History of Games Conference

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You have about 11 hours to do it, if you haven't already 🙂

Hope to see you in Hong Kong!

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Great news for anyone planning to submit to History of Games 2026:

the deadline has been extended to 10th March 2026!

And our CfP is out!

History of Games 2026: The Ages of Games. Epochs and Periodisations

25-27th June, City University of Hong Kong, School of Creative

www.history-of-games.com/2026-hong-ko...

Please share and hope to see you there!

𝐒𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐞!

𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗚𝗮𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲
𝟮𝟱-𝟮𝟳𝘁𝗵 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲, 𝗖𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗨𝗻𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗛𝗼𝗻𝗴 𝗞𝗼𝗻𝗴, 𝗦𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗼𝗹 𝗼𝗳 𝗖𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗠𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗮

The call for papers will go live in January 2026!

Keep an eye here and also on www.history-of-games.com/2026-hong-ko... for news and updates!

La semana que viene celebraremos un evento online cruzado entre @historyofgames.bsky.social y @digraspain.bsky.social dedicado a la historia del videojuego en España.

Si te interesa, puedes apuntarte como público en este formulario: forms.gle/q1BxGqGVEseV...

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Wow! Day 3 of the 2025 History of Games conference in Krakow is complete! We’ve all had an amazing time, sincere thanks the local organising team and to everybody who presented, attended, reviewed, and helped spread the word 🙏

We’ll be back in 2026!

More news on the venue and CFP soon!

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We’ve had our coffee and are back for the evening session for day 3 of History of Games 2025 in Krakow! with a panel on Overlooked Genres featuring research talks by Regina Seiwald and Emil Lundedal Hammar, and the Materialities panel with presentations from Marcelo Simeoni Paul and Logan Brown 👾🥣📱

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We’re back with epic research by Zdeněk Záhora, Marek Mikeš, Will Butler, Marçal Mora-Cantallops, Victor Navarro-Remesal, Pawel Grabarczyk, Marvin M. Chojnacki, Emmanoel Ferreira, Jose Zagel, Mary Anne Argo-Chávez, Sebastián Reyes-Díaz, Alonso Soto-Cerda, Enzo Le Guiriec,and Aleksander Franiczek 🎓💻👾

It’s day 3 of History of Games 2025 in Kraków! An inspiring keynote by Souvik Mukherjee, followed by research talks from Onerva Puhakka, Gerald Kapałka, Milly Gunn, Scott Knight, Sandra Camarda, Maria B. Garda, Markus Spöhrer, Rory Manning Graham, Sergio Gutiérrez-Manjón, and Sergio Álvarez-García

2 days into @historyofgames.bsky.social, so many great talks! @cielecka.bsky.social on dialogue structures in adventure games, Hajo Backe's alternative history of the FPS, Bruno de Paula on SFII knock-offs in Brazil, @electroslav.bsky.social on the late 90s professionalisation of Czech game devs...

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Our evening continued with research from Salvador Gómez-García, Krzysztof Olszamowski, Anna Kożuch, Milly Gunn, Marcelo Simeoni Paul, Rafael Marques de Albuquerque, Flávio Anthero Nunes Vianna dos Santos, Victor Navarro-Remesal, Beatriz Pérez-Zapata, Michal Kabát, + Juraj Kovalćik. Roll on day 3!

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After lunch across our 3 panels we had packed schedule of games history research talks from Hans-Joachim Backe, Diego Barroso Sanchez, Mariano Falzone, Przemysław Ciszek, Hiloko Kato, Richard Sherriff, Maximos S. Theodoropoulos and Ivan Barroso. Followed by Leonid Moyzhes, Marek Blacha

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That’s a wrap for day 2 of 3 of History of Games 2025 in Krakow! This morning Tomek Kreczmar keynoted, and we had presentations from Regina Seiwald, Bruno de Paula, Pierre-Yves Hurel, Péter Kristóf Makai, Jakub Majewski, Aleksandra Mochocka, and Pedro Alejandro Tiscar

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The second half of the day followed on with our GOG.com panel (Piotr Gynp, Marcin Paczyński, Adam Ziółkowski, Jan Kremer), and presentations from Pierre-Yves Hurel, Giorgio Chiappa, Alan Meades, Kieran Nolan, Alex Wade, and Pei Lun Hsin. 2 more days to go! See you tomorrow! ➡️ history-of-games.com

