iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Johannesburg’s Nyamakop Studios turns African artifact repatriation into a bold heist game. Protagonist Nomali and a crew of ordinary citizens reclaim 70 real-life artifacts taken during the colonial era. The 30-person dev team includes people from Zimbabwe, Ghana, Nigeria, Ethiopia and Tanzania.

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Video game 'reloots' stolen artefacts, by reclaiming works of art from Western museums

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Phill Penix-Tadsen @penixtadsen.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

I guess… Pets in the Park? 🤷🏻‍♂️

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Phill Penix-Tadsen @penixtadsen.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

I guess… Pets in the Park? 🤷🏻‍♂️

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Felipe Pepe @felipepepe.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

So, today I'm announcing a new book project... and doing a call for papers: crpgbook.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/t... It's an anthology of video game history outside the usual US perspective - an accessible & exciting panorama of different realities - and I'll pay 300 USD per article. Please share :)

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The Video Game History Expansion Pack – Pitch your story

Today I’m putting my money where my mouth is and launching a new project — a book focused on game history outside of the usual North American perspectives.

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Phill Penix-Tadsen @penixtadsen.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Published research with @mitpress.bsky.social, or heck, pretty much anywhere? Check this Class Action Law Suit. You'll get $1500 and the publisher will get $1500 (for selling your work to A.I.) Click "Works List Lookup" then "File a Claim" secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/standard/con...

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Phill Penix-Tadsen @penixtadsen.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

A student alerted me to this in my Video Games and Latin America course last week. It looks amazing!

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Phill Penix-Tadsen @penixtadsen.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

A new Peruvian mystery game about 1990s LAN parties? Yes please!!!

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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT! @mahliann.bsky.social, @marcuscarter.com, and myself have combined our collective brains and written a wide-reaching introduction to the complex and interdisciplinary field of Game Studies in this forthcoming book for Polity. www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

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Phill Penix-Tadsen @penixtadsen.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Not... 40 Oz. to Freedom? *Too* dirtbag?

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Phill Penix-Tadsen @penixtadsen.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Neutral Milk Hotel, In the Aeroplane Over the Sea?

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camila freitas @xcafreitasx.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

New Bratsu post just dropped! We’re telling this story in english so the world can get a taste of what it means to be BR 😉 Check this out: medium.com/@bratsu.scho...

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Sega vs Nintendo: How TecToy Won Brazil’s Console War

Imagine a parallel universe where Sega’s Master System doesn’t just defeat Nintendo’s NES — it practically wipes Mario off the map. Sounds…

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Adrienne Shaw @adrishaw.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

If you've assigned my work in your classes, please send me a copy of the syllabus: adrienne.shaw@temple.edu. Thank you!

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Phill Penix-Tadsen @penixtadsen.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

My review of 'Border Tunnels' by Juan Llamas-Rodriguez (@llamasjr.bsky.social) was just published by Journal of Cinema and Media Studies. I give this book my strongest recommendation for scholars and teachers of cultural / border / game / media studies! tinyurl.com/btunnels

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Border Tunnels Review PTPT.pdf

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Phill Penix-Tadsen @penixtadsen.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

I did one of these recently with my own (meager) travel funds because a) a friend organized, b) it was good networking and exposure for me and c) it helped build community on Latin America and games. Otherwise I would offer a remote keynote? Not worth the line in the CV if it costs $$$

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Phill Penix-Tadsen @penixtadsen.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Dios mío, siguen los rumores de de un PDF FILTRADO de mi libro Cultural Code: Video Games and Latin America (precio $50). Se dice que cualquiera lo puede leer GRATIS siguiendo el enlace. 😱 ...Y si la gente comparte el enlace o el PDF es posible que se difunda más aún. 😬😬😉 tinyurl.com/culturalcode

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Cultural Code Page Proofs.pdf

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Phill Penix-Tadsen @penixtadsen.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

OMG I heard a rumor that my book Cultural Code: Video Games and Latin America (price $50) was LEAKED! They say anyone who follows the link can just read it for FREE. My work is publicly accessible. 😱 If people shared this link or the PDF the word could spread further. 😬😬😉 tinyurl.com/culturalcode

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Cultural Code Page Proofs.pdf

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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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Phill Penix-Tadsen @penixtadsen.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

