An academic’s miniature Grand Theft Auto goes beyond critiquing capitalism to show what might come after.

When the real web gets boring, artists build stranger ones

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Large language models are metaphor machines: they generate text based on similarities and proximity in their training data. I argue that this metaphor-based text generation leads to what John Gallaghe...

In this essay, I argue that the ludification of culture should be considered as an overall failure. The effects of (digital) play in culture and society have be...

My name is Avery Alder, and for the past eighteen years I’ve been designing tabletop roleplaying games. These are games about community, relationships, doubt, queerness, and the collapse of civilizati...

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 ...

MIGUEL SICART

Miguel Sicart se pregunta en su nuevo libro cuál es el papel del juego en el final de un mundo; no del mundo en general, sino del nuestro.

Playing Futures is a conference about the role of games and play during and after the impending climate and energy catastrophes. The goal of the conference is to serve as a meeting point for the commu...

A one-day hackathon for building things nobody needs and solving problems nobody has.

The millenarianism and manifest destiny of AI and techno-futurism.

MatrAIx is open-source evaluation infrastructure for simulating diverse users before real-world deployment.

A Mesoamerican fantasy RPG that blends turn-based and real-time combat. Explore the world through three handcrafted stories forged in bloodshed, laced with magic, and united by revenge.

Playing Futures is a conference about the role of games and play during and after the impending climate and energy catastrophes. The goal of the conference is to serve as a meeting point for the commu...

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This book applies theories, methods, and concepts from game studies to soccer. This is a game studies book about soccer that studies the rules and design of

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A new book co‑authored by ITU Professor Miguel Sicart examines soccer through the lens of game studies, analysing how rules, interpretation, and play shape the world’s most popular game.