Games and Culture

Article	Citations
Erratum	129
High Fantasy RPGs and the Materiality of the Medieval Book	41
Machina ex Dea, Dea ex Machina: Gaia/GAIA/All-Mother and Lugones’ “World”—Traveling in Horizon Zero Dawn (2017)	40
Virtual Allies: Why Allyship is Critical to Diversification of Virtual Reality Gaming?	30
Social Realism in Red Orchestra 2 (2011)	26
Survey on Localization From the Development Perspective	26
Livestreaming History: The Streamer-Historian and Historical Games Outreach	25
Identifying Playfulness: An Empirical Study on How Adults Recognize and Define Playfulness Across Culture	22
“Fear the Old Blood”: The Gothicism of Bloodborne	21
Nietzschean Self-Overcoming as Self-Annihilation: The Limits of Intelligibility in Bloodborne and Lovecraft	21
Uses and Gratifications of Biophilic Simulation Games	21
“A Definition of Enchantment”: A New Approach to the Analysis of Magic Systems in Fantasy Games	18
Esports Cannot Defeat Homophobia With Capitalism	16
Identification of Memorable Game Experiences: Analysis of Escape Rooms Visitors’ Experiences	15
Problematic Gaming at a Crossroad: Exploring the Interplay Between Internet Gaming Disorder, Toxic Attitudes, and Empathy in Digital Entertainment	15
Teaching Game Development at Universities: A Systematic Literature Review of Educational Practices for Multidisciplinary Industrial Demands	14
To the Center of Nowhere: Deep Mapping Digital Games’ Paratextual Geographies	14
“As if Possessed by a Demon”: Subjectivity, Possession, and Undeadness in Metal Gear Solid	14
Esports as a Cultural Microcosm for Studying Psycholinguistics	14
Emotions in Game Data Work	13
Players Just Want to Have Fun? An Exploratory Survey on Hedonic and Eudaimonic Game Motives	13
Czech Appeal: Why and How National Game Productions Use Local Themes and Settings	13
Hey, You ! The Importance of Pragmatics in Localizations of Mass Effect in French and Spanish	13
The Rise of Gaming Nations	13
“We're All Mad Here!”: Becoming God in Bloodborne	12

The MTGO Virtual Economy: A Case Study on a “Play-to-Earn” Game That has Existed Since Before Cryptocurrency Was Even Invented	12
Perceived Foolishness: How Does the Saltybet Community Construct AI vs AI Spectatorship?	12
Return to the Pre-Modern: Mechanics Archeology of Fulu in Video Games	11
Press [A] to Read This: A Mixed Methods Study of Characterised Versus Direct Instructions in The Legend of Zelda Videogame Series	11
Designing the Future? The Metaverse, NFTs, & the Future as Defined by Unity Users	11
Understanding Hopepunk Games: Combining Theories of Hope, Hauntology, and Utopia	10
Mending the Broken World, Rebuilding the Community—On Positive Biopolitics in Digital Games	10
Geopolitical Implications of E-Sports	10
A Typology of Metagamers: Identifying Player Types Based on Beyond the Game Activities	9
The Stupid, the Ridiculous, the Camp: How Goat Simulator's “Messy” Design Facilitates Queer Play	9
“The Sense of Wonder”: Gaming Capital and Nostalgia for Inexperience in Magic: The Gathering	9
“A Crown is Warranted With Strength”: Bosses, Fantasy, and Democracy in Elden Ring	9
Beyond the Game Itself: Understanding Authorial Intent, Player Agency, and Materiality as Degrees of Paratextuality	8
I Play, Therefore I Think: Procedural Philosophy in Remedy Entertainment's Alan Wake 2 (2023)	8
Virtual Heterotopias and the Contested Histories of Kowloon Walled City	8
“I think I Get Why y’all do this Now”: Reckoning With Elden Ring 's Difficulty in an Online Affinity Space	8
Streamers as Arts Educators: Exploring Their Streaming Approaches as Pedagogical Practices	8
Serious Games and Game Performance Before and During the Israel-Hamas War: The Case of Fact Finders and PeaceMaker	7
Fantasies of Adequacy: Mythologies of Capital in Dark Souls	7
Understanding How Marginal National Video Game Industries Differ	7
Finish—Spare the Shame: Realism of Hellish Quart and Alt-Sarmatian Ideology	7
