🔥The 9th Round of Easy Loan, Earn $40 Reward is in progress❗️ ⏰ Promotion Period: January 15th - Feburary 15th, 2025 👉 Register now and check more details at gate.io/campaigns/358

Follow us at the Gametable workshop on 10-11 october hybrid Working Group 5: Education, Implementation, Dissemination, 1st In-Person Meeting, Santorini, Greece Meeting link and program: gametable.network/news/news-wg5-… @gametable22145 Ludocorpus | @[email protected] @LiegeGameLab

Today is the deadline!📚⏰

GameTable is having a session at the next CAA conference to be held in Athens in May 2025. The call for papers is open until 29 October 2024. Find the description of the session (GameTable: Bridging Disciplines for Heritage Games) here: 2025.caaconference.org/call-for-paper…

Ever wonder about the origins of some of the most popular games, such as Parcheesi, chess, and Monopoly, and why they have been cultural touchstones for generations around the world? Join us for a virtual talk on Wed, Oct 23 at 1pm ET to learn more about the history of play.

Konf: Brettspiele im Mittelalter – Das Mittelalter im Brettspiel. Poetik, Rezeption, Praxis ift.tt/PAm1aCQ

The latest issue of the 𝐉𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐌𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐜 𝐢𝐧 𝐆𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐬 is now out! #ludomusicology #vgm #music University of California Press (is on Bluesky) online.ucpress.edu/jsmg/issue/5/4

My book, The Middle Ages in Computer Games, is out on 5 November. It's almost certainly the most extensive consideration of the theme to date touching on games from Age of Conan to Zork. The digital version is £20 and you can get a 35% discount with code BB35 Boydell & Brewer

There were some issues ordering the digital version of The Middle Ages in Computer Games yesterday, but it's available now on the Boydell site with code BB135 for discount.

Board Game Studies Journal Volume 18, Issue 1 (Oct 2024) is now published! As always, it is viewable as #OpenAccess - sciendo.com/issue/BGS/18/1 #boardgamestudies #gamestudies Sciendo

I will stop plugging this eventually, but Boydell currently have a hardback sale on with code BB060, and this includes The Middle Ages in Computer Games. If you want a physical copy, this makes the price more reasonable.

🌟SPECIAL ISSUE PUBLISHED🌟 Hi everyone, we are announcing the publication of our latest special issue! 📚🎮A massive thank you to all our board members, reviewers, and authors for their contribution. You can check the issue here: press-start.gla.ac.uk/index.php/pres…

CFP - 27th Board Game Studies Colloquium Collecting games & History through games in the GDR 8-11 April 2025, Chemnitz/ Saxony boardgamestudies.jimdofree.com/call-for-paper…

The special issue was guest edited by Zahra Rizvi (Dr. Zahra Rizvi) and Souvik Kar (Souvik Kar) and is titled "The Playful Postcolonial: Culturing Videogames in India"💙

New book announcement: Worldbuilding: Gaming and Art in the Digital Age artbook.com/9783775756341.… Hatje Cantz 2024

🌞Hello everyone, we're looking for three reviewers for a manuscript about typologies of logical contradictions in video game worlds. Please have a look at the abstract in the thread and email us at [email protected] if you're interested!

This Thursday - join us for a talk and Q&A with Tj Hughes! Tj is here to retrospect on the up and down journey of bringing an experimental passion project to a market that doesn't always reward breaking conventions. It's highkey difficult man. RSVP: tjhugheslectureseries.eventbrite.com

Global Game Jam is coming up next month! Our friends at ROC Game Dev, RIT IGM, and RIT MAGIC will host a jam site at MAGIC from Friday, Jan 24 (at 5PM) until Sunday, Jan 26 (at 5PM)! Sign up to participate now at the GGJ site: globalgamejam.org/jam-sites/2025…

Just in time for Christmas, the proceedings of The Fifth Middle Ages in Modern Games are out now! They includes a vast range of short articles dealing with a plethora of subjects relating to the medieval world and medievalism in games of all sorts. issuu.com/theuniversityo…

Mosaic of female athletes playing ball at the Villa Romana del Casale of Piazza Armerina, 4th century AD

“Progress in Play: Board Games and the Meaning of History”, Alex Andriesse on the world of 18/19th-century board games in which players progress chronologically through history itself: buff.ly/2rAvpRA