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Chris Bratt @chrisbratt.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

First thing the Blizzcon attendees see as they join the queue for this year’s show.

The Blizzard union stall set up outside of Blizzcon 2026

A sign reading “Unionized Blizzard Gamemakers. We make the games!”

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Ian @brocktoon.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Very happy to announce I've signed a contract for my first book with MIT Press. It's on the miniatures wargames industry as a craft sector. Here's a little overview. I want to thank @noahspringer.com for guiding me through the process. stuckness.ghost.io/book-announc...

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Book Announcement

I'm happy to announce that I've signed my first book deal with MIT Press for a tentative 2028 release. It considers the miniatures wargames industry as a craft industry, and is based on my dissertatio...

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Sebastian Möring @sebomat.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

My episode of the Humour and Games podcast (Season 3, Ep. 9) is out! 🎮😄 The hosts and I talk Tetris parodies, paradox, and the comedy of game design — based on my chapter in Video Games and Comedy (Palgrave, 2022). 🎧 #gamestudies #humor #comedy more info: sebastianmoering.com/humour-and-g...

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Humour and Games Podcasts — Season 3, Episode 9 - Prof. Sebastian Möring, PhD

I’m very happy to share that my episode of Season 3 of the Humour and Games podcast was recently published — and it’s now available to listen to! The interview itself actually dates back to 2022, so i...

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Emil Hammar @elhammar.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

In my lifetime, somehow the majority of people constantly believe that “we can save people by bombing them” even against multiple *recent* cases contradicting this - and that’s even presupposing that “we” are somehow entitled to “save them”

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Emil Hammar @elhammar.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Last retweet applies to 95 percent of political discourse in the west (as well as on the left) around any country in the global south that’s suddenly getting intense media coverage because it’s in the crosshairs of empire. western entitlement straight out of the colonial era centuries ago

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Maybe it’s because I’m a colonial historian but so many of these white nation states seem to behave exactly like they did in the 19th century: ‘your leaders aren’t right for you,’ ‘we’re only killing you/colonizing you/installing puppet leaders for your own good’

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Jeremiah McCall (he/him) @gamingthepast.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Heya Historical Game Studies folks #gamingthepast. I know this is repetitive & shamelessly self-promoting, bt I keep seeing signs people are reading abt historical problem spaces up to 2020 article, when 2024 article is a major update + case study of how mechanics shape game history. Just sayin ...

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C ✊ UVW-CWA @ckjong.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Capitalism has polluted the air, the oceans, the land, our water supplies and food, and now it's polluting the internet

A computer screen displaying a conversation with an AI. The user asks the AI "Are you absolutely sure about that?" In response the AI thinks for 2 seconds and then says "Let me actually verify by looking at the source code directly". However after searching the web multiple times for the Github repository it receives only generic AI-generated responses. The phrase "Gonna throw up" is overlaid on top of the image.

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Emil Hammar @elhammar.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

I saw the title of the new episode of the game business show and thought that Chris dring had invited @brkeogh.bsky.social on there and for a brief minute I was happy to think that the business analyst sphere was connecting with critical research but unfortunately it turned out not to be the case 😅

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Patrick Bresnihan @pbresnihan.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Israel has violated the “ceasefire” nearly 500 times in 44 days, killing 342 civilians. On October 29th alone the IOF killed 109 Palestinians, including 52 children. Where is the statement from our Minister, or anyone in Government, condemning this ongoing genocide? Cowards.

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Stefano Gualeni @gua-le-ni.com · 01/12/2025

Matthew's book is finally here, and I am excited to read it during the upcoming holidays! Congratulations and thanks to @matthewleggatt.bsky.social :) #fictionalgames #dystopia

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Birthe Larsen @birthelarsen.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Så kom de nye ulighedstal for 2024. Gini-koefficienten er stadig over 30, nemlig 30,4 Danmark er ca. det 10. rigeste land i verden. Alligevel levede 4,3% af børnene i relativ fattigdom i 2024.

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Birthe Larsen @birthelarsen.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

“Blå Kors Danmark har nu lukket for ansøgninger til årets julehjælp, og aldrig før har så mange familier rakt ud efter hjælp. I alt har 23.253 familier søgt om julehjælp, hvilket er næsten 2.000 flere end sidste års rekord på 21.285 ansøgninger.” via.ritzau.dk/pressemeddel...

