Games and Culture

Article	Citations
Mask of the Translator: Walter Benjamin and Metal Gear Solid’s Difficult Relationship with Localization	88
Erratum	35
Machina ex Dea, Dea ex Machina: Gaia/GAIA/All-Mother and Lugones’ “World”—Traveling in Horizon Zero Dawn (2017)	33
Social Realism in Red Orchestra 2 (2011)	29
Horror Video Games and the “Active-Passive” Debate	20
“A Definition of Enchantment”: A New Approach to the Analysis of Magic Systems in Fantasy Games	20
Livestreaming History: The Streamer-Historian and Historical Games Outreach	18
Identifying Playfulness: An Empirical Study on How Adults Recognize and Define Playfulness Across Culture	18
Uses and Gratifications of Biophilic Simulation Games	17
Virtual Allies: Why Allyship is Critical to Diversification of Virtual Reality Gaming?	16
“Fear the Old Blood”: The Gothicism of Bloodborne	15
High Fantasy RPGs and the Materiality of the Medieval Book	15
Exploring Player Understandings of Historical Accuracy and Historical Authenticity in Video Games	14
Survey on Localization From the Development Perspective	14
Problematic Gaming at a Crossroad: Exploring the Interplay Between Internet Gaming Disorder, Toxic Attitudes, and Empathy in Digital Entertainment	14
Esports Cannot Defeat Homophobia With Capitalism	14
Czech Appeal: Why and How National Game Productions Use Local Themes and Settings	13
Identification of Memorable Game Experiences: Analysis of Escape Rooms Visitors’ Experiences	13
Emotions in Game Data Work	12
The MTGO Virtual Economy: A Case Study on a “Play-to-Earn” Game That has Existed Since Before Cryptocurrency Was Even Invented	12
The Rise of Gaming Nations	12
To the Center of Nowhere: Deep Mapping Digital Games’ Paratextual Geographies	11
Esports as a Cultural Microcosm for Studying Psycholinguistics	11
“As if Possessed by a Demon”: Subjectivity, Possession, and Undeadness in Metal Gear Solid	11
“What are you Bringing to the Table?”: The Something Awful Let’s Play Community as a Serious Leisure Subculture	11

Hey, You ! The Importance of Pragmatics in Localizations of Mass Effect in French and Spanish	11
“We're All Mad Here!”: Becoming God in Bloodborne	10
Geopolitical Implications of E-Sports	10
Players Just Want to Have Fun? An Exploratory Survey on Hedonic and Eudaimonic Game Motives	10
“The Sense of Wonder”: Gaming Capital and Nostalgia for Inexperience in Magic: The Gathering	10
“I think I Get Why y’all do this Now”: Reckoning With Elden Ring 's Difficulty in an Online Affinity Space	9
“A Crown is Warranted With Strength”: Bosses, Fantasy, and Democracy in Elden Ring	9
Finish—Spare the Shame: Realism of Hellish Quart and Alt-Sarmatian Ideology	9
Gameplay Bricks Model, a Theoretical Framework to Match Game Mechanics and Cognitive Functions	9
Designing the Future? The Metaverse, NFTs, & the Future as Defined by Unity Users	9
Fantasies of Adequacy: Mythologies of Capital in Dark Souls	9
A Typology of Metagamers: Identifying Player Types Based on Beyond the Game Activities	9
Perceived Foolishness: How Does the Saltybet Community Construct AI vs AI Spectatorship?	9
Virtual Heterotopias and the Contested Histories of Kowloon Walled City	8
Streamers as Arts Educators: Exploring Their Streaming Approaches as Pedagogical Practices	8
Play and Misinformation: How America's Conspiracy Culture Became Gamified	8
Beyond the Game Itself: Understanding Authorial Intent, Player Agency, and Materiality as Degrees of Paratextuality	8
The Problem of Memory in the Assassin's Creed Series (2007–2020)	7
Serious Games and Game Performance Before and During the Israel-Hamas War: The Case of Fact Finders and PeaceMaker	7
The Ones Who Walk Away from Hallownest: Hollow Knight's Radical Response to the Omelas Dilemma	7
I Play, Therefore I Think: Procedural Philosophy in Remedy Entertainment's Alan Wake 2 (2023)	7
The Stupid, the Ridiculous, the Camp: How Goat Simulator's “Messy” Design Facilitates Queer Play	7
Understanding How Marginal National Video Game Industries Differ	7
Analog Simulation and the Indian Wars: Encountering the Other Through Board Wargames	6
Metamodern Nature of Hideo Kojima's Death Stranding Synopsis and Gameplay	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
MeetDurian: Can Location-Based Games be Used to Improve COVID-19 Hygiene Habits?	6
The Business of Play: Financialization and Optimization in World of Warcraft	6
Corrigendum to “It's Not a Game! Rules of Notice and Hermeneutics of Suspicion in Contemporary FMV Games”	6
FORGE: A Framework for Organizing Rewards in Gamified Environments	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	5
Introduction: Reconsidering Paratext as a Received Concept	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
