"Where is all the good writing about games?"
Welcome back, readers. Last week I plugged this bundle of cyberpunk-themed games by queer and marginalized independant creators, as well as an upcoming analogue cyberpunk game jam for Asian creators. If you haven’t already checked them out, please do so! This week,…
Welcome back, readers. This week the thing I’m plugging before I get down to business is. . . this rad bundle of cyberpunk-themed games by independent creators! Get your punk on while supporting queer/marginalized creators! Oh, but that’s not all, dear reader….
Welcome again, readers. It is my last video column for the year, already, somehow – though of course not my last column about the year. This one’s going up a little early because I’m taking a holiday from tomorrow, unless something else…
Download “Keywords in Play” is an interview series about game research supported by Critical Distance and the Digital Games Research Association. This episode’s guest is Sonia Fizek, to discuss a forthcoming book on ‘delegated’ and ‘interpassive’ play. Sonia is a digital wanderer…
Following our bitsy essay jam, we’re announcing another jam event, this time for micro-essays, brought to you in partnership with the Center for Science and the Imagination at Arizona State University! The global cataclysm of COVID-19, and the quarantines and social distancing…
Welcome back, readers. While I’ve got you here, I’ll encourage you again this week to follow Twitch streamer and content creator ZombaeKillz. Ko-fi here! Man, I don’t know if anyone else is just hitting a wall this week, but that’s where I’m…
Welcome back, readers. In lieu of my usual, broad reminders that systemic violence and injustice remain a stark reality for Black and Brown folks regardless of who the incoming and outgoing establishment politicans may be at any given point, this week I’m…
Welcome back, readers. Are we all still here? *Exhales* Okay, good. Between the annually mandated pivot-to-horror and a lot of people otherwise having something just dang interesting to say, October’s been a bountiful month for essays about videogames on youtube. I watched…
Welcome back readers. First, as usual, the most important stuff: Check out the ways in which you can support protests against anti-Black and Brown police violence in the US and abroad. Legal Fund for organizers fighting commercial exploitation of Haudenosaunee lands. Apologies…
Welcome back readers. First the most important stuff: Check out the ways in which you can support protests against anti-Black and Brown police violence in the US and abroad. Legal Fund for organizers fighting commercial exploitation of Haudenosaunee lands. Around the site…