I've been longlisted for the Enter Open Access Award 2024, celebrating researchers furthering the cause of open access publishing.
Along with Stefano Gualeni and Riccardo Fassone, I am editing a special issue of Eludamos on fictional games and fictional game studies.
The Legend of Zelda turns 35
With polarised politics, fake news, increasingly sophisticated social media bots and all manner of other diversions and illusions, it’s perhaps no surprise that many yearn for journalism that is objective, unbiased and nonpartisan. Such a thing does not, of course, exist. In fact, the idea is a dangerous one. To strive for some invented standard of objective journalism is a process of mythologising a particular way of understanding the world. There is no greater illustration of this (for me as a Brit, at least), than the BBC.
Looking back on a decade of big games and big life changes.