Dennis Jansen MA
Dennis Jansen (he/him) was awarded a ‘PhDs in the Humanities’ grant by NWO for the project ‘The Becoming-Playful of Warfare in the Netherlands’ (2021–2025). His research focuses on playful media/military technologies, such as drones, serious games and simulators, and the mobilization of play in the Dutch military-innovation complex.

Dutch DiGRA Symposium 2025: Futures for Game Research
Call for Abstracts Call for abstracts out now! The Digital Games Research Association is “An international association for academics and professionals who research digital games and associated phenomena.” Its aim is to stimulate high-quality research on games, and to “promote collaboration and dissemination of work by its members.” Aside from the main conference, countries may

PhD Project: The Becoming-Playful of Warfare in the Netherlands
This PhD research project seeks to understand and explain this ongoing logistical process by mapping out the Dutch ‘military-academic-entertainment complex’ and the nature of its relationship to the ludification of warfare in the Netherlands.