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It is our great pleasure to announce the DiGRA 2019 Call for Papers and Submission Guidelines. We call under the theme ‘Game, Play and the Emerging Ludo Mix’, where ‘media mix’ serves as a starting point for considering games’ convergence, transformation, replication, and expansion from platform, technology, and context to another. For more information and updates…

Chinese DiGRA is excited to announce the fifth annual conference to be held at the CityU Shenzhen Research Institute from the 7th to the 9th of September 2018.  Conference themes We invite submissions on any aspect of Chinese games, game industries, game design and gaming cultures. We also invite submissions from people located in the Chinese-speaking region…

We are proud to announce the CFP for DiGRA Italia 2018: Women, LGBTQI & Allies: videogiochi e identità di genere // video games and gender identities. The conference will be held in Palermo (Sicily), Cantieri Culturali della Zisa, 1 June 2018. In the following the Italian CFP, followed by the English version.     ——————————————————————…

Nordic DiGRA 2018 Call for Papers “Subversion, Transgression, and Controversy in Play” University of Bergen, Norway, Nov 28-30, 2018 https://digranordic2018.w.uib.no Video games have a reputation of being rebellious, often being the target of controversies and criticism for their inclusion of excessive and speculative content, as well as for the opportunities for players to engage in…

Call for Papers (published 19/2/2018) British DiGRA 2018 The second annual conference of British DiGRA. 14th – 15th June 2018 Staffordshire University, Stoke on Trent The Medium is the Game Since 2003 and the first DiGRA convention in 2003, we have seen a huge change in the ways that Games Studies understands itself and has…

Please note that the deadline for extended abstracts, full papers and panels submission for Digra 2018 has been extended to February 9. As usual, all info at digra2018.com.  

The Game is the Message http://digra2018.com July 25-28, 2018 Campus Luigi Einaudi, Università di Torino, Turin, Italy Lungo Dora Siena, 100 A, 10153 Turin, Italy Conference chairs: Riccardo Fassone and Matteo Bittanti Games have long since moved out of the toy drawer, but our understanding of them can still benefit from seeing them in a wider context of…

We are happy to announce DiGRA Italia‘s next conference! The main theme for this event is Made in Italy: we are going to investigate the production, consumption, history and criticism of video games in/about/around Italy. We are interested in contributions on: – History and frontiers of video game development within the country – Reception studies and subculture…