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Sarah Stang @sarahstang.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Guess what? Here at Brock we have an MA program in Game Studies! That's right - you can do Game Studies at the graduate level with us! My excellent fellow game scholar @emmavphd.bsky.social also teaches in the program! Attend our info session tomorrow (or in December) to learn more! 🎮📖🎓

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Michael Iantorno☔️✊ @michaeliantorno.com · 28/08/2026

I'm happy to share a new 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗙𝗼𝗿 𝗣𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀 for an edited collection on game preservation in Canada, with co-editors @jeanketterling.bsky.social and @videogamehistorian.bsky.social. We welcome essays, material studies, and interviews. Full details at the link below - please share widely!

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Call For Papers – GamePreservation.ca

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Boo-rad Shankar @bradshankar.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Jennifer Hale once told me Canadians need to champion ourselves more. I wholeheartedly agree. Over the past few months, I reached out to dozens of Canadian devs to learn their favourite Canadian games. Their varied responses offer a wonderful spotlight on some of the incredible talent we have here.🍁

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These are must-play Canadian games, according to Canadian devs

As Canadians, we don't champion ourselves enough, so we asked dozens of game developers to do just that.

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GAMERella @gamerella.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

✨ Sponsor a Seat ✨ and help us build a kinder games industry! Our first-ever Sponsor a Seat campaign lets YOU directly support the GAMERella Game Jam. We especially welcome sponsorship from indies, small biz, and individuals. Join us! #GAMERella #gamejam #montreal #fundraising

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GAMERella @gamerella.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

🎉 SIGN-UP FOR THE 2026 GAMERella GAME JAM IS OPEN! This 2-day game-making event is FREE, inclusive, low-stress, beginner-friendly! • Nov 14-15, 2026 • downtown Montreal. Our jam is focused on creating a supportive and safe space for equity-deserving individuals. 🩵🩶🩷 #GAMERella #gamejam #gamedev

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 10/09/2026

a) wikipedia creates, rather than destroys, context b) wikipedia is the result of people expressing *care* about both subjects in particular and having well ordered information in general slop is the opposite of care. it is indifference

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blair @blairaf.com · 09/09/2026

If you're interested in working on trans issues in AI policy or equity/justice in AI more generally, I'm still looking for PhD students! Email me if you'd like to apply

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molly tanzer (I guess!!) @mollytanzer.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.

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Press Start Journal @psjournal.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Open Call for Papers 2026🥰📢 Press Start is currently seeking full-length game studies papers from current grad students/recent grads. Submit by Dec 4, 2026, for a potential spot in our 2027 issue! More details below in this thread👇 #CallForPapers #GameStudies

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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

CALL FOR PAPERS CONSOLE-ING PASSIONS International Conference on Television, Video, Audio, New Media, and Feminism June 28 – 30, 2027 University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands www.console-ingpassions.org

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CONSOLE-ING PASSIONS

We've renamed our travel grant! Formerly the Jane Feuer Travel Grant, it has been reimagined as the CP Founders Memorial Travel Grant — now honoring all five feminist media studies scholars who...

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Gregory Blomquist @gcwblomquist.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Also a big shoutout to my fellow panelists James Cartlidge and Daniel John for their fantastic presentations on retrofuturist utopianism in UFO50 and Mina the Hollower, and Fallout's depictions of nostalgia and dystopia, respectively!

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Gregory Blomquist @gcwblomquist.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Had a wonderful time presenting on Pokémon creepypasta, nostalgia, and hauntology at this year's Retrofuturism 4.0 Symposium! Thank you so much to Michiel Kamp and Ross Cole for organizing and moderating the event!

PowerPoint title screen of the presentation entitled "The Ghosts of Pokémon’s Past, Present, and Future: (Im)materiality and Haunting Nostalgia of Pokémon Creepypasta" by Gregory Blomquist with an image of the player encountering GHOST from Pokémon Red

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Jonaya Kemper @violetriotgames.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

This Winter I'll be teaching an Experimental TTRPG course and I'll be focusing on solo journaling games. If you have a game you think I should read, or you have a game you really love, please plug it and tell me about it. ✨ Also please share widely. I want some non US perspectives.

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Akito INOUE @hiyokoya6.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I co-edited an English-language book, Japanese Game Studies: A Guide to Studying Japanese Games link.springer.com/book/9789819... and it is now out. The project started back in 2021, so it has taken us five years to finally get it published... hiyokoya.hatenadiary.jp/entry/2026/0...

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Japanese Game Studies: A Guide to Studying Japanese Games - Critique of Games メモと寸評

I co-edited an English-language book, Japanese Game Studies: A Guide to Studying Japanese Games https://link.springer.com/book/9789819598564 and it is now out. The project started back in 2021, so it ...

