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Rainforest Scully-Blaker (he/him) @rainforestsb.bsky.social · 5d

Maybe biased since I'm helping to organize this, but this is such a wonderful event for anyone doing work in and around games - we welcome submission formats of all sorts and the event is fully hybrid!

Please consider submitting something #gamestudies

CGSA/ACÉJ @cgsaacej.bsky.social · 5d

📣✨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...

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…

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CGSA/ACÉJ @cgsaacej.bsky.social · 5d

📣✨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...

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…

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Richy Srirachanikorn @srirachanikorn.bsky.social · 23d

#Cfp: Call for Book Chapters - #videogames, #gamedesign, game communities, & playthings that trouble what we mean by #nostalgia

“ #Games and its Nostalgia for the Future” is edited by yours truly and likely published with Play Story Press.

Abstracts due Nov 3, 2025

Full CfP: shorturl.at/NCkzU

CfP: Nostalgia for the Future Book

Nostalgia for the Future? Any books on this? No? Let's write one, together.

shorturl.at

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Rainforest Scully-Blaker (he/him) @rainforestsb.bsky.social · 27d

Thanks so much! Looking forward to reading yours too!

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Rainforest Scully-Blaker (he/him) @rainforestsb.bsky.social · 28d

Ready for Part 2?

After much writing and re-writing, I'm thrilled to announce that my first book, "Gaming Exhaustion" (working title) is now under contract with Duke University Press.

There are too many people to thank for this in 140 characters or less, but know that you're all so appreciated <3

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Rainforest Scully-Blaker (he/him) @rainforestsb.bsky.social · 27d

Thanks, Aasa - that means a lot <3

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Rainforest Scully-Blaker (he/him) @rainforestsb.bsky.social · 27d

Will be eager to hear what a fellow fan of breaking things thinks! 🛌📯🔥📯🔥🏛️

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Rainforest Scully-Blaker (he/him) @rainforestsb.bsky.social · 27d

Aaah thanks, will be super excited to hear what you think!

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Rainforest Scully-Blaker (he/him) @rainforestsb.bsky.social · 27d

Thanks Usva :) Congrats on your own recent success(es)!

Rainforest Scully-Blaker (he/him) @rainforestsb.bsky.social · 27d

Thank you, Joleen!

Speaking of books, and pursuant to my earlier promise of an email, I have started playing LADS and all your work on characters is of course on my mind (when I'm not thinking about cute boys or wondering what each new currency or resource does)

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Rainforest Scully-Blaker (he/him) @rainforestsb.bsky.social · 27d

Thanks, Dan!

Rainforest Scully-Blaker (he/him) @rainforestsb.bsky.social · 28d

Appreciate you looking out for me!

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Rainforest Scully-Blaker (he/him) @rainforestsb.bsky.social · 28d

Ready for Part 2?

After much writing and re-writing, I'm thrilled to announce that my first book, "Gaming Exhaustion" (working title) is now under contract with Duke University Press.

There are too many people to thank for this in 140 characters or less, but know that you're all so appreciated <3

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Rainforest Scully-Blaker (he/him) @rainforestsb.bsky.social · Sep 5

Thanks :)))

Rainforest Scully-Blaker (he/him) @rainforestsb.bsky.social · Sep 5

Thanks so much!! Also, I owe you an email (eventually lol)

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Rainforest Scully-Blaker (he/him) @rainforestsb.bsky.social · Sep 4

Ok here's Part 1:

My Finnish postdoc is now my finished postdoc, but I'm thrilled to announce what's next:

I'm now a Research Associate at the U of Michigan's School of Information, where I'm proudly working with the Intersectional Tech Lab! ✨🖥️

www.kishonnagray.com/lab-staff

Part 2 coming soon!

Screenshot of my bio from the Intersectional Tech Lab website. It reads:

Rainforest Scully-Blaker (he/him) is a Research Affiliate in the Intersectional Tech Lab. He earned his PhD in Informatics from UC Irvine in 2022. He has since worked as a Lecturer in Game Design at Uppsala University and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre of Excellence in Game Culture Studies at Tampere University.

