New Books in Game Studies
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Interviews with scholars of game studies about their books.
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Kenneth Jones, "African American Males and Video Games: How Gaming Technology Can Motivate and Enhance Learning" (Myers Education, 2025)
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Aug 10, 2025 |
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Nathan Wainstein, "Grant Us Eyes: The Art of Paradox in Bloodborne" (2025)
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Aug 08, 2025 |
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Dom Ford, "Mytholudics: Games and Myth" (de Gruyter, 2025)
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Aug 05, 2025 |
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Cameron Kunzelman, "The World is Born from Zero: Understanding Speculation and Video Games" (de Gruyter, 2022)
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Jul 23, 2025 |
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James O'Connor, "Untitled Goose Game" (Boss Fight Books, 2025)
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Jul 18, 2025 |
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Elliot Lichtman, "The Computer Always Wins: A Playful Introduction to Algorithms through Puzzles and Strategy Games" (MIT Press, 2025)
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Jun 22, 2025 |
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Carly A. Kocurek and Matthew Payne, "Ultima and Worldbuilding in the Computer Role-Playing Game" (Amherst College Press, 2024)
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Jun 20, 2025 |
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Trans Technologies
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Jun 19, 2025 |
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Dave Cook, "Go Straight: The Ultimate Guide to Side-Scrolling Beat-'Em-Ups" (Bitmap Books, 2022)
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May 31, 2025 |
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Tracy Fullerton and Matthew Farber, "The Well-Read Game: On Playing Thoughtfully" (MIT Press, 2025)
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May 09, 2025 |
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Peter Krapp, "Computing Legacies: Digital Cultures of Simulation" (MIT Press, 2024)
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May 05, 2025 |
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James Cartlidge, "The Rise of the Roguelite: Inside a Gaming Phenomenon" (CRC Press, 2025)
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Apr 23, 2025 |
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Jonathan D. Cohen, "Losing Big: America's Dangerous Sports Gambling Boom" (Columbia Global Reports, 2025)
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Apr 20, 2025 |
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Connor Jackson, "Zombies, Consumption, and Satire in Capcom's Dead Rising" (Routledge, 2024)
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Apr 19, 2025 |
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Milena Droumeva, "Playthrough Poetics: Gameplay as Research Method" (Amherst College Press, 2024)
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Apr 13, 2025 |
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Daryl Fairweather, "Hate the Game: Economic Cheat Codes for Life, Love, and Work" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
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Apr 12, 2025 |
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Mia Consalvo et al., "Streaming by the Rest of Us: Microstreaming Videogames on Twitch" (MIT Press, 2025)
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Mar 14, 2025 |
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Sarah Stang, et al., "Monstrosity in Games and Play" (Amsterdam UP, 2024)
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Mar 07, 2025 |
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Blair Farrell, "The Avengers in Video Games" (McFarland, 2021)
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Mar 05, 2025 |
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Kyle Orland, "Minesweeper" (Boss Fight Books, 2023)
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Mar 04, 2025 |
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Robert Houghton, "The Middle Ages in Computer Games: Ludic Approaches to the Medieval and Medievalism" (Boydell & Brewer, 2024)
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Mar 03, 2025 |
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Sam Srauy, "Race, Culture and the Video Game Industry: A Vicious Circuit" (Routledge, 2024)
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Mar 01, 2025 |
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Jeff Yoshimi, "Gaming Cancer: How Building and Playing Video Games Can Accelerate Scientific Discovery" (MIT Press, 2025)
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Feb 27, 2025 |
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Shelly Jones and Matthew Wilhelm Kapell, "Beyond the Deck: Critical Essays on Magic, The Gathering and Its Influence" (McFarland, 2023)
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Feb 20, 2025 |
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René Reinhold Schallegger, "A New Virtual Ethics: Interconnectedness and Interrelationality in Videogames" (McFarland, 2024)
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Feb 14, 2025 |
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Réjane Dreifuss et al., "Live Performance and Video Games: Inspirations, Appropriations and Mutual Transfers" (Transcript Publishing, 2024)
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Feb 08, 2025 |
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Marijam Did, "Everything to Play For: An Insider's Guide to How Videogames are Changing Our World" (Verso, 2024)
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Feb 03, 2025 |
