Spring Seminar 2022: Gamebooks
The 18th Spring Seminar of Game Studies in Tampere will take place in 5-6 May, 2022. The theme of this seminar is “Gamebooks”. You can read more from the seminar … Read More
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Spring Seminar 2021: Monstrosity
The submission deadline for Spring Seminar 2021 – Monstrosity – was on January 15, and we received 60 extended abstracts – an unprecedented amount in the history of the seminar. … Read More
CFP: Immersive Experiences
The title of 16th Gamelab Spring Seminar was “Immersive Experiences” and it was planned to take place 30-31 March, 2020. Due to the global Coronavirus epidemic, the seminar was CANCELLED. … Read More
DiGRA 2020
The DiGRA 2020 conference was announced in Kyoto, and this Digital Games Research Association’s world conference was planned to take place in Tampere, co-organised by Gamelab and the Centre of … Read More
Call for Papers: Urban Play
The 15th annual Game Research Lab Spring Seminar focuses on Urban Play. Call for Papers Urban spaces offer a rich environment for a diversity of play practices, from location-based games … Read More
Making Games seminar CFP deadline approaching
The 14th Game Research Lab Spring Seminar, “Making Games” will take place in 24-25 April 2018 in Tampere. The deadline for abstract submissions is 26 January. The full call for … Read More
Spectating Play CFP deadline approaching
The Game Research Lab organises a yearly seminar covering contemporary topics in games research. This year, the focus is on the spectatorship of games. The call for papers is still … Read More
Mindtrek 2016 research papers
Several new games research papers were published in Mindtrek 2016 conference, including: “Creating play money for free-to-play and gambling games” by Jani Kinnunen, Kati Alha, Janne Paavilainen “Building finnish game … Read More
DiGRA-FDG conference 2016
August 1-5, there are dozens of highly interesting research papers, panels, keynotes and other sessions presented in the first joint DiGRA-FDG conference in Dundee, Scotland. Here are listed some highlights, including … Read More
Seminar on Hybrid Play
Game Research Lab is organizing a joint morning seminar of two research projects: Hybrid Play Seminar. The Hybrid Play Seminar presents recent results and current work on the topic of … Read More