Dany Guay-Belanger
@videogamehistorian.bsky.social
Videogame historian extraordinaire
FRQSC and SSRCH-funded PhD candidate in Videogame History and Preservation
CGSA Francophone Rep
Creator of Deadplay podcast
FRQSC and SSRCH-funded PhD candidate in Videogame History and Preservation
CGSA Francophone Rep
Creator of Deadplay podcast
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Nous venons de lancer notre site web bilingue pour l'ACÉJ 2026 (un jour plus tôt!): event.fourwaves.com/cgsa2026
Nous sommes officiellement prêts à recevoir vos excellentes propositions (l'onglet "Soumissions" est en haut à gauche).
N'hésitez pas à nous contacter si vous avez des questions. <3
Nous sommes officiellement prêts à recevoir vos excellentes propositions (l'onglet "Soumissions" est en haut à gauche).
N'hésitez pas à nous contacter si vous avez des questions. <3
CGSA/ACÉJ 2026
Fourwaves - CGSA/ACÉJ 2026
event.fourwaves.com
November 14, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Nous venons de lancer notre site web bilingue pour l'ACÉJ 2026 (un jour plus tôt!): event.fourwaves.com/cgsa2026
Nous sommes officiellement prêts à recevoir vos excellentes propositions (l'onglet "Soumissions" est en haut à gauche).
N'hésitez pas à nous contacter si vous avez des questions. <3
Nous sommes officiellement prêts à recevoir vos excellentes propositions (l'onglet "Soumissions" est en haut à gauche).
N'hésitez pas à nous contacter si vous avez des questions. <3
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Our brand-new and bilingual website for CGSA 2026 is now live (a whole day early, go us!): event.fourwaves.com/cgsa2026
We're officially ready receive your wonderful proposals (click the "Submissions" tab in the top-left).
As always, email us if you encounter any issues or have any questions. <3
We're officially ready receive your wonderful proposals (click the "Submissions" tab in the top-left).
As always, email us if you encounter any issues or have any questions. <3
CGSA/ACÉJ 2026
Fourwaves - CGSA/ACÉJ 2026
event.fourwaves.com
November 14, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Our brand-new and bilingual website for CGSA 2026 is now live (a whole day early, go us!): event.fourwaves.com/cgsa2026
We're officially ready receive your wonderful proposals (click the "Submissions" tab in the top-left).
As always, email us if you encounter any issues or have any questions. <3
We're officially ready receive your wonderful proposals (click the "Submissions" tab in the top-left).
As always, email us if you encounter any issues or have any questions. <3
Honestly, being toward the end of a PhD when you struggle with mental health issues that force you to take things slow kinda sucks. Funding ran out and it's hard to find work that pays enough to live on, yet doesn't make you too much so I can work on my thesis is really fucking hard. Wish me luck.
November 3, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Honestly, being toward the end of a PhD when you struggle with mental health issues that force you to take things slow kinda sucks. Funding ran out and it's hard to find work that pays enough to live on, yet doesn't make you too much so I can work on my thesis is really fucking hard. Wish me luck.
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Everyone interested in #gamingthepast. Did you know that www.playthepast.org still lives, 15 years after its launch and Gilles Roy is steering the ship to provide us with new thoughts and analysis on games and history? 1/
Luo Chenchen is a master’s student in world history at East China Normal University, studying French history, public history and historical theory. He is deeply passionate about historical strategy games. He is committed to seriously examining the significance of counterfactual history for historical theory. [1] I saw the Emperor–this world-spirit–ridingContinue Reading
www.playthepast.org
November 2, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Everyone interested in #gamingthepast. Did you know that www.playthepast.org still lives, 15 years after its launch and Gilles Roy is steering the ship to provide us with new thoughts and analysis on games and history? 1/
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📣✨Appel à communications !📣✨
L’ACÉJ 2026 aura lieu du 11 au 14 juin 2026, à Montréal (l'Université Concordia).
Le thème pour cette année est « La Répétition ».
