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Jaakko Stenros @jaakkostenros.bsky.social · Feb 4

I have 11 books about games out as author or editor. Ten of them are available as free pdfs. Check out the full list here: jaakkostenros.wordpress.com/books/

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Aasa T 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @rosgakori.bsky.social · 3d

My presentation from the Warhammer Conference 2025 is now on their YouTube channel! Here, I discuss polycrisis, simulacra, and Stormcast Eternals.

Stormcast Eternals as the simulacra of humanity in polycrisis – Warhammer Conference 2025

YouTube video by Warhammer Conference

www.youtube.com

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Melissa Rogerson @melissainau.bsky.social · 6d

Do you teach boardgames? We have just launched a survey asking about your experience! It takes about ten minutes to complete - please share!
Survey link: go.unimelb.edu.au/45qp

Image text reads:
Do you teach board games?
We invite you to complete a short survey for academic research into people’s experiences of teaching boardgames, at home and elsewhere.
The survey takes about ten minutes to complete.

To find out more, please use the QR code,
visit go.unimelb.edu.au/45qp
or email hybrid-games@unimelb.edu.au

(University of Melbourne Human Research Ethics Approval 33778)

There is also a decorative image of game pawns and dice, with a magnifying glass on top, as well as a QR code which points to the given link.

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Suomen pelitutkimuksen seura | Finnish society for game research @pelitutkimus.fi · 7d

Game Studies Day is here again! (In a month)

Join us in Helsinki on November 7 for excellent talks on games and gaming - follow the link for registration.

Valitse kieli

link.webropolsurveys.com

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Elina Roinioti @elroin.bsky.social · Sep 12

📢 CFP – iLRN2026 Special Track 6 🎮
Critical Game Literacies in Immersive Learning
📍 Athens & online | June 27–30, 2026
👉 Submit here: lnkd.in/ghqGwVKQ
Chairs: Iro Voulgari, Elina Roinioti, Tasos Theodoropoulos, Maria Sfyroera
#GameStudies #ImmersiveLearning #EdTech #CFP

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Koneen Säätiö @koneensaatio.fi · Sep 1

The 2025 funding call is now open! Apply by Monday, 15 September, 4 p.m. EEST! If you have any questions or queries or need help with your application, we are here for you throughout the application period. Best of luck with your application ✨✨✨ koneensaatio.fi/en/news/the-...

The 2025 funding call is open – apply by 15 September, 4 p.m. (EEST) - Kone Foundation

Kone Foundation’s mission is to make the world a better place by creating conditions for free and multi-voiced art and research. The Foundation provides funding for academic research and artistic work...

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Suomen pelitutkimuksen seura | Finnish society for game research @pelitutkimus.fi · Aug 28

The #demoscene has been crucial for the development of digital culture in Finland.

The documentary Hands Deep – A Journey into the Demoscene provides a fascinating look into the demoscene as well as demo enthusiasts.

Hands deep – matka demoskeneen: dokumenttielokuva demoskenestä

YouTube video by Suomen pelimuseo - The Finnish Museum of Games

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Tom Apperley @t0mm7.bsky.social · Jul 14

CFP Hybrid Symposium: The UK Tabletop Role-Playing Game Scene – Histories, Cultures, and Legacies - 16th September, @coegamecult.bsky.social Tampere University, Finland (and online)

Full details in attachments.

#ttrpg #boardgames #wargames #minatures #gamebooks #videogames #history #gamestudies

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Aasa T 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @rosgakori.bsky.social · Jul 13

Hey so the thing I alluded in my latest essay? That's out now, for free!

This is a project we've been working on for over a year at this point, and I'm so happy to see it out. Weird to see my name next to some amazing writers and scholars like this! playstorypress.org/books/the-ps...

The Psychgeist of Pop Culture: Warhammer
Edited by Ioannis Costas Batlle

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Suomen pelitutkimuksen seura | Finnish society for game research @pelitutkimus.fi · Jul 6

Congratulations, Jaakko! The whole thread on DiGRA 2025 if definitely worth the read.

Jaakko Stenros @jaakkostenros.bsky.social · Jul 6

The personal cherry on top of Digra 2025 was that at the Annual General Meeting, the closing event of the conference, I was recognized as a Digra Distinguished Scholar (together with Seth Giddens and Kristine Jørgensen).

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Wai Yen Tang Ph.D. @wytang.bsky.social · Jul 4

A fellow colleague from Utrecht University is conducting a survey on representation & character design in game development, from artists to writers, designers, programmers, producers, and beyond.

survey.uu.nl/jfe/form/SV_...

Qualtrics Survey | Qualtrics Experience Management

The most powerful, simple and trusted way to gather experience data. Start your journey to experience management and try a free account today.

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Suomen pelitutkimuksen seura | Finnish society for game research @pelitutkimus.fi · Jun 28

Congratulations Olli and all the HEVGA Fellows!

Olli Sotamaa @sotamaa.bsky.social · Jun 28

The Higher Education Video Game Alliance has announced its 2025 HEVGA Fellows. Humbled to be part of this amazing group of scholars w/ Stephanie Barish, Ashley Guajardo, Kristine Jørgensen & Aaron Trammell! hevga.org/hevga-announ...

