Just finished my presentation at #digra2025. @nicolleness.bsky.social has excellently captured the essence of my talk as Love and Deepspace as part of larger trends of gamblification, women gaming, and otome games.

Great news! The edited collection Monstrosity in Games and Play has finally been published! It's been over 3 years in the making, but I'm happy to have been part of a fantastic editing team (Sarah Stang, Mikko Meriläinen, and Lobna Hassan). Blurb, list of contents, and links to the book below.

Saturday December 14 (13:00 EST) I will give a lecture on the Monetization of Gacha and Romance Games at Casa Con.

Casa Con is an online, free, and public convention on popular culture. It happens on Discord from Dec 13-15. Check out their schedule here:
casacon.nardio.net/schedule-2024/

I'm giving a talk on romance games in Japanese culture at the Museocon on November 9 organised by the Finnish Museum of Games in Tampere. 🌸

Book alert: a Dutch book om fandom by Dr. Nicolle Lamerichs will soon be published!

To my knowledge, it's the first Dutch book on fandom studies, so I'm super excited!

www.walburgpers.nl/nl/book/9789...

I didn't post it here, but now that I'm back in Finland,I also have finally have the physical version of my book. Feels more real this way! ✨️

I know it's my own book, but I'm just that happy with the beautiful cover ✨️

Another work of mine is out! It’s a pleasure to have an article to be part of the Mechademia 16:1, special issue on the media mix: ”The Genshin Impact Media Mix: Free-to-Play Monetization from East Asia.”

muse.jhu.edu/pub/23/artic...

My first book is out! The digital version of my book on video game characters is now available on Amsterdam University Press. The great news is that it’s Open Access and for free!

www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...

Hello from Kyoto! The weather has finally turned from "melting your face off" into a pleasant "I can breathe now."