La date limite pour soumission est le 7 janvier 2026 à 23 h 59 HNP.
Appel complet ici: gamestudies.ca/conference-c...
L’ACÉJ 2026 aura lieu du 11 au 14 juin 2026, à Montréal (l'Université Concordia).
Le thème pour cette année est « La Répétition ».
La date limite pour soumission est le 7 janvier 2026 à 23 h 59 HNP.
Appel complet ici: gamestudies.ca/conference-c...
Conference // Conférence
Version française ci-dessous The 2026 CGSA/ACÉJ annual conference will be a hybrid event co-hosted by the Technoculture, Art and Games Lab (TAG) at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec&nbs…
gamestudies.ca
October 9, 2025 at 6:47 PM
📣✨Appel à communications !📣✨
L’ACÉJ 2026 aura lieu du 11 au 14 juin 2026, à Montréal (l'Université Concordia).
Le thème pour cette année est « La Répétition ».
La date limite pour soumission est le 7 janvier 2026 à 23 h 59 HNP.
Appel complet ici: gamestudies.ca/conference-c...
L’ACÉJ 2026 aura lieu du 11 au 14 juin 2026, à Montréal (l'Université Concordia).
Le thème pour cette année est « La Répétition ».
La date limite pour soumission est le 7 janvier 2026 à 23 h 59 HNP.
Appel complet ici: gamestudies.ca/conference-c...
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📣✨Call for Papers!📣✨
CGSA 2026 will take place at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec from June 11-14th, 2026.
This year’s chosen theme is “On Repeat”.
Submissions are due January 7th, 2026 at 11:59 PM PST
Full CfP here: gamestudies.ca/conference-c...
CGSA 2026 will take place at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec from June 11-14th, 2026.
This year’s chosen theme is “On Repeat”.
Submissions are due January 7th, 2026 at 11:59 PM PST
Full CfP here: gamestudies.ca/conference-c...
Conference // Conférence
Version française ci-dessous The 2026 CGSA/ACÉJ annual conference will be a hybrid event co-hosted by the Technoculture, Art and Games Lab (TAG) at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec&nbs…
gamestudies.ca
October 9, 2025 at 6:47 PM
📣✨Call for Papers!📣✨
CGSA 2026 will take place at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec from June 11-14th, 2026.
This year’s chosen theme is “On Repeat”.
Submissions are due January 7th, 2026 at 11:59 PM PST
Full CfP here: gamestudies.ca/conference-c...
CGSA 2026 will take place at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec from June 11-14th, 2026.
This year’s chosen theme is “On Repeat”.
Submissions are due January 7th, 2026 at 11:59 PM PST
Full CfP here: gamestudies.ca/conference-c...
Man, I'm trying to write a section in my thesis about taking a somewhat activist stance as a researcher and I think it's probably one of the hardest thing I ever had to write. Definitely going to piss off some positivists, but that's okay.
August 26, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Man, I'm trying to write a section in my thesis about taking a somewhat activist stance as a researcher and I think it's probably one of the hardest thing I ever had to write. Definitely going to piss off some positivists, but that's okay.
Question primarily for #historians: I'm basically trying to build a defense of oral history and I would need something on how seeing oral sources as less trustworthy than written ones is rooted in imperial/colonial thought. Anyone know a good source on that or that just mentions that topic?
July 23, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Question primarily for #historians: I'm basically trying to build a defense of oral history and I would need something on how seeing oral sources as less trustworthy than written ones is rooted in imperial/colonial thought. Anyone know a good source on that or that just mentions that topic?
Currently at a conference in South Africa and it's so challenging, interesting, and generally mindblowing to hear African perspectives, in particular about how colonisers imposed their culture on the continent.
It's making me think on my own experiences as a bilingual person in Quebec 1/4
It's making me think on my own experiences as a bilingual person in Quebec 1/4
July 1, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Currently at a conference in South Africa and it's so challenging, interesting, and generally mindblowing to hear African perspectives, in particular about how colonisers imposed their culture on the continent.
