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Game Studies, Games and Comedy

Video Games and Comedy

The edited collection Video Games and Comedy has just been published by Palgrave Macmillan in...

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Game Studies

Call for PhD students – Game Production Studies

Digital Game Industry and Culture in a Local Context – 2 funded PhD positions, Charles...

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Video Game Actors

Chloe Price goes on strike!

Me and my brother Jan Švelch have just published an article in Television & New...

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Monster Studies

Should the monster play fair?

My article about reception of monster AI in Alien: Isolation has just been published in...

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Monster Studies

Bioshock’s splicers as ‘computational others’

My probe into BioShock’s splicers has finally been published in a magnificent special issue of...

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Game history

Gaming the Iron Curtain website

To find out more about my work on the history of computer games in Czechoslovakia,...

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Game Studies, Games and Comedy

Call for chapters: Games and Comedy

From July 2017, I have been working on the Games and Transgressive Aesthetics project at...

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Monster Studies

Panel report: Politics of ludic monsters

In March 2019, I made a trip to several U.S. cities. At most of the...

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Monster Studies

Terror in Toronto & Macabre in Moscow

It is about time to post an update on my monster research. This Spring, I...

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Monster Studies

On Bioshock’s splicers and the AI of Alien: Isolation

November and December 2017 were quite hectic on the monster front. A lot of new...

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