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Press Start Journal @psjournal.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

🤩New Issue Published!🤩 We are thrilled to announce the publication of the latest issue of Press Start! Huge thanks to all our authors and reviewers for their hard work and dedication. Please check it out and share widely: press-start.gla.ac.uk/press-start/...

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Joleen Blom @jjol33n.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

@renatadrlove.bsky.social, Magda Bednorz, and I are organising the workshop "Love in games" at CHI PLAY'26 on Nov. 2. Please find the CFP here: renatantelia.dfs.gr/wip/

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CFP – Renata Ntelia

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Dr. Emma Vossen @emmavphd.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Did you know we (@brock-ddh.bsky.social at Brock University in Ontario 🇨🇦) offer a 2-year MA in Game Studies? I teach one of our grad seminars, Methodological Paradigms in Game Studies! Feel free to DM me anytime if you have Q's about applying for Fall 2027/28! #gamestudies brocku.ca/humanities/d...

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Master of Arts in Game Studies

The MA in Game Studies is an interdisciplinary and interfaculty program designed to provide students with a well-rounded, high-quality venue for studying and designing games in all their forms. Throug...

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 30/07/2026

All money, minus processing fees for itch, goes to out of work game developers to pay for food, housing, healthcare, and whatever they need to make it through. Neither we as the organizers nor UVW take any of the money from the bundle. Game developers can apply here: uvw-cwa.org/hardship-fun...

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Game Worker Hardship Fund

Who is eligible to apply for this fund?This fund is for game workers in the US and Canada impacted by record layoffs & other hardships in the games industry within the timeframe of January 2024 to the...

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Gregory Blomquist @gcwblomquist.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I know it’s not a unique opinion in any way, but I *loved* Widow’s Bay!

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Elina Koskinen @elinako.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

If you have played Pokémon Pokopia, we would be grateful if you could fill out our survey on player experiences (especially in relation to the characters)! Find our short survey at: link.webropolsurveys.com/S/C0B1AB08C2... Feel free to share with other Pokopia players :)

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Michael Iantorno☔️✊ @michaeliantorno.com · 30/07/2026

Once more, I share with you all this radical starter pack featuring Canadian game studies scholars. Let me know if you or someone you love should be added.

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Gregory Blomquist @gcwblomquist.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Hi, Rachel! Thanks for posting the Games Studies starter pack! Could you please add me to it as well?

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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

"don't cite what you haven't read" remains the basic entry level academic responsibility; & if your discpline "doesn't have that as a norm" then sorry, your discipline needs reforming for this new world. Citations are structural parts of trust and knowledge building, not trinkets or optional extras

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Gerald Voorhees @gerald-voorhees.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Dear Game Studies: I have been appointed Editor in Chief of Loading... The Journal of the Canadian Game Studies Association. I will issue a call for Associate & Managing Editors in the next few weeks, and for reviewers (including Editorial Review Board). I expect to reopen submissions this Fall.

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Marcus Carter @marcuscarter.com · 09/07/2026

Happy to finally share a project we’ve been working on: www.ludolio.com, a digital game distribution platform that lets University libraries lend commercial games like ebooks.

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Ludolio - The platform helping libraries lend games.

Ludolio, the platform helping libraries lend games.

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Jérémie Pelletier-Gagnon @jeremiepgagnon.net · 02/07/2026

The latest issue of the Journal of Replaying Japan is now accessible through the Ritsumeikan Research Depository and the replaying.jp webpages. Many thanks to all contributors, reviewers, staff and editorial board members for their contributions. #gamestudies #japanesestudies

replaying.jp

Replaying Japan – Website of the Replaying Japan Conference and the Journal of Replaying Japan

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Frank Cifaldi @frankcifaldi.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

As the director of a historical video game preservation institution, and someone who has dedicated his entire adult life to this cause, this is accurate. We have attempted to work with the industry's trade organization to find a legal path forward, but they refuse to offer a meaningful alternative.

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Nyxxes @nyx-xes.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Inverted Realities: Kyoto in Glitch Art #Photography #Glitch #GlitchArt #Glitchtober #Kyoto

A photo from Kyoto looking down a street with cyclists crossing. It's been distorted to appear glitched.

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PB Berge 💖 @persephone.blue · 25/06/2026

You can pick up HOW'S NEXT WEEK? and a tumbler full of #ttrpgs with this bundle up on the new RPG Trader platform! rpg-trader.com/products/483...