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Marco Arnaudo, "The Tabletop Revolution: Gaming Reimagined in the 21st Century" (McFarland, 2023)
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Jan 19, 2025 |
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Jesper Juul, "Too Much Fun: The Five Lives of the Commodore 64 Computer" (MIT Press, 2024)
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Jan 14, 2025 |
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James Malazita, "Enacting Platforms: Feminist Technoscience and the Unreal Engine" (MIT Press, 2024)
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Jan 12, 2025 |
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Andrew S. Latham, "Hey! Listen!: Hypertext Rhetoric and The Legend of Zelda" (McFarland, 2024)
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Jan 05, 2025 |
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John Eglin, "The Gambling Century: Commercial Gaming in Britain from Restoration to Regency" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Dec 27, 2024 |
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Julien Mailland, "The Game That Never Ends: How Lawyers Shape the Videogame Industry" (MIT Press, 2024)
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Dec 21, 2024 |
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Matthew S. Smith, "EverQuest" (Boss Fight Books, 2024)
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Dec 15, 2024 |
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Tom Boellstorff and Braxton Soderman, "Intellivision: How a Videogame System Battled Atari and Almost Bankrupted Barbie®" (MIT Press, 2024)
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Dec 14, 2024 |
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Gabe Durham, "Bible Adventures" (Boss Fight Books, 2015)
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Nov 10, 2024 |
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Seth E. Jenny et al., "Routledge Handbook of Esports" (Routledge, 2024)
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Nov 09, 2024 |
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Yaraslau Kot, "Central and Eastern European Histories and Heritages in Video Games" (Routledge, 2024)
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Nov 07, 2024 |
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Richard Moss, "Tale of Two Halves: The History Of Football Video Games" (Bitmap Books, 2024)
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Nov 01, 2024 |
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Tom Smith, "Anatomy of Game Design" (CRC Press, 2024)
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Oct 30, 2024 |
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Maurice Suckling, "Paper Time Machines: Critical Game Design and Historical Board Games" (Routledge, 2024)
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Oct 12, 2024 |
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Jordan Minor, "Video Game of the Year: A Year-By-Year Guide to the Best, Boldest, and Most Bizarre Games from Every Year Since 1977" (Abrams, 2023)
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Sep 26, 2024 |
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Marta Fijak and Artur Ganszyniec, "How and Why We Make Games" (CRC Press, 2024)
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Sep 18, 2024 |
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Hey, Robot!
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Sep 16, 2024 |
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Jordan Magnuson, "Game Poems: Videogame Design as Lyric Practice" (Amherst College Press, 2023)
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Sep 04, 2024 |
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Sarah Malanowski and Nicholas R. Baima, "Why It's Ok to Be a Gamer" (Routledge, 2024)
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Sep 03, 2024 |
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Christopher B. Patterson and Tara Fickle, "Made in Asia/America: Why Video Games Were Never (Really) about Us" (Duke UP, 2024)
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Aug 24, 2024 |
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Tore C. Olsson, "Red Dead's History: A Video Game, an Obsession, and America's Violent Past" (St. Martin's Press, 2024)
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Aug 06, 2024 |
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Sören Schoppmeier, "Playing American: Open-World Videogames and the Reproduction of American Culture" (De Gruyter, 2023)
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Jul 19, 2024 |
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Souvik Mukherjee, "Videogames in the Indian Subcontinent: Development, Culture(s) and Representations" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
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Jul 01, 2024 |
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Edwin McRae, "Narrative Worldbuilding: A Player Centric Approach to Designing Story Rich Game Worlds" (Narrative, 2024)
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May 28, 2024 |
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En Li, "Betting on the Civil Service Examinations: The Lottery in Late Qing China" (Harvard UP, 2023)
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May 17, 2024 |
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Regina Seiwald and Ed Vollans, "(Not) In the Game: History, Paratexts, and Games" (de Gruyter, 2023)
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May 08, 2024 |
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Jaakko Stenros and Markus Montola, "The Rule Book: The Building Blocks of Games" (MIT Press, 2024)
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May 04, 2024 |
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Nick Jones, "Gooey Media: Screen Entertainment and the Graphic User Interface" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)
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Mar 15, 2024 |
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Peter D. McDonald, "Run and Jump: The Meaning of the 2D Platformer" (MIT Press, 2024)
