This pre-print research article by Jiesi Ma on the mass layoffs and economic turbulence the games industry has undergone the last 3 years is really gold osf.io/preprints/os... #gamestudies

Going through Dmitri Williams' "old" research article on the games industry when PC and console platforms hadn't converged yet, the genre diversity segmentation reflects my own experience in the late 90s with PC game genres (RTS, sim, point n click adventures) versus console genres

I’m excited to share that I’ll be giving a keynote at the Playing the Field conference in Bucharest focused on video games and labor.

You can find the call for paper and submission details on the website islk.kuwi.tu-dortmund.de/gamestudies/... #gamestudies

I’m reading @jesperjuul.bsky.social’s Commodore 64 book and it’s very much in line with my own experience and knowledge with games growing up in Northern Europe as these paragraphs verbalizes the disconnect I have with so much retro video game discourse in both games academia and in games media.

The new owners of polygon looks like a very generous company that pays its writers incredibly well it looks like (I’m being sarcastic ofc)

Me when I hear that the US wants to move high tech cost efficient manufacturing back home:

I think it’s extremely important for game scholars and even game journalists to understand the mechanisms driving the US escalation against China with the current trade war. The tariffs will have massive impact on the games industry and its products:

Love to be part of History

The genocide in Palestine and its supporters and all the neutral people might be the worst thing to happen in my lifetime

For the Eludamos' newest issue, I reviewed @marijamdid.com's very engaging book "Everything to Play For: How Videogames are Changing Our World" by Verso. It’s highly recommended reading

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