Play and Misinformation: How America's Conspiracy Culture Became Gamified	7
The Ones Who Walk Away from Hallownest: Hollow Knight 's Radical Response to the Omelas Dilemma	6
FORGE: A Framework for Organizing Rewards in Gamified Environments	6
Peace in the Valley: A Media and Discourse Analysis of Eric Barone's Stardew Valley Through Utopian Theory	6
Cozy Ecogames	6
Metamodern Nature of Hideo Kojima's Death Stranding Synopsis and Gameplay	6
The ‘First Person Shooter’ Perspective: A Different View on First Person Shooters, Gamification, and First Person Terrorist Propaganda	6
The Problem of Memory in the Assassin's Creed Series (2007–2020)	6
Algorithmic Uncertainties in Video Game Forests	6
A Seeming Change: Quasimorph and the Critique of Anarcho-Capitalism	6
Taxonomy of Studies on the Use of Video Games in Entrepreneurship Education: A Systematic Literature Review with a Textometric Analysis	6
Corrigendum to “It's Not a Game! Rules of Notice and Hermeneutics of Suspicion in Contemporary FMV Games”	5
The Business of Play: Financialization and Optimization in World of Warcraft	5
Exoplanetary Exploration and the End of the World in 22 Minutes: Philosofiction in Outer Wilds	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
The Table and the Tomb: Positioning Trans Power and Play Amid Fantasy Realism in Dungeons & Dragons	5
Introduction: Reconsidering Paratext as a Received Concept	5
Critical Nostalgia and the Utopian Impulse in UFO 50	5
Reshaping the Battlefield: The International Committee of the Red Cross, Video Games, and Public Relations	5
Analog Simulation and the Indian Wars: Encountering the Other Through Board Wargames	5
“Go. Just take him.”: PTSD and the Player-Character Relationship in The Last of Us Part II	5
Character-Driven Storytelling Design for Digital Games: A Scoping Review	5
Failing to See a Difference: Closing a Gender Gap in a Challenging Video Game	5
‘Born of the Blood, Made Men by the Blood, Undone by the Blood’: Bloodborne as a Critical Reflection of Ghosts of the Anthropocene	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
The Game-Like Experience of Virtual Reality Art: Sensational Players and Critical Audiences	4
Mutants and Zombies Everywhere! Or Villains, Violence, and Selfishness: Questions of Humanity in the Post-apocalyptic (Pandemic) Video Game	4

Blockchain Potentials for the Game Industry: A Review	4
The Ecocritical Dimensions of Entertainment Video Games: A Systematic Review	4
Thought Experiments in Video Games: Exploring the (Un)Ethics of Motherhood in Frictional Games’ Amnesia: Rebirth	4
Gaming Capital on Overwatch's Official Forums	4
Experience in Videogame Display: An Extension of the Matrix Model	4
Gaming I, II, and III: Arcades, Video Game Systems, and Modern Game Streaming Services	4
Playing with Character: A Framework of Characterization in Video Games	4
How Does Exposure to General and Sexual Harassment Relate to Female Gamers’ Coping Strategies and Mental Health?	4
“You’ve Been Living Here For as Long as You Can Remember”: Trauma in OMORI 's Environmental Design	4
The Beautiful Rule: Thinking the Aesthetics of Game Rules	4
The Ground Floor Approach to Video Game Accessibility: Identifying Design Features Prioritized by Accessibility Reviews	4
The Development of Video Game Representations of the Middle East	3
Gatekeeping the Gatekeepers: An Exploratory Study of Transformative Games Fandom & TikTok Algorithms	3
Becoming Bayek: Blackness, Egypt, and Identity in Assassin's Creed: Origins	3
Chippin’ In: An Analysis of the Criminological Concepts Within Cyberpunk 2077	3
The Technological Mediation of Collective Memory Through Historical Video Games	3
Histories of Fallout : Competing Pasts and Brand Identities	3
“Video Games Were My First Safe Space”: Queer Gaming in the Animal Crossing New Horizons LGBTIQA+ Community	3
It's Not a Game! Rules of Notice and Hermeneutics of Suspicion in Contemporary FMV Games	3
