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Best fictional video games from The Simpsons 1. Lee Carvallo's Putting Challenge

New book alert! Metagames: Games about Games By @AgaWaszkiewicz Routledge Books, 2024 routledge.com/Metagames-Game…

In Cluj, Romania, you can pay for your bus ticket by doing 20 squats. Disabled and elderly people get to ride for free.

The abstract for my keynote talk at #HoG (History of Games Conference) next week at Birmingham CU #gamestudies #playboy

Janet Borgerson Pre Marcus Carter Laura McLauchlan https://bsky.app/profile/lauramcl 📘 Optimizing Play ✍ Christopher A. Paul An unexpected take on how games work, what the stakes are for them, and how game designers can avoid the traps of optimization. #OpenAccess edition available. mitpress.mit.edu/9780262547789/

#HoG24 Two #swiss brothers Franco and Oliver Frey founded the British Game Magazine #Crash. Oliver Frey was a famous comic and gay erotica artist

Link to the collective statement by the DiGRA (Digital Games Research Association) diversity collective who have resigned en masse. Games and play scholars please read, consider signing, and spread the word. #AcademicResearch #diversitymatters docs.google.com/document/d/1mz…

I liked how Raygun’s Olympic performance humiliated Australia as much as possible in the arena that our whole national personality is based on, & which vast public resources are shovelled into at the expense of, say, education & the arts

After giving this question serious thought I really can only have one answer

This was published today with David Matencio - analysis English Language commercial TTRPG publication from 1975-1986 to discuss the impact of the 'thief' character class to D&D HT Steven Dashiell, PhD ~ @dashiellsteven.bsky.social

In today’s Vatnik Soup REBREW, I’ll re-introduce the American-British social media personalities, Tristan and Andrew Tate (@tatethetalisman and @cobratate). They’re best-known for their social media grifts and allegations of human trafficking and rape. 1/22

In today's Indelible Voice newsletter, we're talking about the courses and memberships I'm launching' on April 7! They're suitable for all early-career academic writers, particularly non-traditional graduate students. Learn more in this thread. indeliblevoice.com/newsletter/det…

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Presenting at #DiGRA in Valletta, Malta next week: Wednesday 1100: Domesticating Play at the Playboy Mansion (full paper: lnkd.in/dhFfT8JM) Thursday 1630: Follow the Bunny: Play and the Structuring of Affective Labour (Draft: lnkd.in/dXshb4ar)