Suomen pelitutkimuksen seura | Finnish society for game research

Less than three weeks until Game Research Days 2026! Registration closes on October 22, so there's still time to join us in Jyväskylä in November.

How do adult game developers deal with platform censorship? We analysed games, changelogs, store pages and discussion forums to find out. 🧵 (1/6) doi.org/10.1145/3815598.3815665 #GameStudies #Censorship #FDG26 #Porn

UPDATE Johanna Koljonen's talk will be in English. Invite anyone and everyone to hear what she has to say. - - - Gaming Conventions as Resistance and Democratic Infrastructure Johanna Koljonen is a game studies PhD researcher at Tampere University in the EU Horizon project Larpocracy.

SKR käyttää tekoälyä arvioinnissa. "Käytämme tekoälyä vastuullisesti ja suunnitelmallisesti hakuprosessin tukena. [...] esimerkiksi hakemusten tietojen jäsentämisessä, tiivistämisessä ja tarkistamisessa sekä mahdollisten nousevien teemojen tunnistamisessa." Miksi ihmeessä? skr.fi/apurahat/hak...

Send your best work to PCI Psychology (psych.peercommunityin.org) where it will receive high quality & open peer review free of commercial interference. We review a variety of article types from a wide range of psychological topics (psych.peercommunityin.org/help/help_ge...).

Asiantuntija ei jyrähtänyt, mutta kommentoi pelikasvatusta tulevan GTA VI:n osalta, otsikko raflaava. Ikärajakysymykset ovat asiantuntijalle toisinaan kinkkisiä: 18 vuoden ikärajasta ei halua kannustaa joustamaan, mutta samalla ei halua, että omat kommentit ovat ihan irrallaan arkitodellisuudesta.

Nyt on kova! SKS kerää pelimuistoja! www.finlit.fi/arkisto/vast... Mahtavaa, että tällainen aineisto syntyy.

Forthcoming publication: Popular Pornographic Games on Steam. In the Games and Culture journal.

The registration for the 2026 Game Research Days (Jyväskylä, 3.–4.11.) is now open!

What's a "bildung of gaming", what does it have to do with gaming literacy, and why should game scholars self-reflect when engaging with society? Here's my new open access book chapter, "Cultivating a Bildung of Gaming: Doing Socially and Culturally Engaged Game Studies", for you to enjoy!

To kick off the new week, we are happy to announce our second keynote speaker for Game Research Days 2026: Professor Ulla Richardson from the University of Jyväskylä!

New research from our team! Our University Lecturer Kati Alha's (@katialha.bsky.social) article 'Misleading and Harmful Mobile Game Advertising on Facebook' is now out: doi.org/10.1145/3821...

#CFP for #NordicDiGRA in #Bergen, June 9-11 2027. The theme is Game Culture Narratives. Read more here: www4.uib.no/en/research/... Deadline: January 24! #gamestudies

My new project GenGam officially starts today. I wrote about my writing experiences in a newsletter: www.rumicat.com/gengam/archi...

Kone Foundation’s annual general grant call will run from 1 to 15 September. What kinds of projects do we fund, what are our funding priorities, and how are applications assessed? Watch the recording of our grant call info session held in English! www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcEp...

We are happy and proud to announce our first keynote speaker for Game Research Days 2026: Dr. Annakaisa Kultima, @aakoo.bsky.social!

In my email pile there was also the notice about the completed paperwork: "The eBook should be converted into OA within the next 2-4 weeks" - looking forward to spreading soon the Open Access version of "Cultural Game Studies: Critical Approaches"! www.routledge.com/Cultural-Gam...

✨BOOK UPDATE✨ "Gaming Exhaustion: Reclaiming Play from Late Capitalism" officially has a webpage: dukeupress.edu/gaming-exhau... Release Date is April 13, 2027!!! 📆 More details to come, but getting to see it on the site with its pricing and publishing details is so, so gratifying 🥲

I am looking for new disabled voices to help give opportunities to them for their early speaking engagements!

Call for book pitches! Our Bloomsbury series, Video Games in Focus, is seeking pitches for mini monographs. We are particularly keen for texts focused upon the influence of critical games and their enduring legacies. Pitches on classic games are particularly welcome right now.

My June marathon is finally winding down. It was a long trip with not one, but TWO conferences in the mix and a grand total of FOUR papers I was either presenting or co-authoring. The jetlag was real, but realer still were the friends I made along the way A mini-thread:

The DiGRA Conference 2026 on the theme ‘intersectional pleasures’ will be organised 14–18 June in Maynooth, Ireland. Our research group is well represented at the event – here we have collected a list of the 16 presentations featuring our team members: gameresearchlab.tuni.fi/gamelab-at-d...

Please note that while we cannot provide our usual stream for this talk due to the summer break season, it will be possible to join online via Zoom: tuni.zoom.us/j/6943800107...

