New Analog Game Studies issue drop! Volume 13, Number 2 (June 2026) is live. This is the second issue of AGS to be published on the eScholarship platform. The issue includes four essays and one book review, including a conversation essay between myself and Tara Fickle about the recent kerfuffle over non-Chinese companies “remaking” mahjong:
- Mad About Mahjong: A Conversation between Two Asian American Game Scholars — Tara Fickle & Edmond Y. Chang
- Same Time Next Week: An Analysis of Queer Temporality in Tabletop Role-Playing — Delenn Ganyo-Roalsvig
- Death by a Thousand Drips: Poisoning as Mechanism and Theme in Contemporary Tabletop Games — David Scott Diffrient
- Player Psychology and Decision-Making in the Card Game COUP — Serena Yang, Yifan Shi, & Xuhong Han
- Book Review: Unsettling Catan: Detached Design in Eurogames — Brandon Blackburn