The Moral Service of Trans NPCs: Examining the Roles of Transgender Non-Player Characters in Role-Playing Video Games	5
“A Legend From Before You Were Born”: Final Fantasy VII, Folklore, and Popular Culture	5
Critical Nostalgia and the Utopian Impulse in UFO 50	5
“Go. Just take him.”: PTSD and the Player-Character Relationship in The Last of Us Part II	5
The Table and the Tomb: Positioning Trans Power and Play Amid Fantasy Realism in Dungeons & Dragons	5
A Conservative Metric of Power Creep	5
Beyond Game Blocks: Adolescent Girl Players' Perspectives During COVID-19	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
How Accessible is This Video Game? An Analysis Tool in Two Steps	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
Failing to See a Difference: Closing a Gender Gap in a Challenging Video Game	4
Thought Experiments in Video Games: Exploring the (Un)Ethics of Motherhood in Frictional Games’ Amnesia: Rebirth	4

The Beautiful Rule: Thinking the Aesthetics of Game Rules	4
The Game-Like Experience of Virtual Reality Art: Sensational Players and Critical Audiences	4
The Doors of Perception: Horror Video Games and the Ideological Implications of Ludic Virtual Reality	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
‘You Game Like a Girl’: Perceptions of Gender and Competence in Gaming	4
Among the Casters: A Qualitative Study of Work and Play in Nottingham's Lead Belt	4
“You’ve Been Living Here For as Long as You Can Remember”: Trauma in OMORI's Environmental Design	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 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
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
“Religious” and “Gamer”: Negotiating the Legitimacy of Video Games in a Muslim Context	3
Chippin’ In: An Analysis of the Criminological Concepts Within Cyberpunk 2077	3
Times They Are A-Changin’? Evolving Representations of Women in the Assassin's Creed Franchise	3
The Ground Floor Approach to Video Game Accessibility: Identifying Design Features Prioritized by Accessibility Reviews	3
Binary Barriers: Avatar Creation and Play for Nonbinary Video Game Players	3
Gatekeeping the Gatekeepers: An Exploratory Study of Transformative Games Fandom & TikTok Algorithms	3
Disco Pinball: Declining Games and Depression in Disco Elysium	3
Conceptualizing the Roles of Involvement and Immersion in Persuasive Games	3
Translation Solutions in Professional Video Game Localization in Iran	3
Why do We Play? Towards a Comprehensive Player Typology	3
Exploring the Etymology of YouXi: A Chinese Perspective on the Concept of Game	3
Games and Culture Special Issue publication notice	3
Becoming Bayek: Blackness, Egypt, and Identity in Assassin's Creed: Origins	3
The Development of Video Game Representations of the Middle East	3
Experience in Videogame Display: An Extension of the Matrix Model	3
Is Death Only the Beginning? How People Mourn Artificial Characters in Social Media	2
Videogames as an ‘Unheroic’ Medium: The Child Hero's Journey	2
Foreign Yet Familiar: J. L. Borges’ Book of Imaginary Beings and Other Cultural Ferrymen in Japanese Fantasy Games	2
Becoming Afflicted, Becoming Virtuous: Darkest Dungeon and the Human Response to Stress	2
Setting the Game Agenda: Reviewing the Emerging Literature on Video Gaming and Psychological Well-Being of Sexual and Gender Diverse Youth	2
Remediating Video Games in Contemporary Fiction: Literary Form and Intermedial Transfer	2
Reflecting on Celeste : Abstracting Trans Representation	2
Towards Representational Adequacy: A Critical Analysis of Transgender Representation in Tell Me Why	2
The Use of Games in Citizen Science Based on Findings from the EyeWire User Study	2
Eroticism and Design Workshops in Game Interfaces: Exploring a Mobile Otome Game for Chinese Women	2
The Dullahan, From Fairy to Undead Tracing the Cultural Hybridization of Irish Folklore in Japanese Games and Their Paratexts	2
Profiles, Perceptions, and Experiences of Video Game Translators	2
Playing Through the Pandemic: Gaming Usage as a Buffer During COVID-19	2
Broken Promises Marketing. Relations, Communication Strategies, and Ethics of Video Game Journalists and Developers: The Case of Cyberpunk 2077	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
Postphenomenology, Kill Cams and Shooters: Exploring the Code of Replay Sequences	2
It's Not a Game! Rules of Notice and Hermeneutics of Suspicion in Contemporary FMV Games	2
Game-Assisted Social Activism: Game Literacy in Hong Kong’s Anti-Extradition Movement	2
The Technological Mediation of Collective Memory Through Historical Video Games	2
Undertale’s Loveable Monsters: Investigating Parasocial Relationships with Non-Player Characters	2
