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DanHELL M. Ford @soundingline.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Just a reminder that my first fantasy trilogy relaunches on August 11th in the eBook format of your choice! A strong week of preorders would be fantastic. #fantasy #paladin #ebook openroadmedia.com/ebook/ordina...

Ordination: Book One of the Paladin Trilogy by Daniel M. Ford
A warhammer with a sunburst on a red banner.

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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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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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Dr Florence Smith Nicholls @florencesn.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Myself and @vongnome.bsky.social are working on a project and we're looking for zines that were made around 2014 (or the mid 2010s) that were in response to or reference gamergate, or mention the concept of "the gamer" in some way. Let me know if you have any leads on this!

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Cody Mejeur @cmejeur.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Excited to share the CFP for Into the Fog: Essays on Dead By Daylight, under contract with McFarland Press! Hoping to get a wide variety of submissions. Abstracts due July 30! See linked CFP for more details. www.facebook.com/share/p/1BN5... #DeadByDaylight #GameStudies #Horror

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Elisa Mekler @elisamekler.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Our team recently read a bibliometric analysis of Games & Culture papers (doi.org/10.1177/1555...) – and it's iffy, to say the least. The paper makes all kinds of claims about the journal's influence on game studies – and there's hardly any analysis that would support this ...

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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 18/02/2026

BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide. This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.

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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Can't help but think of Sara Ahmed's powerful analysis of "diversity work" & what she described as the gap between the university’s symbolic commitment to diversity & the lived & often exhausting reality for faculty & students of color & other underrepresented groups on campus.

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Jess Morrissette @decafjedi.com · 12/01/2026

"Rad Dudes, Rude 'Tude, and the Family, Too: How Nintendo and Sega Advertisements Shaped the Image of Gaming in the 1990s," my latest co-authored article with Dr. Megan Condis, just got accepted at Games: Research and Practice! It's a giant content analysis of thousands of old game ads. 👍

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Andrei Zanescu @andreizanescu.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

New book release! Absolutely massive double volume set on Game Genre edited by Gerald Voorhees, Joshua Call, Matthew Wysocki and Betsy Brey is out now from Bloomsbury.

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Gerald Voorhees @gerald-voorhees.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Book Announcement: Genres are social conventions ratified by creators and audiences, and so they are inherently political commitments that express our attachments and antagonisms to the cultural and political systems that organize our relationswith one another, our environments, and the world.

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Gerald Voorhees @gerald-voorhees.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Excited that these books are now available! A labour of love with some wonderful people.

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Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Me, a professor: *orders a course pack* Campus bookstore: give us two months to make sure these 18 copies you requested you don’t violate any publisher’s copyright Me, an AI company: *violates every publisher’s copyright* Campus bookstore: we will pay you to offer your services to all students

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Gerald Voorhees @gerald-voorhees.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Always a great conference!! Generative conversations, great people, and an amazing location. Hope to see some of you there!

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Aaron Trammell @aarontram.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

🎉🔥🎉ANNOUNCEMENT 🎉🔥🎉DAY🎉🔥🎉 Jonathan Rey Lee’s book on CATAN is almost out. It’s the first in the Tabletop Gaming series that Paul Booth and I have been hard at work editing this past three years. Anyway, the book is fantastic. Please consider it and share with the right people.

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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Visa and Mastercard have the opportunity to do something really funny.

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Edmond Chang @edmondchang.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Roll with Advantage: Creative, Collaborative, and Critical Responses to Dungeons & Dragons (Play Story Press 2025) edited by Suzanne Richardson & Edmond Y. Chang: playstorypress.org/books/roll-w... - in print or open access PDF! #analoggamestudies #creativewriting #dungeonsanddragons #dnd

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Stephanie Harkin @saharkin.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

My book is out! 💗 Girlhood Games: Gender, Identity and Coming of Age in Videogames is a 6-year-long labour of love for young adult stories, teen heroines in videogames and unnoticed girly game histories. Thank you @livvy.itch.io for the beautiful cover! www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Book cover for "Girlhood Game: Gender, Identity, and Coming of Age in Video Games." A youthful feminine bedroom is depicted, centring on a computer desk setup with game accessories.

