Dr Kate Cook

Delighted to see that the Routledge Companion to Video Games and History now has a webpage and a cover! There will be an ebook (which given the length of this I imagine will be many people's preferred reading approach), it just doesn't show on the page yet. www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...

Brilliant evening at the Cricket Society on @rafnicholson.bsky.social 's amazing book The Women in Whites, and the importance of highlighting women's history in cricket. Right up my street!

I'm having a really weird day.

I had a great time discussing ‘Star Wars: Star Pilots’ with Joe Mulinaro and Mark Newbold for ‘Rule the Galaxy’! youtu.be/JIjaL7FR4y8?...

In other news, the ebook is now available for pre-order - and happily significantly more affordable than the hardback! Get your Companions to Video Games and History here: www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...

Okay Google scholar I agree I am interested in the Routledge Companion to Video Games and History co-edited by a certain K. Cook but not so much that I need 12 emails about it none of which wonder at all whether I might be connected to that certain co-editor. Sigh.

Depressed to see Turning Point UK set up on the Strand today - but really heartened that you can't hear any of the bile they are churning out, because they and their views are being very loudly rejected by the students. The kids are all right.

"I cover your head. But when will my body be covered in death?" - Phaedra's Nurse, making this scene entirely about her.

Elgar 1 is such hard work. But it is lovely to have something totally else to think of for an evening a week other than the ruins of my academic career. Ah there's that in its favour.

Suspected it was coming, but what terrible news. Bioware games top my favourites lists across the board. There was nothing like them.

While you're helping Dave, I could really use about four designed pages for a Kickstarter front page + more work once it gets funded! Also a reference book.

The AIMS 2026 Virtual Conference is coming up early next month! Join us virtually November 6-10 (Americas/UK/EU) / 7-11 (Australasia) for panels, roundtables, meet-the-editor events, and more!

It's dark and cold and wet here - all of a sudden autumn. Although the recent rain also means my balcony is full of summer annuals that are suddenly finding it not unbearably dry, for the first time all year, and are newly flowering. Climate chaos.

Attention Scottish voice actors! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🎤 We’re gearing up to cast an upcoming project, which will require an (almost) all Scottish cast! So watch this space, if it’s nae bother.

I get lots of adverts atm for Sussex university, and they are all highlighting the chance of having 'lecturers who actually know you'. Interesting to see if this lasts as a marketing technique or gets picked up anywhere else, in this era of massive staff cuts and large merged modules.

The horror of the lecture room PC breakdown - and how this is now amplified by the decision to go tech heavy on registering attendance.

Looking forward to traveling to the Center for Hellenic Studies (with the great @katexe.bsky.social) in November for a conversation about mythology reception in the #Hades games! Attendance possible both in person and online - registration required: chs.harvard.edu/event/playin...

(I need travel adaptors because) I'm off to Washington in two weeks, for an event at the Centre of Hellenic Studies, chatting about the Hades games with @alexvandewalle.bsky.social ! Online attendance possible, all welcome, and should be a great discussion. chs.harvard.edu/event/playin...

It would be useful if travel (plug) adaptors said on them what countries they were for. I've collected so many over the last 20-odd years and I really just don't remember where they all work.

Is there a historical period you'd like to see more in video games? Come to our free event in Cardiff on history and video games, with an opportunity to pitch your own ideas! #games #history #Cardiff www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/fact-versu...

Periodically I get emails from Amazon saying things like "we thought you'd like a Nintendo switch" and I cannot understand why they make this offer but never give me the Nintendo switch. :(

Just seen on Bluesky that Phoenix Wright is 25 years old. Seems impossible.

Seems fair as a general statement, but really only because I am thinking more along the lines of 'In my bed = bad time/place for hedgehog' 'Picture on money = nice time/place for hedgehog'

We are very close to achive the next milestone.✌️🍉 launchgood.com/1948

Why are England women playing no cricket ever. Everyone else is playing!

If you missed any of the papers in this weeks @midagesmodgames.bsky.social Asynchronous Conference, you can still find them (and engage with them) over on the website: middleagesinmoderngames.net/category/mam...

I've had an unexpectedly ludomusical week, concluding with a lovely chat about a potential student project (not with me)! It's a lot of fun finding places where the work I do on games can intersect with so much other cool stuff on games.

I'm so tired today. Oh well, time for hours 9-11 of my workday. It's quite strange to be swamped with work, and yet apparently imminently redundant.

Still can’t fully believe it but it’s out in the world: I’ve been awarded a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship this round. You can read more about “Past, Present and Futures of Historical Games”👇+more to come soon about what this means for @historygamesnet.bsky.social! www.cardiff.ac.uk/news/view/31...

4. While having to delay major life events like getting married, starting a family, buying a house, investing because they have no idea where they are going to be in three years.

3. While having to devote ever greater amounts of their time and energy to applying for jobs and grants that only get more competitive with every year.

2. In institutions that have limited investment in their longterm wellbeing and every incentive to squeeze as much productivity out of them for as little support as possible.

Your fixed-term colleagues are teaching, researching, publishing and conducting administration: 1. In university systems, cities and countries they are often unfamiliar with, in the knowledge that they are probably going to have to start over again in a new place in a couple of years.

Great discussion this morning with my third years about how political (or not) Euripides Suppliant Women is. I enjoy doing this so much - so depressing to not be able to be employed to keep doing it.

So depressed today by the number of academics I know who don't even know the issues with GenAI yet are cheerfully proposing adopting them for their and everyone else's teaching and research. What happened to critically assessing our work approaches...?

History inspires game development. This Thursday, John Beiner and I will share how the Prize Papers Project and the German Maritime Museum are helping Capstan Games bring maritime history to life in the game "Ahoy". Join our international workshop online! Link below. #earlymodern #maritimehistory

That's our last paper for today, but the floor is still absolutely open for comments and questions to all our speakers, so do head over to middleagesinmoderngames.net and ask any questions you might have to our scholars and experts! We'll be back tomorrow with the last day of #MAMG26 papers!

On Saturday, 7 November, I will be running a Wikipedia Edit-a-thon around the theme of Byzantine women & genderqueer saints. I hope that this workshop will help to improve the coverage of women and LGBTQ+ history on Wikipedia. To attend, follow this link: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/wiki-edit-...

It's the @midagesmodgames.bsky.social annual virtual conference! Happy to be helping host this event once again :) It's all available online and for anyone interested in #GameDev or #Medieval history to head over and ask questions of the experts! Do take a look at their feed & links below:

It has to be said that the annoyance of spending my evening marking is not much improved by Turnitin constantly refreshing itself so I can't progress through reading the work...

Job alert! My department is hiring an assistant professor of Critical Game Studies. This is a rare opportunity to join a thriving program, with a games-focused classroom, passionate students, and a range of courses in this emerging field. Applications due Nov. 30 unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/326...