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Ny trist rekord: Over 23.000 familier har søgt julehjælp | Blå Kors Danmark

Kontanthjælpsreform og dyrere dagligvarer rammer de mest udsatte familier hårdt, lyder det fra Blå Kors Danmark.

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Sian Tomkinson @siantomkinson.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

So excited that my first book “Video Games and Gender Assemblages: Understanding Gamergate and Beyond has been released!” A digital edition is forthcoming - do get in touch if you’re interested :) www.bloomsbury.com/au/video-gam...

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Video Games and Gender Assemblages

In this book, Sian Tomkinson examines why, despite around half of gamers being female, highly-gendered stereotypical assumptions pervade the video game industry…

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Frans Mäyrä @fransmayra.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Three (3) new postdoctoral game studies positions are now open for applications. These are related to the exit phase (2026-27) of the CoE-GameCult, and positions will situated in the Tampere University Game Research Lab, COMS/ITC, Tampere University. tuni.rekrytointi.com/paikat/index...

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3 Postdoctoral Researchers (cultural game studies) / 3 tutkijatohtoria (kulttuurinen pelitutkimus)

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Stefano Porciello ** @steporciello.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

The EU’s failure to present a concrete climate action pledge at Wednesday’s United Nations Climate Summit in New York raises doubts over the future of the battle to stop global warming, MEPs from across the political centre have warned.

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United Videogame Workers-CWA @videogameworkers.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Can we interest you in being radicalized rather than leading you into despair

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Birthe Larsen @birthelarsen.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

“Søgningen til de 4 store velfærdsuddannelser er faldet med 4%. På sygeplejerskeuddannelse er optaget 8% færre. Situationen er grotesk.” “CBS og DTU, der uddanner kandidater direkte til beskæftigelse, må ansøgere afvises selv om erhvervslivet efterspørger uddannelserne.” politiken.dk/del/EctJjrAE...

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Stor reform har vist sig at være en kæmpe fiasko

Logikken bag universitetsreformen er bristet.

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Jenni Olson @jenniolsonsf.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Please share widely: “LinkedIn’s quiet decision to retract longstanding, best-practice hate speech protections for transgender and nonbinary people is an overt anti-LGBTQ move — and one that should alarm everyone," a spokesperson for @glaad.bsky.social said in a statement.

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Emil Hammar @elhammar.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

So they’re just going to genocide over two million people, half of them children? And we are supposed to just continue our lives? And people are somehow able to laugh and live and go to work? What a horrible world we are in

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Emil Hammar @elhammar.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

In retrospect it’s weird how the equivalent to “Rhodesia and French Algeria and apartheid South Africa are good and should be protected at all costs and have a right to exist” has been the mainstream position wrt the entity since the 1950s.

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Birthe Larsen @birthelarsen.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

“Den danske økonomi har aldrig haft det bedre, alligevel lever 50.000 børn i dag i fattigdom. Ny forskning viser samtidig store konsekvenser af at vokse op i fattigdom. Det kalder på politisk handling.” Kronik af @ulrikbeck.bsky.social @thomaswilken.bsky.social jyllands-posten.dk/debat/kronik...

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Børnefattigdom er en dårlig forretning og et fælles ansvar

Den danske økonomi har aldrig haft det bedre, alligevel lever 50.000 børn i dag i fattigdom. Ny forskning viser samtidig store konsekvenser af at vokse op i fattigdom. Det kalder på politisk handling.

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Historical Games Network @historygamesnet.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

We’re excited to announce that the online panel discussion for our Gender theme will take place on 29 July, 16:00-17:30 UK time, featuring @tesswatty.bsky.social (chair), @katexe.bsky.social, @andreaskjeldsen.bsky.social and a third, mystery panellist. Tickets at buytickets.at/historicalga....

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Emil Hammar @elhammar.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Boiling in a heatwave while my government ramps up military spending for no reason, cutting down environmental ambitions, and facilitating an almost two years genocide incl. tens/hundreds of thousands of children, while i’m reading about mass layoffs in the games industry

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Emil Hammar @elhammar.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

@brendansinclair.bsky.social hey Brendan just wanted to say how much I appreciated your work at gi biz. I just thought about it today and how much I’m missing it. What you did was really great for so many of us readers

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Emil Hammar @elhammar.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

“Are you saying that this evil Chtulu entity that will destroy all living beings in the universe does not have a right to exist?”

