This essay collection, ed. by Kelly I. Aliano & Adam Crowley analyses a great variety of #videogames through an #EnvironmentalHumanities / #Ecocriticism lens. How do games shape environment(s) & our perception of it outside of the game?

#GamesStudies

Read essays on subliminal dream creations in 200 years of #Gothic works - from #Coleridge & #Walpole to #Piranesi #Goya & #Fuseli & #MaryWollstonecraft to #vampires #Marxism & videogames such as #TheWitcher & #Bloodbourne

Find the book here:
https://s.gwdg.de/B3pPBe

#LiteraryStudies #GamesStudies #Romanticism #RomanticLiterature

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Spielwissenschaft e.V. nimmt Arbeit auf
Die Deutsche Gesellschaft für Spielwissenschaft e.V. (DGSW) ist am 28. Juni 2025 in Frankfurt am Main gegründet worden.
https://xboxdev.com/deutsche-gesellschaft-fuer-spielwissenschaft-e-v-nimmt-arbeit-auf/
#News #DGSW #Forschung #FrankfurtAmMain #GameDesign #GamesStudies #Interdisziplinaritt #Kulturpolitik #Spielwissenschaft #Wissenschaftsorganisation

#Brettspiel "Jagd auf Kohlenklau" im #Museum #Uelzen. NS-Propagandaspiel 1942 ohne einschlägige Symbolik.

#GamesHistory #GamesStudies #HistoryOfGames #DrittesReich @historikerinnen @archivistodon #histodons @histodons
Brettspiel

Wie gewohnt mit einer strategisch klug gewählten Verzögerung jetzt auch auf meinem Blog Arnos und meine bisher schönste Podcastfolge:

#KritischeController zu unseren Anfängen in den #GamesStudies, dem #Alien-Universum, Luhmann, Medizinethik und Piraten

https://spielkult.hypotheses.org/6842

NEU bei VSG von Rudolf Inderst

"Wie digitale Spiele unsere Wahrnehmung von Demokratie prägen" geht der Darstellung dystopischer Welten in digitalen Spielen und ihre Auswirkungen auf unser Demokratieverständnis nach.

https://www.videospielgeschichten.de/die-macht-der-dystopien-ein-vortrag-auf-dem-gamescom-congress-2024/

#GamesStudies #Dystopien

Critical Hits, an anthology edited by @jrobertlennon & #CarmenMariaMachado featuring 18 essays & 1 comic by writer-gamers about their relationships with #videogames. hf!
🎮
lvl up here: https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=1872102158

#AmericanLiterature #GamesStudies #LiteraryStudies #CulturalStudies

I’m looking for #books about #gamedev written by authors with a #socialjustice lens. Any suggestions??

#BooksWorthReading #games #gamesstudies #anticapitalism #anticolonialism

"Die Geschichte Digitaler Spiele in Österreich 6: Die 2010er und 2020er Jahre – Alle entwickeln Indies ohne Unterlass" von @l17r und mir schließt jetzt die Blogreihe zur österreichischen Spielgeschichte:

https://spielkult.hypotheses.org/4913

#gamesstudies

#introduction

Hello! I’m a Reddit and Twitter user trying to figure out this whole Fediverse thing because I’d like to drop those apps entirely. My longest-term anime fandom is Mobile Suit Gundam, and of course my current obsession is Witch from Mercury.

Looking for a non-toxic space for discourse on the medium in general, and it seems like this instance has a strong ethos and identity. My time is fairly limited, so I likely be more lurker than contributor, though I may share photos of my (not-so-great) Gunpla builds from time to time.

Beyond that, I think my number one personal interest is in narratives, both fictional and socially-constructed, and how people interface with storytelling. That includes narratives constructed by games, although my gaming interests have slowly drifted away from big AAA fare and more toward small-studio RPGs, horror, retro emulation, and arcade-style games, as well as abstract board games like checkers, chess, and go.

#anime #manga #games #gundam #gunpla #witchfrommercury #zzgundam #gamesstudies #remapradio #indiegames #horrorlit #abstractstrategy #basketball

Back in October 2021, Crystal Dynamics announced that the Storyworld museum in Groningen, the Netherlands, would be hosting a special exhibition – “The World of Lara Croft – 25 Years of Tomb Raider” – which would detail the history of the #TombRaider games and highlight Lara Croft’s impact on popular culture.

✨ Read the account of my visit over here: https://tombraiderhorizons.com/2022/02/13/a-visit-to-storyworlds-the-world-of-lara-croft-exhibition/

#LaraCroft #Gaming #RetroGaming #VideoGames #GamesStudies

Fellow games-researchers,

we are looking forward to submissions to the open panel "Religion, Values, and Games - Perspectives and Approaches beyond Representation" at this year's EASR-conferene, hosted in Vilnius, Lithuania.

https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/easr2023/p/12959#

#gamesstudies
#studyofreligion

Games studies friends, JRPG buffs, and good ol' weebs: Looking for names of JRPGs (and other genres) where the player character is "mute" or only responds with "..."

#JRPG #GamesStudies #MediaStudies

Le dernier numéro de Sciences du #jeu est en ligne :
https://journals.openedition.org/sdj/4374

Cartographier la poésie et la politique du bruit vidéoludique avec @Gouximan @ypsenn @EstebanGrine #gamesstudies

So, gibt es schon #GamesStudies auf Mastodon?

#Introduction Hola Mastodon! I am called Wil, sometimes Wil Realms. I joined a few days ago, after having read a thought-provoking article on the merits of decentralized networks. (s/o #kotaku 's staff writer). I'm particularly invested in alternative modes of communication as I study and apply the methodologies of #afrofuturist #african thought.

Other interests:
#gamesstudies
#gamedesign
#comics #comicsstudies
#musicproduction
#sounddesign
#cyberpunk
#socialactivism
#speculative #art