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Posted on March 7, 2019 by edmondchang
Here is another list of various links that I have come across in the past few months (see previous Roundups here: Roundup #4: http://www.edmondchang.com/2018/07/11/video-game-studies-digital-cultures-rpg-larp-fandom-roundup-4/, Roundup #3: http://www.edmondchang.com/2017/03/17/video-game-studies-digital-cultures-rpglarp-fandom-roundup-3/, Roundup #2: http://www.edmondchang.com/2016/08/20/video-game-studies-digital-cultures-fandom-roundup-2/, and Roundup #1: http://www.edmondchang.com/2016/02/13/video-game-studies-and-digital-cultures-roundup-1/):
Activision Blizzard cuts nearly 800 jobs amid 'record results in 2018'
https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/12/18222484/activision-blizzard-layoffs-cuts-jobs-record-results-2018
How A Medieval Video Game Can Help Us Think About The Past
https://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewgabriele/2019/01/27/medieval-video-game-think-about-past/#3987d9783cb8
Second Annual Business of Games Summit brings renowned gaming experts to Ohio University Feb. 22
https://www.ohio.edu/compass/stories/18-19/01/Gaming-Summit-2019.cfm
E-Sports Is the New Premed
http://fortune.com/2019/01/29/e-sports-is-the-new-premed/
This Absurdly Cute Game Puts Players in Charge of a Day Spa for Marshmallows
https://community.extra-life.org/articles.html/gamingnews/this-absurdly-cute-game-puts-players-in-charge-of-a-day-spa-for-marshmallows-r1848/
UK Linguists Awarded NEH Grant for Video Game Concept
https://uknow.uky.edu/professional-news/uk-linguists-awarded-neh-grant-video-game-concept?utm_medium=social
Six of 2018's best new books about video games
https://www.theguardian.com/games/2018/dec/19/six-of-2018s-best-new-books-about-video-games?CMP=share_btn_tw
Guy Counts Every Ellipsis You Have To See To Finish Xenogears
https://kotaku.com/guy-counts-every-ellipses-you-have-to-see-to-finish-xen-1830910221
There's a secret text adventure game hidden inside Google — here's how to play it
Amazon's questionable MMO has you colonize the 'new world'
https://www.polygon.com/2019/2/8/18216053/new-world-game-mmo-impressions-preview-colonization-controversy
Exclusive preview: Octavia E. Butler's prescient Parable books get gorgeous reissue
https://ew.com/books/2019/02/25/parable-octavia-butler-reissue/
What It's Like To Write About Race And Video Game
https://kotaku.com/what-its-like-to-write-about-race-and-video-games-1832886047
"Black Panther" Designer Hannah Beachler Is the First Black Person to Win a Production-Design Oscar
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/oscars-2019-black-panther-designer-hannah-beachler-first-black-person-win-production-design
Love as Political ResistanceLessons from Audre Lorde and Octavia Butler
https://www.bitchmedia.org/article/love-time-political-resistance/transform-valentines-day-lessons-audre-lorde-and-octavia
A cosplay sisterhood mashes up Black Panther and Sailor Moon and it's amazing
https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/a-cosplay-sisterhood-mashes-up-black-panther-and-sailor-moon-and-its-amazing
A little girl from West Philly grew up to become TV's first black lesbian superhero
https://www.phillyvoice.com/little-girl-west-philly-who-became-tvs-first-black-lesbian-superhero/
Marlon James' 'Black Leopard, Red Wolf' unleashes an immersive African myth-inspired fantasy world
https://www.latimes.com/books/la-ca-jc-black-leopard-red-wolf-marlon-james-review-20190103-story.html
Marvel Comics Introduces Indigenous Superhero
https://www.voanews.com/a/marvel-comices-introduces-indigenous-superhero/4405374.html
Photos of dark-skinned deities challenge India's obsession with fairness
https://qz.com/india/1512700/facebook-photo-series-questions-indias-fair-skin-fetish/
Read Ken Liu's Introduction to Broken Stars, a New Anthology of Chinese SF
Wing Luke Museum highlights Asian Pacific Americans in sci-fi in 'Worlds Beyond Here'
https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/visual-arts/wing-luke-museum-highlights-asian-pacific-americans-in-sci-fi-in-worlds-beyond-here/
Asian science fiction show packs pow, empowerment
'Angry Goy 2' Neo-Nazi Video Game Lets Users Kill LGBT People and Minorities to Save Donald Trump
https://www.newsweek.com/charlotesville-crying-nazi-hosts-video-game-allowing-users-kill-lgbt-people-1212855
Nintendo Says It Will Remove Racist Native American Animation From Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
https://kotaku.com/nintendo-says-it-will-remove-racist-native-american-ani-1830282076
Dungeons, dragons and diversity: How the world's most influential RPG turned the tables on inclusion
https://www.geekwire.com/2018/dungeons-dragons-diversity-worlds-influential-rpg-turned-tables-inclusion/
Octavia Butler Is Finally Heading to TV, Thanks to Ava DuVernay
https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/08/ava-duvernay-octavia-butler-tv
Gay Black Men Helped Create EDM. Why Do Straight White Men Dominate It?
