Gaming Events |

Upcoming Events:

That’s it for this semester! Stay tuned for more events next semester!

Recent Events:

YXBA: The Graduate Critical Play Salon

Join YXBA: The Graduate Critical Play Salon in playing the 2013 survival horror game Outlast. We will read one of the Outlast comics and play the game as we think about adaptations of exploitation, bodily terror, and trauma! If you want gritty 2010s video game horror in your face, would love to read the comic, and talk about it with fellow graduate students, join us on October 23rd in Greenlaw 316 from 6:30p.m. to 7:45p.m.! Optional Dress Code: Wear Pink! Or Green! Or Black! See you there!

Past Events:

Flier for "Self-Narrating Play" presented by Dr. Rob Gallagher from King's College London. Hosted by the Carolina Seminar in Critical Games Studies. Held on April 22nd, 2025.

Flier for "Nazi Brains & Klan Guts: Playing with Alternative History and Overlapping Traumas in Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus" Presented by Zayla Crocker. Held on April 10, 2025.

Flyer for "Yippie-Ki-Yay Watch and Play", a collaborative two-part event hosted by Kino Corner and the Critical Game Studies Program. Screening of A Fistful of Dollars held on March 25, 2025, followed by a play session of Red Dead Redemption 2 held on April 1, 2025.

Flyer for "GPU Shaders as Metaphors for and materializers of Experience" presented by Dr. Kelsey Brod. Hosted by the Carolina Seminar in Critical Game Studies. Held on March 4, 2025.

Flyer for "Enter the Zone: Stalker Watch and Play" a collaborative two-part event hosted by The Carolina Slavic Club, Kino Corner, and the Critical Game Studies Program. Screening of Stalker directed by Andrei Tarkovsky held in February 2025 followed by a play session of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. on February 27, 2025.

Flyer for "GTA 5 Playthrough and Discussion". Hosted by YXBA: A Graduate Critical Play Salon. Held on January 27, 2025.

Flyer for a virtual session on Gamification and Value Capture. Hosted by the Carolina Seminar in Critical Game Studies. Held on November 19, 2024.

Flyer for "Alien Superstar", a collaborative two-part event. Hosted by Kino Corner and the Critical Game Studies Program. Screening of Alien with discussion facilitated by Dr. Candice Meritt held on October, 28 2025 followed by a play session of Alien Isolation held on October 30, 2024.

Flyer for a virtual session on Materiality and Gameplay. Hosted by the Carolina Seminar in Critical Game Studies. Held on October 8, 2024.

Flyer for Augmenting Reality: Black Praxis in Digital Gaming. Presented by Dr. Kishonna Gray. Hosted by the Critical Games Studies Program. Held on April 10, 2024.

Flyer for a virtual session on Critical Design and Development Reality hosted by the Carolina Seminar in Critical Game Studies. Held on March 7, 2024.

Flyer for a virtual session on Transdisciplinary Theory. Hosted by the Carolina Seminar in Critical Game Studies. Held on November 28, 2023.

Flyer for Medieval Gaming: Play Session of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. Hosted by the Critical Game Studies Program. Held on February 2024.

Flyer for "Honest Recreation" from Hamlet to Elsinore presented by Dr. Michael Lutz via Virtual Session. Hosted by the Critical Games Studies Speaker Series. Held on November 29, 2023.

Flyer for a virtual session on Critical Design Workshop. Hosted by the Carolina Seminar in Critical Game Studies. Held on October 24, 2023.

Flyer for Medieval Gaming at The Gathering Place. Hosted by the Critical Game Studies Program. Held on October 24, 2023.

Flyer for a workshop, lecture, and seminar with Dr. Gaspard Pelurson hosted by the Carolina Seminar in Critical Game Studies. Held on April 11, 12, and 13. 28, 2023.

Flyer for "Science Fiction and Games in the Classroom" presented by Stephanie Kinzinger. Hosted by the Critical Games Studies Program. Held on March 3, 2023.

Flyer for Critical World-Building with Tabletop Games (workshop). Hosted by the Critical Games Studies. Held on March 30, 2023.

Flyer for "Inclusive Design Practices in Tabletop Gaming" presented by Omari Akil. Hosted by the Critical Games Studies Program. Held on February 20, 2023.

Flyer for "Video Game Adaptations of Early Modern Theater in the Classroom: A Workshop". Presented by David Hall. Hosted by the Critical Games Studies. Held on March 20, 2023.

Flyer for "Playing with the Climate: Situatedness and Immerselessness in Environmental Video Games". Presented by Dr. Katherine Buse. Hosted by the Critical Games Studies Program. Held on February 3, 2023.

Flyer for "Gaming as Speculative World Building Practice". Presented by Chris Martens and Alexandra To. Hosted by the NULab at Northeastern, Carolina Seminars, and the Critical Game Studies Program. Held on October 7, 2022.

Flyer for "Indigeneity and Games in the Classroom" a workshop hosted by David Hall and the Critical Games Studies Program. Held on September 28, 2022.

Flyer for "teaching with games" presented by Courtney Rivard, Guillermo Rodriguez-Romaguera, Doug Stark, Stephanie Kinzinger, and David Hall. Hosted by the Digital Literacy Lab and the Critical Games Studies. Held on March 4, 2022.

Flyer for "Representation and Reclamation: The History and Future if Native Americans in Video Games". Presented by Dr. Ashlee Bird. Hosted by the Critical Games Studies Initiative, the American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program, and the American Indian Center. Held on September 14, 2022.

Flyer for the Critical Game Studies Program's Kickoff party. Hosted by the Critical Game Studies Program. Held August 24, 2022.

Flyer for Critical Smash Tournament. Hosted by the English and Comparative literature department. Held on November 18, 2022.

Flyer for Game Night with COLEAGS and the Greenlaw Game room. Hosted by COLEAGS and the Critical Game Studies Program. Held on November 12, 2022.