🚨 Viral Post Alert 🚨 Please share your favorite Camping 🏕 and/or Poutine 🥔 spots in: - Montréal, QC (poutine only) 🇨🇦 - Forillon National Park (NP), QC 🇨🇦 - Kouchibouguac NP, NS 🇨🇦 - Halifax, NS (poutine, seafood also welcome 🦪) 🇨🇦 - Fundy NP, NB 🇨🇦 - White Mountains, NH / ME 🇺🇸 Thank you / Merci 🇨🇦 🇺🇸

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Phill Penix-Tadsen @penixtadsen.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Coco Fusco with biting and much-needed perspective, humor and critique--as always! (I'm quitting posts about politics on social media...but this is art!)

hyperallergic.com

The Sanest Response to Insane Times

MAGA is coming for our rights. The Siren is here to fight back.

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Phill Penix-Tadsen @penixtadsen.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Regional game studies & Latin America folks: new special issue of the Arg. journal Cuadernos del CIESAL on video games and society. I had the privilege of contributing along with other great folks! Please take a look and thanks to Fernando Rodríguez Herrejón for editing! tinyurl.com/3e6prrhx

cuadernosdelciesal.unr.edu.ar

Vol. 2 Núm. 23 (2024) | Cuadernos del Ciesal

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Phill Penix-Tadsen @penixtadsen.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Gente de game studies regional, eche un vistazo a este nuevo número especial de la revista argentina Cuadernos del CIESAL sobre "Videojuegos y su relación con la sociedad contemporánea". Un servidor, entre otrxs, ha contribuido a un número provocador 🔥 cuadernosdelciesal.unr.edu.ar/index.php/in...

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Vol. 2 Núm. 23 (2024) | Cuadernos del Ciesal

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Phill Penix-Tadsen @penixtadsen.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

I love this book as a resource, but no doubt it has many problems--lumping together "Africa" and "Arab World" but Austria, Germany and Ireland each get a chapter? But there wasn't a lot to build on in terms of regional game studies when it was published. The field has grown since, but more needed!

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Phill Penix-Tadsen @penixtadsen.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

As a scholar of games in the global south I'm super-excited about all the discussion your recent article has generated! ❤️ And at the same time I see comments from people who don't know research on this subject even exists. This shoutout is 🔥🔥🔥 Souvik, Luis and others have been at it for a minute!

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Felipe Pepe @felipepepe.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

BTW, the amazing @thevideogamelibrary.org has a curation of books on video games from a more global perspective, it's worth a look: www.thevideogamelibrary.org/blog/hashtag... Curious about games in India & South Asia? There's a book called "Videogames in the Indian Subcontinent", and much more! :)

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Phill Penix-Tadsen @penixtadsen.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Hello new followers and folks interested in video games in Latin America and the Global South! PDFs of all my stuff at sites.udel.edu/ptpt/

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Felipe Pepe @felipepepe.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Já que o artigo bombou, achei justo fazer uma versão PT-BR: felipepepe.medium.com/a-coloniza%C... Dei uma adaptada, em português posso ser mais ácido e acredito não precisar explicar oq é uma lanhouse XD Agradecimentos ao @belmonteiro.bsky.social pela ajuda com a tradução :)

felipepepe.medium.com

A Colonização da História dos Video Games

Não, você não foi uma criança estadunidense de classe média

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Sole Zeta @zetasole.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

It's "video game history is too USA-centric" discourse, so let me post four stills from Argentinian games in case they might arouse the curiosity of any inquisitive foreigner.

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Felipe Pepe @felipepepe.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Here we go, something I've been drafting for a long, long time: how the US-centric approach to video games and their history / culture basically gaslights us who come from other realities: felipepepe.medium.com/the-gentrifi... AKA, why LAN Houses, PokéTibia & Bomba Patch rule.

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The Gentrification of Video Game History

We’re not all suburban kids who got a Nintendo 64 for Christmas

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Phill Penix-Tadsen @penixtadsen.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Es un gusto compartir mi artículo "El impacto histórico de las consolas clónicas mexicanas de las décadas de 1970 y 1980", publicado recientemente en la revista de acceso abierto 'Istor' Muchas gracias a Fernando Rodríguez Herrejón por editar este número especial. ecos.cide.edu/istor-93-his...