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History of Games conference day 1 was a huge success! Sincere thanks to everyone for your involvement today - before lunch we had presentations from keynote Magdalena Cielecka, Emmanuel Vincenot, Jaroslav Švelch, Sophie Bélemans, Marcin Blanchard, Michał Jukiewicz, and Szymon Piotr Kukulak

The 2025 𝑯𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝑮𝒂𝒎𝒆𝒔 international conference is fast approaching! Taking place 3rd, 4th and 5th of September in Kraków and also online - make sure to keep an eye on our Bluesky at bsky.app/profile/hist... - also for the full schedule, keynote details and more see www.history-of-games.com!

⭐ Important notice! ⭐ For those attending the 𝑯𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝑮𝒂𝒎𝒆𝒔 2025 conference in Kraków from 3-5 September as audience members (without presenting a talk) please note that admission is free, but 𝒓𝒆𝒒𝒖𝒊𝒓𝒆𝒔 𝒑𝒓𝒊𝒐𝒓 𝒓𝒆𝒈𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 through the following link: www.konferencje-uj.pl/rejestracja/...

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𝗥𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿! 𝑯𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝑮𝒂𝒎𝒆𝒔 2025 late registration 𝗰𝗹𝗼𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗔𝘂𝗴𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝟭𝟭𝘁𝗵, with options available to attend on-site in Kraków and online - please see www.history-of-games.com/2025-krakow for the registration link and the full schedule!

We're thrilled to announce that the full schedule of top-notch research talks for 𝐇𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐆𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 at Jagiellonian University, Kraków (3-5 Sep) is now online at ➡️ www.history-of-games.com/2025-krakow/ - both on-site and online registration options are available!

Reminder!! 𝙀𝙖𝙧𝙡𝙮 𝙗𝙞𝙧𝙙 𝙧𝙚𝙜𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 🕐🐔 for 𝑯𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝑮𝒂𝒎𝒆𝒔 2025 in Krakow is 𝒂𝒗𝒂𝒊𝒍𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒆 𝒖𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒍 𝒕𝒉𝒆 25𝒕𝒉 𝒐𝒇 𝑱𝒖𝒍𝒚! Both on-site and online options available! To register please visit ➡️ www.history-of-games.com/2025-krakow/

We're absolutely delighted to announce our 3 stellar keynotes for the 2025 edition of the History of Games international conference in Kraków and online, 3-5 September: Magdalena Cielecka, Tomek Kreczmar and Souvik Mukerjee. For more details please see ➡️ www.history-of-games.com/2025-keynotes

We're very happy and proud to announce GOG as this year’s History of Games 2025 special partner. The partnership results in a special panel 𝑮𝒂𝒎𝒆 𝑷𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒆𝒓𝒗𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒊𝒏 𝑷𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒆: 𝑳𝒆𝒈𝒂𝒍, 𝑻𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒏𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒍, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑨𝒓𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒗𝒂𝒍 𝑫𝒊𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔 held as a plenary session on September 3rd 2025 ➡️ www.history-of-games.com/2025-gog/

Early bird registration for the History of Games 2025 international conference in Krakow is now online - please see www.history-of-games.com/2025-krakow/ for more details and spread the word!

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We would like to inform that the feedback regarding acceptance to the conference will be sent with a delay of a few days. Sorry for the inconvenience and we would appreciate your patience

A quick reminder that there are only two days left to submit your abstracts! We look forward to see you in Kraków this September :)

The deadline for submitting abstracts for this year’s History of Game is now extended for two more weeks! We are waiting for your 500 word proposals till May 15th. To submit, visit the following link: www.history-of-games.com/openconf/ope...

The CFP for History of Games 2025 in Kraków hosted by Jagiellonian University and SWPS University (3-5/09/25) is now open at ➡️ www.history-of-games.com/openconf/ope... until 1st May. This year's theme is The Nineties. For more details please see ➡️ www.history-of-games.com/call-for-pap...

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️The History of Games Conference 2025 Call For Papers is out now, taking place in Krakow, Poland 3-5 September, full details at: www.history-of-games.com/call-for-pap...