Games and Gaming Lab (UofGGamesLab)
@uofggameslab.bsky.social
An ArtsLab Research Lab promoting cross-disciplinary research & education from tabletop to video games. We explore innovative uses of #games & #gaming to help people make ideas fly like bicycles, @uofglasgow.bsky.social & beyond! Follow/Like ≠ endorsement.
Are you interested in games?
Are you worried about our changing environment?
Do you have an interest in trains and the rail network?
Join us for a workshop at @nationalresilience.bsky.social Crichton Campus, Dumfries, on Wednesday 28 January, 2-3.30. Sign up: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/co-great-w...
Are you worried about our changing environment?
Do you have an interest in trains and the rail network?
Join us for a workshop at @nationalresilience.bsky.social Crichton Campus, Dumfries, on Wednesday 28 January, 2-3.30. Sign up: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/co-great-w...
CO-GREAT Workshop : Flood Resilience Gamification (Dumfries)
CO-GREAT (CO-created Gamified Resilience Engagement Accessible Toolkit) Winter 2026 Workshop
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January 22, 2026 at 9:11 AM
Are you interested in games?
Are you worried about our changing environment?
Do you have an interest in trains and the rail network?
Join us for a workshop at @nationalresilience.bsky.social Crichton Campus, Dumfries, on Wednesday 28 January, 2-3.30. Sign up: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/co-great-w...
Are you worried about our changing environment?
Do you have an interest in trains and the rail network?
Join us for a workshop at @nationalresilience.bsky.social Crichton Campus, Dumfries, on Wednesday 28 January, 2-3.30. Sign up: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/co-great-w...
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Hi, I asked some lovely developers for their favourite Christmas gaming memories. Please have a read and add your own in the comments section. Also, if you celebrate this season or not, all the very best wishes to you from the Guardian games team xx
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/d...
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/d...
‘I plugged in Zelda and everything changed’: developers share their fondest Christmas gaming memories
From a family showdown on Guitar Hero III to the winter levels in Diddy Kong Racing, the designers of some of today’s top titles recall the gifts and moments that lit up their childhoods
www.theguardian.com
December 24, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Hi, I asked some lovely developers for their favourite Christmas gaming memories. Please have a read and add your own in the comments section. Also, if you celebrate this season or not, all the very best wishes to you from the Guardian games team xx
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/d...
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/d...
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What happens when gaming meets nuclear diplomatic history? 🎲 Latest episode of the Stories From Glasgow podcast with @drtimpeacock.bsky.social
@uofggameslab.bsky.social @uofgwarstudies.bsky.social
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@uofggameslab.bsky.social @uofgwarstudies.bsky.social
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Stories from Glasgow: Season 5, Episode Four – Atomic Legacies & Gamifying World Crises
As the world marks the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Dr Tim Peacock reflects on their continuing legacy. He also discusses two Games & Gaming Lab titles and their ...
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December 11, 2025 at 9:54 PM
What happens when gaming meets nuclear diplomatic history? 🎲 Latest episode of the Stories From Glasgow podcast with @drtimpeacock.bsky.social
@uofggameslab.bsky.social @uofgwarstudies.bsky.social
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@uofggameslab.bsky.social @uofgwarstudies.bsky.social
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Sending this out again for more #gamingthepast interested folk to see. A new iteration of Historical Problem Space framework diagram that includes an enumeration of the most common action-choices (archetypes of action choices) that player agents have in historical board AND video games. 1/
November 27, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Sending this out again for more #gamingthepast interested folk to see. A new iteration of Historical Problem Space framework diagram that includes an enumeration of the most common action-choices (archetypes of action choices) that player agents have in historical board AND video games. 1/
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Promoting my last book!
Interested in video games, cinema, history and/or racism in Hollywood? My last book SLAVE REVOLT ON SCREEN: THE HAITIAN REVOLUTION IN FILM & VIDEO GAMES is a great gift for yourself or someone on your gift list!🗃️📽️
www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/S/Slav...
Interested in video games, cinema, history and/or racism in Hollywood? My last book SLAVE REVOLT ON SCREEN: THE HAITIAN REVOLUTION IN FILM & VIDEO GAMES is a great gift for yourself or someone on your gift list!🗃️📽️
www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/S/Slav...
November 26, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Promoting my last book!
Interested in video games, cinema, history and/or racism in Hollywood? My last book SLAVE REVOLT ON SCREEN: THE HAITIAN REVOLUTION IN FILM & VIDEO GAMES is a great gift for yourself or someone on your gift list!🗃️📽️
www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/S/Slav...
Interested in video games, cinema, history and/or racism in Hollywood? My last book SLAVE REVOLT ON SCREEN: THE HAITIAN REVOLUTION IN FILM & VIDEO GAMES is a great gift for yourself or someone on your gift list!🗃️📽️
www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/S/Slav...
