Games and Culture

Article	Citations
Mask of the Translator: Walter Benjamin and Metal Gear Solid’s Difficult Relationship with Localization	96
Erratum	37
Social Realism in Red Orchestra 2 (2011)	34
Horror Video Games and the “Active-Passive” Debate	29
Livestreaming History: The Streamer-Historian and Historical Games Outreach	22
Uses and Gratifications of Biophilic Simulation Games	20
Identifying Playfulness: An Empirical Study on How Adults Recognize and Define Playfulness Across Culture	20
Virtual Allies: Why Allyship is Critical to Diversification of Virtual Reality Gaming?	18
“Fear the Old Blood”: The Gothicism of Bloodborne	17
High Fantasy RPGs and the Materiality of the Medieval Book	17
Machina ex Dea, Dea ex Machina: Gaia/GAIA/All-Mother and Lugones’ “World”—Traveling in Horizon Zero Dawn (2017)	16
“A Definition of Enchantment”: A New Approach to the Analysis of Magic Systems in Fantasy Games	16
Survey on Localization From the Development Perspective	15
Esports Cannot Defeat Homophobia With Capitalism	15
Exploring Player Understandings of Historical Accuracy and Historical Authenticity in Video Games	14
Czech Appeal: Why and How National Game Productions Use Local Themes and Settings	14
Identification of Memorable Game Experiences: Analysis of Escape Rooms Visitors’ Experiences	14
The MTGO Virtual Economy: A Case Study on a “Play-to-Earn” Game That has Existed Since Before Cryptocurrency Was Even Invented	14
Problematic Gaming at a Crossroad: Exploring the Interplay Between Internet Gaming Disorder, Toxic Attitudes, and Empathy in Digital Entertainment	14
The Rise of Gaming Nations	13
Emotions in Game Data Work	12
Hey, You ! The Importance of Pragmatics in Localizations of Mass Effect in French and Spanish	12
“What are you Bringing to the Table?”: The Something Awful Let’s Play Community as a Serious Leisure Subculture	11
Geopolitical Implications of E-Sports	11
“As if Possessed by a Demon”: Subjectivity, Possession, and Undeadness in Metal Gear Solid	11

Esports as a Cultural Microcosm for Studying Psycholinguistics	11
“We're All Mad Here!”: Becoming God in Bloodborne	11
To the Center of Nowhere: Deep Mapping Digital Games’ Paratextual Geographies	11
Players Just Want to Have Fun? An Exploratory Survey on Hedonic and Eudaimonic Game Motives	11
“A Crown is Warranted With Strength”: Bosses, Fantasy, and Democracy in Elden Ring	10
“The Sense of Wonder”: Gaming Capital and Nostalgia for Inexperience in Magic: The Gathering	10
Designing the Future? The Metaverse, NFTs, & the Future as Defined by Unity Users	10
Perceived Foolishness: How Does the Saltybet Community Construct AI vs AI Spectatorship?	10
“I think I Get Why y’all do this Now”: Reckoning With Elden Ring 's Difficulty in an Online Affinity Space	9
Play and Misinformation: How America's Conspiracy Culture Became Gamified	9
Gameplay Bricks Model, a Theoretical Framework to Match Game Mechanics and Cognitive Functions	9
Streamers as Arts Educators: Exploring Their Streaming Approaches as Pedagogical Practices	9
A Typology of Metagamers: Identifying Player Types Based on Beyond the Game Activities	9
Fantasies of Adequacy: Mythologies of Capital in Dark Souls	9
Virtual Heterotopias and the Contested Histories of Kowloon Walled City	9
I Play, Therefore I Think: Procedural Philosophy in Remedy Entertainment's Alan Wake 2 (2023)	8
Understanding How Marginal National Video Game Industries Differ	8
Beyond the Game Itself: Understanding Authorial Intent, Player Agency, and Materiality as Degrees of Paratextuality	7
Metamodern Nature of Hideo Kojima's Death Stranding Synopsis and Gameplay	7
Finish—Spare the Shame: Realism of Hellish Quart and Alt-Sarmatian Ideology	7
MeetDurian: Can Location-Based Games be Used to Improve COVID-19 Hygiene Habits?	7
The Problem of Memory in the Assassin's Creed Series (2007–2020)	7
The Stupid, the Ridiculous, the Camp: How Goat Simulator's “Messy” Design Facilitates Queer Play	7
FORGE: A Framework for Organizing Rewards in Gamified Environments	7
The Ones Who Walk Away from Hallownest: Hollow Knight's Radical Response to the Omelas Dilemma	7
Serious Games and Game Performance Before and During the Israel-Hamas War: The Case of Fact Finders and PeaceMaker	7