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Mar 15, 2024 |
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Poppy Wilde, "Posthuman Gaming: Avatars, Gamers, and Entangled Subjectivities" (Routledge, 2023)
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Mar 02, 2024 |
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Stefano Gualeni, "The Clouds: An Experiment in Theory-Fiction" (Routledge, 2023)
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Jan 24, 2024 |
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Cross-Cultural Research on Gaming and “Gaming Disorder”
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Jan 19, 2024 |
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Hartmut Koenitz, "Understanding Interactive Digital Narrative: Immersive Expressions for a Complex Time" (Routledge, 2023)
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Jan 19, 2024 |
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David B. Nieborg and Maxwell Foxman, "Mainstreaming and Game Journalism" (MIT Press, 2023)
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Jan 15, 2024 |
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Emma Reay, "The Child in Videogames: From the Meek, to the Mighty, to the Monstrous" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
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Dec 20, 2023 |
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Robert Houghton, "Playing the Middle Ages: Pitfalls and Potential in Modern Games" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
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Dec 07, 2023 |
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Chad Randl and D. Medina Lasansky, "Playing Place: Board Games, Popular Culture, Space" (MIT Press, 2023)
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Nov 09, 2023 |
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Peter Nelson, "Computer Games As Landscape Art" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
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Nov 06, 2023 |
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Gabe Durham, "The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask" (Boss Fight Books, 2020)
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Oct 26, 2023 |
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Ben Whaley, "Toward a Gameic World: New Rules of Engagement from Japanese Video Games" (U Michigan Press, 2023)
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Oct 02, 2023 |
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Federico Alvarez Igarzábal, "Time and Space in Video Games: A Cognitive-Formalist Approach" (Transcript, 2020)
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Sep 23, 2023 |
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Marc Bonner, "Open World Structures: Architecture, Urban and Natural Landscape in the Computer Game" (Büchner-Verlag, 2023)
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Sep 07, 2023 |
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Stefan Heinrich Simond, "Pixelated Madness: The Construction of Mental Illnesses and Psychiatric Institutions in Video Games" (Hülsbusch, 2023)
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Aug 23, 2023 |
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Betty Adamou, "Games and Gamification in Market Research: Increasing Consumer Engagement in Research for Business Success" (Kogan Page, 2018)
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Jul 31, 2023 |
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Codename Revolution: The Nintendo Wii Platform
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Jul 26, 2023 |
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Aaron A. Reed, "50 Years of Text Games: From Oregon Trail to AI Dungeon" (2023)
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Jul 19, 2023 |
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The Art of Failure: An Essay on the Pain of Playing Video Games
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Jul 11, 2023 |
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Making Democracy Fun: How Game Design Can Empower Citizens and Transform Politics
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Jun 29, 2023 |
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The War on Learning: Gaining Ground in the Digital University
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Jun 27, 2023 |
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Academic Chat: "Detention" and Other Horror Videogames: Avatars, Memory and Trauma
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Jun 24, 2023 |
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Lars de Wildt, "The Pop Theology of Videogames: Producing and Playing with Religion" (Amsterdam UP, 2023)
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Jun 22, 2023 |
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Works of Game: On the Aesthetics of Games and Art
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Jun 18, 2023 |
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Zhouxiang Lu, "A History of Competitive Gaming" (Routledge, 2022)
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Jun 12, 2023 |
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Brendan Keogh, "The Videogame Industry Does Not Exist: Why We Should Think Beyond Commercial Game Production" (MIT Press, 2023)
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Jun 11, 2023 |
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Ida Yoshinaga et al., "Uneven Futures: Strategies for Community Survival from Speculative Fiction" (MIT Press, 2022)
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Jun 11, 2023 |
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Karen Schrier, "We the Gamers: How Games Teach Ethics and Civics" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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May 11, 2023 |
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Jason C. Cash and Craig T. Olsen, "The World of Final Fantasy VII: Essays on the Game and Its Legacy" (McFarland, 2023)
