Matthew Thomas Payne

We now have confirmation that this gem will go live by early November!

#gamestudies

New issue of @intransition.bsky.social! Featuring OM SHANTI OMNIBUS—the first published work of the IVERN collective, of which I am very happy to be a part along w/ @ludology.bsky.social @llamasjr.bsky.social @kathleenloock.bsky.social & many others: intransition.openlibhums.org/article/id/1...

The book is out now! Free to download! punctumbooks.com/titles/histo...

So very cool! Can’t wait to check it out.

Matt Walsh's imaginary professor: "good morning student-comrades. today we learn how to bayonet a white Christian capitalist while taking trans hormones"

actual average professor: "folks, I am begging you, please do the reading for tomorrow this time. it is five pages"

Joel’s “legs day” was yesterday.

Ugh. Boo.

I’m also hoping you might name that publisher.

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

Congratulations to this year's World Video Game Hall of Fame inductees at The Strong!

A series of 7 books in the Influential Game Designer Series

Since its debut in 2015 by Bloomsbury, this lineup has become a leading academic collection celebrating industry icons. 💡

I write about it in this week’s newsletter 👇

thevideogamelibrary.substack.com/p/the-video-...

@ludology.bsky.social @sparklebliss.bsky.social @anasalter.bsky.social

Tonight is the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere’s midnight ride. May his memory remind us all to resist the tyranny forming in our government.

Just the cover of the book

Today is two years since my book THE VIDEOGAME INDUSTRY DOES NOT EXIST was released! I'm still really proud of it as, I think, one of my best academic works. And I'm really thrilled with how much game researchers and especially developers have engaged with it. direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...

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This hits hard, as 10 years ago we got a @neh-odh.bsky.social grant to launch our Scholarship in Sound & Image workshop. That grant was truly transformative, as we just saw at #scms25 - it's no exaggeration to say that videographic criticism as we know it would not exist without #NEH support!

Great photo! I think that’s Larry DeMar in the background.

This is so exciting! What a great pairing of books to lead off this new series.

Same.

Woot! Congrats, Kyle.

Shout out to our friends at @mitpress.bsky.social who donated all these incredible game history books for our fundraiser! We'll be raffling them off every hour during our Feb 22 charity stream!

(love seeing @jzagal.bsky.social @jesperjuul.bsky.social @chaimg.bsky.social and other friends in here!)

A Lego statue of Mario riding Yoshi

A Lego set of Yoshi riding a Yoshi dirt bike

When education is not liberating, the dream of the oppressed is to become the oppressor

Read it slowly and understand it. 😳🥺

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Monarchy speedrun is already at “meddlesome priest,” pretty good time

Wayback Machine capture of MTV News.

This year, we worked swiftly to save legacy media sites Vice.com and MTVNews before decades worth of valuable journalism could be erased. These sites are now searchable on the Wayback Machine!

Help us in saving these resources:: https://archive.org/donate/?origin=blsky-eoy2024

Book Excerpt: Ultima and Worldbuilding in the Computer Role-Playing Game 'Ultima and Worldbuilding in the Computer Role-Playing Game is the first scholarly book to focus exclusively on the long-running Ultima series of computer role-playing games (RPG) and to assess its lasting impact on the RPG genre and video game industry.'

📖 One of Game Developer's most popular dev-authored pieces this year was actually a book!

Check out Ultima and Worldbuilding in Computer Role-Playing Games by Professors Carly Kocurek and Matthew Payne.

It's available in full for free. #GDBestof2024

Are you at Fiddler’s? (Love that place.)

Huh, I guess the G in BFG 9000 stands for gardening.

Passengers, please don't worry if you're blocking a fire exit. If you're flammable and have legs, you are never blocking a fire exit.

We've been working hard at @romchip.bsky.social to create an incredible game history speaker series early in the new year, building hype toward our Feb 22 fundraiser. Check out the details on these incredible late Jan/early Feb talks by @rachelplotnick.bsky.social @jesperjuul.bsky.social and others!