Games and Culture Special Issue publication notice	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
“Religious” and “Gamer”: Negotiating the Legitimacy of Video Games in a Muslim Context	3
Disco Pinball: Declining Games and Depression in Disco Elysium	3
Is Death Only the Beginning? How People Mourn Artificial Characters in Social Media	3
The Dullahan, From Fairy to Undead Tracing the Cultural Hybridization of Irish Folklore in Japanese Games and Their Paratexts	3
Cultural Imperialism and Video Game Localization: A Case Study of Revelations: Persona	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
Profiles, Perceptions, and Experiences of Video Game Translators	3
Eroticism and Design Workshops in Game Interfaces: Exploring a Mobile Otome Game for Chinese Women	3
Cozy Violence: Animal Companions, Self-Care, and Nationalist Ideology in Rise of the Rōnin	3
Playing Through the Pandemic: Gaming Usage as a Buffer During COVID-19	3
Videogames as an ‘Unheroic’ Medium: The Child Hero's Journey	3
Fear of Monsters: Toward an Understanding of the Threat of the Computational Monster Read Through the Theoretical Lens of Game-Play	2
The Future of Games Scholarship: An Interview With James Paul Gee	2
Remediating Video Games in Contemporary Fiction: Literary Form and Intermedial Transfer	2
Setting the Game Agenda: Reviewing the Emerging Literature on Video Gaming and Psychological Well-Being of Sexual and Gender Diverse Youth	2
Towards Representational Adequacy: A Critical Analysis of Transgender Representation in Tell Me Why	2
Broken Promises Marketing. Relations, Communication Strategies, and Ethics of Video Game Journalists and Developers: The Case of Cyberpunk 2077	2
Challenging Heroic Narratives of Polar Exploration in Indie Video Games	2
Share the Experience, Don’t Take it: Toward Attunement With Neurodiversity in Videogames	2
Replaying Wartime Résistance? Studying Ludic Memory-Making in the Open World Game The Saboteur	2
The Use of Games in Citizen Science Based on Findings from the EyeWire User Study	2
“After All, They Don’t Know Me” Exploring the Psychological Mechanisms of Toxic Behavior in Online Games	2
Video Games Interventions to Reduce Radicalization and Violent Extremism in Young People: A Systematic Review	2
Metaverse Engineering: Epic v. Apple , Ontopolitical Play, and Gaming the Law	2
The Other Squid Game: How Splatoon 3 Promotes a Culture of Coziness, Inclusivity, and Becoming-Cephalopod	2
Nature Playing: On the Experience of Contemplating Technologically Mediated Nature within the Game World of Riders Republic	2
From Player to Posthuman: Subjectivity and Meaning-Making in Cyberpunk 2077	2
The Negative Geometry of Quake: Refusal, Subtraction, and Emergent Coherence	2
Dark Patterns Meet the Gamer's Dilemma: Contrasting Morally Objectionable Content with Systems in Video Games	2
Reflecting on Celeste : Abstracting Trans Representation	2
Datafication of Digital Intimacy: The Dual Logic of Empowerment and Commodification	2
Carbon Footprint of Online Multiplayer Games	2
Are Inclusion and Diversity Even Possible? A Best-Fit Framework Synthesis of Video Game Development Ethnographies	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
“A Place Where I Could Breathe Easily”: LGBTQ + Youth on Gaming Worlds as Digital Shelters	1
The Invention of Leshy	1
Mapping the Disciplinary Infrastructure: A Bibliometric Analysis of Games and Culture's Role in Game Studies Scholarship (2006–2025)	1
Ecocritical Agency in I Was a Teenage Exocolonist	1
Symbolic Violence in the Language of Game Descriptions of Blackness: The Case of Pathfinder	1
Newsgames: The Use of Digital Games by Mass-Media Outlets to Convey Journalistic Messages	1
Stochastic Process Approaches for Modeling of Games	1
“Community” in Video Game Communities	1
Video Games as Social Institutions	1
