I’m so incredibly proud of my students who showcased their games to tens of thousands of people at PAX Australia. They worked so hard, and visitors loved it!!!

It's Melbourne International Games Week! Swinburne University of Technology's Games & Interactivity students are going to be showcasing their capstone projects at PAX Australia over the course of the next three days.

I'm very proud to announce that our Games and Interactivity team was awarded the Swinburne University 2025 School Teaching Excellence Awards. A well-deserved recognition for a (dare I say) excellent team of educators

Very proud of our students showcasing their games at Swinburne University’s Open Day!

Had a fantastic time at DiGRA 2025 in Malta. It’s been great catching up with old friends, meeting new ones, and putting names on faces. The ANZ contingent performed excellently, contributing to the global academic discourse on games and play.

I am beyond stoked to share my latest publication on Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, for the special issue on 'Grief in the Digital Age' edited by Marilyn Stendera and Regina Fabry.

For those interested in media and immersion, I have a newly published chapter titled "Video Game Immersion as Bodily Atmospheric Attunement" in the edited collection "States of Immersion Across Media: Bodies, Techniques, Practices" for the Amsterdam University Press. www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...

I'm very proud to announce that my PhD dissertation 'Something in the Air: A Phenomenology of Videogame Atmosphere' won the 2024 Digital Games Research Association of Australia (DiGRAA)'s Best Thesis Award.

The dissertation is available at: figshare.swinburne.edu.au/articles/the...

If anyone is into Metal Gear Solid, there's a new edited collection out for which I've written a chapter - the foreword is by Solid Snake himself!: www.bloomsbury.com/au/metal-gea.... My chapter is titled "Metal Gaze Suture: Analyzing Metal Gear Solid through Psychoanalytic Film Theory"

Very proud of this one - an article for the Journal of Posthumanism's special issue 'Posthumanism and Media Studies', edited by the excellent @poppywilde.bsky.social and JJ Sylvia IV. In it, I address some common criticism of #posthumanism in #gamestudies, namely that it does not really

Nice work by @poppywilde.bsky.social and @larrymay.me on 'posts' #gamestudies #anthropocene #apocalyspe

Heart shattering to learn an Israeli drone has targeted and assassinated Mahmoud Almadhoun, one of the founders and chefs behind the Gaza Soup Kitchen.

What started as four pots and essential ingredients in Bait Lahia had grown into a remarkable effort to feed 3,000 people daily.

every academic you meet is fighting their own battle. Make it worse by asking them how the writing is going

Kind of topical - sharing here too a recent publication, co-authored with Steven Conway for the European Journal of American Culture's special issue on "Games, American Culture and the Trump Presidency". The article is titled "MAGA (Metamodernism as Game Aesthetic)". Trump has often been described..

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My article for Replay just got published. I take a critical look at #cozy games, drawing connection between game design and Danish #hygge aesthetics. The article is part of a special issue on coziness in game, so go check it out! czasopisma.uni.lodz.pl/Replay/article…

I attended the Digital Games Research Association Australia (DiGRAA) conference this week, presenting part of my research on videogame ontology through an analysis of myth-hunting in #GrandTheftAuto. I had great discussions and exchange of ideas with some brilliant games researchers and learned….