It's making me think on my own experiences as a bilingual person in Quebec 1/4
It's making me think on my own experiences as a bilingual person in Quebec 1/4
Trying to refer to people doing history outside of academia without falling into the trap of positioning academics as better than others. I use "trained historian" for academics, but amateur historian somewhat implies a lowrt rank. What do you use? Self-taught, citizen, community historian? #history
March 11, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Trying to refer to people doing history outside of academia without falling into the trap of positioning academics as better than others. I use "trained historian" for academics, but amateur historian somewhat implies a lowrt rank. What do you use? Self-taught, citizen, community historian? #history
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All PRESENTATIONS from the conference Cataloging, Archiving and Exhibiting Digital Games (25.-26. Nov 2024 in Prague) are NOW ONLINE. Actually it was one of the biggest gatherings of the game GLAM sector so far 😍 many of them EFGAMP members 🙌
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
#gamimgculturalheritage
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
#gamimgculturalheritage
February 3, 2025 at 2:30 PM
All PRESENTATIONS from the conference Cataloging, Archiving and Exhibiting Digital Games (25.-26. Nov 2024 in Prague) are NOW ONLINE. Actually it was one of the biggest gatherings of the game GLAM sector so far 😍 many of them EFGAMP members 🙌
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
#gamimgculturalheritage
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
#gamimgculturalheritage
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It’s worth emphasizing that the Colombia fight was not about accepting deportations. It was that the Colombian president demanded deportees be treated humanely, and not as props for Trump’s performative cruelty. That simple request for decency was enough for Trump to instigate a trade war.
January 27, 2025 at 1:23 PM
It’s worth emphasizing that the Colombia fight was not about accepting deportations. It was that the Colombian president demanded deportees be treated humanely, and not as props for Trump’s performative cruelty. That simple request for decency was enough for Trump to instigate a trade war.
Just got an email from my uni saying that because of new Microsoft policies, our data storage is down to 100 GN for graduate students (from the previous 1 TB) and 10 GB for undergrads. This means I can no longer use their cloud to save my interview files on OneDrive and benefit from that security.
January 22, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Just got an email from my uni saying that because of new Microsoft policies, our data storage is down to 100 GN for graduate students (from the previous 1 TB) and 10 GB for undergrads. This means I can no longer use their cloud to save my interview files on OneDrive and benefit from that security.
After a well deserved break from transcribing, I'm back at it. Here's a new great automated transcription mistake I'm sure many people wil enjoy: Stardou Valley. Plus, the interview partner was talking about cozy games.
January 20, 2025 at 9:28 PM
After a well deserved break from transcribing, I'm back at it. Here's a new great automated transcription mistake I'm sure many people wil enjoy: Stardou Valley. Plus, the interview partner was talking about cozy games.
Be careful, if you ever played Among Us, or probably watched The Thing I guess, you might be a CEO assassin!
Like fucking clockwork lol
Like fucking clockwork lol
December 10, 2024 at 1:51 PM
Be careful, if you ever played Among Us, or probably watched The Thing I guess, you might be a CEO assassin!
Like fucking clockwork lol
Like fucking clockwork lol
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a movie called nosferatatouille, where a bat sits on draculas head and turns him into a world-renowned pastry chef
December 9, 2024 at 6:33 PM
a movie called nosferatatouille, where a bat sits on draculas head and turns him into a world-renowned pastry chef
AI transcription tools are cool, but they flatten everything. The one I'm using has a Canadian French option, which is quite good, but it doesn't register Quebec swears at all and only very few very common expressions/contractions. French in Canada is diverse, so I wonder on what they trained it on.
December 4, 2024 at 8:06 PM
AI transcription tools are cool, but they flatten everything. The one I'm using has a Canadian French option, which is quite good, but it doesn't register Quebec swears at all and only very few very common expressions/contractions. French in Canada is diverse, so I wonder on what they trained it on.