https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/pride/8460757/gay-black-men-edm-influence-history
Steam game about raping women will test Valve's hands-off approach
https://www.polygon.com/2019/3/4/18249916/rape-day-steam-valve
Players Who Hate Overwatch's Brigitte Are Harassing Her Voice Actress
https://kotaku.com/players-who-hate-overwatchs-brigitte-are-harassing-her-1832939304
The Internet Reacts To Soldier 76 And His Ex-Boyfriend
https://kotaku.com/the-internet-reacts-to-soldier-76-and-his-ex-boyfriend-1831557833
This new video game helps you understand what it's like to have gender dysphoria
https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2018/05/14/video-game-pink-white-or-blue-gender-dysphoria-transgender/
Sex lives and video games: first exhibition of LGBTQ gaming history opens in Berlin
https://www.theguardian.com/games/2019/jan/04/rainbow-arcade-lgbtq-video-games-exhibition-world-of-warcraft-nintendo-berlin
This Black, Gay Furry Is Now the LeBron James of Gaming
https://www.out.com/popnography/2018/12/07/sonicfox-best-esports-player-game-awards
A Sexy Cyberpunk Dating Sim About (And By) Trans Folk
https://kotaku.com/a-sexy-cyberpunk-dating-sim-about-and-by-trans-folk-1830309223
Nerd Culture / Fandom
Tolkien's World: An Exhibition Transports Us to Middle-earth
J.R.R. Tolkien — the artist, the writer, the scholar — is the subject of an exhibition at the Morgan Library & Museum. The show is a comprehensive view of his alternate reality.
At the UW, our sci-fi future has arrived
Science fiction has come alive in our modern world—from robots in our homes to the search for life across the universe. Current projects at the UW show that some literary fantasies will soon be reality.
Angry Men Flood Rotten Tomatoes to Bash Captain Marvel Ahead of Release
Discover Otherworld: A Science-Fiction Art Installation Landing In Central Ohio
https://radio.wosu.org/post/discover-otherworld-science-fiction-art-installation-landing-central-ohio
Joe Manganiello on his Dungeons & Dragons obsession: 'When I was a kid it wasn't cool'
https://sports.yahoo.com/joe-manganiello-dungeons-ampamp-dragons-obsession-kid-wasnt-cool-130122211.html
Disney Princesses Play 'Dungeons & Dragons' in Delightful Video Short
https://comicbook.com/gaming/2019/01/03/dungeons-and-dragons-disney-princesses/
Eight Leadership Lessons You Can Learn From 'Dungeons & Dragons'
https://www.forbes.com/sites/goldiechan/2018/12/11/8-leadership-lessons-dnd/#2922cd9a7015
How women are taking on the world of Dungeons and Dragons
https://www.thestar.com/life/2018/11/29/how-women-are-taking-on-the-world-of-dungeons-and-dragons.html
Sci-fi needs to overcome its poor history with disabled people
Fantasy literature applicable to real world with help of LARPing
https://www.thepostathens.com/article/2018/10/larping-english-class-ohio-university
Toxic Fandom: When Criticism and Entitlement Go Too Far
Study suggests Russian trolls helped amplify the Last Jedi "backlash"
https://news.avclub.com/study-suggests-russian-trolls-helped-amplify-the-last-j-1829453731
Brie Larson Was Told to Smile, So She Put Smiles onto Marvel Dudes
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/gynvnw/brie-larson-was-told-to-smile-so-she-put-smiles-onto-marvel-dudes
Philip Pullman: why we believe in magic
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/sep/01/the-limits-of-reason-philip-pullman-on-why-we-believe-in-magic?CMP=share_btn_tw
The Hugo Awards just made history, and defied alt-right extremists in the process
https://www.vox.com/2018/8/21/17763260/n-k-jemisin-hugo-awards-broken-earth-sad-puppies
Netflix's She-Ra creator adapted a Dungeons & Dragons character for the show
https://ew.com/tv/2018/08/19/netflix-she-ra-dungeons-dragons/
The Secret History of Women in Coding
Popular RPG Site 'Roll20′ Allegedly Had 4 Million Users' Information Stolen
https://comicbook.com/gaming/2019/02/15/roll20-dungeons-and-dragons-password-breach/
Bots Are Terrible at Recognizing Black Faces. Let's Keep it That Way
https://www.thedailybeast.com/bots-are-terrible-at-recognizing-black-faces-lets-keep-it-that-way
Amazon Facial Recognition Software Used By Law Enforcement Has Racial Bias, Per Report
https://www.newsweek.com/racial-bias-found-amazon-facial-recognition-software-used-law-enforcement-1306407
The Other Art History: The Forgotten Cyberfeminists of '90s Net Art
https://www.artspace.com/magazine/interviews_features/the-other-art-history/the-other-art-history-the-forgotten-cyberfeminists-of-90s-net-art-55864
Black Mirror's "Bandersnatch" Is the Perfect Netflix Show
https://slate.com/culture/2018/12/black-mirror-bandersnatch-review.html
Black Mirror: Bandersnatch could become Netflix's secret marketing weapon
https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/2/18165182/black-mirror-bandersnatch-netflix-interactive-strategy-marketing
These People Are Not Real—They Were Created By AI
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/mby4q8/these-people-were-created-by-nvidia-ai
How these humanities graduates are finding jobs in Silicon Valley
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/how-these-humanities-graduates-are-finding-jobs-in-silicon-valley
Disrupting the Digital Humanities
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