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Just a reminder that this call is open if the overlap of history, fiction and games is your thing!
We're happy to announce the call for contributions for our new HGN theme: Fictions! Following a successful event last month, this theme explores the relationship between history and fiction in games, and how they shape each other.
www.historicalgames.net/call-for-con...
#gamestudies #gamingthepast
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#gamestudies #gamingthepast
Call for Contributions - Fictions | Historical Games Network
Our theme of Fictions started with a HGN | IWM panel at the Royal Society of Edinburgh’s Curious Festival. You can read more about the event on the Historical Games Network blog and you can watch the ...
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November 15, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Just a reminder that this call is open if the overlap of history, fiction and games is your thing!
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Some Sunday ready over on the HGN blog! Today’s new post from @xurvermilion.bsky.social explores the potential of videogames as a way of engaging students with historical research, and key skills in critical analysis:
www.historicalgames.net/students-his...
www.historicalgames.net/students-his...
Why should students care about historymaking in videogames? | Historical Games Network
We might spend time exploring zora monoliths in Breath of the Wild’s (2017) Hyrule and the tales they speak around kings of old, or snooping through an item’s description (such as a holy great sword, ...
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November 23, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Some Sunday ready over on the HGN blog! Today’s new post from @xurvermilion.bsky.social explores the potential of videogames as a way of engaging students with historical research, and key skills in critical analysis:
www.historicalgames.net/students-his...
www.historicalgames.net/students-his...
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Conflict resolution experts at UofG have developed an alternative to traditional wargaming. 💻
CEASEFIRE! is a 2D strategy game developed by
@uofglaw.bsky.social, @uofggameslab.bsky.social and Education Evolved which encourages players to resolve conflict peacefully.
Read more: gla.ac/47T2Izr
CEASEFIRE! is a 2D strategy game developed by
@uofglaw.bsky.social, @uofggameslab.bsky.social and Education Evolved which encourages players to resolve conflict peacefully.
Read more: gla.ac/47T2Izr
November 13, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Conflict resolution experts at UofG have developed an alternative to traditional wargaming. 💻
CEASEFIRE! is a 2D strategy game developed by
@uofglaw.bsky.social, @uofggameslab.bsky.social and Education Evolved which encourages players to resolve conflict peacefully.
Read more: gla.ac/47T2Izr
CEASEFIRE! is a 2D strategy game developed by
@uofglaw.bsky.social, @uofggameslab.bsky.social and Education Evolved which encourages players to resolve conflict peacefully.
Read more: gla.ac/47T2Izr
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“Progress in Play: Board Games and the Meaning of History”, Alex Andriesse on the world of 18/19th-century board games in which players progress chronologically through history itself: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/progress-in-play-board-games-and-the-meaning-of-history
November 7, 2025 at 12:45 PM
“Progress in Play: Board Games and the Meaning of History”, Alex Andriesse on the world of 18/19th-century board games in which players progress chronologically through history itself: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/progress-in-play-board-games-and-the-meaning-of-history
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We hosted Dr Sunimal Mendis @tilburg-university.bsky.social at CREATe! Her NWO DIGI-APPS project digs into how copyright + regulation work in virtual worlds. Can 2D platform rules survive in XR? 👀
Read her guest post on our blog 👉 www.create.ac.uk/blog/2025/11...
Read her guest post on our blog 👉 www.create.ac.uk/blog/2025/11...
Copyright’s (extended) reality check: Challenges for copyright enforcement in virtual worlds - CREATe
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November 5, 2025 at 3:07 PM
We hosted Dr Sunimal Mendis @tilburg-university.bsky.social at CREATe! Her NWO DIGI-APPS project digs into how copyright + regulation work in virtual worlds. Can 2D platform rules survive in XR? 👀
Read her guest post on our blog 👉 www.create.ac.uk/blog/2025/11...
Read her guest post on our blog 👉 www.create.ac.uk/blog/2025/11...
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The #KEAwards25 public vote is now open! ✨
We are delighted #ResearchForEveryone is shortlisted in the Knowledge Exchange UK Public Vote category. Watch our short video & vote:
ke.org.uk/ke-awards-20...
Thank you for supporting our project!
#KnowledgeExchangeUK #KEUK #KnowledgeExchange #Impact
We are delighted #ResearchForEveryone is shortlisted in the Knowledge Exchange UK Public Vote category. Watch our short video & vote:
ke.org.uk/ke-awards-20...
Thank you for supporting our project!
