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Cruel Pleasure: Affective Security and Territoriality in Games
This paper examines how pleasure in gameplay relates to the circulation of political and cultural affect, focusing on mobile games depicting conflict in Israel and Palestine.
- The paper argues that pleasure in games is not a neutral metric: it can be bound up with narratives of security, territoriality, and exceptionalism, even when those narratives are harmful, and this can obscure the political structures shaping which games get produced and made visible.
- Drawing on Lauren Berlant's concept of cruel optimism, the author proposes "cruel pleasure" as an analytical framework for understanding gameplay that circulates political and cultural affect, focusing on mobile games depicting conflict in Israel and Palestine.
- A comparative, longitudinal study of Israel and Palestine-related games in app stores and game platforms contrasts the 2014 corpus, which included simplistic titles such as Bomb Gaza, Iron Dome, and Gaza Resistance framing violence as entertainment, with the 2025-26 landscape.
Tyler “Ninja” Blevins Joins GameSquare as Chief Innovation Officer
GameSquare, a publicly traded esports and gaming company, appointed prominent content creator Tyler “Ninja” Blevins as its Chief Innovation Officer in February 2023.
- Tyler “Ninja” Blevins has joined publicly-traded esports company GameSquare as its first-ever Chief Innovation Officer.
- Blevins will lead a new incubator initiative called “Ninja Labs,” focused on developing original intellectual property and consumer products aimed at youth culture.
- The addition of Blevins increases GameSquare’s collective social media reach to over 290 million followers across its roster of creators.
Netflix Exec Jeremi Gorman Joins GameSquare Board of Directors
GameSquare Esports has appointed Jeremi Gorman, the President of Worldwide Advertising at Netflix, to its board of directors as an independent director.
- Netflix President of Worldwide Advertising Jeremi Gorman has joined the board of directors at GameSquare Esports as an independent director.
- GameSquare aims to leverage Gorman’s extensive background in advertising and marketing to accelerate revenue growth and scale the company's position in the gaming and esports industry.
- Gorman brings significant executive experience to the board, having previously served as Chief Business Officer at Snap and Head of Global Large Customer Sales at Amazon.