Corrigendum to “It's Not a Game! Rules of Notice and Hermeneutics of Suspicion in Contemporary FMV Games”	6
The Business of Play: Financialization and Optimization in World of Warcraft	6
A Conservative Metric of Power Creep	6
Exoplanetary Exploration and the End of the World in 22 Minutes: Philosofiction in Outer Wilds	6
Taxonomy of Studies on the Use of Video Games in Entrepreneurship Education: A Systematic Literature Review with a Textometric Analysis	6
Analog Simulation and the Indian Wars: Encountering the Other Through Board Wargames	6
The ‘First Person Shooter’ Perspective: A Different View on First Person Shooters, Gamification, and First Person Terrorist Propaganda	6
Peace in the Valley: A Media and Discourse Analysis of Eric Barone's Stardew Valley Through Utopian Theory	6
Introduction: Reconsidering Paratext as a Received Concept	5
“Go. Just take him.”: PTSD and the Player-Character Relationship in The Last of Us Part II	5
Failing to See a Difference: Closing a Gender Gap in a Challenging Video Game	5
The Table and the Tomb: Positioning Trans Power and Play Amid Fantasy Realism in Dungeons & Dragons	5
“A Legend From Before You Were Born”: Final Fantasy VII, Folklore, and Popular Culture	5
Beyond Game Blocks: Adolescent Girl Players' Perspectives During COVID-19	5
‘You Game Like a Girl’: Perceptions of Gender and Competence in Gaming	5
The Moral Service of Trans NPCs: Examining the Roles of Transgender Non-Player Characters in Role-Playing Video Games	5
Character-Driven Storytelling Design for Digital Games: A Scoping Review	5
Reshaping the Battlefield: The International Committee of the Red Cross, Video Games, and Public Relations	5
Critical Nostalgia and the Utopian Impulse in UFO 50	5
How Does Exposure to General and Sexual Harassment Relate to Female Gamers’ Coping Strategies and Mental Health?	4
Gaming Capital on Overwatch's Official Forums	4
Blockchain Potentials for the Game Industry: A Review	4
The Game-Like Experience of Virtual Reality Art: Sensational Players and Critical Audiences	4
The Ground Floor Approach to Video Game Accessibility: Identifying Design Features Prioritized by Accessibility Reviews	4

How Accessible is This Video Game? An Analysis Tool in Two Steps	4
Among the Casters: A Qualitative Study of Work and Play in Nottingham's Lead Belt	4
Mutants and Zombies Everywhere! Or Villains, Violence, and Selfishness: Questions of Humanity in the Post-apocalyptic (Pandemic) Video Game	4
The Doors of Perception: Horror Video Games and the Ideological Implications of Ludic Virtual Reality	4
Playing with Character: A Framework of Characterization in Video Games	4
The Data-Driven Myth and the Deceptive Futurity of “the World’s Fastest Growing Games Region”: Selling the Southeast Asian Games Market via Game Analytics	4
“You’ve Been Living Here For as Long as You Can Remember”: Trauma in OMORI's Environmental Design	4
Thought Experiments in Video Games: Exploring the (Un)Ethics of Motherhood in Frictional Games’ Amnesia: Rebirth	4
Gaming I, II, and III: Arcades, Video Game Systems, and Modern Game Streaming Services	4
Translation Solutions in Professional Video Game Localization in Iran	4
‘Born of the Blood, Made Men by the Blood, Undone by the Blood’: Bloodborne as a Critical Reflection of Ghosts of the Anthropocene	4
The Beautiful Rule: Thinking the Aesthetics of Game Rules	4
Eroticism and Design Workshops in Game Interfaces: Exploring a Mobile Otome Game for Chinese Women	3
It's Not Always About You: The Subject and Ecological Entanglement in Video Games	3
Exploring the Etymology of YouXi: A Chinese Perspective on the Concept of Game	3
Cultural Imperialism and Video Game Localization: A Case Study of Revelations: Persona	3
Chippin’ In: An Analysis of the Criminological Concepts Within Cyberpunk 2077	3
Becoming Bayek: Blackness, Egypt, and Identity in Assassin's Creed: Origins	3
Profiles, Perceptions, and Experiences of Video Game Translators	3
The Technological Mediation of Collective Memory Through Historical Video Games	3
Games and Culture Special Issue publication notice	3
Gatekeeping the Gatekeepers: An Exploratory Study of Transformative Games Fandom & TikTok Algorithms	3
