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Matthew Thomas Payne

@ludology.bsky.social

Associate Professor of Film, Television, & Theatre at the University of Notre Dame. Author of Eugene Jarvis: King of the Arcade & Playing War: Military Video Games after 9/11. Co-editor of How to Play Video Games.

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

#gamestudies

21.10.2025 13:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 14    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

New issue of @intransition.bsky.social! Featuring OM SHANTI OMNIBUSโ€”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...

19.09.2025 21:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
Historiographies of Game Studies: What It Has Been, What It Could Be โ€“ punctum books

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

11.08.2025 20:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

So very cool! Canโ€™t wait to check it out.

16.07.2025 16:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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"

16.07.2025 13:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3814    ๐Ÿ” 632    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 64    ๐Ÿ“Œ 56

Joelโ€™s โ€œlegs dayโ€ was yesterday.

15.06.2025 14:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Ugh. Boo.

27.05.2025 19:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Iโ€™m also hoping you might name that publisher.

27.05.2025 16:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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

08.05.2025 17:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 28912    ๐Ÿ” 8157    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 38    ๐Ÿ“Œ 763
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Congratulations to this year's World Video Game Hall of Fame inductees at The Strong!

08.05.2025 15:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 74    ๐Ÿ” 13    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3
A series of 7 books in the Influential Game Designer Series

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. ๐Ÿ’ก

I write about it in this weekโ€™s newsletter ๐Ÿ‘‡

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

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

19.04.2025 15:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 23    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Tonight is the 250th anniversary of Paul Revereโ€™s midnight ride. May his memory remind us all to resist the tyranny forming in our government.

19.04.2025 00:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 23411    ๐Ÿ” 7547    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 329    ๐Ÿ“Œ 285
Just the cover of the book

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...

18.04.2025 00:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 319    ๐Ÿ” 57    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 7    ๐Ÿ“Œ 5

๐Ÿ•ฏ ๐Ÿ•ฏ
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literally any
๐Ÿ•ฏ good news ๐Ÿ•ฏ

๐Ÿ•ฏ ๐Ÿ•ฏ
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15.04.2025 16:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9468    ๐Ÿ” 3091    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 120    ๐Ÿ“Œ 48

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!

10.04.2025 22:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 18    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Great photo! I think thatโ€™s Larry DeMar in the background.

02.04.2025 02:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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

31.03.2025 20:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Same.

22.03.2025 16:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Woot! Congrats, Kyle.

18.03.2025 00:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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!)

11.02.2025 15:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 28    ๐Ÿ” 10    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
A Lego statue of Mario riding Yoshi

A Lego statue of Mario riding Yoshi

A Lego set of Yoshi riding a Yoshi dirt bike

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

10.02.2025 16:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 533    ๐Ÿ” 171    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Read it slowly and understand it. ๐Ÿ˜ณ๐Ÿฅบ

Repost ๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿพ ๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿพ

10.02.2025 01:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 26169    ๐Ÿ” 8074    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 364    ๐Ÿ“Œ 229
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lol

05.02.2025 13:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 545    ๐Ÿ” 53    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 12    ๐Ÿ“Œ 32

Monarchy speedrun is already at โ€œmeddlesome priest,โ€ pretty good time

22.01.2025 15:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7669    ๐Ÿ” 894    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 39    ๐Ÿ“Œ 12
Wayback Machine capture of MTV News.

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

28.12.2024 16:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8208    ๐Ÿ” 2184    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 54    ๐Ÿ“Œ 108
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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.'

๐Ÿ“– 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

27.12.2024 21:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 25    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Are you at Fiddlerโ€™s? (Love that place.)

26.12.2024 23:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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

13.12.2024 02:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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.

11.12.2024 01:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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!

09.12.2024 22:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 23    ๐Ÿ” 9    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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