Games and Culture

Article	Citations
Social Realism in Red Orchestra 2 (2011)	52
Uses and Gratifications of Biophilic Simulation Games	28
Machina ex Dea, Dea ex Machina: Gaia/GAIA/All-Mother and Lugones’ “World”—Traveling in Horizon Zero Dawn (2017)	25
Horror Video Games and the “Active-Passive” Debate	25
The Practice of Oldhammer: Re-Membering a Past Through Craft and Play	18
Erratum	17
Survey on Localization From the Development Perspective	17
Mask of the Translator: Walter Benjamin and Metal Gear Solid’s Difficult Relationship with Localization	15
“A Definition of Enchantment”: A New Approach to the Analysis of Magic Systems in Fantasy Games	15
Livestreaming History: The Streamer-Historian and Historical Games Outreach	14
High Fantasy RPGs and the Materiality of the Medieval Book	14
“Fear the Old Blood”: The Gothicism of Bloodborne	14
Identifying Playfulness: An Empirical Study on How Adults Recognize and Define Playfulness Across Culture	13
Virtual Allies: Why Allyship is Critical to Diversification of Virtual Reality Gaming?	13
Esports Cannot Defeat Homophobia With Capitalism	13
Identification of Memorable Game Experiences: Analysis of Escape Rooms Visitors’ Experiences	12
Exploring Player Understandings of Historical Accuracy and Historical Authenticity in Video Games	12
Hey, You! The Importance of Pragmatics in Localizations of Mass Effect in French and Spanish	11
Problematic Gaming at a Crossroad: Exploring the Interplay Between Internet Gaming Disorder, Toxic Attitudes, and Empathy in Digital Entertainment	11
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
Esports as a Cultural Microcosm for Studying Psycholinguistics	10
“As if Possessed by a Demon”: Subjectivity, Possession, and Undeadness in Metal Gear Solid	10
“What are you Bringing to the Table?”: The Something Awful Let’s Play Community as a Serious Leisure Subculture	10
Czech Appeal: Why and How National Game Productions Use Local Themes and Settings	9

To the Center of Nowhere: Deep Mapping Digital Games’ Paratextual Geographies	9
Perceived Foolishness: How Does the Saltybet Community Construct AI vs AI Spectatorship?	9
Players Just Want to Have Fun? An Exploratory Survey on Hedonic and Eudaimonic Game Motives	9
“The Sense of Wonder”: Gaming Capital and Nostalgia for Inexperience in Magic: The Gathering	9
“We're All Mad Here!”: Becoming God in Bloodborne	9
A Typology of Metagamers: Identifying Player Types Based on Beyond the Game Activities	8
Returning to Azeroth: Nostalgia, Sense of Place, and Social Presence in World of Warcraft Classic	8
I Play, Therefore I Think: Procedural Philosophy in Remedy Entertainment's Alan Wake 2 (2023)	8
“A Crown is Warranted With Strength”: Bosses, Fantasy, and Democracy in Elden Ring	8
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
The Stupid, the Ridiculous, the Camp: How Goat Simulator's “Messy” Design Facilitates Queer Play	7
Serious Games and Game Performance Before and During the Israel-Hamas War: The Case of Fact Finders and PeaceMaker	7
Streamers as Arts Educators: Exploring Their Streaming Approaches as Pedagogical Practices	7
Play and Misinformation: How America's Conspiracy Culture Became Gamified	7
Virtual Heterotopias and the Contested Histories of Kowloon Walled City	7
Beyond the Game Itself: Understanding Authorial Intent, Player Agency, and Materiality as Degrees of Paratextuality	7
FORGE: A Framework for Organizing Rewards in Gamified Environments	6
“I think I Get Why y’all do this Now”: Reckoning With Elden Ring 's Difficulty in an Online Affinity Space	6
Metamodern Nature of Hideo Kojima's Death Stranding Synopsis and Gameplay	6
Fantasies of Adequacy: Mythologies of Capital in Dark Souls	6
The Problem of Memory in the Assassin's Creed Series (2007–2020)	6
Finish—Spare the Shame: Realism of Hellish Quart and Alt-Sarmatian Ideology	6
The ‘First Person Shooter’ Perspective: A Different View on First Person Shooters, Gamification, and First Person Terrorist Propaganda	5
Analog Simulation and the Indian Wars: Encountering the Other Through Board Wargames	5
A Conservative Metric of Power Creep	5
The Business of Play: Financialization and Optimization in World of Warcraft	5
The Ones Who Walk Away from Hallownest: Hollow Knight's Radical Response to the Omelas Dilemma	5
Exoplanetary Exploration and the End of the World in 22 Minutes: Philosofiction in Outer Wilds	5
Peace in the Valley: A Media and Discourse Analysis of Eric Barone's Stardew Valley Through Utopian Theory	5
MeetDurian: Can Location-Based Games be Used to Improve COVID-19 Hygiene Habits?	5
