This evening at 6PM, GAMBIT's own Jesper Juul will be speaking in Nick Montfort's Purple Blurb lecture series. From the website:

Jesper Juul on developing video games to develop video game theory
October 27, 6pm, 14N-233

Juul is a video game theorist and author of Half Real: Video Games between Real Rules and Fictional Worlds (MIT Press, 2006). He is also a video game developer, and will discuss using lessons from developing online and casual games to inform work with video game theory (and vice versa). Juul is currently a lecturer in the Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies; he works at the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab.

The event is free and open to the public.