#KnowledgeExchangeUK #KEUK #KnowledgeExchange #Impact
KE Awards 2025 | Public Vote - Knowledge Exchange UK
ke.org.uk
November 5, 2025 at 8:56 AM
The #KEAwards25 public vote is now open! ✨
We are delighted #ResearchForEveryone is shortlisted in the Knowledge Exchange UK Public Vote category. Watch our short video & vote:
ke.org.uk/ke-awards-20...
Thank you for supporting our project!
#KnowledgeExchangeUK #KEUK #KnowledgeExchange #Impact
We are delighted #ResearchForEveryone is shortlisted in the Knowledge Exchange UK Public Vote category. Watch our short video & vote:
ke.org.uk/ke-awards-20...
Thank you for supporting our project!
#KnowledgeExchangeUK #KEUK #KnowledgeExchange #Impact
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Related to this, we would like to encourage you to come to the launch of Rebecca Sutton's game CEASEFIRE, this coming Friday in the @uofgarc.bsky.social ARC. 2:00-3:30pm all welcome!
@uofggameslab.bsky.social
@uofggameslab.bsky.social
📣New #podcast episode out! Listen to @drtimpeacock.bsky.social & Prof Rebecca Sutton talk about the @uofggameslab.bsky.social and their work on #Peace Gaming. Inspired by their workshop at the Spring School in May #RIELASpring25.
👂➡️https://bit.ly/Peacegame
@uofgsocsci.bsky.social
@unesco.org
👂➡️https://bit.ly/Peacegame
@uofgsocsci.bsky.social
@unesco.org
November 5, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Related to this, we would like to encourage you to come to the launch of Rebecca Sutton's game CEASEFIRE, this coming Friday in the @uofgarc.bsky.social ARC. 2:00-3:30pm all welcome!
@uofggameslab.bsky.social
@uofggameslab.bsky.social
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📣New #podcast episode out! Listen to @drtimpeacock.bsky.social & Prof Rebecca Sutton talk about the @uofggameslab.bsky.social and their work on #Peace Gaming. Inspired by their workshop at the Spring School in May #RIELASpring25.
👂➡️https://bit.ly/Peacegame
@uofgsocsci.bsky.social
@unesco.org
👂➡️https://bit.ly/Peacegame
@uofgsocsci.bsky.social
@unesco.org
November 5, 2025 at 12:06 PM
📣New #podcast episode out! Listen to @drtimpeacock.bsky.social & Prof Rebecca Sutton talk about the @uofggameslab.bsky.social and their work on #Peace Gaming. Inspired by their workshop at the Spring School in May #RIELASpring25.
👂➡️https://bit.ly/Peacegame
@uofgsocsci.bsky.social
@unesco.org
👂➡️https://bit.ly/Peacegame
@uofgsocsci.bsky.social
@unesco.org
Sign up now for "Broken Canvas" - A discussion-led 'Artistic AI' Crisis Game on Wednesday 29th October at 1.30-3.30pm in the Advanced Research Centre. (QR code or link via the post below.)
This event is part of the University of Glasgow's Data Science and AI Festival from 27-29 October. #AI
This event is part of the University of Glasgow's Data Science and AI Festival from 27-29 October. #AI
October 22, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Sign up now for "Broken Canvas" - A discussion-led 'Artistic AI' Crisis Game on Wednesday 29th October at 1.30-3.30pm in the Advanced Research Centre. (QR code or link via the post below.)
This event is part of the University of Glasgow's Data Science and AI Festival from 27-29 October. #AI
This event is part of the University of Glasgow's Data Science and AI Festival from 27-29 October. #AI
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October 21, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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It's been a great day for fascinating events! Really enjoyed hearing @chriskempshall.bsky.social, @mimi-mortmain.bsky.social, @drtimpeacock.bsky.social & Fruzsina Pittner (chaired by @enwright.bsky.social) discussing history and fantasy in video games (and books) tonight!
September 10, 2025 at 6:33 PM
It's been a great day for fascinating events! Really enjoyed hearing @chriskempshall.bsky.social, @mimi-mortmain.bsky.social, @drtimpeacock.bsky.social & Fruzsina Pittner (chaired by @enwright.bsky.social) discussing history and fantasy in video games (and books) tonight!
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🚨 Another Video Game Library win! 🚨
The entire MARKT+TECHNIK X-GAMES series is now fully catalogued! 🎉
Weeks of research and teamwork with German collectors & authors made this possible.
It’s another piece of gaming literary history preserved 📚
Check it out, SPREAD THE WORD 🙏 💙
The entire MARKT+TECHNIK X-GAMES series is now fully catalogued! 🎉
Weeks of research and teamwork with German collectors & authors made this possible.