Binary Barriers: Avatar Creation and Play for Nonbinary Video Game Players	3
Times They Are A-Changin’? Evolving Representations of Women in the Assassin's Creed Franchise	3
Conceptualizing the Roles of Involvement and Immersion in Persuasive Games	3
The Dullahan, From Fairy to Undead Tracing the Cultural Hybridization of Irish Folklore in Japanese Games and Their Paratexts	3
Game-Assisted Social Activism: Game Literacy in Hong Kong’s Anti-Extradition Movement	3
The Development of Video Game Representations of the Middle East	3
Experience in Videogame Display: An Extension of the Matrix Model	3
Why do We Play? Towards a Comprehensive Player Typology	3
“Religious” and “Gamer”: Negotiating the Legitimacy of Video Games in a Muslim Context	3
Disco Pinball: Declining Games and Depression in Disco Elysium	3
It's Not a Game! Rules of Notice and Hermeneutics of Suspicion in Contemporary FMV Games	3
Postphenomenology, Kill Cams and Shooters: Exploring the Code of Replay Sequences	2
Remediating Video Games in Contemporary Fiction: Literary Form and Intermedial Transfer	2
Challenging Heroic Narratives of Polar Exploration in Indie Video Games	2
Datafication of Digital Intimacy: The Dual Logic of Empowerment and Commodification	2
Dark Patterns Meet the Gamer's Dilemma: Contrasting Morally Objectionable Content with Systems in Video Games	2
Setting the Game Agenda: Reviewing the Emerging Literature on Video Gaming and Psychological Well-Being of Sexual and Gender Diverse Youth	2
Cozy Violence: Animal Companions, Self-Care, and Nationalist Ideology in Rise of the Rōnin	2
Undertale’s Loveable Monsters: Investigating Parasocial Relationships with Non-Player Characters	2
The Use of Games in Citizen Science Based on Findings from the EyeWire User Study	2
Fear of Monsters: Toward an Understanding of the Threat of the Computational Monster Read Through the Theoretical Lens of Game-Play	2
Reflecting on Celeste : Abstracting Trans Representation	2
Replaying Wartime Résistance? Studying Ludic Memory-Making in the Open World Game The Saboteur	2
Share the Experience, Don’t Take it: Toward Attunement With Neurodiversity in Videogames	2
Towards Representational Adequacy: A Critical Analysis of Transgender Representation in Tell Me Why	2
Becoming Afflicted, Becoming Virtuous: Darkest Dungeon and the Human Response to Stress	2
Playing Through the Pandemic: Gaming Usage as a Buffer During COVID-19	2
Is Death Only the Beginning? How People Mourn Artificial Characters in Social Media	2
Video Games Interventions to Reduce Radicalization and Violent Extremism in Young People: A Systematic Review	2
“After All, They Don’t Know Me” Exploring the Psychological Mechanisms of Toxic Behavior in Online Games	2
Broken Promises Marketing. Relations, Communication Strategies, and Ethics of Video Game Journalists and Developers: The Case of Cyberpunk 2077	2
The Future of Games Scholarship: An Interview With James Paul Gee	2
Nature Playing: On the Experience of Contemplating Technologically Mediated Nature within the Game World of Riders Republic	2
“Video Games Were My First Safe Space”: Queer Gaming in the Animal Crossing New Horizons LGBTIQA+ Community	2
Foreign Yet Familiar: J. L. Borges’ Book of Imaginary Beings and Other Cultural Ferrymen in Japanese Fantasy Games	2
Videogames as an ‘Unheroic’ Medium: The Child Hero's Journey	2
The COVID Season: U.S. Collegiate Esports Programs’ Material Challenges and Opportunities During the 2020–21 Pandemic	2
Families Playing Animal Crossing Together: Coping With Video Games During the COVID-19 Pandemic	1
Experience, Rationality, Situation and Fallibilism: Establishing a Feminist Pragmatist Epistemology in Game Studies	1
Enjoying the Uncertainty. How Dark Souls Performs Incompleteness Through Narrative, Level Design and Gameplay	1
“Community” in Video Game Communities	1
Bridge Babies and Rebuilding America: Reproductive Commodification in Death Stranding	1
Trains, Stations, and Railways as Harbingers of Biopolitics in Digital Games: From Governance to Hauntology	1
Mashing Up History and Heritage in Assassin’s Creed Odyssey	1
