Category: General

Jamie Banks writes: The newly created National Communication Association Game Studies Division invites (encourages! urges! propels!) communication and games scholars to join its membership.

Via Noah Wardrip-Fruin: What should we preserve, when we aim for game preservation? It’s not just the executables that matter. Some have suggested that we need to preserve play, and I agree that matters. But I think we also want to preserve what we can about how games come to be. We probably can’t imagine…

Researchers at Abertay University, USC and the V&A Museum in London are collaborating on an AHRC research network called Videogames in the Museum.  They’ve started a hashtag campaign: #imakegameshere (https://twitter.com/hashtag/imakegameshere?src=hash)

The Strong has recently added a couple of new, major collections and a new research fellowship devoted to the study of games.

This report is the result of bringing more than 40 field leaders together for a meeting made possible by an unprecedented set of organizations: the U.S. National Science Foundation, U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities, U.S. National Endowment for the Arts, Microsoft Studios, and Microsoft Research. We followed the meeting with more than a year…

We are organizing this year’s International Simulation and Gaming Association’s (ISAGA) summerschool on game design at Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands. It will be an inspiring event for 30-40 international participants, who will learn from and with game design experts from all over the world how to design and develop simulation games. You…

We would like to introduce Local Game Histories [LOCALGAMEHIST], a new mailing list, which will focus on histories of computer games (and hobby computing) in various regional contexts with the focus on the local cultures and industries. We are doing this to create a network of local game history researchers, share links, references, news and…

The first interdisciplinary European summer school in game and play research will take place 16-31 August 2014 at Utrecht University in The Netherlands. It is aimed at talented PhD and MA/MSc students who are interested in the study of games and play. It offers students an innovative interdisciplinary platform for learning about games and play…

GLS 2013: http://events.mediasite.com/Mediasite/Catalog/Full/390a33dc16fe4f7094387bfc53f87f5c21 G4C 2013: http://new.livestream.com//g4c

Update: this issue has been solved. The new library should now contain all publications from the DiGRA conferences. We have some issues with transferring digital library data to the new site. Currently, plenty of papers are missing from the DL. We are working on this. Meanwhile, all the old digital library can be used: http://www.digra-old-site.local:8080/Plone/dl/.  

The Institute of Digital Games at the University of Malta is offering a  new MSc in Digital Games starting this coming October. The first deadline for applications closes on the 30th April. The second round of applications close on July 31st.  10 candidates from each round will be accepted for a total of 20 in…

Deadline is: May 1, 2013 — Few places for the Game Studies course still free — [sic!] Summer Institute Cologne – July 12-19, 2013: [Techniques of Imagination] New Perspectives in the Historiography of Art, Media Culture, and Theatre [techniques of imagination] is the first installment of [sic!], the newly founded international program offering annual graduate-level…