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Analog Game Studies @analoggamestudies.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Our latest issue of Analog Game Studies is now available! Daniel Lawson on transmediation and the Marvel Super Heroes RPG, Hugh O’Donnell on tabletop simulations, Brian Jason Thomas on Taskmaster & mental health, and Keith Jones on Around the World in 80 Games. #StayAnalog analoggamestudies.org

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Analog Game Studies

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Evan Torner @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Brand-new International Journal of Role-Playing issue, this time on the topic of Consent in RPGs. @suzphdm.bsky.social served as Special Issue Editor on this one, and we are thrilled to see it in the world. journals.uu.se/IJRP/issue/v...

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No. 16 (2025): International Journal of Role-playing Issue 16 | International Journal of Role-Playing

Special Issue: Consent in Analog Role-playing Games

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Gerald Voorhees @gerald-voorhees.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Not sure why folks on the left are cheering right wing infighting. The night of the long knives was the nazis killing other nazis to consolidate power

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Gerald Voorhees @gerald-voorhees.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

This groundhog was giving me side-eye from grabbing apples off a tree on a public street. Share the apples, buddy!

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Josh Call @joshcall.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

This has been a project long in the making, and evolving from several years of conversations with good friends and colleagues. I'm beyond proud to have worked with everyone to help bring these to life.

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Gerald Voorhees @gerald-voorhees.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Genre is inherently political. It captures the sensibilities of contemporary life and strategies for responding to the present that cultivate different futures Updated/Final covers for a passion-project w/ @joshcall.bsky.social, @profmatthew.bsky.social, and @betsybrey.bsky.social Out Jan 2026!

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 15/08/2025

Pre-announcement of a funding opportunity for "artificial intelligence humanities sandpits," supported by AHRC, EPSRC, and SSHRC. Expressions of interest by 31 Oct; up to four grants will be funded.

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Pre-announcement: artificial intelligence humanities sandpits: Canada, UK and US

AHRC and SSHRC plan to invite expressions of interest to attend a humanities-led, interdisciplinary research sandpit looking to put humanities insights and methodologies at the heart of artificial int...

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austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

And I've obviously been saying this a lot lately, but BDS does not expect anyone to drop everything made by Microsoft all at once. They pick very specific targets in order to get as wide a coalition as possible, and in the case of Xbox, even suggest different tiers of engagement.

The BDS movement is calling for people to pressure Microsoft with divestment and exclusion from contracts, whenever feasible. We also call for boycotting Microsoft’s gaming products, with the following options as tiers of engagement:

Cancel your Xbox Game Pass subscription.
Boycott Candy Crush, Minecraft and Call of Duty – flagship videogame franchises owned by Microsoft.
Boycott all Microsoft Gaming products, including Xbox-branded consoles, headsets, accessories and all games published by Microsoft-owned publishing labels (such as Xbox Game Studios, Activision, Bethesda and Blizzard).

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Florence Chee @cheeflo.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

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...

Cover thumbnail and quotes for the book Digital Game Culture in Korea: The Social at Play by Florence M. Chee

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Analog Game Studies @analoggamestudies.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Missed Generation Analog 2025? Want to revisit a panel or lecture? Conference videos are now live! Peruse the "PUNK" playlist now: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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GENERATION ANALOG 2025 "PUNK"

YouTube video by Analog Game Studies

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Michael Iantorno☔️🕹️ @michaeliantorno.com · 11/07/2025

Academia is rewriting the same research proposal 5 times to make different groups of people like you.

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Alison Harvey @digitalpromises.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

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

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Dom Ford @domford.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

📖My book is out! My book Mytholudics: Games and Myth is now available. In it, I propose a way of understanding and analysing games as and through myth. @degruyterbrill.bsky.social doi.org/10.1515/9783...