HEVGA Announces 2025 Fellows – HEVGA

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Vera Mikkilä @veramikkila.bsky.social · Jun 26

Suomen Akatemian suurilta tuntuvat myönnöt herättävät keskustelua. Saako tutkija tosiaan yli puoli miljoonaa veronmaksajien rahaa omaan taskuun? Miksei niillä rahoilla hoideta vanhuksia?

Seuraa pitkä ketju siitä, mihin Akatemian myöntämä tutkimusrahoitus oikeasti menee ja miten raha kulkee.

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Jaakko Stenros @jaakkostenros.bsky.social · Jun 24

Today I'll participate in a panel on Queer and Role-playing (in Finnish) at Helsinki Pride. I'm happy and proud to be asked. I've been a role-player for almost 40 years, I've analysed RPGs for a over twenty years, and this summer is the 10 year anniversary of my first queer game studies paper.

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Open Library of Humanities @openlibhums.org · Jun 12

#CFP/ Call for Abstracts: #OLHJournal Special Collection "Language Diversity in Game Studies", guest edited by Stanisław Krawczyk, Mary Anne Argo Chávez, Antonia Hargreaves Bueno, Zahra Rizvi, and Rachael Hutchinson: www.openlibhums.org/news/813/

📅 Deadline: 18 June 2025

CFP: Language Diversity in Games Studies

CFP for a Special Collection at OLHJ (Open Library of the Humanities Journal) Language Diversity in Game Studies Para ver la versión en español de la convocatoria para artículos por …

www.openlibhums.org

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Aaron Trammell @aarontram.bsky.social · Jun 11

analoggamestudies.org/about/analog...

Curious about where to start with Analog Game Studies? We’ve got a handy guide you can check out now.

If we missed your book or article please DM. This is just a start and we intend to update it moving forward!!!!

Analog Game Studies 101 | Analog Game Studies

analoggamestudies.org

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Mikko Meriläinen @merilainen.bsky.social · Jun 10

Are you a man, at least 15 years old and either Finnish or living in Finland?

Do you participate in game culture by e.g. playing video games, RPGs or miniature games, watching videos or through activities like cosplay?

Take the questionnaire in Finnish or English at bit.ly/pelikulttuuri

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Kati Alha @katialha.bsky.social · Jun 5

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...!

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Centre for Research on Addiction, Control and Governance @ceacg.bsky.social · Jun 4

📣 Call for papers: Regulation of online gambling

We have extended the deadline until 31 July for this call for contributions to an upcoming edited volume exploring the regulation of online gambling.

Read more 👇

Call for papers: Regulation of online gambling - Policy, tools, and international collaboration | Addiction, Control and Governance | University of Helsinki

Submit your contribution to an upcoming edited book that will explore proposed, existing, and tested policies to regulate online gambling in the interest of public health and welfare.

www.helsinki.fi

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Suomen pelitutkimuksen seura | Finnish society for game research @pelitutkimus.fi · Jun 3

Multiplayer games often lack essential accessibility features and fail to support assistive technologies like screen readers or specialized controllers. Without such support, some players with disabilities are entirely excluded from gaming.

Congratulations Pauliina! #hci #gamestudies #accessibility

Pauliina Baltzar: Multiplayer gaming excludes people with disabilities | Tampere universities

In her dissertation, M.Sc. Pauliina Baltzar shows that multiplayer games often lack essential accessibility features, such as subtitles, button remapping, contrast adjustments or difficulty levels,...

www.tuni.fi

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Jaakko Stenros @jaakkostenros.bsky.social · Jun 2

Larp Festival Database! The first concrete and useful outcome from the Larpocracy research project is out, a list of events where larps are played and discussed.

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OneDrive

Sign in to your OneDrive cloud storage and Office Online.

1drv.ms

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Mikko Meriläinen @merilainen.bsky.social · May 26

Currently listening to Kishonna Gray's keynote at #nordicdigra25, and it's pure fire. Here's her blog post related to the keynote.

Black Game Studies: From Theorizing a Genre to Developing a Field – Pelitutkimus.fisearchexpand

www.pelitutkimus.fi

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Rainforest Scully-Blaker (he/him) @rainforestsb.bsky.social · May 26

Rolling in to sunny Turku 🌞 for Nordic Digra 2025! Really excited for our talk exploring what we mean when we say "critical" game studies 🔥

#gamestudies #nordicdigra25

Title slide from the talk titled "Critical Game Studies" and the Politics of Hope? by me and Sabine Harrer

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Aasa T 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @rosgakori.bsky.social · May 26

Nordic DiGRA time!

#gamestudies #nordicdigra

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Suomen pelitutkimuksen seura | Finnish society for game research @pelitutkimus.fi · May 23

"Stardew Valley might make us rethink the relationship we have with the very vegetables we prepare and cook."

Concluding our #nordicdigra25 keynote speaker blog post series, Dr. Velvet Spors from the University of Tartu discusses the relationship between people, nature, and videogames. #gamestudies

“Is the grass greener out of bounds?” Exploring the relationship of people, nature and video games – Pelitutkimus.fisearchexpand

www.pelitutkimus.fi

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