Hi all! We are happy to share a few things with the game studies community. *First*, the Proceedings are now available for the Games and Gaming Minitrack from the 2018 HICSS conference. Here's a list of the papers presented, and a link to the proceedings where you can find copies: Videogame Walkthroughs in Educational Settings: Challenges, Successes, and Suggestions for Future Use Kelly Bergstrom, Jennifer Jenson, Emily Flynn-Jones, Cristyne Hebert Finding Sociality In Single Player Games: A Case Study of Tandem play amongst Friends and Couples Mia Consalvo, Jason Begy, Pierson Browne, Sarah Ganzon, Rainforest Scully-Blaker, Rebecca Waldie The Relationship between Player's Gaming Orientation and Avatar's Capital: A Study in Final Fantasy XIV Henry Korkeila, Juho Hamari Impact of Playing Pokémon Go on Wellness Shahrokh Nikou, Julian Tarvoll, Anssi Öörni The Effects of Game Players' Social Intelligence on Social Support and Psychosocial Problem Factors in a 2-Wave Longitudinal Study Hye Rim Lee, Eui Jun Jeong, Sung Je Lee *Proceedings:* https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/handle/10125/52050 [Please also note there are several other game papers in the proceedings, under different tracks] *Second*, we will again be proposing the Games and Gaming Minitrack as part of the Digital and Social Media Track for HICSS 2019. That conference will take place January 8-11, 2019, in Grand Waileia, Maui. The link to the website for the conference is http://hicss.hawaii.edu/ Papers will be due June 15, 2018, and notifications of decisions made by August 17. We will have three minitrack chairs this time around: Nat Poor ( natpoor@gmail.com), Mia Consalvo (mia.consalvo@concordia.ca), and Kelly Bergstrom (kelly.bergstrom@hawaii.edu). Please email any of us if you have questions about this year's proceedings or next year's conference! Mia, Nat & Kelly -- Mia Consalvo, Ph.D. Professor and Canada Research Chair in Game Studies & Design Author of Atari to Zelda: Japan's Videogames in Global Context, 2016, MIT Press Concordia University 7141 Sherbrooke Street West CJ Bldg, 4.407 Montreal, Quebec Canada 514.848.2424 .2574