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Game Studies
Interviews with scholars of games and gaming about their new books. For more information about the Game Studies special series, please contact Rudolf Thomas Inderst at rudolf.inderst@googlemail.com.
July 19, 2024
Playing American
Videogames have always depicted representations of American culture, but how exactly they feed back into this culture is less obvious. Advocating an a…
July 1, 2024
Videogames in the Indian Subcontinent
While there has been considerable research on digital cultures in the Indian Subcontinent, video games have received scant attention so far. Yet, they…
May 28, 2024
Narrative Worldbuilding
Game worlds differ from traditional fictional worlds. While literary and cinematic worlds are written to host character arcs and plots, game worlds ne…
May 17, 2024
Betting on the Civil Service Examinations
During the Qing dynasty in China, a wide variety of people participated in a lottery game named weixing (“surname guessing”), which had participants p…
May 8, 2024
(Not) In the Game
How do games represent history, and how do we make sense of the history of games? The industry regularly uses history to sell products, while processe…
May 4, 2024
The Rule Book
How games are built on the foundations of rules, and how rules—of which there are only five kinds—really work. Board games to sports, digital games t…
March 15, 2024
Gooey Media
The Graphic User Interface, or GUI, is the adhesive centre of today’s screen entertainment web. From films and television to apps and videogames, it h…
March 15, 2024
Run and Jump
How abstract design decisions in 2D platform games create rich worlds of meaning for players.Since the 1980s, 2D platform games have captivated their …
March 2, 2024
Posthuman Gaming
Posthuman Gaming: Avatars, Gamers, and Entangled Subjectivities (Routledge, 2023) explores the relationship between avatar and gamer in the massively …
January 24, 2024
The Clouds
On a slow autumn afternoon, an atmospheric physicist working at the Malta Weather Station receives a surprising email from a colleague working in the …
January 19, 2024
Cross-Cultural Research on Gaming and “Gaming Disorder”
In 1998 the phrase “internet addiction” was first used to describe problematic prolonged internet use, and encompassed a wide range of online activiti…
January 19, 2024
Understanding Interactive Digital Narrative
This remarkably clearly written and timely critical evaluation of core issues in the study and application of interactive digital narrative (IDN) unta…
January 15, 2024
Mainstreaming and Game Journalism
Why games are still niche and not mainstream, and how journalism can help them gain cultural credibility. Mainstreaming and Game Journalism (MIT Pres…
December 20, 2023
The Child in Videogames
Drawing across Games Studies, Childhood Studies, and Children’s Literature Studies, Emma Reay's book The Child in Videogames: From the Meek, to the Mi…
December 7, 2023
Playing the Middle Ages
The Middle Ages have provided rich source material for physical and digital games from Dungeons and Dragons to Assassin's Creed. Playing the Middle Ag…
November 9, 2023
Playing Place
An essay collection exploring the board game's relationship to the built environment, revealing the unexpected ways that play reflects perceptions of …
November 6, 2023
Computer Games As Landscape Art
Peter Nelson's book Computer Games As Landscape Art (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023) proposes that computer games are the paradigmatic form of contemporary …
October 26, 2023
The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
For the third anniversary of the Asian Review of Books podcast, I wanted to do something a little different today—and talk about another one of my hob…
October 2, 2023
Toward a Gameic World
Ben Whaley’s Toward a Gameic World: New Rules of Engagement from Japanese Video Games (U Michigan Press 2023) examines the pathbreaking engagement str…
September 23, 2023
Time and Space in Video Games
Video games are temporal artifacts: They change with time as players interact with them in accordance with rules. In Time and Space in Video Games: A …