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HOW'S NEXT WEEK? on RPG Trader

a solo-journaling anti-game for when session gets cancelled

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Press Start Journal @psjournal.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Hi all, we are looking for three peer reviewers for an article on Chinese indie games. Please see the attached image for the abstract. Please note that all reviewers for Press Start must be current students or within one year of graduation. Contact info in the replies👇

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CGSA/ACÉJ @cgsaacej.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Game Over? Not! 🎮👾 CGSA 2026 concludes its *20TH YEAR* as a gathering for game scholars, makers, & enthusiasts. THANK YOU to Marc Lajeunesse, coordinator of @tag-centre.bsky.social at Concordia University for hosting (3 times!) our members from & beyond Canada🍁 👀 Stay tuned for next year’s CGSA!

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Frans Mäyrä @fransmayra.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

We were happily surprised to be provided funding (by Tampere University’s Library) of making an Open Access version of the entire “Cultural Game Studies” book available. All book version details should eventually be updated into the web page at: www.routledge.com/Cultural-Gam...

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Cultural Game Studies: Critical Approaches

Cultural Game Studies provides a comprehensive framework for understanding games and play as interconnected cultural phenomena, examining their roles as art, entertainment, and human experience within...

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Gregory Blomquist @gcwblomquist.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

At the CGSA/ACEJ @cgsaacej.bsky.social conference, I presented on Pokémon remakes, nostalgia, and game preservation! I had a fantastic time, and I am so proud of the presenters and presentations on our panel. Thanks to the organizers and our wonderful community for another inspiring conference!

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Gregory Blomquist @gcwblomquist.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

That’s awesome! Congratulations, Joleen!!

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Press Start Journal @psjournal.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

💡Reminder: The deadline for submitting your CV and statement of interest is May 31, 2026👏 We are looking forward to working with you😃

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The Video Game Library 📚 @thevideogamelibrary.org · 26/05/2026

If preserving and spotlighting 𝐇𝐔𝐌𝐀𝐍-𝐰𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨 𝐠𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 matters to you, I’d love for you to give this a read 👇 #NoAI #Booksky #HumanMade

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Jason Hawreliak @profjay.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Game dev folks, we are looking to survey people involved in the gaming industry to explore developer attitudes towards Generative AI in videogame development. The survey will take between 10-20 minutes. 1/2 brock.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

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Qualtrics Survey | Qualtrics Experience Management

The most powerful, simple and trusted way to gather experience data. Start your journey to experience management and try a free account today.

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Michael Iantorno☔️✊ @michaeliantorno.com · 24/04/2026

The Old Games Zine makes a triumphant return in 2026, thanks to Hannah Chafe and the folks at the Syd Bolton Collection! 🧹This year's zine is 𝘈𝘭𝘭 𝘈𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘊𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘥𝘨𝘦 𝘊𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨, and provides a simple step-by-step guide for cleaning your retro videogame cartridges.

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Old Games Zine 2026 by Michael Iantorno

A zine about cleaning video game cartridges

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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 17/04/2026

After 20 years, influential game jam Ludum Dare will wind down: aftermath.site/after-20-years...

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CGSA/ACÉJ @cgsaacej.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

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

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Gregory Blomquist @gcwblomquist.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Agreed! I think that’s the core reason why the OSR exists and how a solid, but trimmed down, game like Shadowdark has such a big following. Eat snacks, roll some dice, and maintain a (somewhat) consistent schedule to see friends.

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Interactive Arts Alberta @iaalberta.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

That's right! The legendary Roberta Taylor will be teaching through play March 9 at Walkthrough and all interested in board game design are welcome to attend. RSVP at the link below and make sure you're ready for an evening of fun!

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Michael Iantorno☔️✊ @michaeliantorno.com · 13/02/2026

💾The Games & Storage special issue of Critical Studies in Media Communication is officially out! 📚Thanks to editors @nickttaylor.bsky.social, @thechristinet.bsky.social, and Robyn Hope for putting this together. 📡Be sure to check out my article on Satellaview restoration, 𝘚𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘈𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘦𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘪𝘦𝘴!

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Critical Studies in Media Communication

Games & Storage. Volume 42, Issue 5 of Critical Studies in Media Communication

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Clara Fernandez-Vara @clarafv.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

We’re looking for someone at a senior level to work with the best faculty and students in game design.* come join us! *okay, I’m a bit biased.

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Jérémie Pelletier-Gagnon @jeremiepgagnon.net · 29/01/2026

Replaying Japan 2026, the 14th International Japan Game Studies Conference, will be held August 18-21 2026 at Ritsumeikan University Osaka Ibaraki Campus. The theme is Intersections of Popular Culture and Transmedia Entertainment. #replayingjapan #gamestudies #japanstudies www.replaying.jp

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Replaying Japan 2026 Call for Papers

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Andrew Borman @borman.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Save the Games 2.0 Call for Papers is open! The symposium will be held at The Strong in Rochester, NY on July 29 and 30. The deadline for submissions if February 20, 2026! www.museumofplay.org/save-the-gam...

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