(Resending this to AoIR since neither Mark nor I saw it come over the wires.) Waaaaay back before the pandemic, Mark Chen started an experimental online journal (that wasn't a journal) as a place mostly for qualitative research on gaming practice, but also mostly for people to just share cool stories about games and gaming. It was partly in response to feeling constrained by traditional academic channels and meant for short snippets of thoughts that could be incomplete or otherwise just didn't fit anywhere in a regular paper or presentation. It was also in response to the crap that was going on 10 years ago as a way to celebrate diversity in gaming, geeking out on the varied bodies who play them and the varied ways they get played. But, then things happened (pandemic etc.) and EG had a bit of a hiatus. And, we're back! The Third Issue of Esoteric Gaming is ready for your perusal! We added another editor, Nick Lalone, we decided to each write something, and invited Nick Bowman to join us. Go read the journal here: https://esotericgaming.com <https://esotericgaming.com/> The intro to the Third Issue here: https://esotericgaming.com/intro-third-issue-2018/ And the CfP for the Fourth Issue here: https://esotericgaming.com/cfp-for-issue-4/ -Mark and the editorial team (sent by Nat) ------------------------------- Nathaniel Poor, Ph.D. (he/him/his) Underwood Institute http://www.underwood-institute.org/ http://github.com/natpoor http://sites.google.com/site/natpoor/