New FUNDED PhD opportunity with me, @doktornick.bsky.social, and @bomlab.bsky.social on 'Playing in Public: Game-Based Interventions for Sustainability, Community and Environmental Engagement' as part of the CreaTech Frontiers CDA scheme!
Deadline: 10 April
Details: www.bcu.ac.uk/research/our...
Young me (in a questionable bucket hat) playing Pokemon Stadium on the N64 on a CRT TV.
happy 30th pokemon
Lovely article by Gamesmaster legend Dominik Diamond celebrating intergenerational play and the social space games can create:
www.theguardian.com/games/2026/j...
Where’s the white ball going?
Quite a cool AI powered thing: #AntiRender “Upload an architectural render. Get back what it'll actually look like on a random Tuesday in November.” antirender.com #architecture
A still from “The Wizard of AI” (2023) Alan Warburton showing six creative people looking at the camera with exaggerated expressions of grief (like a cartoon version of Edvard Munch’s “The Scream”)
“The Professional Grief of the Creative Industries” A Powerful, must-read, article from Alan Warburton railing against “the very messy, human impacts of tech disruption in the creative industries” #AI #ImageEmpire
www.linkedin.com/posts/consid...
Exciting to see news about new digital artwork #ImageEmpire emerging on Linked In. The project by Alan Warburton will examine how AI is changing the way media is created and consumed - and the impacts this may have in the world of work.
www.linkedin.com/posts/bgi-na...
Here's @marioprime.bsky.social on revisiting Animal Crossing after years away: "To return now is to open up a digital time capsule and unpack the emotional baggage inside."
Still time to apply! Exhibit & Events Technician vacancy @nvmuk.bsky.social closes for applications 20 Jan 10am ⏰
just encountered the first edition of #GAMEPOEMS, a free online zine of open-access playable poetic experiences and commentary - beautiful work www.gamepoems.com/issue01/
Friends in NYC - nice R&D fellowship opportunity @momanyc.bsky.social working with @paolaantonelli.bsky.social (closes 18 Jan) recruiting.ultipro.com/MUS1002MOMA/...
Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
a green protagonist in a small brick room is being bitten by yellow spider. green text: a spider bites you to death. press 'a'
vampire killer, screenshot, amstrad cpc (1984) www.mobygames.com/game/73527/v...
best joke of the day, imo: downforeveryoneorjustme.com
For @vittles.bsky.social, I wrote about what happens food photography - a practice steeped in stagecraft - meets the synthetic horrors of AI images. Gorgeous original illustration by Ibrahim Rayintakath. www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/you-want-t...
Just boarded a train from Sheffield to Preston (<60 miles) and the return ticket is nearly £50. Seems like a good time to read this account from Mick Lynch of the 30+ year disaster that has been UK rail privatisation tribunemag.co.uk/2023/11/mick...
Completed it over lunchtime (it’s not as difficult as original Pac-Man!) Hi Score 52170 - can anyone beat that?
Love today’s spooky Pac-Man themed Google doodle! searchplayground.google/pacman/hallo...
Even back the day - top-left, the guy with the cap looks like he’s a ringer, trying to avoid being identified in the team photo!
Are you a #ContentCreator who loves classic shoot-'em-up arcade action & couch co-op chaos? 👀🚀
Platypus Reclayed launches September 18th & we've got Steam keys thanks to @claymatic.games 😍🔑
Fill out the form if you're interested & tag a creator who'd LOVE to play! 👇
Interesting article in @nowthenmag.bsky.social highlighting independent game makers in Sheffield and asking why videogames are not more widely celebrated as culture -
One ticket. All summer. Unlimited play.
For the first time ever, we’ve introduced a new summer ticket – your key to unlimited visits to the National Videogame Museum until the 1st September.
✅ One ticket
✅ Unlimited visits
✅ All summer long!
Book your ticket - thenvm.org
One for Friday post-work chatter / Man says HR are getting involved after he called the company AI Chatbot a “clanker” www.reddit.com/r/LegalAdvic...
…And then a flying visit to see the @gameslondon.bsky.social team and collect a mysterious & beautiful object they were looking after, for a future display @nvmuk.bsky.social. (thanks @ustwogames.co.uk - more soon!)
On the road today for a change - returning some loan items to Lumino City makers State of Play (models that starred in @nvmuk.bsky.social’s Art of Play exhibition.)
UK's oldest Flymo inducted into the British Lawnmower Museum in Southport. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Illustration for the "Future Knowledge" podcast, Episode #4, The Internet Con with Cory Doctorow. Features a photo of Doctorow in his office set against a surreal, retro-futuristic background that blends past and future elements, including a bust of a Roman figure, an old Macintosh-type computer, etc. At the bottom, bold text reads: “FUTURE KNOWLEDGE.”
🎙️ If you missed the most recent episode of FUTURE KNOWLEDGE, now’s a great time to listen. Cory Doctorow talks about THE INTERNET CON: his guide to loosening Big Tech’s grip & reclaiming a more open web.
🎧 Listen & subscribe ⤵️
futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/the...
Will see you at BitSummit! Make sure to get across to Expo in Osaka too!
"We can have clean water or privatised water but we can’t have both"
"The British public is right, the evidence supports them"
The new people's commission report is crystal clear that PUBLIC OWNERSHIP is the answer after 35 years of failed privatisation
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Great post by @zoyander.cc reflecting the uncanny loneliness of the internet and sharing some strategies for escaping the algorithmic void:
