Games and Culture

Article	Citations
Identifying Playfulness: An Empirical Study on How Adults Recognize and Define Playfulness Across Culture	177
Social Realism in Red Orchestra 2 (2011)	48
Uses and Gratifications of Biophilic Simulation Games	27
Horror Video Games and the “Active-Passive” Debate	25
“Fear the Old Blood”: The Gothicism of Bloodborne	23
Machina ex Dea, Dea ex Machina: Gaia/GAIA/All-Mother and Lugones’ “World”—Traveling in Horizon Zero Dawn (2017)	18
The Practice of Oldhammer: Re-Membering a Past Through Craft and Play	17
Survey on Localization From the Development Perspective	16
Erratum	15
Livestreaming History: The Streamer-Historian and Historical Games Outreach	15
High Fantasy RPGs and the Materiality of the Medieval Book	14
“A Definition of Enchantment”: A New Approach to the Analysis of Magic Systems in Fantasy Games	13
Mask of the Translator: Walter Benjamin and Metal Gear Solid’s Difficult Relationship with Localization	13
Virtual Allies: Why Allyship is Critical to Diversification of Virtual Reality Gaming?	13
Esports Cannot Defeat Homophobia With Capitalism	12
Problematic Gaming at a Crossroad: Exploring the Interplay Between Internet Gaming Disorder, Toxic Attitudes, and Empathy in Digital Entertainment	12
Exploring Player Understandings of Historical Accuracy and Historical Authenticity in Video Games	12
Identification of Memorable Game Experiences: Analysis of Escape Rooms Visitors’ Experiences	11
Playing Video Games During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Effects on Players’ Well-Being	11
Hey, You! The Importance of Pragmatics in Localizations of Mass Effect in French and Spanish	11
Czech Appeal: Why and How National Game Productions Use Local Themes and Settings	11
‘What Was Your First Experience of a Videogame?’: The Fantasmatic Structure of Videogame Memory	10
“As if Possessed by a Demon”: Subjectivity, Possession, and Undeadness in Metal Gear Solid	10
The Rise of Gaming Nations	10
The MTGO Virtual Economy: A Case Study on a “Play-to-Earn” Game That has Existed Since Before Cryptocurrency Was Even Invented	10

“We're All Mad Here!”: Becoming God in Bloodborne	10
Players Just Want to Have Fun? An Exploratory Survey on Hedonic and Eudaimonic Game Motives	9
To the Center of Nowhere: Deep Mapping Digital Games’ Paratextual Geographies	9
“What are you Bringing to the Table?”: The Something Awful Let’s Play Community as a Serious Leisure Subculture	9
Esports as a Cultural Microcosm for Studying Psycholinguistics	9
Gameplay Bricks Model, a Theoretical Framework to Match Game Mechanics and Cognitive Functions	8
Designing the Future? The Metaverse, NFTs, & the Future as Defined by Unity Users	8
“A Crown is Warranted With Strength”: Bosses, Fantasy, and Democracy in Elden Ring	8
Perceived Foolishness: How Does the Saltybet Community Construct AI vs AI Spectatorship?	8
Returning to Azeroth: Nostalgia, Sense of Place, and Social Presence in World of Warcraft Classic	8
“The Sense of Wonder”: Gaming Capital and Nostalgia for Inexperience in Magic: The Gathering	8
Torres Strait Virtual Reality: A Reflection on the Intersection between Culture, Game Design and Research	7
Beyond the Game Itself: Understanding Authorial Intent, Player Agency, and Materiality as Degrees of Paratextuality	7
A Typology of Metagamers: Identifying Player Types Based on Beyond the Game Activities	7
Finish—Spare the Shame: Realism of Hellish Quart and Alt-Sarmatian Ideology	7
Play and Misinformation: How America's Conspiracy Culture Became Gamified	6
Serious Games and Game Performance Before and During the Israel-Hamas War: The Case of Fact Finders and PeaceMaker	6
I Play, Therefore I Think: Procedural Philosophy in Remedy Entertainment's Alan Wake 2 (2023)	6
Virtual Heterotopias and the Contested Histories of Kowloon Walled City	6
The Stupid, the Ridiculous, the Camp: How Goat Simulator's “Messy” Design Facilitates Queer Play	6
Fantasies of Adequacy: Mythologies of Capital in Dark Souls	6
Disability and Video Games Journalism: A Discourse Analysis of Accessibility and Gaming Culture	6
“I think I Get Why y’all do this Now”: Reckoning With Elden Ring 's Difficulty in an Online Affinity Space	6
Streamers as Arts Educators: Exploring Their Streaming Approaches as Pedagogical Practices	6
Peace in the Valley: A Media and Discourse Analysis of Eric Barone's Stardew Valley Through Utopian Theory	5
FORGE: A Framework for Organizing Rewards in Gamified Environments	5
Taxonomy of Studies on the Use of Video Games in Entrepreneurship Education: A Systematic Literature Review with a Textometric Analysis	5
Exoplanetary Exploration and the End of the World in 22 Minutes: Philosofiction in Outer Wilds	5
A Conservative Metric of Power Creep	5
The Problem of Memory in the Assassin's Creed Series (2007–2020)	5
Analog Simulation and the Indian Wars: Encountering the Other Through Board Wargames	5
