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Associate Professor of Communication and Media Studies @MemorialU -- Game Studies, AI, Critical & Experimental Media, Copyright 👾

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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · Sep 12

🎮 🕹️ Happy National Videogames Day! To celebrate, we've gathered a collection of #OpenAccess MIT Press books on gaming, game design, and streaming that you can read freely and immediately: mitpress.mit.edu/open-access-...

Five books on gaming, streaming, and game design aligned with covers out. Books included: "Intellivision," "Seeing Red," "The Game that Never Ends," "Unboxing Japanese Videogames," and "Streaming by the Rest of Us."

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Molleindustria - Wishlist FUTURE? NO THANKS! @molleindustria.org · Sep 8

The Democratic Socialism Simulator is basically free this week for Steam's Political Sim Fest.

-See what changed since the Great Biden Era Nap!
-Gift it to your newly radicalized mom!
-Get upset because it doesn't actually simulate socialism!

store.steampowered.com/app/1261760/...

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The Games Institute @thegamesinstitute.bsky.social · Mar 5

This session’s panel included:
🎮 "Adapting the Network Narrative to Videogames through Return of the Obra Dinn”, by Cassandra Barkman
🎮 "Democracy, Desire, and Disappointment: Silent Hill Ascension and Decision Systems in Massively Interactive Narrative Games”, by Sarah Thorne and Burçak Aydınlık

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sarahthorne.bsky.social @sarahthorne.bsky.social · Mar 6

Having a blast at #ICGaN2025!

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