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May 07, 2023 |
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Justin L. Bergner, "Solving the Price Is Right: How Mathematics Can Improve Your Decisions On and Off the Set of America's Celebrated Game Show" (Prometheus Books, 2023)
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Apr 19, 2023 |
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Jeffrey G. Snodgrass, "The Avatar Faculty: Ecstatic Transformations in Religion and Video Games" (U California Press, 2023)
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Mar 28, 2023 |
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Larisa Grollemond and Bryan C. Keene, "The Fantasy of the Middle Ages: An Epic Journey through Imaginary Medieval Worlds" (Getty, 2022)
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Mar 27, 2023 |
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Felix Zimmermann, "Virtual Realities: Atmospheric Experience of the Past in Digital Games (Büchner-Verlag, 2023)
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Mar 26, 2023 |
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Mary Flanagan and Mikael Jakobsson, "Playing Oppression: The Legacy of Conquest and Empire in Colonialist Board Games" (MIT Press, 2023)
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Mar 16, 2023 |
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Stefano Gualeni and Riccardo Fassone, "Fictional Games: A Philosophy of Worldbuilding and Imaginary Play" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
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Mar 12, 2023 |
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Miguel Sicart, "Playing Software: Homo Ludens in Computational Culture" (MIT Press, 2023)
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Mar 08, 2023 |
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Jacob Birken, "Video Games: Digital Image Cultures" (Verlag Klaus Wagenbach, 2022)
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Feb 19, 2023 |
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Jeremiah McCall, "Gaming the Past: Using Video Games to Teach Secondary History" (Routledge, 2022)
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Feb 07, 2023 |
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Jeffrey Carpenter and Andrea Robbett, "Game Theory and Behavior" (MIT Press, 2022)
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Jan 14, 2023 |
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Christopher Bartel, "Video Games, Violence, and the Ethics of Fantasy: Killing Time" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
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Jan 14, 2023 |
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Harald Koberg, "Free Play: Digital Gaming and the Longing for Effectiveness" (Büchner-Verlag, 2021)
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Jan 13, 2023 |
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Kelly I. Aliano, "The Performance of Video Games: Enacting Identity, History and Culture Through Play" (McFarland, 2022)
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Dec 17, 2022 |
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Melissa Kagen, "Wandering Games" (MIT Press, 2022)
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Dec 04, 2022 |
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Robert Houghton, "Teaching the Middle Ages through Modern Games: Using, Modding and Creating Games for Education and Impact" (de Gruyter, 2022)
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Dec 04, 2022 |
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Adam Crowley, "Representations of Poverty in Videogames" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)
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Nov 11, 2022 |
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Andrei Nae, "Immersion, Narrative, and Gender Crisis in Survival Horror Video Games" (Routledge, 2021)
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Oct 26, 2022 |
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Adrian Hon, "You've Been Played: How Corporations, Governments, and Schools Use Games to Control Us All" (Basic Books, 2022)
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Oct 25, 2022 |
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Christopher Lukman, "Control Machines: Toward a Dispositive Theory of Computer Games" (Lit Verlag, 2022)
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Oct 11, 2022 |
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How to Play Poker Like the Pros: A Conversation with Jonathan Little
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Oct 10, 2022 |
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C. Thi Nguyen, "Games: Agency as Art" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Oct 04, 2022 |
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Esther Wright, "Rockstar Games and American History: Promotional Materials and the Construction of Authenticity" (de Gruyter, 2022)
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Sep 13, 2022 |
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Don’t Hate the Player: The World of E-Sports
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Aug 26, 2022 |
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Save the Whales: The Addictive Psychology Behind Video Games
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Aug 23, 2022 |
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Peter Winkler, "Mathematical Puzzles" (A K Peters, 2020)
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Aug 23, 2022 |
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Moral Kombat: How Mortal Kombat Caused Moral Outrage
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Aug 22, 2022 |
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The Revolution Will Not Be Streamed: The Intellectual Culture of Twitch Streamers
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Aug 03, 2022 |
