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,…

We’ll host a conference on the convergence between video games and gambling in late September 2026 in Hong Kong. 🇭🇰🇨🇳 Let’s think “outside of the loot box.” Call for papers for The Gam(bl)ing Conference: https://tinyurl.com/thegamblingcfp. This will be a hybrid livestreaming event. Register for free via: https://tinyurl.com/thegamblingregister. Abstract deadline: 26 June 2026 Results notification: 20…

Following the strong response to the previous rounds of the “DiGRA Rising Star” Spotlight, we are pleased to invite self-nominations for the third round of the program. The Rising Star initiative celebrates and showcases the work of emerging scholars in our community, providing visibility for their research and contributions to game studies.

We are pleased to announce the scholars selected for this round of the DiGRA Rising Star Spotlight. Maria O’Brien – ECR/PP Track Zihan Feng – Student Track

Multiplatform is the annual Manchester Game Centre symposium dedicated to analogue and digital game studies and practice. In 2026, we turn to the lively, uneasy, and productive overlaps between poetry and games: poems as playable systems; games as lyric objects; constraints, procedures, and code as compositional practices; and the long history of poetic play that…