Esther Wright
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Esther Wright
@enwright.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Digital History @ Cardiff University. Historical video game marketing & Rockstar Games researcher. Co-convenor: @historygamesnet [She/her]. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
And now, Writing Game Histories (2026) with cover art (courtesy of @murthynikhil.bsky.social’s Syphilisation)

www.bloomsbury.com/uk/writing-g...
December 13, 2025 at 9:19 AM
I wrote a new article: it’s on the Fallout franchise, & it’s just been published in Games&Culture

I’m currently trying to wrap my head around a bigger project on historical video game promotion and branding & this article is a slice (in progress) of that
+ it’s open access!
doi.org/10.1177/1555...
December 8, 2025 at 4:19 PM
I made this today to (less eloquently) express the same feeling (of rage):
August 28, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Oops, gotta add another post. As @readdead.com demonstrates in this post, this analysis shatters any claims towards “historical reality” R* might be purporting to show, in favour of, effectively, a white male fantasy space. Again, not a shocker, is it.

readdead.com/2025/07/02/w...
July 30, 2025 at 8:24 AM
And I have a cute dog, who i only forced to pose with my book once, I promise.
November 8, 2024 at 4:37 PM