It's publication day for Writing Game Histories!! 🥳🎉 Please do recommend it for your library, but it's also out in paperback so not as hideously expensive as academic books can be: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/writing-g... @doktornick.bsky.social @doni.bsky.social @historygamesnet.bsky.social

This Friday (24th; 6pm UK/1pm Eastern) I'm speaking with Daniel J. Finnegan on our work with the Cardiff Heritage Jam, engaging students with local history & heritage through games, for this Teaching Game Studies roundtable (in excellent company, too!) Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

And now, Writing Game Histories (2026) with cover art (courtesy of @murthynikhil.bsky.social’s Syphilisation) www.bloomsbury.com/uk/writing-g...

I wrote a new article: it’s on the Fallout franchise, & it’s just been published in Games&Culture I’m currently trying to wrap my head around a bigger project on historical video game promotion and branding & this article is a slice (in progress) of that + it’s open access! doi.org/10.1177/1555...

I made this today to (less eloquently) express the same feeling (of rage):

Oops, gotta add another post. As @readdead.com demonstrates in this post, this analysis shatters any claims towards “historical reality” R* might be purporting to show, in favour of, effectively, a white male fantasy space. Again, not a shocker, is it. readdead.com/2025/07/02/w...

And I have a cute dog, who i only forced to pose with my book once, I promise.