Taxonomy of Studies on the Use of Video Games in Entrepreneurship Education: A Systematic Literature Review with a Textometric Analysis	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	5
Introduction: Reconsidering Paratext as a Received Concept	4
“A Legend From Before You Were Born”: Final Fantasy VII, Folklore, and Popular Culture	4
Critical Nostalgia and the Utopian Impulse in UFO 50	4
“Go. Just take him.”: PTSD and the Player-Character Relationship in The Last of Us Part II	4
Failing to See a Difference: Closing a Gender Gap in a Challenging Video Game	4
The Moral Service of Trans NPCs: Examining the Roles of Transgender Non-Player Characters in Role-Playing Video Games	4
Beyond Game Blocks: Adolescent Girl Players' Perspectives During COVID-19	4
Reshaping the Battlefield: The International Committee of the Red Cross, Video Games, and Public Relations	4
Response: In and Out of the Game, as Usual	4
‘You Game Like a Girl’: Perceptions of Gender and Competence in Gaming	4
How Does Exposure to General and Sexual Harassment Relate to Female Gamers’ Coping Strategies and Mental Health?	4
Gaming I, II, and III: Arcades, Video Game Systems, and Modern Game Streaming Services	3
Exploring the Etymology of YouXi: A Chinese Perspective on the Concept of Game	3
Blockchain Potentials for the Game Industry: A Review	3
Translation Solutions in Professional Video Game Localization in Iran	3
The Game-Like Experience of Virtual Reality Art: Sensational Players and Critical Audiences	3

Gaming Capital on Overwatch's Official Forums	3
Among the Casters: A Qualitative Study of Work and Play in Nottingham's Lead Belt	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
Playing with Character: A Framework of Characterization in Video Games	3
The Doors of Perception: Horror Video Games and the Ideological Implications of Ludic Virtual Reality	3
‘Born of the Blood, Made Men by the Blood, Undone by the Blood’: Bloodborne as a Critical Reflection of Ghosts of the Anthropocene	3
“You’ve Been Living Here For as Long as You Can Remember”: Trauma in OMORI's Environmental Design	3
The Beautiful Rule: Thinking the Aesthetics of Game Rules	3
How Accessible is This Video Game? An Analysis Tool in Two Steps	3
Mutants and Zombies Everywhere! Or Villains, Violence, and Selfishness: Questions of Humanity in the Post-apocalyptic (Pandemic) Video Game	3
Experience in Videogame Display: An Extension of the Matrix Model	3
The Ground Floor Approach to Video Game Accessibility: Identifying Design Features Prioritized by Accessibility Reviews	3
What is Videogame Formalism? Exploring the Pillars of Russian Formalism for the Study of Videogames	3
Thought Experiments in Video Games: Exploring the (Un)Ethics of Motherhood in Frictional Games’ Amnesia: Rebirth	3
Why do We Play? Towards a Comprehensive Player Typology	2
Games and Culture Special Issue publication notice	2
Profiles, Perceptions, and Experiences of Video Game Translators	2
Game-Assisted Social Activism: Game Literacy in Hong Kong’s Anti-Extradition Movement	2
Becoming Afflicted, Becoming Virtuous: Darkest Dungeon and the Human Response to Stress	2
Is Death Only the Beginning? How People Mourn Artificial Characters in Social Media	2
Foreign Yet Familiar: J. L. Borges’ Book of Imaginary Beings and Other Cultural Ferrymen in Japanese Fantasy Games	2
Eroticism and Design Workshops in Game Interfaces: Exploring a Mobile Otome Game for Chinese Women	2
Heroes and Hooligans: The Heterogeneity of Video Game Modders	2
Binary Barriers: Avatar Creation and Play for Nonbinary Video Game Players	2
The Development of Video Game Representations of the Middle East	2
Gatekeeping the Gatekeepers: An Exploratory Study of Transformative Games Fandom & TikTok Algorithms	2
It's Not Always About You: The Subject and Ecological Entanglement in Video Games	2
Becoming Bayek: Blackness, Egypt, and Identity in Assassin's Creed: Origins	2
Resilient Values in Game Industry Formation: Institutional Perspective to the Finnish Context	2
The Technological Mediation of Collective Memory Through Historical Video Games	2
Playing Through the Pandemic: Gaming Usage as a Buffer During COVID-19	2
“Religious” and “Gamer”: Negotiating the Legitimacy of Video Games in a Muslim Context	2
Conceptualizing the Roles of Involvement and Immersion in Persuasive Games	2
Times They Are A-Changin’? Evolving Representations of Women in the Assassin's Creed Franchise	2
Cultural Imperialism and Video Game Localization: A Case Study of Revelations: Persona	2
Irradiated Cereal and Abject Meat: Food as Satire and Warning in the Fallout Series	2
Developer Credit: Para-Industrial Hierarchies of In-Game Credit Attribution in the Video Game Industry	2