His research concerns critical approaches to the study of games and those who play them, and he is interested in exploring how play can both uphold and dismantle hegemony. His current book project is about exhaustion as a systemic feature of neoliberal capitalism and how video games enable and may yet work against the exhausting status quo.

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Rainforest Scully-Blaker (he/him) @rainforestsb.bsky.social · Sep 5

Thanks Essi ^^

Rainforest Scully-Blaker (he/him) @rainforestsb.bsky.social · Sep 4

Ok here's Part 1:

My Finnish postdoc is now my finished postdoc, but I'm thrilled to announce what's next:

I'm now a Research Associate at the U of Michigan's School of Information, where I'm proudly working with the Intersectional Tech Lab! ✨🖥️

www.kishonnagray.com/lab-staff

Part 2 coming soon!

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Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · Jul 9

An open letter of resignation from myself and many other book series editors at Amsterdam University Press, following its recent acquisition by the notoriously exploitative academic publishing conglomerate Taylor & Francis.

Vinzenz Hediger @vinzenzhediger.bsky.social · Jul 9

The time has come to reinvent academic publishing. Over the last years conglomerates have bought up once respectable publishers and turned them into rent extraction machines, generating obscene profits from tax-payer funded research and unremunerated academic labor./
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Sale of the Amsterdam University Press (AUP) film, media and communication list to Taylor & Francis – Resignation of series editors and editorial board members

It is with great dismay that we, the undersigned, learned that the film, media and communication list of Amsterdam University Press (AUP) has been taken over by Taylor & Francis, a subsidiary of Infor...

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Rainforest Scully-Blaker (he/him) @rainforestsb.bsky.social · Aug 28

July and August were full of Life Stuff™ and meeting some writing deadlines, but it's looking like I'll have some exciting news to share pretty soon 👀

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Florence Chee @cheeflo.bsky.social · Aug 5

Happy to share that my book, Digital Game Culture in Korea: The Social at Play, is now available on the Bloomsbury U.S. site! Thank you again to those who took the time to review and engage with the work! 🙏🏼
#syllabus #gamestudies #communication
www.bloomsbury.com/us/digital-g...

Cover thumbnail and quotes for the book Digital Game Culture in Korea: The Social at Play by Florence M. Chee

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Aasa T 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @rosgakori.bsky.social · Aug 4

Warhammer Conference 2 is coming in September! Catch me on Friday talking about Age of Sigmar, polycrisis, and Stormcast Eternals. Once again, I'll be attending remotely, and these videos will be uploaded to YouTube after the conference.

warhammer-conference.com

#gamestudies #warhammer #aos

Remade, Reforged, Reborn: Stormcast Eternals as the simulacra of humanity in polycrisis

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Rainforest Scully-Blaker (he/him) @rainforestsb.bsky.social · Jul 31

I now have a website!

It's pretty bare-bones, but at least it rhymes! I'm hoping to get more stuff on there in the next month. Give it a look if you're so inclined - www.rainforestsb.me

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Cody Mejeur @cmejeur.bsky.social · Jul 25

Historiographies of Game Studies is now published open access with @punctumbooks.bsky.social ! This massive collection examines why game studies is the way it is, and how it might change and grow in the future. Congrats to all contributors, and please share!

punctumbooks.com/titles/histo...

Historiographies of Game Studies: What It Has Been, What It Could Be – punctum books

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Rainforest Scully-Blaker (he/him) @rainforestsb.bsky.social · Jul 15

It WAS a good one, as predicted - thanks for the writeup Tom!

Tom Apperley @t0mm7.bsky.social · Jul 14

🫠 A thread from @rainforestsb.bsky.social and my recent presentation at #ludo2025 (ludomusicology conference) which examines how nu metal and early 2000s gaming culture contributed to the reinforcement of white male anger (1/20).

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