We are delighted to announce the scholars selected for the third round of the DiGRA Rising Star Spotlight. This round continues to celebrate emerging researchers whose work contributes to the richness and diversity of game studies.

There has already been quite a bit of discussion around the paradox of horror, but I think there is still something interesting in coming at it through things like toyetic culture, everydayness and small-scale forms of horror play. So, the hope is to bring together a group of people with overlapping interests and see what…

A new edited collection, Games and the Gothic: Playing in the Shadows, is seeking chapter proposals. Co-edited by Jeff Howard (Falmouth University) and Chloé Wake (Manchester Metropolitan University) with Edinburgh University Press, the collection explores the Gothic across digital, tabletop, material, and role-playing games — examining how Gothic aesthetics, affect, and atmosphere intersect with mechanics,…