"All of the complexity of the topic is being flattened, as though it's really simple,” they [a lecturer] said of the snippet Atomic made of their lecture. When they assign this topic to students, it comes with dozens of pages of peer reviewed academic papers, they said. Atomic provides none of that"
💚 Assistant Professor Aparajita Bhandari from @uwaterloo.ca tagged team with PhD student Brandon Blackburn from @ucirvine.bsky.social for 10 weeks!
👽 Together, they examined the role of SLIME and GOO in #videogames #pixelart #gamedev
🍿 Join them this Tuesday 19th May at 12pm ET:
shorturl.at/u1vjt
#CGSA2026 came to an end, and like every year, it's bittersweet. I'm exhausted but also feel energised by seeing my friends and welcoming new people to our wonderful community. Much like this plushie and myself, we are silly geese. But also serious scholars, swear!
for both Pride and #manifestojam, I created the sauna manifesto - because in this era, more than ever, I think we need more gay/queer/trans sex/body/everything games and we need them now:
deathmeetauthor.itch.io/the-sauna-ma...
Talking about the history of videogame in Quebec on TV? ✅
NGL was kinda nervous 😅
www.cbc.ca/player/play/...
Planning to go to 4S in TORONTO this October? Study GAMES? Then you should apply for this open panel put together by me and @thechristinet.bsky.social. Abstracts due April 30!
Jean Ketterling
⚡Lightning talks⚡ from the Videogame Preservation: Practices and Approach symposium, hosted by @discoxford.bsky.social, are now available
My talk (starting at ~43:30) consists of some early thoughts on preserving pornography games amid sex panics and deplatforming.
youtu.be/NTmntdhI6B8?...
where is my overwrought flagging simulator
deathmeetauthor.itch.io
Stick around for all the talks, but especially fellow CGSAers [@cgsaacej.bsky.social] @videogamehistorian.bsky.social and @michaeliantorno.com's excellent work on game preservation!
The "Video Game Preservation: Practices and Approaches" lightning talks from @discoxford.bsky.social are now online!
📡You can hear me (quickly) talk about the Satellaview starting around 1:09:30.
⚡And great talks from @videogamehistorian.bsky.social, @jeanketterling.bsky.social, and more!
I'm looking for a new PhD student to come join me at UAlberta & Amii to study trans perspectives on AI policy & the future of AI as part of my new lab. The position is fully funded and offers access to a range of supports - more details in the poster below!
CGSA/ACÉJ
Dany Guay-Belanger
Dany Guay-Belanger
Jean Ketterling
that one video game writer
Jean Ketterling
Alexander Ross
blair
ASU's new AI tool cannibalizes nuanced, thoughtful faculty lectures into sound bites and chatbot junk text: www.404media.co/asu-atomic-a...