MeetDurian: Can Location-Based Games be Used to Improve COVID-19 Hygiene Habits?	5
Metamodern Nature of Hideo Kojima's Death Stranding Synopsis and Gameplay	5
The Ones Who Walk Away from Hallownest: Hollow Knight's Radical Response to the Omelas Dilemma	5
Corrigendum to “It's Not a Game! Rules of Notice and Hermeneutics of Suspicion in Contemporary FMV Games”	5
The Table and the Tomb: Positioning Trans Power and Play Amid Fantasy Realism in Dungeons & Dragons	4
Reshaping the Battlefield: The International Committee of the Red Cross, Video Games, and Public Relations	4
‘You Game Like a Girl’: Perceptions of Gender and Competence in Gaming	4
Broken Games and the Perpetual Update Culture: Revising Failure With Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed Unity	4
Introduction: Reconsidering Paratext as a Received Concept	4
Response: In and Out of the Game, as Usual	4
The ‘First Person Shooter’ Perspective: A Different View on First Person Shooters, Gamification, and First Person Terrorist Propaganda	4
The Moral Service of Trans NPCs: Examining the Roles of Transgender Non-Player Characters in Role-Playing Video Games	4
Failing to See a Difference: Closing a Gender Gap in a Challenging Video Game	4
“A Legend From Before You Were Born”: Final Fantasy VII, Folklore, and Popular Culture	3
How Does Exposure to General and Sexual Harassment Relate to Female Gamers’ Coping Strategies and Mental Health?	3
Thought Experiments in Video Games: Exploring the (Un)Ethics of Motherhood in Frictional Games’ Amnesia: Rebirth	3
Translation Solutions in Professional Video Game Localization in Iran	3
The Beautiful Rule: Thinking the Aesthetics of Game Rules	3
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	3

Critical Nostalgia and the Utopian Impulse in UFO 50	3
Gaming Capital on Overwatch's Official Forums	3
Assembling Auras: Towards a Methodology for the Preservation and Study of Video Games as Cultural Heritage Artefacts	3
The Game-Like Experience of Virtual Reality Art: Sensational Players and Critical Audiences	3
Gaming I, II, and III: Arcades, Video Game Systems, and Modern Game Streaming Services	3
How Accessible is This Video Game? An Analysis Tool in Two Steps	3
What is Videogame Formalism? Exploring the Pillars of Russian Formalism for the Study of Videogames	3
“Go. Just take him.”: PTSD and the Player-Character Relationship in The Last of Us Part II	3
Among the Casters: A Qualitative Study of Work and Play in Nottingham's Lead Belt	3
Blockchain Potentials for the Game Industry: A Review	3
“You’ve Been Living Here For as Long as You Can Remember”: Trauma in OMORI's Environmental Design	3
“Religious” and “Gamer”: Negotiating the Legitimacy of Video Games in a Muslim Context	2
Videogames as an ‘Unheroic’ Medium: The Child Hero's Journey	2
Irradiated Cereal and Abject Meat: Food as Satire and Warning in the Fallout Series	2
The Development of Video Game Representations of the Middle East	2
Exploring the Etymology of YouXi: A Chinese Perspective on the Concept of Game	2
Playing with Character: A Framework of Characterization in Video Games	2
The Ground Floor Approach to Video Game Accessibility: Identifying Design Features Prioritized by Accessibility Reviews	2
Times They Are A-Changin’? Evolving Representations of Women in the Assassin's Creed Franchise	2
Is Death Only the Beginning? How People Mourn Artificial Characters in Social Media	2
Resilient Values in Game Industry Formation: Institutional Perspective to the Finnish Context	2
Becoming Bayek: Blackness, Egypt, and Identity in Assassin's Creed: Origins	2
Eroticism and Design Workshops in Game Interfaces: Exploring a Mobile Otome Game for Chinese Women	2
Playing Through the Pandemic: Gaming Usage as a Buffer During COVID-19	2
Why do We Play? Towards a Comprehensive Player Typology	2
Gatekeeping the Gatekeepers: An Exploratory Study of Transformative Games Fandom & TikTok Algorithms	2
Developer Credit: Para-Industrial Hierarchies of In-Game Credit Attribution in the Video Game Industry	2
Experience in Videogame Display: An Extension of the Matrix Model	2
It's Not Always About You: The Subject and Ecological Entanglement in Video Games	2
It's Not a Game! Rules of Notice and Hermeneutics of Suspicion in Contemporary FMV Games	2
Disco Pinball: Declining Games and Depression in Disco Elysium	2
Heroes and Hooligans: The Heterogeneity of Video Game Modders	2
Profiles, Perceptions, and Experiences of Video Game Translators	2
Undertale’s Loveable Monsters: Investigating Parasocial Relationships with Non-Player Characters	2
Games and Culture Special Issue publication notice	2
Cultural Imperialism and Video Game Localization: A Case Study of Revelations: Persona	2
Mutants and Zombies Everywhere! Or Villains, Violence, and Selfishness: Questions of Humanity in the Post-apocalyptic (Pandemic) Video Game	2
The Doors of Perception: Horror Video Games and the Ideological Implications of Ludic Virtual Reality	2
Binary Barriers: Avatar Creation and Play for Nonbinary Video Game Players	2
Conceptualizing the Roles of Involvement and Immersion in Persuasive Games	2
Chippin’ In: An Analysis of the Criminological Concepts Within Cyberpunk 2077	2
Nature Playing: On the Experience of Contemplating Technologically Mediated Nature within the Game World of Riders Republic	1
Broken Promises Marketing. Relations, Communication Strategies, and Ethics of Video Game Journalists and Developers: The Case of Cyberpunk 2077	1
The Other Squid Game: How Splatoon 3 Promotes a Culture of Coziness, Inclusivity, and Becoming-Cephalopod	1
The COVID Season: U.S. Collegiate Esports Programs’ Material Challenges and Opportunities During the 2020–21 Pandemic	1
Becoming Afflicted, Becoming Virtuous: Darkest Dungeon and the Human Response to Stress	1
Balancing Ethics, Art and Economics: A Qualitative Analysis of Game Designer Perspectives on Monetisation	1
Between Subjectivity and Flourishing: Creativity and Game Design as Existential Meaning	1
The Use of Games in Citizen Science Based on Findings from the EyeWire User Study	1
Replaying Wartime Résistance? Studying Ludic Memory-Making in the Open World Game The Saboteur	1
Developing Meaning: Critical Violence and Eudaimonic Entertainment in the Seventh Console Generation	1
The Significance and Complexities of Anti-Corporate Gamer Activism: Struggles Against the Exploitation and Control of Game-Worlds in 2000s China	1
Bridge Babies and Rebuilding America: Reproductive Commodification in Death Stranding	1
Playing With Needles: Technology, Gender and Playful Participation in Online Knitting Communities	1
Reflecting on Celeste : Abstracting Trans Representation	1
Growing Pains in Esports Associationalism: Four Modes of National Esports Associational Development	1
The Future of Games Scholarship: An Interview With James Paul Gee	1
Toward a Study of Pinball	1
Postphenomenology, Kill Cams and Shooters: Exploring the Code of Replay Sequences	1
Looking for the Gamic Gaze: Desire, Fantasy, and Enjoyment in Gorogoa	1
Dark Patterns Meet the Gamer's Dilemma: Contrasting Morally Objectionable Content with Systems in Video Games	1
“After All, They Don’t Know Me” Exploring the Psychological Mechanisms of Toxic Behavior in Online Games	1
Recentering Indigenous Epistemologies Through Digital Games: Sámi Perspectives on Nature in Rievssat (2018)	1
Setting the Game Agenda: Reviewing the Emerging Literature on Video Gaming and Psychological Well-Being of Sexual and Gender Diverse Youth	1
The Technological Mediation of Collective Memory Through Historical Video Games	1
Fear of Monsters: Toward an Understanding of the Threat of the Computational Monster Read Through the Theoretical Lens of Game-Play	1
Stochastic Process Approaches for Modeling of Games	1
Experience, Rationality, Situation and Fallibilism: Establishing a Feminist Pragmatist Epistemology in Game Studies	1
Background Checks: Disentangling Class, Race, and Gender in CRPG Character Creators	1
Symbolic Violence in the Language of Game Descriptions of Blackness: The Case of Pathfinder	1
Towards Representational Adequacy: A Critical Analysis of Transgender Representation in Tell Me Why	1
Morality Meters and Their Impacts on Moral Choices in Videogames: A Qualitative Study	1
Remediating Video Games in Contemporary Fiction: Literary Form and Intermedial Transfer	1
Creative, Technical, Entrepreneurial: Formative Tensions in Game Development Higher Education	1
Video Games Interventions to Reduce Radicalization and Violent Extremism in Young People: A Systematic Review	1
Becoming a Gamer: Performative Construction of Gendered Gamer Identities	1
‘You’ve met with a terrible fate, haven’t you?’: A Hauntological Analysis of Carceral Violence in Majora’s Mask	1
“Video Games Were My First Safe Space”: Queer Gaming in the Animal Crossing New Horizons LGBTIQA+ Community	1
Dungeons, Dragons, and Rogues: How Picaresque Literature Shaped the Thief Class in Dungeons & Dragons	1
Foreign Yet Familiar: J. L. Borges’ Book of Imaginary Beings and Other Cultural Ferrymen in Japanese Fantasy Games	1

Game-Assisted Social Activism: Game Literacy in Hong Kong’s Anti-Extradition Movement	1
Share the Experience, Don’t Take it: Toward Attunement With Neurodiversity in Videogames	1
Gamification is not Working: Why?	1
What are the Drivers, Barriers, Mechanisms, and Anchors of cross-industry cooperation? The Perspective of the Video Game Industry Ecosystem	1
Worlds of Light, Fading. Dead Games and End-of-Life Software as Ruins of Digital Interactive Entertainment	1
Dynamic Music Video: Categorizing the Convergence of Video Games and Music Videos	1
Challenging Heroic Narratives of Polar Exploration in Indie Video Games	1