Hanna Wirman

På Folkemødet repræsenterer Center for Digital Play 25 års forskning i digital leg og digitale spil på IT Universitetet. Hvad ville du kunne tænke dig at diskutere med os?

#folkemødet2025 #fmforskning @itu.dk @hwirman.bsky.social @anderslovlie.bsky.social

Thank you for being there @perbb.bsky.social! Today's news tells that over 23,000 people participated via.ritzau.dk/pressemeddel...

Divisionen | The Sims fylder 25 år og volden i Sverige | DR LYD I denne uge fyldte computerspillet The Sims 25 år. Spillet hvor du kan kreere din helt egen familie, bygge dit eget hus og følge karakterernes udvikling - et form for virtuelt dukkehus. Spillet blev e...

Jeg havde fornøjelsen af at fejre 25-årsjubilæet for The Sims i Divisionen på P1. Kæmpestort tak til @hwirman.bsky.social fra @itu.dk og @elhammar.bsky.social fra det Kongelige Akademi for at klæde mig godt på til interviewet.

The Sims 1 and 2 are getting rereleased today After largely being unavailable for years, the two classics are now out on PC.

Exciting! www.theverge.com/news/599128/...

Two Tamburins' flagship stores on two days. Both with cool renovation and a good smell.

YouTube video by Nintendo of America Nintendo Switch 2 – First-look trailer

Looking great!

Pagoda 800+ years old. Robot, slightly younger. National Museum of Korea.

Good start for a year is a paper publication on a topic that you love!

Master of Go Plays Mahjong intellectdiscover.com/content/jour...

ITU Games support team enjoying DADIU students presenting their graduation games. Fantastic work, proud of them all - available for later viewing here m.twitch.tv/videos/23188...

The Northern Star Symposium 2025: Loss | Nord.no The Northern Star Symposium is a three-day academic gathering in Bodø. The goal of this symposium is to have a place to discuss topics and questions that are not among the mainstream of conferences an...

The unique symposium series by @torillelvira.bsky.social call for papers again. 'Loss' - what a topic for (games) researchers!

The best ideas books of 2024 Richard Dawkins’s greatest hits, the diaries of a sociopath and a history of the gut

Muuum, look! My book is in @theguardian.com's 2024 Best Books list! 😭💙🎉
www.theguardian.com/books/2024/d...

"Marijam Did’s engagingly idiosyncratic Everything to Play For (@versobooks.bsky.social) is partly an exposé videogame production built in sweatshops, and an ideological critique of games."

General info Open lecture series on game trends Games Now! is an open lecture series on the dominant topics and emerging trends in games.  In GN! we dig deeper to what is current at the game scene – and what will ...

MSc in Games at @itukbh.bsky.social has joined Games Now! school network. It's fascinating to see the positive energy, openness and focus on the latest game trends in this initiative lead by @aakoo.bsky.social. gamesnow.aalto.fi

Summerbird!

A.C.Perch's Tehandel Christmas calendar.

Summerbird Christmas calendar.

It's time to enter the year's loot box season. I'm going with a tea and a chocolate calendar as always.

Yes, so the badges add a new layer for making an informed hiring decision, or privide a shortcut to an interview for a candidate, but should not aim at fully replacing the any other aspects of the recruitment process or the portfolio.

Thanks, Markus. This is definitely an angle that makes full sense but wasn't obvious to me. As you hint at, one attempt of addressing this is indeed their gold, silver and bronze tiers of skills.

Joined an insightful meeting about games industry micro-credentials today. What are the key benefits of such systems? To me, foreseeing future needs and establishing fair assessment criteria seem challenging, but the girl scout in me is carefully intrigued by badges. 😅https://gamebadges.eu/

Too late to this game, but I'm here now, too :) Great list, thanks!

Riippuvuudet | Kimmo Laine voi pelata yli puolet vuorokaudesta – tällaista on videopeliriippuvuus, joka luokitellaan pian sairaudeksi Korkeakouluopiskelija Kimmo Laine on videopelikoukussa ja tietää, ettei voi lopettaa kokonaan.

Factorio: Space Age and Cyberpunk 2077 linked to 'video game addiction' as the Finnish national media tackles the newly classified disorder (following WHO's 'gaming disorder') through a profile story. News category: 'Addictions'. I guess it's impossible to write such articles without naming games.