Volunteer students, Nadezhda Gerasimenko, Elia Väätäinen & Julius Soini, helped organize the Festival of Game Culture event held 29-31 May 2025 in Tampere, Finland. In this blog post, they describe their experiences and feelings about the event.| Centre of Excellence in Game Culture Studies
In this blog post, Research Manager Tanja Välisalo discusses “Cartographia Game Jam”, a game development event organized at the National Archives of Finland in March 2025.| Centre of Excellence in Game Culture Studies
In this blogpost, Doctoral Researcher Ville Malinen discusses his visit to the E-Gaming Symposium 2025 held in Seinäjoki (Finland). In addition to his own presentation, Malinen reflects on the prog…| Centre of Excellence in Game Culture Studies
This blog post provides an English summary of a book chapter, originally published in Swedish, that explores hegemonic gender structures in Fallout 76 using duoethnography.| Centre of Excellence in Game Culture Studies
In this blog post, Doctoral Researcher Aasa Timonen talks about her experiences as a visiting research fellow at Manchester Metropolitan University, and how a foreign country can sometimes feel lik…| Centre of Excellence in Game Culture Studies
This blog post provides an English summary of an article that explores gaming on marginal home computers in 1980s Finland, highlighting user experiences, community support, and the factors behind their decline, originally published in Finnish.| Centre of Excellence in Game Culture Studies
In this blog text, Adjunct Professor Rami Mähkä writes about ice hockey video game research. The context is explicitly Finnish, even if the perspective, player identification, applies international…| Centre of Excellence in Game Culture Studies
In this blog post, Postdoctoral Researcher Maria Ruotsalainen, PhD Research Fellow Tom Legierse, Doctoral Researcher Azul Romo Flores, Media Scholar Finja Walsdorff, Doctoral Researcher Ida Martine Gard Rysjedal and Associate Professor Egil Trasti Rogstad reflect on “Feminist Approaches to Esports Research” workshop organized in November 2024. By reading selected texts, the authors contemplate how feminist studies and understanding the margins should be extended to examining esports as wh...| Centre of Excellence in Game Culture Studies
In this blog post, Doctoral Researcher Mayara Araujo Caetano explores tags as a valuable point of entrance to study user animated pornography production using sex game and its points of connections…| Centre of Excellence in Game Culture Studies
In this blog post, Postdoctoral Research Fellows Usva Friman and Matilda Ståhl describe their experiences and initial insights gained from studying Nordic esports.| Centre of Excellence in Game Culture Studies
In this blogpost, Doctoral Researcher Hanne Grasmo reports from her new university course, Larp Design in Theory and Practice, where the students used their own bodies to role-play serious, impactf…| Centre of Excellence in Game Culture Studies
In this blog post, researcher Riikka Aurava discusses game pedagogy within the Finnish school context. The publication is based on the policy brief published by the Research Council of Finland, whi…| Centre of Excellence in Game Culture Studies
In this blog post, Postdoctoral Researcher Lilli Sihvonen introduces the cultural neo-production process of products (CNPP), which is a form of sustainable, enduring and special product relationshi…| Centre of Excellence in Game Culture Studies
In this blog post, Dr. Joleen Blom shares insights and background on the “Japanilaiset romanssipelit” (Japanese Romance Games) exhibition she curated for The Finnish Museum of Games at Vapriikki.…| Centre of Excellence in Game Culture Studies
The concept of empowerment lacks a clearly defined description. While seemingly self-explanatory, the careless use of the term can lead to confusion. The many meanings of empowerment are relevant t…| Centre of Excellence in Game Culture Studies