Book launch news! Read this thread for OA link and launch event details. Our researcher @matildastahl.bsky.social and Fredrik Rusk have published an OA #GameStudies book 'Learning and Identity in Competitive Gaming – An Empirical and Methodological Discussion.' Book launch event this Friday 12 June!

Törmäsin eilen tällaiseen yksittäisen ihmisen puuhasteluprojektiin, joka pyrkii tekemään kirjastojen lautapelikokoelmista näkyvämpiä yhdistämällä dataa Finnasta ja Boardgamegeekistä. Palvelu: https://www.flibbis.fi/ Tekijän reddit-postaus […]

"Ihmisiä harvemmin jaotellaan niihin, jotka katsovat elokuvia ja niihin, jotka eivät. Pelien kohdalla tällainen on kuitenkin tavallista."

Heads up, #gamestudies and #gameresearch people, new book incoming!

Do you make games? Do you study or teach games? Do you create videos or blog about games? -- What theories or ideas help make good games? -- Share your opinion in our 10min online survey w @dooleymurphy.bsky.social & @florencesn.bsky.social res58.itu.dk/limesurvey/I...

Our project’s TTRPG is in press & we’ll launch it next Tues! The English version will also be released soon as a free/pay-what-you-want pdf. @titaraproject.bsky.social @koneensaatio.fi www.utu.fi/fi/ajankohta...

Spring Seminar 2026 is a wrap and I think we nailed this! Great paper presentations on both days, excellent keynote speeches and our social program offered chances to chill down and play some games! It was super fun to host the event and attend not only as presenter but as organizer as well.

The Council of Europe publication Educating for a Video Game Culture – Volume 2 is finally out! Check it out for game scholars' takes on a range of topics from gaming disorder to depictions of refugees and migrancy in games.

The Tampere University Game Research Lab Spring Seminar is now taking place for the 22nd time - the first seminar was back in 2005!

"Adults who do not know how to play at all have suppressed something within themselves.”

Akatemia avaa lokakuussa akatemiahanke- ja akatemiatutkijahaut, hyvinvointialueiden t&k-haun, ACTIVE-ohjelman haun sekä STN-ohjelmien aiehaut. Ensi vuonna siirrymme käyttämään valtionavustusten yhteistä järjestelmää, mikä aiheuttaa muutoksia tavanomaisiin hakuaikoihin. Lue lisää ⬇️

The editorial of the second volume of our special issue on “The Dark and the Light Side of Gaming” in Frontiers has been published. The collection includes 10 great articles, all published open access! www.frontiersin.org/research-top...

@pfwgames.bsky.social and I are organising our 3rd annual Games Workshop event, now the Research and Play Convention. CfP is at the link below, with all the key details -12 June abstract / proposal submission deadline. Any questions, drop me a line! manchestergamecentre.org/blog-db/2026...

We're starting a new Game Studies Master's program at Charles University, Prague, and the applications are now open. It's a 2-year Master's that was designed by our team at the Prague Game Production Studies research group. study.fsv.cuni.cz/study-progra... 1/2

Are you studying games and gaming? Are you either Finnish, working in Finland, or associated with a Finnish institution? Join us for Game Research Days 2026, 3.-4.11. in Jyväskylä! All fields and topics welcome, let's highlight the diversity of Finland's game research!

”Mitä te siellä Akatemiassa teette silloin, kun ei ole talvihakua?” Aika monet mieltävät Suomen Akatemian vain suurimpien hakujen toteuttajana. Mutta teemmehän me vaikka mitä muutakin! Me esimerkiksi: 1/6

Submissions have been extended to April 7!

#NorthernStarSymposium #NorthernStar2026 You thought it was too late to submit, didn't you? No worries, the second deadline is April 20th, for those who did not make the first deadline. All three keynotes are now announced: www.nord.no/en/events/re...

We are excited to announce that registration for our Spring Seminar ‘Events and Communities’ is now open! We have a limited number of seats available, so please register as soon as you can: springseminar.org/2026/03/23/s... The seminar will be held at Tampere University, Finland, on 5–6 May 2026.

The PRAXI 2026 seminar positions game design praxiology — the study of design and development practices as situated activities — as a necessary foundation for scholarship on games and play. Sappee, Finland, June 1–5, 2026. Submissions open until March 30!

Our board member Ville Malinen of the University of Jyväskylä defends his dissertation on sim racing on 21 March 2026! See the attached post for a link to the dissertation and the remote feed of the event. Congratulations, Ville!

Osallistu kyselytutkimukseen pelikulttuuriin osallistumisesta ja osallisuudesta Suomessa! / Delta i enkät om deltagande och delaktighet i spelkultur i Finland! / Participate in a survey study on game cultural participation and inclusion in Finland!

Want to learn more about videogame preservation? 🕹️The University of Oxford is hosting 𝘝𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘰𝘨𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘗𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯: 𝘗𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘦𝘴 & 𝘈𝘱𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘴 this Thursday! ⚡I'll be contributing a Satellaview lightning talk (@jeanketterling.bsky.social + @videogamehistorian.bsky.social will also join the lightning round).