📯 CFP Alert 📯
Special Issue on Game Advertising

With a stellar guest editor board, this issue invites submissions on any aspect of video game advertising.

Submission deadline October 31, 2025

Details here:
dl.acm.org/journal/game...

Do share 🙃

Interested in researching games and advertising? We are organizing an online workshop on June 12th with @leonxiao.com and @elepetrovs.bsky.social with presentations, a workshop to utilize ad repositories, and announce a special issue call.

Sign up and read more on forms.gle/pGvHbA5E7sqj...!

@elepetrovs.bsky.social, @katialha.bsky.social, and I are organising an online workshop on games and advertising.

Two parts:
1️⃣: paper presentations; and
2️⃣: workshop on how to use social media ad repositories.

Abstract deadline: 19 May 2025
Workshop: 12 June 2025

Details: bit.ly/advertising-...

Hivemind! What are the current and rising trends in free-to-play games? How bad is the crisis in mobile games? What is your (wildest) prediction on the future of free-to-play?

Disclaimer: I may use your answers on my next lecture. Feel free to share or tag people.

Here's my top game experiences from the year 2024 - what were yours?

1. Lorelei and the Laser Eyes
2. Baldur's Gate 3
3. Chants of Sennaar
4. The Case of the Golden Idol
5. Metaphor: ReFantazio

This here is my plan for the holidays.

Teaser for days 1-2 of the cat calendar! During 1.-24.12, for the 8th year in a row, I'm having an advent calendar with daily pics of our cats, Penni and Hippu. If you wish to follow, they will be posted on my Instagram (@lunacity42) #cats #adventcalendar

My wife's been doing some beautiful fan art 🥰

For the next two days, will (re)learn the basics of first aid 🩹❤️‍🩹

Mark your calendar: Festival of Game Culture (29.–31.5.2025, Tampere) is a celebration of games, play and scholarship. This witty, playful, thought-provoking and fun event both summarizes some of the work conducted in the CoE GameCult in 2018-25 and explores the future prospectives for game culture.

I reached all my goals and deadlines for this week, ticked all my to-do items, was very efficient, and am very pleased with myself. Just a bit of teaching and I'm off to a well-deserved weekend. So now would be the perfect time to tell me about the things I've forgot.

Post you from a different era.

(Also my very first Bluesky post!)