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New book ⬇️⬇️⬇️ Japanese Game Studies: A Guide to Studying Japanese Games Editors: Fumihiko Ikuine, Kazufumi Fukuda, Akito Inoue, & Nobushige Kobayashi link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Gather round! Gather round! 🤩 Are you a game dev or a cool person?? Wanna join our starter pack?👀 Let us know! Suggestions welcome😎 go.bsky.app/9LLrBM4 #GameDev #IndieDev #IndieGameDev #GameDesign #IndieGames

I'm so excited about this volume that I ordered it preemptively for my Gaming Out History class for next semester, based on how amazing the ToC looks and how well it fills a needed niche. Check out my own chapter on "Brothels, Buffs, and Breeding: Sexuality in Historical Video Games"!

This is a post from Michal Nowakowski, one of the joint CEOs of CDPR. Without Bioware, CDPR might not have created Witcher 1. Without Witcher 1, there is no Witcher 2 nor 3 nor Cyberpunk 2077. This is the level of Bioware's influence, and the size of today's loss to RPG gaming.

HELLO, LONDON! 🇬🇧🎶 Alexandre Pican and @jayhanofficial.bsky.social of Helvepic are heading to @mcmcomiccon.bsky.social this Saturday! 🎤 Moderated by @lukethehebble.bsky.social of @decibel-pr.com, join us for a chat about epic music, video game concerts & our World Tour journey!🎮🌍 #VGM

While we're all sad for BioWare please remember video games are a vast medium that goes far beyond commercial products. Years before BioWare people were already making extremely gay & horny games. This is a normie-ass magazine from 1994 and already has a whole section about sex & furry MUDs lol

Can confirm that this is a real trailer of the Mass Effect game that BioWare was developing up until its closure yesterday www.reddit.com/r/masseffect...

Electronic Arts closing BioWare, laying off hundreds: aftermath.site/electronic-art...

Making a game is art. It’s like an extension of you. I really think it’s one of the most vulnerable things a person can do. You tear off a piece of yourself, hold it up to the world and say, “Here’s what I love, and I hope you love it too”. Keep it up, indies! ❤️ #gaming #indiegames #gamedev

Xbox is continuing its major "reset"

It takes time and love to build a universe, but my next video game history book is finally here I’m so happy to announce that SUPER MARIO GALAXY: The Artistry and Impact of Nintendo’s One Giant Leap is available for pre-order RIGHT NOW from @bossfightbooks.com bossfightbooks.com/products/sup...

Hiroshi Tsuchida has passed away at the age of 54. Known to toku fans as Ninja Blue, Super Sentai monsters and HANE2 in Ultraman, he was also a prolific voice actor across a wide ranger of movies, TV and video games. Our condolences go out to his loved ones. Rest in peace to a legendary hero. #土田大

In a LONG interview with Denfaminico Gamer, Masahiro Sakurai said the following about AI-made games: • There are too many Steam releases, and AI makes it worse. Most are “titles that can’t eat”, i.e. unprofitable. • Shoddy AI-made games mostly just reproduce systems existing in other games. 1/

I am tentatively putting out feelers to anyone in the UK interested in joining a panel on meaning-making in video games. It would be part of the University of Bath's Qualitative Research Symposium (January 2027), so the focus would be on qualitative expressions of meaning/qual research on gaming.

Dwarf Fortress creator Tarn Adams is as tired of genAI in the industry as anyone else, and is pretty set on never using it https://bit.ly/47cqGpr

Na, wer spielt noch gerade #Dawnwalker? Daniel Hercenberger, Jakob Kelsch und Manuel Stübecke hätten da den richtigen #CfP zum Anlass! #gamestudies #spielwissenschaft #vampir #horror #bloodlines #castlevania

Making some backyard rain for point-source emitters. Neat surprise: The perforated milk jug's flow could be controlled with its cap on, based on how much of an air vacuum built up. (After the edit it's just a garden watering can.) #gameaudio #fieldrecording

All of my games are 55% off on itchio (partly because the ones on Steam are also on sale, but I do really need the money) So if you're looking for games that are hard to describe and you can't just take 3-5 genre words and throw them together, then have a look itch.io/s/203440/aut...

Hej, anyone remember this? go.bsky.app/FwZqzcz Because we all remember you. We make game narratives. Let us help you make your game shine

Hey All! I'm looking for a new role as an Art Director or Senior Env roles. 12+ Years Experience, AAA & Indie. This is my personal work & would love to work on stylized or Narrative focused work (Link Below) 🧵1/3

Lead Sound Designer at larian.com (Guildford, 🇬🇧) "Execute the Creative Sound Design Vision" #gamejobs jobs.lever.co/larian/fb34c...

🎮 What happens when video games move beyond entertainment and into therapy? A new article by Deanna Holroyd, PhD and Holly Parker, PhD, explores #VideoGames as therapeutic tools for neurodivergent #Children and #Teenagers. 📲 Read: journals.suub.uni-bremen.de/index.php/ga... #GameStudies #Research

Apropos of nothing, here's the callout I wrote for Eurogamer about the glaring lack of female voices in the games media. I wrote this in *2018*. Things did seem to get better for a while but now we're backsliding again and the reasons for it haven't changed. www.eurogamer.net/why-the-game...

