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Soraya Murray
📢 TODAY ONLY - @ 2PM ET 📢

🗡️📜🕹️ Cameron Kunzelman talks Assassin’s Creed, history, and how the franchise explores freedom, control, and conspiracy across time.

📺 Head to www.twitch.tv/romchipjournal to join the talk! 📺

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January 23, 2026 at 2:45 PM
📢 THIS Friday Jan 23 @ 2pm ET 📢

🗡️📜🕹️ Cameron Kunzelman talks Assassin’s Creed, history, and how the franchise explores freedom, control, and conspiracy across time. 🗡️📜🕹️

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January 21, 2026 at 6:02 PM
⚔️ And in our Materials section (ft long reads on game objects) Niklas Nyland’s “Contemporary War as Entertainment” examines how the 1918 Finnish Civil War was transformed into a contemporaneous historical war game, Punaisten ja valkoisten taistelu Suomessa 1918 🎲
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January 7, 2026 at 6:51 PM
🗣️ Pierre-Yves Hurel and Adrian Demleitner interviewed Swiss game dev and demomaker Paolo Baerlocher, creator of Piozone and Alderbaran 🚀🌱 We're dropping this in:

FRENCH (original)
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ENGLISH (translation)
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January 7, 2026 at 6:48 PM
💻 ROMchip editor @lainenooney.bsky.social drops Part 1 in a 2-part interview series with narrative designer and former US game journalist @leighalexander.bsky.social in "Actor, Writer, Technology Spirit" ✍️💬 encounter the strange, heady time of 2010s game journalism
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January 7, 2026 at 6:46 PM
🗾 First up, in our peer reviewed articles, explore how Japanese hobbyists built their own “at-home” superguns from 1980s and 90s magazine articles in Hanae Kramer’s "From Print to Play" ⚡🔫 plus, the author even builds their own!
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January 7, 2026 at 6:44 PM
📢 TODAY - November 21 @ 2PM ET 📢

⚒️🏠🧑🏿💻 TreaAndrea Russworm talks about what the Black arts tradition can tell us about The Sims, broken systems, and utopian possibilities⚒️🏠🧑🏿💻

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November 21, 2025 at 2:45 PM
📢 THIS FRIDAY - November 21 @ 2PM ET 📢

⚒️🏠🧑🏿💻 TreaAndrea Russworm talks about what the Black arts tradition can tell us about The Sims, broken systems, and utopian possibilities⚒️🏠🧑🏿💻

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November 19, 2025 at 3:53 PM
📢 NEXT FRIDAY - November 21 @ 2PM ET 📢

⚒️🏠🧑🏿💻 TreaAndrea Russworm talks about what the Black arts tradition can tell us about The Sims, broken systems, and utopian possibilities⚒️🏠🧑🏿💻

🎟️ TIX + Info: buff.ly/DDUsvVm

💸 Our talks are always FREE and PUBLIC. DONATE: buff.ly/3PQ2HDE
November 12, 2025 at 2:31 PM
July 4, 2025 at 1:11 PM
📢 OUR NEXT ROMCHIP TWITCH TALK 📢
JULY 18 @ 1PM ET

@sparklebliss.bsky.social presents "Dolly Ludens: American Girl Dolls Playing Games"

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July 3, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Go deep w/ an new original translation 🗾 @hiroiwasaki.bsky.social's doujinshi Legend 7: Why Do 2D Games Usually Go to the Right? ➡️ translated by @onemillionpower.com and @devilrei.bsky.social. Learn abt Hudson Soft, Menko cards, Mega Man and more thru Iwasaki's POV 👀

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July 3, 2025 at 4:12 PM
In Materials section is our 2024 fundraising commission winner @riquesampaio.com.br w/ a wild piece on the historical context of 🚫 Casseta & Planeta: Noite Animal in Post-Dictatorship Brazil 😬 Its a game with sex, racism, homophobia and more so why was it sold to kids?!

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July 3, 2025 at 3:50 PM
🗣️ Pierre-Yves Hurel and Sophie Bemelmans interviewed Swiss game developer Daniel Roux, creator of the Blupi/Eggbert games 🥚 We're dropping this in:

FRENCH (original)
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ENGLISH (translation)
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July 3, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Our peer-reviewed article this issue is 📸 SCREENSHOTS OR IT DIDNT HAPPEN by @jacobgaboury.bsky.social 📺about the long history of screenshot photography within game culture 🏆
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July 3, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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June 22, 2025 at 8:17 PM
📣 ROUNDING US OUT @ 10PM 📣 @textfiles.com returns to wind down the stream and tuck us all into bed with Jason Scott's Sleepy Time Cave of Wonders.

$20+ donations during this hour are entered into a raffle to receive a voicemail from Jason!

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February 23, 2025 at 2:55 AM
LIVE NOW 📣 @colleenmacklin.bsky.social is turning down the lights and turning up the rave--we'll learn how Rez (2001) intersects with their own DJ and music history.

​​$20+ donations = enter a raffle to receive a signed copy of The Metagame!

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February 23, 2025 at 2:23 AM
📣 THE STUPIDITY CONTINUES TIL 9PM ET📣 @philsalv.bsky.social honks his way through DOOM and Crazy Taxi on the Fisher Price Wonder Tools Cruiser.

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February 23, 2025 at 12:55 AM
📣 NEXT UP @ 7PM ET 📣 @philsalv.bsky.social brings us TWO HOURS of streaming stupidity on the Fisher Price Wonder Tools Cruiser 🕹️📞 🪙 🚘 a 1990s children's computer gaming peripheral

Multiple @mitpress.bsky.social giveaways during this 2 hour set

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February 22, 2025 at 11:55 PM
how are you NOT watching the ROMchip Twitch Charity Stream rn? for that sweet sweet cube-o-rific game history

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February 22, 2025 at 11:32 PM
NEXT UP @ 6PM ET 📣 @buttplug.engineer aka qdot streams Cubivore: Survival of the Fittest (2002) 🧊 for GameCube!

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February 22, 2025 at 10:55 PM
📣 NEXT UP @ 5PM ET 📣 @molleindustria.org aka Paolo Pedercini attempts a democratically controlled screening of Kinoautomat 📽️ the first interactive movie from 1967.

$20+ donation = raffle for Too Much Fun: The Five Lives of the C64 from @mitpress.bsky.social

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February 22, 2025 at 9:55 PM
📣 HAPPENING NOW 📣 @alt254.bsky.social performs WATER WATER EVERYWHERE, an improvised set of modular synth music ft samples from the water levels of games like Ecco, Chrono Cross, Mario 64, DK Country, Bioshock and more.

$20+ donation = raffle to request a track!

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February 22, 2025 at 9:13 PM
📣 UP NEXT @ 3PM ET 📣 @merrittk.com fires up Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast (2002) ✨ a game "emblematic of the LAN party era."

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February 22, 2025 at 7:55 PM