Busy week for the CoE blog! Have a look at this blog post where Matilda Ståhl, Aska Mayer (@amayer.bsky.social), Robyn Hope, Rainforest Scully-Blaker (@rainforestsb.bsky.social) and Nick Taylor (@nickttaylor.bsky.social) discuss intersections between survival games and survivalism.
The last article summary of the CoE blog is here! Ville Malinen discusses game videos addressing the fatal accident of Ayrton Senna as a form and tool of cultural memory based on his article originally written in Finnish. Read the summary here:
The search for a definitive “first” Finnish digital game or the singular origin of the Finnish game industry has shaped historical narratives, even though such beginnings are often complex, contested, and continuously pushed earlier by new discoveries. More in the blog post by Jaakko Suominen:
New article summary at the CoE blog: Markku Reunanen, Petri Saarikoski and Tapani Joelsson discuss how home computers arrived at Finnish homes in the 1980s based on an online survey conducted in 2022.
Rafael Marques de Albuquerque will give an Oasis Lunchtime Talk on "A Framework for Mapping Digital Game Mechanics” on Thursday 27 November at 12:00-13:00 EEST. Join us at Oasis, Tampere University, or follow online: www.youtube.com/live/1fkLl6Q...
New post at CoE blog: Evgenia Amey and Fabienne Silberstein-Bamford outline their research on fanfiction based on The Elder Scrolls game series. They observe how fan writers narrativize gameplay and incorporate game content and in-universe texts into their stories. coe-gamecult.org/2025/11/17/e...
Juan F. Belmonte-Ávila (juanbeaumont.bsky.social) will give an Oasis Lunchtime Talk on "Playing with Asynchronies” on Thursday 20 November at 12:00-13:00 EEST. Join us at Oasis, Tampere University, or follow online: www.youtube.com/live/2I5M9Oe...
The Spring Seminar 2026 CfP is out now: springseminar.org/2026-call-fo... This time, the theme is “Events and Communities”.
⏰Abstract submission deadline is 14 January 2026.
📍The seminar is organised on 5-6 May 2026 in Tampere by Tampere University Game Research Lab (@ gameresearchlab.bsky.social)
Jean Ketterling (@ jeanketterling.bsky.social) will give an Oasis Lunchtime Talk on "Rhythm, Orgasm, & Chrononormativity in Orgasm Simulator & NSFWare” on Thursday 13 November at 12:00-13:00 EEST. Join us at Oasis, Tampere University, or follow online: www.youtube.com/live/fQXNBXs...
Florence Chee (@ cheeflo.bsky.social) gives an Oasis Lunchtime Talk on "Games growing up (again)? Intersections of Ethics, Law, and Policy in our public and private spaces” on Monday 10 November at 12:00-13:00 EEST. Join us at Oasis, Tampere University, or online: www.youtube.com/live/Mo8ZUOJ...
Azul Romo Flores will give an Oasis Lunchtime Talk on "Learning to E-sport: A Swedish case study of the organization of E-sport education in upper-secondary schools” on Wednesday 29 October at 12:00-13:00 EET. Join us at Oasis, Tampere University, or follow online: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrGt...
Mark Maletska (@ markmaletska.bsky.social) will give an Oasis Lunchtime Talk on "Why being a Ukrainian game studies scholar is… complicated?” on Thursday 23 October at 12:00-13:00 EEST. Join us at Oasis, Tampere University, or follow online: www.youtube.com/live/EBRRynA...
NEW DATE: Michael Dieter will give an Oasis Lunchtime Talk on “Interface Theory and Critical Technical Cultures" on Thursday 16 October at 12:00-13:00 EEST. Join us at Oasis, Tampere University, or follow online: www.youtube.com/live/Mo8ZUOJ...
Michael Dieter will give an Oasis Lunchtime Talk on “Interface Theory and Critical Technical Cultures" on Thursday 9 October at 12:00-13:00 EEST. Join us at Oasis, Tampere University, or follow online: www.youtube.com/live/Mo8ZUOJ...