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Felix Schniz, "Genre and Video Game: Introducing an Impossible Taxonomy" (Springer, 2021)
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Jul 26, 2022 |
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Samuel Ulbricht, "Ethics of Computer Gaming: A Groundwork" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)
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Jul 08, 2022 |
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Rachael Hutchinson and Jérémie Pelletier-Gagnon, "Japanese Role-Playing Games: Genre, Representation, and Liminality in the JRPG" (Lexington Books, 2022)
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Jun 27, 2022 |
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John Wills, "Gamer Nation: Video Games and American Culture" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2019)
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Jun 15, 2022 |
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Mindy Capaldi, "Teaching Mathematics Through Games" (American Mathematical Society, 2021)
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May 10, 2022 |
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Thomas Haigh and Paul E. Ceruzzi, "A New History of Modern Computing" (MIT Press, 2021)
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Mar 30, 2022 |
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Grant Tavinor, "The Aesthetics of Virtual Reality" (Routledge, 2021)
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Jan 28, 2022 |
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Kurt Squire, "Making Games for Impact" (MIT Press, 2021)
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Oct 26, 2021 |
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Joseph P. Laycock, "Dangerous Games: What the Moral Panic over Role-Playing Games Says about Play, Religion, and Imagined Worlds" (U California Press, 2015)
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Jul 26, 2021 |
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Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall, "Slave Revolt on Screen: The Haitian Revolution in Film and Video Games" (UP of Mississippi, 2021)
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Jul 22, 2021 |
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Roopika Risam and Kelly Baker Josephs, "The Digital Black Atlantic" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
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Jul 05, 2021 |
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Annelise Heinz, "Mahjong: A Chinese Game and the Making of Modern American Culture" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Jun 24, 2021 |
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Mary Pilon, "The Monopolists: Obsession, Fury, and the Scandal Behind the World's Favorite Board Game" (Bloomsbury, 2015)
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May 17, 2021 |
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Jonas Peters and Nicolai Meinshausen, "The Raven's Hat: Fallen Pictures, Rising Sequences, and Other Mathematical Games" (MIT Press, 2021)
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Apr 02, 2021 |
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J. Rosenhouse, "Games for Your Mind: The History and Future of Logic Puzzles" (Princeton UP, 2020)
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Jan 25, 2021 |
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C. Thi Nguyen, "Games: Agency as Art" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Nov 10, 2020 |
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Cailin O’Connor, "Games in the Philosophy of Biology" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
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Jul 10, 2020 |
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William Gibbons, "Unlimited Replays: Video Games and Classical Music" (Oxford UP, 2018)
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Aug 06, 2019 |
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Alex Wade, “Playback: A Genealogy of 1980s British Videogames” (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018)
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Mar 23, 2018 |
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Alfie Bown, “The Playstation Dreamworld” (Polity, 2017)
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Dec 20, 2017 |
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Phillip Penix-Tadsen, “Cultural Code: Video Games and Latin America” (MIT Press, 2016)
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Mar 14, 2016 |
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Nathan Altice, “I Am Error: The Nintendo Family Computer-Entertainment System Platform” (MIT Press, 2015)
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Dec 23, 2015 |
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Colin Milburn, “Mondo Nano: Fun and Games in the World of Digital Matter” (Duke UP, 2015)
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Oct 27, 2015 |
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Randy Nichols, “The Video Game Business” (British Film Institute, 2014)
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Aug 16, 2015 |
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Vincent Vergonjeanne: French Online and Board Games Entrepreneur
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Jul 09, 2015 |
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John Sharp, “Works of Game: On the Aesthetics of Games and Art” (MIT Press, 2015)
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Jun 01, 2015 |
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Mark Carnes, “Minds on Fire: How Role-Immersion Games Transform College” (Harvard UP, 2014)
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Sep 24, 2014 |
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Nick Yee, “The Proteus Paradox: How Online Games and Virtual Worlds Change Us-and How They Don’t” (Yale UP, 2014)
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Apr 11, 2014 |