OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Games and Culture is 3. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Playing Video Games During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Effects on Players’ Well-Being	145
Behind the Streams: The Off-Camera Labour of Game Live Streaming	28
Heritage Sites and Video Games: Questions of Authenticity and Immersion	27
“I Can be Who I Am When I Play Tekken 7”: E-sports Women Participants from the Islamic Republic of Pakistan	20
Families Playing Animal Crossing Together: Coping With Video Games During the COVID-19 Pandemic	20
Gamification in Education: Why, Where, When, and How?—A Systematic Review	18
Designing the Future? The Metaverse, NFTs, & the Future as Defined by Unity Users	17
Engagement With the Gurus of Gaming Culture: Parasocial Relationships to Let’s Players	17
“After All, They Don’t Know Me” Exploring the Psychological Mechanisms of Toxic Behavior in Online Games	17
The Industry of Landlords: Exploring the Assetization of the Triple-A Game	12
Masculine Pleasures as Normalized Practices: Character Design in the Video Game Industry	12
Archeology of Abandoned Human Settlements in No Man’s Sky: A New Approach to Recording and Preserving User-Generated Content in Digital Games	11
Online Gaming and Racism: Impact on Psychological Distress Among Black, Asian, and Latinx Emerging Adults	11
Disability and Video Games Journalism: A Discourse Analysis of Accessibility and Gaming Culture	10
Becoming a Gamer: Performative Construction of Gendered Gamer Identities	10
Playthings	10
Gamifying Contentious Politics: Gaming Capital and Playful Resistance	10
The Economy of Time, the Rationalisation of Resources: Discipline, Desire and Deferred Value in the Playing of Gacha Games	9
Using Case Studies to Explore Need Satisfaction and Frustration in Puzzle Video Games	9
Pivotal Play: Rethinking Meaningful Play in Games Through Death in Dungeons & Dragons	9
Returning to Azeroth: Nostalgia, Sense of Place, and Social Presence in World of Warcraft Classic	9
‘Thank you for your compliance’: Overwatch as a Disciplinary System	8
Professional Gaming and Pro-Gamers: What Do We Know So Far? A Systematic Review	8
Right-Wing Extremism in Mainstream Games: A Review of the Literature	8
Balancing Ethics, Art and Economics: A Qualitative Analysis of Game Designer Perspectives on Monetisation	8

‘You Game Like a Girl’: Perceptions of Gender and Competence in Gaming	8
History, Heritage, and Memory in Video Games: Approaching the Past in Svoboda 1945: Liberation and Train to Sachsenhausen	7
Translation Solutions in Professional Video Game Localization in Iran	7
Newsgames: The Use of Digital Games by Mass-Media Outlets to Convey Journalistic Messages	7
Are Video Games Still a Boys’ Club? How German Public Television Covers Video Games	7
Animating a Plausible Past: Perceived Realism and Sense of Place Influence Entertainment of and Tourism Intentions From Historical Video Games	7
Growing Pains in Esports Associationalism: Four Modes of National Esports Associational Development	7
A Virtual Reality Educational Game for the Ethics of Cultural Heritage Repatriation	7
Studying Game Development Cultures	7
The Proteus Effect: Overview, Reflection, and Recommendations	6
Undertale’s Loveable Monsters: Investigating Parasocial Relationships with Non-Player Characters	6
Mashing Up History and Heritage in Assassin’s Creed Odyssey	6
Exploring Player Understandings of Historical Accuracy and Historical Authenticity in Video Games	6
Share the Experience, Don’t Take it: Toward Attunement With Neurodiversity in Videogames	6
Chinese Gold-Farming in the 2000s: Worker Empowerment and Local Development Through Video Games-Based Digital Labor	6
Last Man Standing: Battle Royale Games Through the Lens of Self-Determination Theory	6
Horror Video Games and the “Active-Passive” Debate	5
The COVID Season: U.S. Collegiate Esports Programs’ Material Challenges and Opportunities During the 2020–21 Pandemic	5
Uncovering the Meaning: Exploring Semantic Differences in US Perceptions of “Gamer” and Game Players	5
Heroes and Hooligans: The Heterogeneity of Video Game Modders	5
Morality Meters and Their Impacts on Moral Choices in Videogames: A Qualitative Study	5
How Accessible is This Video Game? An Analysis Tool in Two Steps	5
Video Game Development in India: A Cultural and Creative Industry Embracing Regional Cultural Heritage(s)	5
Developer Credit: Para-Industrial Hierarchies of In-Game Credit Attribution in the Video Game Industry	5
Assembling Auras: Towards a Methodology for the Preservation and Study of Video Games as Cultural Heritage Artefacts	5
“She's Built Like a Tank”: Player Reaction to Abby Anderson in The Last of Us: Part II	5
Reconstructing History and Culture in Game Discourse: A Linguistic Analysis of Heroic Stories in Honor of Kings	5
Exploring the Feminization of Backseat Gaming Through Girlfriend Reviews YouTube Channel	4
Enjoying My Time in the Animus: A Quantitative Survey on Perceived Realism and Enjoyment of Historical Video Games	4
The ‘First Person Shooter’ Perspective: A Different View on First Person Shooters, Gamification, and First Person Terrorist Propaganda	4
White-Collar Criminality Within the Video Game Industry	4
Geek Cuisine: Extending the Narrative of a Junk Food Gamer	4
Towards Sovereign Games	4
Blockchain Potentials for the Game Industry: A Review	4
Setting the Game Agenda: Reviewing the Emerging Literature on Video Gaming and Psychological Well-Being of Sexual and Gender Diverse Youth	4
Toward a Study of Pinball	3
What Does it Mean to be a Female Character in “Indie” Game Storytelling? Narrative Framing and Humanization in Independently Developed Video Games	3
“What are you Bringing to the Table?”: The Something Awful Let’s Play Community as a Serious Leisure Subculture	3
“Protecting our female gaze rights”: Chinese Female Gamers’ and Game Producers’ Negotiations with Government Restrictions on Erotic Material	3
Background Checks: Disentangling Class, Race, and Gender in CRPG Character Creators	3
Torres Strait Virtual Reality: A Reflection on the Intersection between Culture, Game Design and Research	3
Why do We Play? Towards a Comprehensive Player Typology	3
Seeking a Sense of Control or Escapism? The Role of Video Games in Coping with Unemployment	3
Players Just Want to Have Fun? An Exploratory Survey on Hedonic and Eudaimonic Game Motives	3
The Significance and Complexities of Anti-Corporate Gamer Activism: Struggles Against the Exploitation and Control of Game-Worlds in 2000s China	3
Far Cry 5, American Right-Wing Terrorism, and Doomsday Prepper Culture	3
Virtual Heterotopias and the Contested Histories of Kowloon Walled City	3
A Typology of Metagamers: Identifying Player Types Based on Beyond the Game Activities	3
Gameplay Bricks Model, a Theoretical Framework to Match Game Mechanics and Cognitive Functions	3
Game-Assisted Social Activism: Game Literacy in Hong Kong’s Anti-Extradition Movement	3

Videogames as an ‘Unheroic’ Medium: The Child Hero's Journey	3
An “Alternative to the Pen”? Perspectives for the Design of Historiographical Videogames	3