It’s another piece of gaming literary history preserved 📚
Check it out, SPREAD THE WORD 🙏 💙
September 10, 2025 at 12:51 AM
🚨 Another Video Game Library win! 🚨
The entire MARKT+TECHNIK X-GAMES series is now fully catalogued! 🎉
Weeks of research and teamwork with German collectors & authors made this possible.
It’s another piece of gaming literary history preserved 📚
Check it out, SPREAD THE WORD 🙏 💙
The entire MARKT+TECHNIK X-GAMES series is now fully catalogued! 🎉
Weeks of research and teamwork with German collectors & authors made this possible.
It’s another piece of gaming literary history preserved 📚
Check it out, SPREAD THE WORD 🙏 💙
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#GameUXsummit '25 was a blast! SO MANY GREAT TALKS (see gamaste.net/game-ux-summ...)
I presented my research on how players' personal, social, and game-related factors impact 𝐄𝐮𝐝𝐚𝐢𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐜 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐫 𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬.
A huge thanks to the organizers! @gameuxsummit.com @celiahodent.com AP Hogeschool & Gamaste
I presented my research on how players' personal, social, and game-related factors impact 𝐄𝐮𝐝𝐚𝐢𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐜 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐫 𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬.
A huge thanks to the organizers! @gameuxsummit.com @celiahodent.com AP Hogeschool & Gamaste
September 10, 2025 at 7:05 AM
#GameUXsummit '25 was a blast! SO MANY GREAT TALKS (see gamaste.net/game-ux-summ...)
I presented my research on how players' personal, social, and game-related factors impact 𝐄𝐮𝐝𝐚𝐢𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐜 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐫 𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬.
A huge thanks to the organizers! @gameuxsummit.com @celiahodent.com AP Hogeschool & Gamaste
I presented my research on how players' personal, social, and game-related factors impact 𝐄𝐮𝐝𝐚𝐢𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐜 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐫 𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬.
A huge thanks to the organizers! @gameuxsummit.com @celiahodent.com AP Hogeschool & Gamaste
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A website about classic video game magazines.
From Mean Machines and CVG to Super Play and more. With articles and interviews featuring the writers, editors and designers who were there.
Visit Forgotten Worlds 👉 www.forgottenworlds.net
#Sega #Nintendo #Amiga #C64 #Spectrum #Amstrad #AtariST 🌴☀️
From Mean Machines and CVG to Super Play and more. With articles and interviews featuring the writers, editors and designers who were there.
Visit Forgotten Worlds 👉 www.forgottenworlds.net
#Sega #Nintendo #Amiga #C64 #Spectrum #Amstrad #AtariST 🌴☀️
August 31, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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Hey folks in the Pacific Northwest: We're going to PAX West 2025 this weekend! We've got two panels and an exhibitor table - more info here: www.patreon.com/posts/were-h...
We're heading to PAX West 2025! | The Video Game History Foundation
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August 28, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Hey folks in the Pacific Northwest: We're going to PAX West 2025 this weekend! We've got two panels and an exhibitor table - more info here: www.patreon.com/posts/were-h...
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If you missed our Gender panel event on Tuesday, you can now watch the recording of this fantastic discussion here via our Youtube Channel! Featuring @verysrsgames.com @katexe.bsky.social @tesswatty.bsky.social & @ide4fix.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtP3...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtP3...
Historical Games Network Discussion Panel: Gender (29th July 2025)
YouTube video by Historical Games Network
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July 31, 2025 at 11:38 AM
If you missed our Gender panel event on Tuesday, you can now watch the recording of this fantastic discussion here via our Youtube Channel! Featuring @verysrsgames.com @katexe.bsky.social @tesswatty.bsky.social & @ide4fix.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtP3...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtP3...
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(1936) Lizzie Magie, Showing a prototype of Monopoly, Which She Invented to Warn the Dangers of Land Speculation.
July 30, 2025 at 11:09 PM
(1936) Lizzie Magie, Showing a prototype of Monopoly, Which She Invented to Warn the Dangers of Land Speculation.
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Our latest VGHH podcast is a little review of what we’ve been up to, so far, this year. With the official launch of our digital library archive, livestreams of game magazine unboxing and EPROM dumping, and multiple new collections, there's lots to discuss: gamehistory.org/episode-136-...
Episode 136: Halfway Through 2025: A Mid-Year Update | Video Game History Foundation
It’s time for a little review of what we’ve been up to, so far, this year. With the official launch of our digital library archive, livestreams of game magazine unboxing and EPROM dumping, the newest ...
gamehistory.org
July 24, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Our latest VGHH podcast is a little review of what we’ve been up to, so far, this year. With the official launch of our digital library archive, livestreams of game magazine unboxing and EPROM dumping, and multiple new collections, there's lots to discuss: gamehistory.org/episode-136-...