Category: Call for Papers

The 1986 Chornobyl catastrophe remains one of the most consequential technological disasters of the twentieth century, with enduring cultural, political, and environmental implications. In recent decades, Chornobyl and its surrounding Exclusion Zone have also become a significant site of representation within digital games, where history, memory, and speculative fiction intersect in interactive form. This edited…

Call for chapter proposals for Dragon Age: Worlds of Power and Play, an edited collection examining the Dragon Age franchise through narrative, systems design, identity, ethics, player agency, and transmedia storytelling. Abstracts (max 750 words) are due June 1, 2026; submissions and inquiries should be sent to reardond@mst.edu .

“Games and Society” is a 2-day hybrid conference organised by students of Uppsala University’s Master’s Programme in Game Design. The topics covered include but are not limited to grief and death in games, experimetal controls, and sustainable business practices.

Instead of seeing nostalgia as a past-based, passive, and individualized emotion, can nostalgia galvanize us to be generative, active, and collaborative in our pursuits of the past? This edited book invites games studies researchers, designers, developers, artists, and enthusiasts to reflect on how games help us think about “Nostalgia for the Future”.