BAFTA-nominated Petri Alanko from Helsinki in Finland has made music for Wooga and Supercell, but most importantly you know his work from @remedygames.com's Alan Wake and Control series. We spoke to him about creative pipelines, prototyping music and much more. www.gamesmarket.global/game-music-m...

Collections of studios owned and run by Black People. I'm sure there are some I missed, so please let me know (please double-check that they are owned by black people), and I will add them. Don't just follow them; check out their games. This list is about equity and ownership. go.bsky.app/4wfgP11

ALERT: As part of the inaugural Sydney Games Festival (12-18 Oct ‘26), the organising committee is excited to announce: Every Game Talk Possible (Friday, 16 Oct ‘26)! egtp.org Speaker lineup and tickets on Humanitix: events.humanitix.com/egtp-2026

I hope you like it! You can get it now wherever you get your books, or straight from the publisher here: tinyurl.com/5xwrrf45

Rockstar had a mole in the union worker Discord server "for over two and a half years", GTA 6 company reveals during legal battle https://bit.ly/46U8Y9Q

TT job in game studies at UTM: universityaffairs.ca/search-jobs/...

Microsoft has announced that Hideo Kojima's upcoming project Physint, which can be described as a spiritual successor to Metal Gear Solid, will now be published by Xbox instead of Sony. For more info: https://bit.ly/4hjg39Z

Breaking! CWA members at Blizzard Entertainment have voted to ratify historic first union contracts, securing an unprecedented victory for the video game industry. cwa-union.org/news/release...

EXCLUSIVE: Geoff Keighley and Mark Cerny are launching a big fellowship program for young video game makers 20 six-figure grants a year and mentorship to game design grads They want the Nova Games Foundation to be gaming's version of the MacArthur "genius grant" www.gamefile.news/p/nova-games...

So many great panels and talks. So many great people and conversations. This was an exciting VGC 2026! You can still take a look at all the topics. videogamecultures.org

Demandez le programme ! Le colloque international que je co-organise à Liège les 15-16 septembre, c'est pour bientôt. On y recevra des gens fantastiques d'un peu partout, pour 2 jours de pures discussions autour de la musique de jeu vidéo. 🎮🎶 www.traverses.uliege.be/cms/c_129246...

*NEW ISSUE* *SEPTEMBER 2026* Analog Game Studies Vol. XIII, No. 3 is out! escholarship.org/uc/analoggam... -- featuring: Evan Torner, Alex Roberts & Stephen Shapiro, Cameron Kunzelman, Lucy Roach, & Kathryn Volz, and Helen Roche @analoggamestudies.bsky.social Jrnl #analoggamestudies #ags

Creating this no-ai indie games starter pack is one of the best things I ever did on BlueSky. Lots of great developers in here, making things with their own hands, some of whom I might not have found otherwise!! go.bsky.app/78u8M6Y

Our new article examines how folklore, spirituality, and horror intertwine in Kuon, one of FromSoftware's most intriguing early games. Read it here: jgeekstudies.org/2026/09/02/o... #geekstudies #horrorgames #gamestudies

come to Bergen to do your PhD in game studies? www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

An exciting controller with many customization options. www.kickstarter.com/projects/hum...

A world within a world: exploring virtual reality in contemporary art, its technical potential, aesthetic qualities, and associated imaginations.  https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7772-0/ #VirtualReality #Art #GameStudies #MediaStudies

We're at #gamescom as part of the @indiearenabooth.de! ✨️ Come by, meet the team and play our take on Spyro meets breath of the wild with a magical dog. 🐶

Big day in video game history! Today is the 76th anniversary of Bertie the Brain. Bertie was the first digital computer game playable to the general public, and debuted in Toronto 🍁 www.canadashistory.ca/explore/scie...

Neue und noch aktuelle Calls aus den #GameStudies in unserem Sammelpost: - Die Tagung "Slavic Game Studies III" an der Uni Passau sucht Beiträge über Zeit, Geschichte und Erinnerungssysteme in Games aus Ostmittel- und Osteuropa - Fristverlängerung für Beiträge zum Sammelband "40 Jahre Metal Gear"

🎮 Swansea Video Games Expo is Here! 📅 Sunday, 29th November 2026 📍 Swansea – Brangwyn Hall Prepare for a one-of-a-kind gaming event built by the community, for the community! BUY YOUR TICKETS NOW at SwanseaVGE26.eventbrite.co.uk #gamedev #swansea #retrogaming #cosplay #gamesexpo #indiegamedev

Wir verlängern unseren Metal-Gear-Call um einen Monat: Wir freuen uns auf Eure Vorschläge bis zum 20.09.2026! #gamestudies #metalgear #cfp #cfa

This Thursday, join @kindofstrange.com and @doctorkilmer.bsky.social for a two-hour event about mental health in games with Amir Satvat's Always Supporting the Games Community! August 20th, 9pm ET/6pm Pt Live on LinkedIn and Discord

I'm excited to be collaborating with Cody Mejeur and the Amatryx Game Lab to publish an edited collection on the multiplayer online horror game, Dead By Daylight (Behavior Interactive 2016). Check the CFP and submit an abstract! wiredhistory.com/dbd/cfp-2/ #dbd #deadbydaylight #gamestudies

I spoke to Japanese game devs/industry professionals (including Shuhei Yoshida) about the U.S. games industry layoffs, and why they aren’t happening in Japan. It is both very simple and very interesting, imo! youtu.be/npmohif-jj0