Creative, Technical, Entrepreneurial: Formative Tensions in Game Development Higher Education	1
Playing With Needles: Technology, Gender and Playful Participation in Online Knitting Communities	1
The Revival of the White Whale: Kojima’s The Phantom Pain and Death Stranding against Melville’s	1
Mashing Up History and Heritage in Assassin’s Creed Odyssey	1
Sculpting the Golf Swing: Performative Aesthetics in Sports Simulation Games	1
Unreal Games	1
Queer(ed) Avatars: Exploring Visual Identity Construction in Final Fantasy XIV Online Gaymers	1
Desire and Delusion: Fetish of Brazilian Favela in Videogame (Mis)representation	1
Welcome to Saints Gaming: Canada's First Varsity Esports Program	1
Aesthetics, Engagement, and Narration: Temporal Constraint as an Articulator of Ludo-Narrative Time	1
A Meta-Ethnography of Player Motivation in Digital Games: The 28 Dimensions of Play	1
What are the Drivers, Barriers, Mechanisms, and Anchors of cross-industry cooperation? The Perspective of the Video Game Industry Ecosystem	1
Enjoying the Uncertainty. How Dark Souls Performs Incompleteness Through Narrative, Level Design and Gameplay	1
Are You Being Played?—Video Games as a Lens for Artificial Intelligence Ethics and Data Politics	1

Let's Meetup? Board Game Communities in Hong Kong	1
‘It's Just Not Safe’: Gender-Based Harassment and Toxicity Experiences of Women in Esports	1
Dynamic Music Video: Categorizing the Convergence of Video Games and Music Videos	1
Visions of Computing Futures: Meta, Apple, and the Technological Fictions of Digitally Real Worlds	1
Paying, Playing, and Spectating: Relationships Between Digital Game Play and Spectating Esports	1
Background Checks: Disentangling Class, Race, and Gender in CRPG Character Creators	1
Don't Flip the Table Yet: A Framework for the Analysis of Visual and Cognitive Ergonomics in Board Games	1
Gaming for Ecological Activism: A Multidimensional Model for Networks Articulated Through Video Games	1
Rescripting of the Genre Through Greek Mythology in Hades	1
The Inverted Cryptoeconomy: The Search for Endogenous Value in No Man’s Sky	1
Minecraft as a Pedagogical Tool: A Systematic Literature Review (2014–2024)	1
Rhyming Rudely: From Medieval Flyting to Invective Poetry in Video Games	1
Exploring Online Gaming Communities Through Documentary Filmmaking	1
Trains, Stations, and Railways as Harbingers of Biopolitics in Digital Games: From Governance to Hauntology	1
The Show, the Game, and the Old Gods: On the Ontological Reframing and the Fiction/Real Boundary	1
Right-Wing Extremism in Mainstream Games: A Review of the Literature	1
Experience, Rationality, Situation and Fallibilism: Establishing a Feminist Pragmatist Epistemology in Game Studies	1
Enjoying My Time in the Animus: A Quantitative Survey on Perceived Realism and Enjoyment of Historical Video Games	1
Bridge Babies and Rebuilding America: Reproductive Commodification in Death Stranding	1
Do Video Games Matter? Examining Video Games’ Pathways to Legitimacy and Cultural Value Through Cultural Intermediaries	1
“Protecting our female gaze rights”: Chinese Female Gamers’ and Game Producers’ Negotiations with Government Restrictions on Erotic Material	1
Dungeons, Dragons, and Rogues: How Picaresque Literature Shaped the Thief Class in Dungeons & Dragons	1
Formal Constraints and Creativity: Connecting Game Jams, Dogma ’95, the Demo Scene, OuBaPo, and Renga poets	1
Worlds of Light, Fading. Dead Games and End-of-Life Software as Ruins of Digital Interactive Entertainment	1
Desert Bus : Abusive Game Design, The Martyrdom Effect, and Fan Activism on Twitch.tv	1
Gamification is not Working: Why?	1
Just Fun and Games? A Sociological Consideration of Fun in Video Games	1
“A Little Bit Like Psychological Torture”: A Grounded Theory of the Sociocultural Challenges Surrounding Expertise Development in an Emerging Esports Ecosystem	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 Disr	1