Victor Navarro-Remesal's Avatar

Victor Navarro-Remesal

@vthewanderer.bsky.social

Media Studies, Games scholar, Humanities human Lecturer at TecnoCampus, UPF (Barcelona) Founding member of @DIGRASpain Director de la colección Ludografías. Co-president of the History of Games conference. I also do my own stunts. www.vnavarro.eu

1,326 Followers  |  1,025 Following  |  442 Posts  |  Joined: 07.07.2023
Posts Following

Posts by Victor Navarro-Remesal (@vthewanderer.bsky.social)

Preview
When DOGE Unleashed ChatGPT on the Humanities

Huge NYT article on the back story of those two weeks in March/April 2025 when DOGE illegally terminated hundreds of NEH grants. Gift link!!

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/a...

07.03.2026 20:34 — 👍 1346    🔁 553    💬 15    📌 59
Preview
Video games shouldn't try to win the 'attention war' I don't need your attention war.

Video games shouldn't try to win the 'attention war'

09.03.2026 13:01 — 👍 43    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 2

Interview about Zen and Slow Games in the Game Studies podcast of the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social by @gamestudies.bsky.social

bsky.app/profile/game...

04.03.2026 21:05 — 👍 7    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

No one could’ve predicted this. No one.

This from 13 June 2016 - ten days before the #Brexit Referendum

#Immigration #MigrationWatch

09.03.2026 10:40 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
Post image

We’re recruiting a postdoc and up to 3 research assistants at the Creative Media Policy Observatory (www.cmpo.net), City University of Hong Kong.

Apply for the RA position: www.cityu.edu.hk/hro/en/job/c...

Apply for the postdoc position: www.cityu.edu.hk/hro/en/job/c...

09.03.2026 08:37 — 👍 4    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0
Preview
Tenure Track Assistant Professor for Game Technology at IT University of Copenhagen The IT University of Copenhagen invites highly motivated individuals to apply for a Tenure Track Assistant Professor position starting in Au

Friends! The ITU is hiring! We're looking for a tech-savvy person who can help us develop the games program and the Center for Digital Play research profile: candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me!

09.03.2026 09:25 — 👍 14    🔁 10    💬 0    📌 0
Post image

A mí, a bote pronto, ya se me ha ocurrido una: la lucha contra el analfabetismo. Eso sí, hay que reconocer que las deudas estratosféricas por tratamientos médicos y las matanzas a tiros en centros escolares (y en cualquier otro sitio) se les dan mucho mejor a los yanquis, dónde va a parar.

09.03.2026 00:10 — 👍 14    🔁 5    💬 3    📌 0

Are they going to sue Caravaggio too?

Terrible move and weird, seeing how they dodged Robert Pattinson suing them.

God, video games are so stupid.

08.03.2026 19:09 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Video thumbnail

A turn around of the Bug! wind up walker that came with Jack In The Box Kids Meal toys back in 1999. You could get a Sonic, Knuckles, Ecco or Bug! toy as part of a SEGA PC promotion.

08.03.2026 13:23 — 👍 100    🔁 28    💬 4    📌 0
Video thumbnail

Nomura no Famicom Trade was a stock trading application for the Japan-only dial-up modem add-on for the Famicom. Through a Nintendo collaboration, the game featured Mario on the information screen, doing a unique little dance.

08.03.2026 15:06 — 👍 2230    🔁 553    💬 19    📌 34
Preview
La dulzura del león Durante la última década, el descrédito de la empatía y la compasión ha avanzado en paralelo al auge del odio

Una nueva corriente intenta arrojar la empatía al sótano tenebroso de todos los males. Tres autores norteamericanos han publicado recientemente ensayos que la describen como una emoción tóxica y suicida. Su descrédito avanza en paralelo al auge del odio.

elpais.com/opinion/2026...
@elpais.com

08.03.2026 09:51 — 👍 45    🔁 20    💬 2    📌 3
Preview
Exclusive: AI Error Likely Led to Iran Girl's School Bombing Pentagon investigators believe a bombing of a girls' school in Iran on Saturday likely resulted from inaccurate information provided by AI.

Local Massachusetts weekly says it's confirmed that the Pentagon was relying on Claude for strike targeting, which is how they came to bomb a girls' school.
thisweekinworcester.com/exclusive-ai...

07.03.2026 15:22 — 👍 1003    🔁 536    💬 77    📌 241
Post image 06.03.2026 15:43 — 👍 183    🔁 68    💬 5    📌 1

SHOULD THE U.S BLOT OUT THE SUN AND USHER IN AN AGE OF ETERNAL DARKNESS? - Gallup 2/20/26-3/5/26

NO - 41%
YES - 38%
UNSURE - 21%

06.03.2026 19:09 — 👍 13640    🔁 2965    💬 326    📌 185

We are helping Russia; Iran is helping Russia; Russia is helping Iran kill Americans. Classic four-dimensional chess from our Commander-in-Chief.

by Marc Thiessen

07.03.2026 15:51 — 👍 1061    🔁 192    💬 25    📌 6
Post image

NEW: An unlawful attack on a primary school in southern Iran before midday on February 28, 2026, that reportedly killed scores of civilians, including many children, should be investigated as a war crime.