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Mytholudics

Games create worlds made of many different elements, but also of rules, systems and structures for how we act in them. So how can we make sense of them? Mytholudics: Games and Myth lays out an approac...

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Dr. Steve Mallory @drstevemallory.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Fascism is DEI for white men That's it.

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Ed Lynch @goatburgler.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Barack Obama wanted to give Americans universal healthcare when Democrats had a supermajority in Congress. Republicans formed the Tea Party and watered the ACA down to almost nothing. Republicans have a slim majority now and Democrats pretend they’re helpless. They’re not helpless, they’re gutless.

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Bonnie Honig @bonniehonig.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

They are listing forbidden words because they are using word-search to identify material they want to prohibit, rather than judgment — which is human and would take longer. Digital search is for when you don’t care about getting things right, and just want to scare people into panoptic behavior

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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Honestly, I think even those of us who were saying gamergate is a training ground for/and direct path to outright fascism are probably a little bit surprised at how literally correct we actually were.

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Gerald Voorhees @gerald-voorhees.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

If you like the pacing and tone of contemporary fantasy but also appreciate accessible writing that doesn’t read like the comments section, then check out the Warden series by @soundingline.bsky.social . Preorders for the third book is open

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/01/2025

i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country

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Andrei Zanescu @andreizanescu.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

We're now less than a month away from the release of Streaming by the Rest of Us: Microstreaming Videogames on Twitch (February 18th)! Please share far and wide, and feel free to get in touch with myself, Mia Consalvo or Marc Lajeunesse!

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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

If you’re a straight, cis person who has ever posted some version of a rainbow with “you’re safe with me” or similar, it’s time to back up the words with action— contact your reps and ask them what they’re going to do to protect trans people from this administration, particularly trans kids.

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Renata Ntelia (she/her) @renatadrlove.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

My article "Sex as Reward in Games" can be found among great company in the recently published Handbook of Sex and Sexuality in Games Studies by Bloomsbury. You can find more details and buy the book here: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/bloomsbur... (if you're interested in reading my article dm me).

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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Sex and Sexuality in Game Studies

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Sex and Sexuality in Game Studies consists of a comprehensive collection of essays that review and supplement current work focusing o…

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The QGCon Collective @qgcon.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

It's happening!~ QGCon is now accepting submissions for the 2025 conference and we want *you* to apply! We're looking for presentations and games in a whole bunch of different formats this year. Read below for more ✨⬇️⬇️⬇️✨

A diverse group of QGCon attendees laughing and taking notes during a workshop, with overlaid text: "QGCon: The Queerness and Games Convention: Call for Papers & Call for Games"

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Make a Scene! Scenario Festival @makeascenemn.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

The Transformative Role-playing Game Design textbook is now available for free download! Featuring authors from Uppsala University, Dragons' Nest, Avalon Larp Studio, Chaos League, and more! buff.ly/3CiHFdR

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Gerald Voorhees @gerald-voorhees.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

If you're interested, here are the table of contents for both volumes, pulled from the clearance read files. Too many amazing folks to tag!

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Dr. Will Helmke @williamhelmke.com · 23/01/2025

My essay on games as reproductions of space is in the epistemic genre volume-looking forward to it finally being published!

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Gerald Voorhees @gerald-voorhees.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Genre studies of games are mostly stuck on early 2000s formalism. These 2 companion volumes push game studies toward understandings of games as 'equipment for living' and genres as located in the social and cultural conditions of their production and consumption. Coming Summer 2025!

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Dr. Christine H. Tran @thechristinet.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Now in paperback! 📕 My contributor’s copy of “Playthrough Poetics: Gameplay as Method” in colourful glory! Mess with somebody’s computer clock today, in honor of us ⏰

Playthrough Poetics: Gameplay as Research Method, edited by Milena Droumeva; cover

My chapter “The Great Lateness of Lon-Live Gaming: A Temporal Eulogy to the Video Game Playthrough

OP in a screenshot of their accompanying video essay

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