What’s New at DiGRA
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DiGRA Rising Star Spotlight – Third Round Call (Q2 2026)
Following the strong response to the previous rounds of the “DiGRA Rising Star” Spotlight, we are pleased to invite self-nominations for the third round of the program. The Rising Star initiative celebrates and showcases the work of emerging scholars in our community, providing visibility for their research and contributions to game studies.
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Announcing the DiGRA Rising Star Spotlight (2026 Q1) Recipients
We are pleased to announce the scholars selected for this round of the DiGRA Rising Star Spotlight. Maria O’Brien – ECR/PP Track Zihan Feng – Student Track
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Call for Papers and Contributions: POETRY IN GAMES/ GAMES IN POETRY
Multiplatform is the annual Manchester Game Centre symposium dedicated to analogue and digital game studies and practice. In 2026, we turn to the lively, uneasy, and productive overlaps between poetry and games: poems as playable systems; games as lyric objects; constraints, procedures, and code as compositional practices; and the long history of poetic play that…
Our Next Conference
DiGRA 2025
DiGRA 2025 will take place in Valletta, Malta, 30th June – 4th July 2025. A pre-conference will be held one day prior to the official beginning of the conference, on Monday 30th June, with a PhD Consortium and Workshops.
The theme of the conference will be Games at the Crossroads, exploring games and game studies at points of (cultural, disciplinary) encounter and divergence.
Digital Games Research
DiGRA Research Resources
DiGRA’s Digital Library and Research Journal provide an open access archival service for research papers and proceedings from a variety of academic venues including DiGRAs flagship and regional conferences.
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