@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
Em março de 1991 chegava às bancas a primeira revista periódica brasileira de games, a Videogame. Este mês marca o aniversário de 35 anos da Videogame e das revistas brasileiras de games. Vamos relembrar como foi essa publicação? Vem de fio! 🧵
01.03.2026 20:28 — 👍 41 🔁 13 💬 1 📌 3Buenas noches, señor monstruo (1982)
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To celebrate the Year of the Horse, HORSES is available in Simplified Chinese! 马年大吉！《HORSES》简体中文版现已正式上线！ www.gog.com/zh/game/horses
01.03.2026 14:57 — 👍 39 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0Half of the news articles about UK politics are "Keir Starmer (did something incredibly dumb) to court Reform voters. He failed."
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"Estos son mis 25 consejos para generar textos que no evidencien que los ha escrito ChatGPT".
Es interesante la cantidad de energía, esfuerzo, ganas, tiempo y constancia necesaria para conseguir no hacer nada.
still waiting for AI to solve climate change
28.02.2026 20:12 — 👍 198 🔁 58 💬 6 📌 0A trailer for 'Starcraft Ghost' on the Nintendo Gamecube, which was cancelled before release.
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This is one of the most reasoned & persuasive arguments for not allowing LLMs anywhere near reading & writing intensive classrooms. We can 100% choose not to outsource our reading & writing labor to a bot, and model for our students why they should do the same. #EduSky
www.tue.nl/en/our-unive...
There is always a tweet.
28.02.2026 08:22 — 👍 2504 🔁 928 💬 24 📌 40I think if I'd gotten away with attempting a coup, suffered no consequences for it, then won an election four years later, got away with executing citizens in the streets and foreigners in boats, and successfully abducted a head of state, I too might think I could just bomb my way to regime change
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Sam Altman picked a hell of a day to basically urge the world to trust the morality and legal restraint of the Department of Defense
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Gorillaz "The Mountain" 8-minute short film is now online.
Directed by Jamie Hewlett, Max Taylor & Tim McCourt at The Line studio.
An homage to the golden era of 2D animation, produced with a hybrid analogue-digital workflow.
>> www.catsuka.com/news/2026-02...
Va ser un gran plaer fer la sobretaula a La Font del Balç. #LSDLF
🔴YouTube: buff.ly/ra2tq2k
🟢Spotify: buff.ly/P0ATjeb
🟠iVoox: buff.ly/fk9NARj
🟣Apple: buff.ly/XW4JtOS
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A quick update about the playingfutures.today conference.
We are getting ready to send all the submissions for review, and we expect to have a preliminary program around April 6th, plus or minus the usual academic delays with these things.
As usual, questions or comments, please send them my way!
Charmed and fascinated by Chess Wars, a DOS game released in 1996 that features live-action cutscenes of medieval melee when playing pieces engage one another in battle.
27.02.2026 11:31 — 👍 2081 🔁 643 💬 51 📌 54
Metacritic has sent a reminder email to all games site editors/publishers which is pretty strong, and great:
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In 2020 I published a short piece in Chris Bateman's blog, "Only a Game", as part of his "100 Cyborgs" series, on meditation apps.
I see it's no longer online, so here it is, in case anyone's interested, courtesy of @archive.org
web.archive.org/web/20211018...
51. Les sèries animades de Juanjo Sáez:
ARRÒS COVAT
HEAVIES TENDRES
RONI
www.radiocambrils.cat/podcasts/sec...
Great news for anyone planning to submit to History of Games 2026:
the deadline has been extended to 10th March 2026!
💥Quick-fire talks covering:
🎶Games x Music 🎶
💡Games x Philosophy 💡
🗺️ Games x Migration 🗺️
🔨And an exclusive chance to play @gua-le-ni.com's new philosophical game: Hamm-3r.
▶️ www.eventbrite.com/e/science-in...
@amidos2006.bsky.social @danielvella.bsky.social @vthewanderer.bsky.social
#gamedev
Our whole industry is getting wrecked by this nonsense. We've got AI reviews on metacritic now. The "reviewer" even has a chat-gpt created avatar, as you can see here: bsky.app/profile/mark...
26.02.2026 18:46 — 👍 260 🔁 71 💬 8 📌 1
Deadline extension - March 3rd for the BDiGRA 2026 conference at the University of South Wales
bdigra.co.uk
¡Nuevo episodio de Ludens! Con @mateoterrasatorres.bsky.social sobre dificultad, ecogames y muchos más temas. Disponible en tu aplicación de podcast de preferencia - www.spreaker.com/episode/19-c...
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🎈F1 Vacuums, balloons raining down, cacti trying to kill you & a bomb no one wants to hold...
Yeah, our minigames are something else 😅
Roombattle: What's Coming #2 is out 👇
Each day new features are shown during #steamnextfest
#indiegame #gamedev #indiedev
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El Cinema d'Animació. Demà ens veiem a la sobretaula amb el catedràtic de cinema @jordisancheznav.bsky.social #LSDLF
26.02.2026 07:01 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1From: Robot Dreams (2023), dir. Pablo Berger, Arcadia Motion Pictures
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Parece increíble, pero hubo un tiempo lejano (hasta hace 4 años) en el que los alumnos universitarios aprendían/aprendíamos a leer textos complejos por nuestra cuenta, preguntando al profesor, trabajando entre nosotros, y hasta los entendíamos sin ayuda de la IA.
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