Read more: https://bit.ly/40dNAcv

07.03.2026 15:53 — 👍 155    🔁 75    💬 8    📌 5

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez: “A country that always defends human rights and international law, like Spain, earns the respect of the entire world, as has happened in recent weeks.”

07.03.2026 11:52 — 👍 3069    🔁 603    💬 36    📌 35
Preview
Eyes on AI Eyes on AI is a game that helps you understand how AI-powered surveillance impacts your life and community.

eyeson-ai.org

eyeson-ai.org

eyeson-ai.org

eyeson-ai.org

eyeson-ai.org

eyeson-ai.org

eyeson-ai.org

eyeson-ai.org

07.03.2026 07:57 — 👍 180    🔁 70    💬 5    📌 2
Post image

NetEase told Nagoshi Studios that they will stop financing the studio from May. Their first game 'Gang of Dragon' needs additional funding to be completed

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

07.03.2026 10:30 — 👍 47    🔁 13    💬 4    📌 16
Post image

youraislopbores.me

07.03.2026 10:29 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Post image

I have done the research, these are the 9 best video game names
🥇 Blomby Car
🥈 Kickle Cubicle
🥉 Bumpy Trot
4️⃣ Tinkle Pit
5️⃣ Bubble Bobble
6️⃣ Kiki Kaikai
7️⃣ Libble Rabble
8️⃣ Plump Pop
9️⃣ Chack'n Pop

07.03.2026 04:56 — 👍 153    🔁 71    💬 4    📌 0
Video thumbnail

From Kodansha's "Light Hole" papercraft stop-motion branded film, featuring Akira, Attack on Titan, Ghost in the Shell and many other mangas.
Directed by Toru Katori (Animation director: Takuro Oishi).
Full video >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIL_...

07.03.2026 02:09 — 👍 667    🔁 227    💬 4    📌 9
Post image

Dos volúmenes de un genio del humor. Historia de nuestra historieta. Dos álbumes para entender la cara A y la cara B de Manuel Vázquez. Aunque todavía no sé cuál es la A y cuál la B 😉
Da igual, las dos son brillantes
Edición de Antoni Guiral para #Bruguera @penguinlibros.bsky.social

03.03.2026 22:41 — 👍 9    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Post image

Hoy se pone a la venta. Es la primera vez que se recopilan estas historietas de Francisco Ibáñez. Y, además, de forma completa y con textos introductorios. Dos obras que merecían ser recuperadas

www.penguinlibros.com/es/libros-ni...

05.03.2026 13:47 — 👍 134    🔁 34    💬 4    📌 1
Preview
Mortadelo y Filemón llegan a PlayStation, Xbox y Nintendo Switch La aventura gráfica lanzada a finales de los 90 y basada en ‘El sulfato atómico’ cuenta desde hoy con una nueva versión para consolas y localización en varios

Mortadelo y Filemón llegan a PlayStation, Xbox y Nintendo Switch

La aventura gráfica lanzada a finales de los 90 y basada en ‘El sulfato atómico’ cuenta desde hoy con una nueva versión para consolas

www.lavanguardia.com/neo/20260130...

30.01.2026 20:59 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 2
Video thumbnail

Sprites by pixel master Paul Robertson (@probzzz.bsky.social) for the new game "Scott Pilgrim EX".

06.03.2026 17:14 — 👍 1056    🔁 249    💬 1    📌 5
Post image

Wow did something happen in the US in January 2025?

06.03.2026 13:59 — 👍 3820    🔁 1386    💬 215    📌 73
Post image

LA EXTRAORDINARIA VIDA DE MARCEL PAGNOL es una película de animación que llega hoy a nuestros cines de la mano de Versión Digital.

#LaExtraordinariaVidaDeMarcelPagnol #EstrenosMEDIA

06.03.2026 16:39 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Post image

¡Ya en cines!

EL ÚLTIMO VIKINGO es una comedia negra protagonizada por Mads Mikkelsen (OTRA RONDA).

Película que estrena #Avalon con apoyo #MEDIA de desarrollo de contenido y de distribución.

#ElÚltimoVikingo #EstrenosMEDIA

06.03.2026 16:45 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

did you know there is a section in the classic video game Contra that is strangely prescient in relation to what's happening now in the Iran war? to know more, go to your search engine and write Iran-Contra

06.03.2026 16:47 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0