Michael Iantorno❄️🕹️
@michaeliantorno.com
Post-doc at the University of Waterloo. Game history and labour scholar.
🎮Dissertation on SNES/SFC preservation, emulation, repros, and hacking.
🦣TTRPGs at Mammoth Island Games.
🕹️Game industry research on unions, worker co-ops, incubators, and more.
🎮Dissertation on SNES/SFC preservation, emulation, repros, and hacking.
🦣TTRPGs at Mammoth Island Games.
🕹️Game industry research on unions, worker co-ops, incubators, and more.
Maybe it's time to switch to Proton...
Google is forcing more generative AI on Gmail users. I couldn’t think of a better moment to finally drop Gmail (and other Google services)!
I have a guide to do just that here: disconnect.blog/getting-off-...
I have a guide to do just that here: disconnect.blog/getting-off-...
January 8, 2026 at 9:29 PM
Maybe it's time to switch to Proton...
My nomination for pet photo of the year.
January 8, 2026 at 5:20 PM
My nomination for pet photo of the year.
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🚨ANNOUNCEMENT!🚨
We have decided to offer a small submission deadline extension to Wednesday, January 14 at 11:59 PM PT. Please note that this will be the final deadline!
event.fourwaves.com/cgsa2026
We have decided to offer a small submission deadline extension to Wednesday, January 14 at 11:59 PM PT. Please note that this will be the final deadline!
event.fourwaves.com/cgsa2026
CGSA/ACÉJ 2026
Join CGSA/ACÉJ 2026, June 11-14, 2026. Learn more on Fourwaves.
event.fourwaves.com
January 8, 2026 at 1:04 AM
🚨ANNOUNCEMENT!🚨
We have decided to offer a small submission deadline extension to Wednesday, January 14 at 11:59 PM PT. Please note that this will be the final deadline!
event.fourwaves.com/cgsa2026
We have decided to offer a small submission deadline extension to Wednesday, January 14 at 11:59 PM PT. Please note that this will be the final deadline!
event.fourwaves.com/cgsa2026
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Est-ce qu'on finance encore 37% de la masse salariale de Ubisoft au Québec ?
Hey Canadians! Your taxes subsidize these big game companies and you should be furious about this.
Ubisoft closes Halifax studio weeks after workers vote to unionize
January 7, 2026 at 8:43 PM
Est-ce qu'on finance encore 37% de la masse salariale de Ubisoft au Québec ?
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Governments should demand that companies who receive tax credits must provide "quality employment" for their workers, with protection from cyclical and/or malicious layoffs (echoing @kenzitronic.bsky.social et al).
theconversation.com/the-video-ga...
theconversation.com/the-video-ga...
The video game industry is booming. Why are there so many layoffs?
Recent waves of layoffs shine a light on the systemic issues in the game industry and the post-graduation promises universities are making to students.
theconversation.com
January 7, 2026 at 7:53 PM
Governments should demand that companies who receive tax credits must provide "quality employment" for their workers, with protection from cyclical and/or malicious layoffs (echoing @kenzitronic.bsky.social et al).
theconversation.com/the-video-ga...
theconversation.com/the-video-ga...
It's behind an academic paywall but ping me if you want to, um, discuss its findings in a 100% legal manner.
📝New publication alert!
📡In Satellite Archaeologies, I build upon my dissertation research to discuss the citizen archivists who are keeping Nintendo's Satellaview alive, 25 years after it went off the air.
🔗https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15295036.2025.2591126
📡In Satellite Archaeologies, I build upon my dissertation research to discuss the citizen archivists who are keeping Nintendo's Satellaview alive, 25 years after it went off the air.
🔗https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15295036.2025.2591126
January 7, 2026 at 10:06 PM
It's behind an academic paywall but ping me if you want to, um, discuss its findings in a 100% legal manner.
Hey Canadians! Your taxes subsidize these big game companies and you should be furious about this.
Ubisoft closes Halifax studio weeks after workers vote to unionize
Ubisoft closes Halifax studio weeks after workers vote to unionize
Workers at the Canadian studio voted to unionize in December in search of security in an era of 'studio closures, layoffs, and increasing instability.'
www.gamedeveloper.com
January 7, 2026 at 4:38 PM
Hey Canadians! Your taxes subsidize these big game companies and you should be furious about this.
"We can no longer convince people that AI will be profitable" is all I'm hearing.
Artificial intelligence will help millions of people in ways that do not appear in traditional economic statistics, says OpenAI’s chief economist ft.trib.al/toxh1Gq
January 7, 2026 at 4:33 PM
"We can no longer convince people that AI will be profitable" is all I'm hearing.
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Ticketmaster is facing a class-action lawsuit in Quebec over ‘abusive service fees’
Ticketmaster is facing a class-action lawsuit in Quebec over 'abusive service fees'
Ticketmaster is facing a class-action lawsuit in Quebec over abusive service fees that violate the Consumer Protection Act and Civil Code.
cultmtl.com
January 7, 2026 at 3:11 PM
Ticketmaster is facing a class-action lawsuit in Quebec over ‘abusive service fees’
Hope y'all are having a great time sending "touch base" or "circle back" emails this week.📨
January 7, 2026 at 3:13 PM
Hope y'all are having a great time sending "touch base" or "circle back" emails this week.📨
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Staff at Ubisoft's Halifax studio have officially formed a union
www.gamesindustry.biz/ubisoft-hali...
www.gamesindustry.biz/ubisoft-hali...
Ubisoft Halifax staff officially form union
This is the first bargaining unit in the French games giant's North American business
www.gamesindustry.biz
January 5, 2026 at 2:48 PM
Staff at Ubisoft's Halifax studio have officially formed a union
www.gamesindustry.biz/ubisoft-hali...
www.gamesindustry.biz/ubisoft-hali...
