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Marijam Didžgalvytė [mʌrɪja:m][dɪdʒgʌlvi:tɛ] is a Lithuanian-Tatar games industry critic dissecting the intersection between videogames and IRL politics. Her work has been published by the Guardian, VICE, GamesIndustry.biz, Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung and others. Marijam was a Lecturer at Royal Holloway, University of London, and is currently a Senior Marketing Executive at a Bafta-winning videogames studio. She is an author of Everything To Play For: How Videogames Are Changing The World published by Verso Books in 2024.

In the past, Marijam served as the Chair of Communications Committee for Game Workers Unite International - an organisation that assisted the global push for unionisation in the videogames industry; she also co-founded GWU UK - the first legal trade union that has come out of the movement. Didžgalvytė’s expertise lies in researching historical materialism and fine art criticism and applying them to the developments in the gaming sphere.