Kelly Boudreau

very much looking forward to facilitating the Teaching Undergraduate workshop this afternoon at @aoir.bsky.social in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil -

this is amazing! two of my favorite things in one awesome collab!

Cool new issue of Game Studies: gamestudies.org/2502

Inter alia, fishing games (Dave the Diver and Dredge) 🎣 and Genshin Impact lore and fan practices. 📜

just on the clip i see wave race & mirror's edge ;)

RULE with Kelly Boudreau and Michael Straeubig This conversation is with Dr. Kelly Boudreau, Associate Professor of Interactive Media, Theory and Design at Harrisburg University, Pennsylvania, living between her native Canada and the US, and Dr. M...

Happy to finally see this in print!! Dr. Michael Straeubig (whom I never met prior) and I were brought together for a guided discussion by the editors on and around the topic of rules and games.

The chapter is our (polished up) conversation -- definitely my favorite kind of scholarship 😊

Game discovery app Ludocene launches Ludocene, a free "dating app that matches you with games rather than people," has launched, following a successful Kick…

Ludocene, a free "dating app that matches you with games rather than people," has launched, following a successful Kickstarter campaign.

Cosy video games are on an unstoppable rise. Will they unleash a darker side? Non-violent games about cooking, farming or tidying now rival the more traditional video game pursuits of shooting and fighting in popularity. So what will the #cozy genre tackle next?

thank you @nicolecarpenter.bsky.social for writing a wonderful piece on cosy games, honoured to be quoted =)

Trump: ‘I’m really not trolling’ with talk of Canada as 51st state President Trump in an interview published Friday was adamant that he is serious about his talk of adding Canada as the 51st state, something Canadian leaders have outright rejected. The president s…

We never thought he was joking. I don't understand why American media keeps trying to say we're just mad about the tariffs. We're mad about THIS.

No matter their trade policy, I suspect Canadians will *never* see America as a true ally again.

I'm thinking , since the Dept of Justice publicly released the home address of Jennifer Vasquez Sura, the wife of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, we should start finding and releasing home information of DHS, ICE and police who help kidnap individuals out of schools, off the streets. Let their names be known.

Elections Canada announces record turnout on 1st day of advance voting | CBC News Elections Canada has announced preliminary estimates that show nearly two million electors voted Friday, the first day of advance polls. It's a record turnout, according to the non-partisan agency.

voted in the early polls for the first time today ... changing address on site was incredibly easy!

Please, for the love of cthulu, if you are qualified to vote - VOTE! We do not want a case where we are governed by a party that only 49.8% of the people voted for and we spiral down the abyss!

I feel like we need to Clockwork Orange them with every single episode of How It's Made

The systems WORK. There is literally no need to do any of this. That tells me:

(a) part of the PLAN is to wreck govt services and cause chaos

(b) there's criminal intent to steal secrets/data and probably force the govt to pay Musk a license forever for use of Grok code

thank you for this! I teaching a Video Game History: Technological, Economic, & Social-Cultural Contexts - and really try to teach my (US) students the rich international histories beyond the blaring US-centric nostalgic hype disguised as history ;)

Decades Ago, Columbia Refused to Pay Trump $400 Million. Note That Number. (Gift Article) A quarter century ago, the university was looking to expand. It considered, and rejected, property owned by Donald Trump. He did not forget it.

This is unbelievable in that way that only Trump stories can be. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/n...

How empathy came to be seen as a weakness in conservative circles There's a growing movement, among some conservatives, pushing back against traditional notions of empathy. What's behind it, and what might it mean, especially for Christian conservatives?

How empathy came to be seen as a weakness in conservative circles.

www.npr.org/2025/03/22/n... @sarahmccammon.bsky.social

didnt he already try a version of this and it was deemed .... . /sigh

THIS THIS AND THIS!! I'd rather go without than to give the same rights to people I dont think should be treated as people is what perpetuates the downfall ...

I work for a US university but live in Canada (am Canadian, travel between CAN/US) and every time we read stuff on reddit about the cost of treatments (he is on Ocrevus) we are devastated for anyone without good insurance. Courage to you both!

I'm supporting MS Canada! Our mission is to connect and empower the MS community to create positive change. MS Canada strives to fund innovative and ground-breaking research that will discover the cause and cure for this disea...

My partner was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis at 49 years old. It's been 3 years & we've been very thankful for the work & support MS Canada has provided. This year, we are joining the MS Walk Fundraiser to help the foundation & meet others who live with MS msspwalk.donordrive.com/team/14460

Wrote this piece on the significance of the York cuts:

'In a democratic society a university is not a “business” that sells degrees. It can serve as a bulwark against disinformation and against manipulation of the population by powerful interests.' @ocufa.bsky.social @caut.bsky.social

if you want to know why Musk/Trump's shit is instantly toxic abroad but popular at home, it's because abroad they don't have a cheerleading pro-Trump media and a backstop of corrupt judges to clean up after every stupid decision. Instead it just looks stupid and cruel.

thank you for the reminder - if you have a chance add me to Discord (under velixious) I have a question or two and would love a more direct place to ping you =)

Episode 4 | Cosy Podcast Episode · WordPlay · 04/03/2025 · 1h 8m

Can never listen to my own voice, but happy to see this podcast on cozy games out in the world - thank you to @andradroid.bsky.social & British DiGRA for the invitation to talk about my new favorite topic #gamestudies podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...

I'm more surprised that after all those budget of a amazing cinematic trailer released YEARS ago at The Game Awards. Wonder Woman sound like she could be a potential good super hero game... I mean, it's Wonder Woman... WONDER WOMAN

Thanks WB Games, nice decision to scrapped that out in 2025

🎮*Nouvelle publication*🎮

Mon dernier article sur la culture du glitch autour de #𝘊𝘺𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘱𝘶𝘯𝘬2077 (CD Projekt RED, 2020) vient d'être publié dans la revue 𝘕𝘰𝘶𝘷𝘦𝘢𝘶𝘹 𝘊𝘢𝘩𝘪𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘥𝘦 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘨𝘦. J'y étudie le rôle critique du glitch dans les jeux-comme-service.

publications-prairial.fr/marge/index....

We Are Living in the Eternal Truman Show I broke one of my personal rules today and spent half an hour or so scrolling through Instagram. Most of the content was largely innocuous, if almost entirely mindless. But one video stood out: a blonde-haired influencer in a broad-brimmed hat laughed from a straight-to-camera video with her 4-year-old child.

We're both relentless consumers and the relentlessly consumed. We've presided over the death of our private moments, as social validation has become our new oxygen.

www.joanwestenberg.com/we-are-livin...

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I <3 being Canadian TY Pizza Pizza for knocking it out of the park with these three advertisement gems:
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Elect a mob boss, expect a crime syndicate. This is just another shake-down... one of many to come.

US officials are reportedly threatening to revoke Starlink access for Ukraine if they don’t give us 50% of their mineral rights.

That’s not diplomacy, it’s extortion.

We’re also pushing them to kill a UN Resolution that blames Russia for starting the war.

Facts matter.

Call for Chapters We are seeking chapter contributions for an edited volume published by Amsterdam University Press, tentatively titled Cozy Media. The book will investigate the various meanings of coziness across m…

Call for book chapters!📖

I'm co-editing a book (w/ @agatawaszkiewicz.bsky.social) on ✨COZY MEDIA✨ with Amsterdam Uni Press. Please see details and deadlines on our shiny new website: cozymedia.net/call-for-pap...

Abstracts due 31 March💐
Full chapter due 31 July🌞