles/histo...

This looks incredible - between this and the Historiographies of Game Studies from last month - its a wonderful time to be an aspirant game studies scholar :)

Was great getting to chat with Rudolf about Historiographies of Game Studies--check out the episode!

Check it out: a NEW BOOKS NETWORK podcast with punctum editors of the #OpenAccess book, HISTORIOGRAPHIES OF GAME STUDIES! #gaming #GameStudies #MediaStudies #DigitalHumanities

Paru chez Punctum Books, Historiographies of Game Studies interroge la manière dont les études sur le jeu se sont constituées en champ académique, entre récits fondateurs, tensions disciplinaires et redéfinitions successives. L’ouvrage propose une réflexion collective sur les frontières, les […]

Big news: Historiographies of Game Studies: What It Has Been, What It Could Be is a 2026 IPPY Awards Finalist! 🎉 We're incredibly proud to see this work in game studies receive national recognition. Read the book here: tinyurl.com/98t48we9

Foolishly, ambitiously, we started a massive, ambitious book project at the start of the pandemic. It's ... almost out! It's got something like 30 separate chapters and interviews from some of the most interesting scholars working in game studies.

Historiographies of Game Studies: What It Has Been, What It Could Be, Edited by Alisha Karabinus, Carly A. Kocurek, Cody Mejeur, Emma Vossen... punctumbooks.com/titles/histo...

Here we go again! A new #Gamestudies #podcast episode is live & and I had wonderful guests! Historiographies of Game Studies. What It Has Been, What It Could Be (ed. Alisha Karabinus, Carly A. Kocurek, Cody Mejeur, Emma Vossen) /cc @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social Please listen, like and share!

Punctum Books has just published the great open access collection Historiographies of Game Studies: What It Has Been, What It Could Be, edited by Alisha Karabinus, Carly A. Kocurek, Cody Mejeur, Emma Vossen. punctumbooks.com/titles/histo...

At last, the day has come. Today is VILLAIN release day! It barely seems real, and I'm thrilled and relieved and so happy this weird, difficult, joyous rejection of a redemption arc exists in the world. US: www.harpercollins.com/products/vil... Canada: www.harpercollins.ca/978006334136...

We're hiring a Post-Doc (3 years) at the @hertieschool.bsky.social for a @scripts-berlin.eu project on authoritarian influence in the video games industry (I am soooo excited about this project)! More details here (deadline 31 May): hertie-school.dvinci-easy.com/en/p/en/jobs...

Check out the Dig Deeper section for a lot of cool links including a paper by @emmavphd.bsky.social titled "Tom Nook, Capitalist or Comrade?: On Nook Discourse and the Millennial Housing Crisis"

New Exhibit:Play Curation 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐇𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐂𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐬 𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐓𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐆𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐬 Curated by @farfama.bsky.social Games about housing crises across the world. Rental nightmares in the UK, the Netherlands, Ireland, Spain, Australia, and America turned into playable social commentary.

Please find the program details for the Impact+ Research Chair here: brocku.ca/research/can...

We are hiring a Canada Impact+ Research Chair in Artificial Intelligence and Social Change (Professor or Associate Professor, Tenured). Applications due March 26, 2026. Please share widely! #BrockU brocku.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/brocku_caree...

Brain-fog-riddent #journorequest, but, for The Verge, I want to hear from gaming accessibility folks about where we are heading into 2026. What's going well, what's slowed down, what's to come? Is 2026 going to be a better year for accessibility? Hit me up in DMs or at the details in my bio.