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Istor 93: Historia y Videojuegos

Fue en la década de 1970 cuando los videojuegos se convirtieron en un éxito comercial, primero en Estados Unidos pero poco a poco fueron expandiéndose a escala global, por lo que desde hace varios…

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Phill Penix-Tadsen @penixtadsen.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

I'm really happy to share my article "Pirating Platform Studies: The Historical Impact of Latin American Clone Consoles, 1973-1994", recently published in the open-access journal 'Gamevironments'. doi.org/10.48783/gam...

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Pirating Platform Studies. The Historical Impact of Latin American Clone Consoles, 1973-1994 | gamevironments

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John Romero @johnromero.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Designers: Looking for an inclusive, welcoming team? We have many new roles open. Join our team of 80+ as we work on a new FPS and a new IP. Great benefits and a great team.

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Phill Penix-Tadsen @penixtadsen.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Me, thinking of adopting my first dog and having no knowledge of dog breeds: "I just want a dog who will chill and play video games with me." The dog breed that picked me out at the pound:

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Roque - Australian Cattledog wins Agility event

YouTube video by Bazzaland

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videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

toker, magazine screenshot, commodore pet/cbm (1979) archive.org/details/pet-...

the screenshot shows a lofi pixelated face, a lofi pixelated bong. there is a bar at the top of the screen for 'diaphragm reserve capacity' (maximum reading 100). a text box on the screen reads:
hitakey
matches
another text box reads:
out of breath!
below this is the game title.

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Phill Penix-Tadsen @penixtadsen.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Muito obrigado pela recomendaçāo! E por compartilhar o arquivo :)

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Phill Penix-Tadsen @penixtadsen.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

After years off social media, I'm taking a shot at rebirth. Following & discussing things related to: - Latin America 🌎 - video games 🎮 - regional game studies 🗺️ - cultural & media studies 🎞️ - academic game studies programs 🤓 - nature 🍃 - national parks 🏞️ - camping 🏕️ - travel 🧳 - positivity 🧘‍♂️

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Phill Penix-Tadsen @penixtadsen.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Rumor has it there is a PDF of my book 'Cultural Code: Video Games and Latin America' just like, floating around on the internet. Why not check it out? tinyurl.com/culturalcode

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Cultural Code Page Proofs.pdf

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Phill Penix-Tadsen @penixtadsen.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

To introduce myself, I'm a professor of Game Studies and Spanish at the University of Delaware Author of Cultural Code: Video Games and Latin America Editor of Video Games and the Global South Co-founder of the academic program in Game Studies & Esports at UD PDFs of everything on my website!

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Phill Penix-Tadsen @penixtadsen.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

My personal site, with PDFs of everything I've ever published :) sites.udel.edu/phillip-peni...

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Phill Penix-Tadsen @penixtadsen.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Click "Download PDF" for all 20+ chapters of 'Video Games and the Global South'! press.etc.cmu.edu/books/video-...

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Video Games and the Global South | ETC Press - Carnegie Mellon University

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Phill Penix-Tadsen @penixtadsen.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

In 2014 when I was writing my book 'Cultural Code,' I argued that we were on the cusp of "a new Latin American Boom in game design and development over the course of the 2010s and 20s." La base de datos del videojuego en Latinoamérica testifies to the games coming out of this region now! Fíjense! 👀

devuego.lat

DeVuego LATAM | Base de Datos del Videojuego Latinoamericano

DeVuego es la mayor base de datos de la Industria de Videojuegos latinoamericanos, y abarca todos los elementos relacionados con ella.

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Denisse Takes @denissetakes.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Thank your Amazon driver so they get a $5 tip at no cost to you. How? Search, “Thank my driver” in the Amazon search bar after delivery - or just tell Alexa. 🚚 You can do this from now until the end of December. 😉 #holidays #Amazon #shopping #bluecollar

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Phill Penix-Tadsen @penixtadsen.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

In March 1992, I shook hands with Joey Ramone and met the rest of The Ramones after their show in Cleveland. 🤝 I was in high school. They looked and sounded exactly like the video here. I remembered this today when one of my kids and I heard "Sedated" in the car. One of my greatest hits as a fan!

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The Ramones - Ultimative Collection - 1992

YouTube video by Jennifer Hoolbrooke

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Phill Penix-Tadsen @penixtadsen.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Two answers that definitely don't fit your request :( but have served me well :) My Sony Pulse 3D wireless headset for my PS5 works great with my computer (wirelessly). And my AirPods are a good option but my spouse really prefers the AirPod Pros, which come with multiple tips to fit different ears.

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