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Esther Wright

@enwright.bsky.social

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Senior Lecturer in Digital History @ Cardiff University. Historical video game marketing & Rockstar Games researcher. Co-convenor: @historygamesnet [She/her]. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

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Esther Wright @enwright.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

It's publication day for Writing Game Histories!! 🥳🎉 Please do recommend it for your library, but it's also out in paperback so not as hideously expensive as academic books can be: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/writing-g... @doktornick.bsky.social @doni.bsky.social @historygamesnet.bsky.social

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Esther Wright @enwright.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

This Friday (24th; 6pm UK/1pm Eastern) I'm speaking with Daniel J. Finnegan on our work with the Cardiff Heritage Jam, engaging students with local history & heritage through games, for this Teaching Game Studies roundtable (in excellent company, too!) Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Esther Wright @enwright.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

And now, Writing Game Histories (2026) with cover art (courtesy of @murthynikhil.bsky.social’s Syphilisation) www.bloomsbury.com/uk/writing-g...

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Esther Wright @enwright.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

I wrote a new article: it’s on the Fallout franchise, & it’s just been published in Games&Culture I’m currently trying to wrap my head around a bigger project on historical video game promotion and branding & this article is a slice (in progress) of that + it’s open access! doi.org/10.1177/1555...

A screenshot of the article’s title and author on the Games & Culture website.

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Esther Wright @enwright.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

I made this today to (less eloquently) express the same feeling (of rage):

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Esther Wright @enwright.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Oops, gotta add another post. As @readdead.com demonstrates in this post, this analysis shatters any claims towards “historical reality” R* might be purporting to show, in favour of, effectively, a white male fantasy space. Again, not a shocker, is it. readdead.com/2025/07/02/w...

An image showing 4 graphs. The top two are based on demographic data for the population of Louisiana in 1900, by race and gender. The bottom two are based on the same demographic analysis of major characters in Red Dead Redemption 2, published on readdead.com

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Esther Wright @enwright.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

And I have a cute dog, who i only forced to pose with my book once, I promise.

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