“Video Games Were My First Safe Space”: Queer Gaming in the Animal Crossing New Horizons LGBTIQA+ Community	2
The Future of Games Scholarship: An Interview With James Paul Gee	2
Fear of Monsters: Toward an Understanding of the Threat of the Computational Monster Read Through the Theoretical Lens of Game-Play	2
The COVID Season: U.S. Collegiate Esports Programs’ Material Challenges and Opportunities During the 2020–21 Pandemic	2
Dark Patterns Meet the Gamer's Dilemma: Contrasting Morally Objectionable Content with Systems in Video Games	2
Right-Wing Extremism in Mainstream Games: A Review of the Literature	1
Toward a Study of Pinball	1
Challenging Heroic Narratives of Polar Exploration in Indie Video Games	1
Worlds of Light, Fading. Dead Games and End-of-Life Software as Ruins of Digital Interactive Entertainment	1
Trains, Stations, and Railways as Harbingers of Biopolitics in Digital Games: From Governance to Hauntology	1
Enjoying the Uncertainty. How Dark Souls Performs Incompleteness Through Narrative, Level Design and Gameplay	1
“Community” in Video Game Communities	1
Experience, Rationality, Situation and Fallibilism: Establishing a Feminist Pragmatist Epistemology in Game Studies	1
Mashing Up History and Heritage in Assassin’s Creed Odyssey	1
Growing Pains in Esports Associationalism: Four Modes of National Esports Associational Development	1
Stochastic Process Approaches for Modeling of Games	1
Paying, Playing, and Spectating: Relationships Between Digital Game Play and Spectating Esports	1
Exploring Online Gaming Communities Through Documentary Filmmaking	1
Replaying Wartime Résistance? Studying Ludic Memory-Making in the Open World Game The Saboteur	1
Desire and Delusion: Fetish of Brazilian Favela in Videogame (Mis)representation	1
Rhyming Rudely: From Medieval Flyting to Invective Poetry in Video Games	1
The Other Squid Game: How Splatoon 3 Promotes a Culture of Coziness, Inclusivity, and Becoming-Cephalopod	1
The Significance and Complexities of Anti-Corporate Gamer Activism: Struggles Against the Exploitation and Control of Game-Worlds in 2000s China	1
Share the Experience, Don’t Take it: Toward Attunement With Neurodiversity in Videogames	1
Datafication of Digital Intimacy: The Dual Logic of Empowerment and Commodification	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
Ecocritical Agency in I Was a Teenage Exocolonist	1
Importance of Social Videogaming for Connection with Others During the COVID-19 Pandemic	1
Background Checks: Disentangling Class, Race, and Gender in CRPG Character Creators	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
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
Don't Flip the Table Yet: A Framework for the Analysis of Visual and Cognitive Ergonomics in Board Games	1
Playing With Needles: Technology, Gender and Playful Participation in Online Knitting Communities	1
The Show, the Game, and the Old Gods: On the Ontological Reframing and the Fiction/Real Boundary	1
What are the Drivers, Barriers, Mechanisms, and Anchors of cross-industry cooperation? The Perspective of the Video Game Industry Ecosystem	1
Nature Playing: On the Experience of Contemplating Technologically Mediated Nature within the Game World of Riders Republic	1
Aesthetics, Engagement, and Narration: Temporal Constraint as an Articulator of Ludo-Narrative Time	1
Developing Meaning: Critical Violence and Eudaimonic Entertainment in the Seventh Console Generation	1
The Revival of the White Whale: Kojima’s The Phantom Pain and Death Stranding against Melville’s Moby-Dick	1
Balancing Ethics, Art and Economics: A Qualitative Analysis of Game Designer Perspectives on Monetisation	1
Families Playing Animal Crossing Together: Coping With Video Games During the COVID-19 Pandemic	1
Let's Meetup? Board Game Communities in Hong Kong	1
“Protecting our female gaze rights”: Chinese Female Gamers’ and Game Producers’ Negotiations with Government Restrictions on Erotic Material	1
The Economy of Time, the Rationalisation of Resources: Discipline, Desire and Deferred Value in the Playing of Gacha Games	1
Creative, Technical, Entrepreneurial: Formative Tensions in Game Development Higher Education	1
Newsgames: The Use of Digital Games by Mass-Media Outlets to Convey Journalistic Messages	1
Symbolic Violence in the Language of Game Descriptions of Blackness: The Case of Pathfinder	1
Desert Bus: Abusive Game Design, The Martyrdom Effect, and Fan Activism on Twitch.tv	1
Dungeons, Dragons, and Rogues: How Picaresque Literature Shaped the Thief Class in Dungeons & Dragons	1
Video Games as Social Institutions	1
Gamification is not Working: Why?	1
‘It's Just Not Safe’: Gender-Based Harassment and Toxicity Experiences of Women in Esports	1