This morning, one day after i came back from the Oscar’s a masked group of Israeli settlers stormed my neighbours home, assaulted the family members, sprayed pepper spray in their eyes, and smashed activists’ phones.another group of settlers attacked another family in the area.

terrorising Palestinians by settlers and demolishing Palestinian homes continues. A week ago, I stood on the Oscar stage with pride to call on the world to stop the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people.

Our new issue is out! It includes five amazing close readings by Simon Dor Anoushka Lad Julie Veitch Gurn Group and Andrew Kirby! firstpersonscholar.com/2025-the-close…

Simon Dor Simon Dor examines the Pokémon: Let’s Go games, focusing on how player exceptionalism is communicated through the layering of multiple “game” experiences. firstpersonscholar.com/a-game-within-…

Simon Dor Anoushka Lad discusses Lara Croft as a colonial and white savior figure by focusing on Shadow of the Tomb Raider (2018) as an archaeogame whose self-aware criticism and conventional spectacle are at odds firstpersonscholar.com/lara-croftss-c…

Simon Dor Julie Veitch Julie Veitch writes about the unique psychological horror of Until Dawn with attention to powerlessness, lack of agency, and the subversive incorporation of the player through its dual structure. firstpersonscholar.com/interpretation…

Simon Dor Julie Veitch Gurn Group focuses on the deconstructive interactivity of the 2017 game Oikospiel Book 1 using Stephen Gillmurphy’s concept of “consciousness churn.” firstpersonscholar.com/art-for-the-pe…

Simon Dor Julie Veitch Lastly, Andrew Kirby looks at how the Final Fantasy VII Remake (2020), simultaneously expands on and spoils the ecocritical narrative of the original Final Fantasy VII (1997). firstpersonscholar.com/ecocritical-co…

I am sad to inform our readers that, for the first time since 2012, FPS is going on hiatus. This is due to lack of funding, and lack of student staff. Please see the attached message from Games Institute Executive Director Dr. Neil Randall for more info: firstpersonscholar.com/first-person-s…

The Holocaust of our time, the moral issue of our time.

President Claire Shipman of Columbia University just sent out an email advertising an "International Student Relief Hardship Fund". When you click on the link for "Special Student Relief", you're taken to the ICE website to report people. Sent this after a student was detained.

The email instructs international students to tell Columbia University admin if they are at risk of deportation. Mahmoud and Mohsen did that. They were both ignored and are now detained. Do not trust Columbia to protect you. If you are an international student, Columbia is not safe.

Columbia University Screen recording for proof. This is Columbia's "resources for international students", linking to the ICE website to report people. Columbia University is not safe for international students.

i literally cannot imagine what my life —let alone career—would look like without polygon. devastating; if you're hiring, hire these amazing people first

When did game studies start? & what & WHO is at the core of game studies? Fields are defined as much by what they are NOT as by what they are & their borderlands can be hotly contested spaces. Download for FREE this 780-page BRICK of a book & press PLAY. tinyurl.com/2ucxjy8a

When did game studies start? & what & WHO is at the core of game studies? Fields are defined as much by what they are NOT as by what they are & their borderlands can be hotly contested spaces. Download for FREE this 780-page BRICK of a book & press PLAY. tinyurl.com/2ucxjy8a

PIXELLATE THIS! 780 pages of the HISTORIOGRAPHIES OF GAME STUDIES & #OpenAccess to boot, which means FREE to download! This book reveals how a field gets made & who gets to decide & who and what is repelled. This is also a blueprint for change. #gaming tinyurl.com/2ucxjy8a

Workers at Arkane, a Microsoft-owned studio, demand that Microsoft divest from Israel's "sinister project for Gaza" aftermath.site/microsoft-azur…

months after the BDS movement added microsoft to its list of priority targets, prompting a reckoning among members of the games press and a game removal by one indie studio, devs at arkane, a microsoft studio, have publicly spoken out against microsoft's complicity in genocide

After 5 years of work, Historiographies of Game Studies is out NOW! You can read all 780 pages for FREE! Published by the amazing punctum 😬 books I am mostly over on Bsky now, but I thought I would share here in case anyone is still out there hanging on. punctumbooks.com/titles/histori…