Rainforest Scully-Blaker (he/him)

📚BOOK NEWS📚 The website for my forthcoming book has been updated with some wonderful praise from two very cool and intelligent scholars (that have absolutely made my week 🥹 ✨ ). The book's out April 13th! Can't wait for all of you to see it. dukeupress.edu/gaming-exhau...

✨BOOK UPDATE✨ "Gaming Exhaustion: Reclaiming Play from Late Capitalism" officially has a webpage: dukeupress.edu/gaming-exhau... Release Date is April 13, 2027!!! 📆 More details to come, but getting to see it on the site with its pricing and publishing details is so, so gratifying 🥲

📯NEW JOB ALERT📯 I'm proud to announce that, come July, I will be an Assistant Teaching Professor in Digital Media at Northeastern University Vancouver. I feel extremely fortunate (and elated!) to have found position that enables me to keep teaching and doing research in the field I love <3

Now that the Finnish public research database has been updated with the complete information, I can announce that I won the 2026 Academy Research Fellowship for the 4-year GenGam: Gendered Gam(bl)ing project.

Michael Austin @michaelaustin.bsky.social & I are working on a new collection Resonant Worlds: Sound, Matter, and Environmental Design in Games. Here’s the CFP.

Tell your friends!

Registration for CGSA 2026 is officially OPEN!!! Les inscriptions pour l’ACÉJ 2026 sont officiellement OUVERTES!!! event.fourwaves.com/cgsa2026/reg...

Just received word my forthcoming book about how games are exhausting (but don't have to be) has now passed the FINAL step in the review process - board approval, baybee!! Just a few formatting things to finish off and then the book enters production, which is surreal to be able to write out 😵

One more week to submit to this wonderful event - gogogogogogogo!

🚨ANNONCE !🚨 Nous avons décidé d’offrir une petite extension pour la remise des soumissions jusqu’au mercredi 14 janvier à 23 h 59 (HP). Veuillez noter que ce sera la date limite finale! event.fourwaves.com/cgsa2026

I'm in this post and I like it!

The Spring Seminar 2026 CfP is out now! This time, the theme is “Events and Communities”. Please have a look at the full CfP on the Spring Seminar website: springseminar.org/2026-call-fo... ⏰Abstract submission deadline is 14 January 2026. 📍The seminar is organised on 5-6 May 2026 in Tampere.

I am once again reminding you that this conference is great and that you should submit work here - we have some of the most robust hybrid support in the biz, so that anyone, anywhere can join in the festivities! #gamestudies #cfp

Nous venons de lancer notre site web bilingue pour l'ACÉJ 2026 (un jour plus tôt!): event.fourwaves.com/cgsa2026 Nous sommes officiellement prêts à recevoir vos excellentes propositions (l'onglet "Soumissions" est en haut à gauche). N'hésitez pas à nous contacter si vous avez des questions. <3

Here's the abstract :) #gamestudies

🚚🚚🚚New article alert! Part of a special issue on games + container technologies, it’s about truckers who play Truck Simulator in their trucks, but also simulation, battlestations, and the logistics of work and play. It's open access, so please take a look 🚚🚚🚚 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Maybe biased since I'm helping to organize this, but this is such a wonderful event for anyone doing work in and around games - we welcome submission formats of all sorts and the event is fully hybrid! Please consider submitting something #gamestudies

📣✨Appel à communications !📣✨ L’ACÉJ 2026 aura lieu du 11 au 14 juin 2026, à Montréal (l'Université Concordia). Le thème pour cette année est « La Répétition ». La date limite pour soumission est le 7 janvier 2026 à 23 h 59 HNP. Appel complet ici: gamestudies.ca/conference-c...

#Cfp: Call for Book Chapters - #videogames, #gamedesign, game communities, & playthings that trouble what we mean by #nostalgia “ #Games and its Nostalgia for the Future” is edited by yours truly and likely published with Play Story Press. Abstracts due Nov 3, 2025 Full CfP: shorturl.at/NCkzU

Ready for Part 2? After much writing and re-writing, I'm thrilled to announce that my first book, "Gaming Exhaustion" (working title) is now under contract with Duke University Press. There are too many people to thank for this in 140 characters or less, but know that you're all so appreciated <3

Ready for Part 2? After much writing and re-writing, I'm thrilled to announce that my first book, "Gaming Exhaustion" (working title) is now under contract with Duke University Press. There are too many people to thank for this in 140 characters or less, but know that you're all so appreciated <3

Ok here's Part 1: My Finnish postdoc is now my finished postdoc, but I'm thrilled to announce what's next: I'm now a Research Associate at the U of Michigan's School of Information, where I'm proudly working with the Intersectional Tech Lab! ✨🖥️ www.kishonnagray.com/lab-staff Part 2 coming soon!

Ok here's Part 1: My Finnish postdoc is now my finished postdoc, but I'm thrilled to announce what's next: I'm now a Research Associate at the U of Michigan's School of Information, where I'm proudly working with the Intersectional Tech Lab! ✨🖥️ www.kishonnagray.com/lab-staff Part 2 coming soon!

An open letter of resignation from myself and many other book series editors at Amsterdam University Press, following its recent acquisition by the notoriously exploitative academic publishing conglomerate Taylor & Francis.

July and August were full of Life Stuff™ and meeting some writing deadlines, but it's looking like I'll have some exciting news to share pretty soon 👀

Happy to share that my book, Digital Game Culture in Korea: The Social at Play, is now available on the Bloomsbury U.S. site! Thank you again to those who took the time to review and engage with the work! 🙏🏼 #syllabus #gamestudies #communication www.bloomsbury.com/us/digital-g...

Warhammer Conference 2 is coming in September! Catch me on Friday talking about Age of Sigmar, polycrisis, and Stormcast Eternals. Once again, I'll be attending remotely, and these videos will be uploaded to YouTube after the conference. warhammer-conference.com #gamestudies #warhammer #aos

I now have a website! It's pretty bare-bones, but at least it rhymes! I'm hoping to get more stuff on there in the next month. Give it a look if you're so inclined - www.rainforestsb.me

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...

It WAS a good one, as predicted - thanks for the writeup Tom!

This is going to be a good one 😎

Been too busy running around to do any shoutouts to all the amazing talks, but I've been helping to run a conference! @cgsaacej.bsky.social 2025 is (almost) over and every year it's a reminder of how cool and supportive a scholarly community can be <3 My title slide (cute mode): #gamestudies

As the CGSA/ACÉJ annual conference approaches, so too does our election season, and we are seeking nominations for new officers and representatives. Anyone interested in serving the Canadian game studies community, please check out our bylaws for info gamestudies.ca/governance/ @cgsaacej.bsky.social

"I miss the good old days when games weren't political"

To folks who want to help after the horrifying event at the lapulapu festival, here's a form: vanfilemergency.my.canva.site

📯PUBLICATION NEWS📯 Very stoked to share this special issue that I co-edited with the world, full of great reflections on the theme of 'Meta' applied to various #GameStudies contexts. A link to the full issue is here, but let's dig in to each of the pieces, shall we? dl.acm.org/toc/games/20...