You know, using AI tools to make transcription much easier is great, especially when it messes up royally. Just got "Marie en toilette" instead of Marie-Antoinette and I don't think I'll ever recover 😂
December 2, 2024 at 9:37 PM
You know, using AI tools to make transcription much easier is great, especially when it messes up royally. Just got "Marie en toilette" instead of Marie-Antoinette and I don't think I'll ever recover 😂
People of Bluesky! Let’s get to know each other better. What is your all-time favorite TV show?
Quote share your answer in gif form.
Quote share your answer in gif form.
December 2, 2024 at 1:15 AM
People of Bluesky! Let’s get to know each other better. What is your all-time favorite TV show?
Quote share your answer in gif form.
Quote share your answer in gif form.
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I'm currently planning a meta-analysis of scholars and scholarship related to Historical Game Studies. If you're interested in participating, feel free to reply/DM me! I'm interested in things like people's scholarly background, affiliation/job title, publishers/journals you usually submit to, etc.
November 26, 2024 at 10:36 AM
I'm currently planning a meta-analysis of scholars and scholarship related to Historical Game Studies. If you're interested in participating, feel free to reply/DM me! I'm interested in things like people's scholarly background, affiliation/job title, publishers/journals you usually submit to, etc.
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The Video Game Library has an immense catalogue and is well worth a look for all sorts of studies on games and gaming (historical or otherwise).
408. PLAYING THE MIDDLE AGES: PITFALLS AND POTENTIAL IN MODERN GAMES
👉 www.thevideogamelibrary.org/book/playing...
@midagesmodgames.bsky.social #GTP #GamingThePast #Booksky #Gaming @blairapgar.bsky.social
@cooksterkc.bsky.social @robehoughton.bsky.social #GameStudies @marianajlopez.bsky.social
👉 www.thevideogamelibrary.org/book/playing...
@midagesmodgames.bsky.social #GTP #GamingThePast #Booksky #Gaming @blairapgar.bsky.social
@cooksterkc.bsky.social @robehoughton.bsky.social #GameStudies @marianajlopez.bsky.social
November 24, 2024 at 10:50 AM
The Video Game Library has an immense catalogue and is well worth a look for all sorts of studies on games and gaming (historical or otherwise).
Coordinating a research project on the history of videogames in my province rn, and oral history is a huge part of it. It's really interesting to be the most junior scholar in charge, but also the expert in terms of oral history. Like I know what I'm doing, but also... aaaaAAAAHHHHH!!!! 😅
November 21, 2024 at 8:49 PM
Coordinating a research project on the history of videogames in my province rn, and oral history is a huge part of it. It's really interesting to be the most junior scholar in charge, but also the expert in terms of oral history. Like I know what I'm doing, but also... aaaaAAAAHHHHH!!!! 😅
Currently, most of my time is basically dedicated to transcribing my interviews and will be for the foreseeable future. Even with a round of automated transcription, it takes forever. I love oral history, but fuck do I hate transcribing interviews. Absolutely drains every ounce of energy I have.
November 19, 2024 at 12:46 AM
Currently, most of my time is basically dedicated to transcribing my interviews and will be for the foreseeable future. Even with a round of automated transcription, it takes forever. I love oral history, but fuck do I hate transcribing interviews. Absolutely drains every ounce of energy I have.
Welp, it's done. I officially scrubbed my Twitter account and deactivated it. Hopefully this place won't become another hellhole of the internet.
November 13, 2024 at 6:25 PM
Welp, it's done. I officially scrubbed my Twitter account and deactivated it. Hopefully this place won't become another hellhole of the internet.
Since I'm getting an influx of followers because of the recent exodus towards this platform and being included in Historical Game Studies and Game Studies starter packs, I figured I should introduce myself better than what my bio lets me. 1/
November 11, 2024 at 11:19 PM
Since I'm getting an influx of followers because of the recent exodus towards this platform and being included in Historical Game Studies and Game Studies starter packs, I figured I should introduce myself better than what my bio lets me. 1/