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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Just want to go on the record to say that if a military org is committing a known genocide and shooting the folk they are starving in camps as they line up for food, I think they are fair game for a chant calling for their death.

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Emil Hammar @elhammar.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

This pre-print research article by Jiesi Ma on the mass layoffs and economic turbulence the games industry has undergone the last 3 years is really gold osf.io/preprints/os... #gamestudies

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 26/05/2025

BREAKING: An Israeli airstrike on a school-turned-shelter has killed at least 25 Palestinians, mostly women and children, Gaza's Health Ministry said. The school was hit three times while people slept, setting their belongings ablaze, they added.

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Israeli strike on school-turned-shelter in Gaza kills 25, medics say

An Israeli strike on a school-turned-shelter in the Gaza Strip has killed at least 25 people, mostly women and children, according to the territory’s Health Ministry.

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Emil Hammar @elhammar.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Going through Dmitri Williams' "old" research article on the games industry when PC and console platforms hadn't converged yet, the genre diversity segmentation reflects my own experience in the late 90s with PC game genres (RTS, sim, point n click adventures) versus console genres

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Daniel Joseph @danjokaz00ie.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

As Brendan says later down in his thread, the major problem here is the profit motive - there's really nothing you can do about "deprofessionalization" without addressing what it does to corrode creative labour.

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Emil Hammar @elhammar.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Printing this out and hanging it up everywhere

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Daniel Joseph @danjokaz00ie.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

If you (or anyone you know!) is interested in doing a PhD in critical social science on "digital first" topics in the UK, my research centre is looking for expressions of interest: digitalsociety.mmu.ac.uk/2025/05/14/c...

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Call for PhD applicants in Digital Society at Manchester Metropolitan University - Digital Society Research Cluster

We are delighted to invite expressions of interest to do a PhD in Digital Society with us! DISC is a vibrant and diverse group of interdisciplinary scholars and is home […]

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Emil Hammar @elhammar.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

I’m excited to share that I’ll be giving a keynote at the Playing the Field conference in Bucharest focused on video games and labor. You can find the call for paper and submission details on the website islk.kuwi.tu-dortmund.de/gamestudies/... #gamestudies

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Emil Hammar @elhammar.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

I’m reading @jesperjuul.bsky.social’s Commodore 64 book and it’s very much in line with my own experience and knowledge with games growing up in Northern Europe as these paragraphs verbalizes the disconnect I have with so much retro video game discourse in both games academia and in games media.

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Emil Hammar @elhammar.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

The work that @afterclimate.com.au is doing with Greening the Games Industry project is one of the best and most important areas of work I'm seeing in games and I heartily recommend subscribing to the extremely excellent and informative newsletter that Ben sends out. gtg.benabraham.net

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Greening the Games Industry

Research, news and analysis about the environmental impacts of the games industry and what to do about them

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Emil Hammar @elhammar.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

I'm happy to share the great news that I've started my new postdoctoral position at the University of Copenhagen on this project veluxfonden.dk/en/projekt/l... where I’ll do work on gaming, platforms, finance, gambling, while also continuing my work on the games industry and political economy

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Level up your money game

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Emil Hammar @elhammar.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

The new owners of polygon looks like a very generous company that pays its writers incredibly well it looks like (I’m being sarcastic ofc)

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Emil Hammar @elhammar.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Seeing games media getting gutted and everything moving to personality-driven patreons and substacks or AI generated slop makes me wonder when/if that’ll apply to academia and researchers as well.

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austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

When Nicole was a freelancer years ago, we got to work with her very briefly at Waypoint and we immediately were like “we have to hire Nicole.” We never got the opportunity to do that, so listen, if you have that opportunity: You have to hire Nicole.

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Emil Hammar @elhammar.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Its funny how the enshittification of the internet, forums, search engines, and social media has meant that I now as some old person have started to subscribe to curated email newsletters that honestly feel like breaths of fresh air in terms of clarity and no-nonsense information

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