What are the Drivers, Barriers, Mechanisms, and Anchors of cross-industry cooperation? The Perspective of the Video Game Industry Ecosystem	1
“You Feel Like You’ve Found a Place Where You Belong”: Symbolic Interactionism and Online Social Video Games in the Age of COVID-19	1
Creative, Technical, Entrepreneurial: Formative Tensions in Game Development Higher Education	1
Recentering Indigenous Epistemologies Through Digital Games: Sámi Perspectives on Nature in Rievssat (2018)	1
The Collector, the Glitcher, and the Denkbilder: Toward a Critical Aesthetic Theory of Video Games	1
Dynamic Music Video: Categorizing the Convergence of Video Games and Music Videos	1
Right-Wing Extremism in Mainstream Games: A Review of the Literature	1
Playing With Needles: Technology, Gender and Playful Participation in Online Knitting Communities	1
Developing Meaning: Critical Violence and Eudaimonic Entertainment in the Seventh Console Generation	1
‘It's Just Not Safe’: Gender-Based Harassment and Toxicity Experiences of Women in Esports	1
The Invention of Leshy	1
“How is it that Someone Like You: paragon, Damn Near Saint; Could Love this World so Damn Much but No One in It?”: Horizon Zero Dawn's Aloy and the Disruption of Hetero-Amatonormative Benevolen	1
Enjoying My Time in the Animus: A Quantitative Survey on Perceived Realism and Enjoyment of Historical Video Games	1
Ecocritical Agency in I Was a Teenage Exocolonist	1

The Significance and Complexities of Anti-Corporate Gamer Activism: Struggles Against the Exploitation and Control of Game-Worlds in 2000s China	1
Formal Constraints and Creativity: Connecting Game Jams, Dogma ’95, the Demo Scene, OuBaPo, and Renga poets	1
Stochastic Process Approaches for Modeling of Games	1
The Economy of Time, the Rationalisation of Resources: Discipline, Desire and Deferred Value in the Playing of Gacha Games	1
Aesthetics, Engagement, and Narration: Temporal Constraint as an Articulator of Ludo-Narrative Time	1
Growing Pains in Esports Associationalism: Four Modes of National Esports Associational Development	1
Video Games as Social Institutions	1
Symbolic Violence in the Language of Game Descriptions of Blackness: The Case of Pathfinder	1
Exploring Online Gaming Communities Through Documentary Filmmaking	1
Dungeons, Dragons, and Rogues: How Picaresque Literature Shaped the Thief Class in Dungeons & Dragons	1
Gamification is not Working: Why?	1
“Protecting our female gaze rights”: Chinese Female Gamers’ and Game Producers’ Negotiations with Government Restrictions on Erotic Material	1
The Other Squid Game: How Splatoon 3 Promotes a Culture of Coziness, Inclusivity, and Becoming-Cephalopod	1
A Meta-Ethnography of Player Motivation in Digital Games: The 28 Dimensions of Play	1
Whose Expression Is It Anyway? Videogames and the Freedom of Expression	1
Do Video Games Matter? Examining Video Games’ Pathways to Legitimacy and Cultural Value Through Cultural Intermediaries	1
Let's Meetup? Board Game Communities in Hong Kong	1
The Revival of the White Whale: Kojima’s The Phantom Pain and Death Stranding against Melville’s Moby-Dick	1
Importance of Social Videogaming for Connection with Others During the COVID-19 Pandemic	1
Rhyming Rudely: From Medieval Flyting to Invective Poetry in Video Games	1
Desert Bus: Abusive Game Design, The Martyrdom Effect, and Fan Activism on Twitch.tv	1
The Show, the Game, and the Old Gods: On the Ontological Reframing and the Fiction/Real Boundary	1
Balancing Ethics, Art and Economics: A Qualitative Analysis of Game Designer Perspectives on Monetisation	1
Newsgames: The Use of Digital Games by Mass-Media Outlets to Convey Journalistic Messages	1
Paying, Playing, and Spectating: Relationships Between Digital Game Play and Spectating Esports	1
Don't Flip the Table Yet: A Framework for the Analysis of Visual and Cognitive Ergonomics in Board Games	1
Worlds of Light, Fading. Dead Games and End-of-Life Software as Ruins of Digital Interactive Entertainment	1
Toward a Study of Pinball	1
Background Checks: Disentangling Class, Race, and Gender in CRPG Character Creators	1
Desire and Delusion: Fetish of Brazilian Favela in Videogame (Mis)representation	1
Welcome to Saints Gaming: Canada's First Varsity Esports Program	1