2024 edition:
https://www.gamestransformed.co.uk/2024
“From adverts that emulate first-person shooters, to Fortnite maps and eSport teams, Discord servers and Twitch channels – the British Army is gamifying its recruitment practices and targeting teenagers in the UK’s gaming community. It’s time to fight back.
This year the theme of the festival is No War But Class War! We’re focusing on anti-war and anti-imperialist ideas in games and we’re partnering with anti-war organisations to encourage people to make counter-recruitment games for our three-week game jam. Last year the winners of the jam worked with us to create a custom arcade cabinet that was showcased at The World Transformed festival. This year a jury will select a videogame to be turned into an arcade cabinet and a boardgame to be turned into a quality print edition. Both will be revealed in a direct action targeting the British Army’s recruitment drive.“
2025 edition, symposium:
“In cooperation with Games Transformed (“a London festival for discussing, making and playing radical games”) and Weird Economies (a platform for tracing the “economic imaginaries extraordinary to financial arrangements of our time”), RiVAL: The ReImagining Value Action Lab presents What is the Antifascist Game?, a one-day symposium of game-makers, game-thinkers, game-players, game-artists and game-interventionists to consider this vital question.”