Bryan Hikari Hartzheim will give an Oasis Lunchtime Talk on “Institutions of Play: Mapping Japan’s Indie Game Scene" on Thursday 2 October at 12:00-13:00 EEST. Join us at Oasis, Tampere University, or follow online: www.youtube.com/live/IuTUH27...
Professor Nick Webber (@ doktornick.bsky.social) will give an Oasis Lunchtime Talk on “Remnants of Play" on Wednesday 17 September at 12:00-13:00 EET. Join us at Oasis, Tampere University, or follow online: www.youtube.com/live/gdl-hgm...
Richy Srirachanikorn (@ srirachanikorn.bsky.social) will give an Oasis Lunchtime Talk on "Taking the Metso, the Retro, and the Algo(s): On Nostalgia and Video Games" on Thursday 11 September at 12:00-13:00 EET. Join us at Tampere University, or follow online: www.youtube.com/live/VVvu5Ix...
Our final blog post before the summer is live!
In this blog post, volunteer students Nadezhda Gerasimenko, Elia Väätäinen, and Julius Soini share their experiences and reflections on helping to organize the Festival of Game Culture, held on 29–31 May 2025 in Tampere, Finland.
Dr. Mia Consalvo (@miac.bsky.social) will give an Oasis Lunchtime Talk on "The future of media studies is game studies" on Thursday 5 June at 12:00-13:00 EET. Join us at Oasis space at Tampere University, or follow online: www.youtube.com/live/QT4_m7F...
In our latest blog post, Research Manager Tanja Välisalo (@tanjavalisalo.bsky.social) dives into Cartographia Game Jam, a game development event held at the National Archives of Finland in Helsinki in March 2025. Read the full post here: coe-gamecult.org/2025/04/30/t...
⏰ As a final reminder, you can still register for the Nordic DiGRA 2025 conference until this Friday, 9 May, at 23:59 EEST (UTC+3)!
Buy your ticket here: www.eventbrite.fi/e/nordic-dig... The tickets may sell out before the deadline.
Conference programme: www.nordicdigra2025.org/nordic-digra...
Doctoral Researcher Ville Malinen shares his thoughts in the CoE blog on the E-Gaming Symposium 2025 held in Seinäjoki (Finland), where he gave a presentation and followed the two-day program filled with insights into gaming and research.
Nordic DiGRA 2025 conference programme is now published! There are some audience seats available, register swiftly to secure a seat!
Nordic DiGRA 2025 is organised on 26–28 May 2025 in Turku, Finland by the Finnish Society for Game Research in collaboration with the CoE in Game Culture Studies.
Interested in gender structures in video games? The blog post by Postdoctoral Research Fellow Matilda Ståhl & Associate Professor Fredrik Rusk gives an English summary of their book chapter originally published in Swedish, exploring hegemonic gender structures in Fallout 76 through duoethnography.
The next Oasis Lunchtime Talk is on “Game as Art: A practical toolkit to identify artistic games” by Alina Potemska on Thursday 3rd of March at 12:00-13:00 EET/ UTC+2. Join us at Oasis space at Tampere University, or follow online: www.youtube.com/live/LC0bLvW...
The 21st annual Tampere Game Research Lab Spring Seminar is just around the corner. The theme this year is Arts and Games. Registration for the event is now open. The event is free, but we have limited space, so sign up now. Hope to see you in Tampere! springseminar.org/2025/03/10/r...
What makes a foreign country feel like a second home? In our latest blog post, Doctoral Researcher Aasa Timonen (@rosgakori.bsky.social) shares her experiences as a visiting research fellow at Manchester Metropolitan University.
Ville Kankainen’s doctoral defence on “Hybrid Play Experience and Design in Tabletop Gaming” takes place on Friday 21.2. at 12:00 EET/ UTC+2 at Tampere University & online. The dissertation: urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978... Stream: tuni.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Page... More info: www.tuni.fi/en/news/vill...
