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The GDC 2025 State of the Games Industry Report has arrived, but it's nowhere near as representative of the industry as Matthew Ball's incredibly thorough report.

I’m finally done with my PhD. It’s been a long time, and many people—myself included—questioned whether it would ever actually happen. After all, for...

We are the intellectual frontline against an undercurrent that is giving rise to authoritarianism. It is our duty to understand and uphold our values in the face of those who hope to crush them out of us for their own gain.

The following was a post I never had a chance to publish in the wake of my surgery recovery. Since lots of folks asked...

This year, the ACM Hypertext Conference is offering a Creative Track in an effort to bring in more artists, which I have graciously been asked to Chair. This year's conference theme is "missing link," which is perfect for how we see this exhbition.

Since I was very young, I have hated playing video games in front of people, especially if I’ve never played the game before. This...

Ideology is the underlying set of principles and beliefs of a given group of people. Ideology is the things we presume to be true...

From Huizinga's Homo Ludens (1938): The player who trespasses against the rules or ignores them is a "spoil-sport". The spoil-sport is not the same as...