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Wrote about a bunch of the Canadian games we can expect in 2026. 🇨🇦 🎮
From the glorious return of our Toronto icon Scott Pilgrim to such promising new indies All Systems Dance, At Fate's End and Button Man, there's a lot to look forward to this year!
From the glorious return of our Toronto icon Scott Pilgrim to such promising new indies All Systems Dance, At Fate's End and Button Man, there's a lot to look forward to this year!
Canadian games to look out for in 2026
From the returns of Scott Pilgrim and Marcus Fenix to a ton of new IPs, this year looks especially promising for Canadian games.
mobilesyrup.com
January 6, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Wrote about a bunch of the Canadian games we can expect in 2026. 🇨🇦 🎮
From the glorious return of our Toronto icon Scott Pilgrim to such promising new indies All Systems Dance, At Fate's End and Button Man, there's a lot to look forward to this year!
From the glorious return of our Toronto icon Scott Pilgrim to such promising new indies All Systems Dance, At Fate's End and Button Man, there's a lot to look forward to this year!
Renewing trademarks is a fairly routine task for companies. It's less about wanting to continue a brand, and more about stopping other people from adopting any aspect of it.
Nintendo has renewed trademarks for The Legend of Zelda: Tri Force Heroes and Mario Tennis: Ultra Smash. Note that this is not a guarantee that these games are coming back.
January 6, 2026 at 7:35 PM
Renewing trademarks is a fairly routine task for companies. It's less about wanting to continue a brand, and more about stopping other people from adopting any aspect of it.
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This Newfoundland and Labrador website is a thing of beauty. Looks like it hasn't been updated since 2000 nfld.com
Welcome to Newfoundland and Labrador
nfld.com
December 23, 2025 at 1:49 AM
This Newfoundland and Labrador website is a thing of beauty. Looks like it hasn't been updated since 2000 nfld.com
Hello, here are some games I enjoyed in 2025.
January 1, 2026 at 6:50 PM
Hello, here are some games I enjoyed in 2025.
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It's Public Domain Day! web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicd...
Public Domain Day 2026 | Duke University School of Law
January 1, 2026 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1930 are open to all, as are sound recordings from 1925! By Jennifer Jenkins and James Boyle[1] CC BY 4.0 Please note that this site is only about US l...
web.law.duke.edu
January 1, 2026 at 5:17 PM
It's Public Domain Day! web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicd...
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When the clock strikes midnight on January 1, creative works from 1930 & sound recordings from 1925 will enter the public domain in the US, like:
💄 Dizzy Dishes, first Betty Boop cartoon
🕵️♀️ First 4 Nancy Drew novels
🚂 The Little Engine That Could
🎩 Morocco
🍑 Georgia on My Mind
and many more!
🧵👇
💄 Dizzy Dishes, first Betty Boop cartoon
🕵️♀️ First 4 Nancy Drew novels
🚂 The Little Engine That Could
🎩 Morocco
🍑 Georgia on My Mind
and many more!
🧵👇
December 26, 2025 at 2:01 PM
When the clock strikes midnight on January 1, creative works from 1930 & sound recordings from 1925 will enter the public domain in the US, like:
💄 Dizzy Dishes, first Betty Boop cartoon
🕵️♀️ First 4 Nancy Drew novels
🚂 The Little Engine That Could
🎩 Morocco
🍑 Georgia on My Mind
and many more!
🧵👇
💄 Dizzy Dishes, first Betty Boop cartoon
🕵️♀️ First 4 Nancy Drew novels
🚂 The Little Engine That Could
🎩 Morocco
🍑 Georgia on My Mind
and many more!
🧵👇
Great thrift shop keyboard find (although it was extremely gross before I cleaned it).
December 29, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Great thrift shop keyboard find (although it was extremely gross before I cleaned it).
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Breaking my self-imposed holiday exile to shout out a new publication: mine!
Cybermania '94: Game awards before The Game Awards is now out through Convergence, fully open access.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Cybermania '94: Game awards before The Game Awards is now out through Convergence, fully open access.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
December 29, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Breaking my self-imposed holiday exile to shout out a new publication: mine!
Cybermania '94: Game awards before The Game Awards is now out through Convergence, fully open access.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Cybermania '94: Game awards before The Game Awards is now out through Convergence, fully open access.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Also, a reminder to submit to the Satellaview+ Mario Paint art contest.
December 23, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Also, a reminder to submit to the Satellaview+ Mario Paint art contest.
Gonna tell my kids this was Canadian Sesame Street.
December 23, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Gonna tell my kids this was Canadian Sesame Street.
📝New publication alert!
📡In Satellite Archaeologies, I build upon my dissertation research to discuss the citizen archivists who are keeping Nintendo's Satellaview alive, 25 years after it went off the air.
🔗https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15295036.2025.2591126
📡In Satellite Archaeologies, I build upon my dissertation research to discuss the citizen archivists who are keeping Nintendo's Satellaview alive, 25 years after it went off the air.
🔗https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15295036.2025.2591126
December 23, 2025 at 5:50 PM
📝New publication alert!
📡In Satellite Archaeologies, I build upon my dissertation research to discuss the citizen archivists who are keeping Nintendo's Satellaview alive, 25 years after it went off the air.
🔗https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15295036.2025.2591126
📡In Satellite Archaeologies, I build upon my dissertation research to discuss the citizen archivists who are keeping Nintendo's Satellaview alive, 25 years after it went off the air.
🔗https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15295036.2025.2591126
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"We gotta do this shit every year, Chuck?"
December 23, 2025 at 1:12 AM
"We gotta do this shit every year, Chuck?"
