Acadia University has opened a new centre—the Acadia Centre for Critical Play—to support academics and students looking to study video games.

Acadia Assistant Professor Natalie Swain, Professor Jon Saklofske, and Academic Librarian Mike Beazley founded the centre with the hope that the growing interest in video games will fuel research efforts.

The centre contains 50 consoles and 4,000 games, with content spanning from the 1970s to present day. Swain explained that video games have become “the predominant art form of our time,” and that the scale of the video game industry and unique qualities of the medium warrant it becoming an area of study.

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