Setting the Game Agenda: Reviewing the Emerging Literature on Video Gaming and Psychological Well-Being of Sexual and Gender Diverse Youth	2
The Use of Games in Citizen Science Based on Findings from the EyeWire User Study	2
It's Not a Game! Rules of Notice and Hermeneutics of Suspicion in Contemporary FMV Games	2
Videogames as an ‘Unheroic’ Medium: The Child Hero's Journey	2
Undertale’s Loveable Monsters: Investigating Parasocial Relationships with Non-Player Characters	2
Chippin’ In: An Analysis of the Criminological Concepts Within Cyberpunk 2077	2
Disco Pinball: Declining Games and Depression in Disco Elysium	2
Between Subjectivity and Flourishing: Creativity and Game Design as Existential Meaning	1
The Other Squid Game: How Splatoon 3 Promotes a Culture of Coziness, Inclusivity, and Becoming-Cephalopod	1
Aesthetics, Engagement, and Narration: Temporal Constraint as an Articulator of Ludo-Narrative Time	1
The Show, the Game, and the Old Gods: On the Ontological Reframing and the Fiction/Real Boundary	1
Stochastic Process Approaches for Modeling of Games	1
Developing Meaning: Critical Violence and Eudaimonic Entertainment in the Seventh Console Generation	1
Worlds of Light, Fading. Dead Games and End-of-Life Software as Ruins of Digital Interactive Entertainment	1
Share the Experience, Don’t Take it: Toward Attunement With Neurodiversity in Videogames	1
Symbolic Violence in the Language of Game Descriptions of Blackness: The Case of Pathfinder	1
Challenging Heroic Narratives of Polar Exploration in Indie Video Games	1
Creative, Technical, Entrepreneurial: Formative Tensions in Game Development Higher Education	1
The COVID Season: U.S. Collegiate Esports Programs’ Material Challenges and Opportunities During the 2020–21 Pandemic	1
Looking for the Gamic Gaze: Desire, Fantasy, and Enjoyment in Gorogoa	1
Video Games Interventions to Reduce Radicalization and Violent Extremism in Young People: A Systematic Review	1
Postphenomenology, Kill Cams and Shooters: Exploring the Code of Replay Sequences	1
Toward a Study of Pinball	1
Nature Playing: On the Experience of Contemplating Technologically Mediated Nature within the Game World of Riders Republic	1
What are the Drivers, Barriers, Mechanisms, and Anchors of cross-industry cooperation? The Perspective of the Video Game Industry Ecosystem	1
The Revival of the White Whale: Kojima’s The Phantom Pain and Death Stranding against Melville’s Moby-Dick	1
Bridge Babies and Rebuilding America: Reproductive Commodification in Death Stranding	1
Broken Promises Marketing. Relations, Communication Strategies, and Ethics of Video Game Journalists and Developers: The Case of Cyberpunk 2077	1
‘It's Just Not Safe’: Gender-Based Harassment and Toxicity Experiences of Women in Esports	1
Reflecting on Celeste : Abstracting Trans Representation	1
Dynamic Music Video: Categorizing the Convergence of Video Games and Music Videos	1
The Future of Games Scholarship: An Interview With James Paul Gee	1
Dungeons, Dragons, and Rogues: How Picaresque Literature Shaped the Thief Class in Dungeons & Dragons	1
Towards Representational Adequacy: A Critical Analysis of Transgender Representation in Tell Me Why	1
Playing With Needles: Technology, Gender and Playful Participation in Online Knitting Communities	1
Dark Patterns Meet the Gamer's Dilemma: Contrasting Morally Objectionable Content with Systems in Video Games	1
“Video Games Were My First Safe Space”: Queer Gaming in the Animal Crossing New Horizons LGBTIQA+ Community	1
Fear of Monsters: Toward an Understanding of the Threat of the Computational Monster Read Through the Theoretical Lens of Game-Play	1
Balancing Ethics, Art and Economics: A Qualitative Analysis of Game Designer Perspectives on Monetisation	1
The Significance and Complexities of Anti-Corporate Gamer Activism: Struggles Against the Exploitation and Control of Game-Worlds in 2000s China	1
Experience, Rationality, Situation and Fallibilism: Establishing a Feminist Pragmatist Epistemology in Game Studies	1
Recentering Indigenous Epistemologies Through Digital Games: Sámi Perspectives on Nature in Rievssat (2018)	1
Gamification is not Working: Why?	1

Background Checks: Disentangling Class, Race, and Gender in CRPG Character Creators	1
Replaying Wartime Résistance? Studying Ludic Memory-Making in the Open World Game The Saboteur	1
Growing Pains in Esports Associationalism: Four Modes of National Esports Associational Development	1
Remediating Video Games in Contemporary Fiction: Literary Form and Intermedial Transfer	1
‘You’ve met with a terrible fate, haven’t you?’: A Hauntological Analysis of Carceral Violence in Majora’s Mask	1
Becoming a Gamer: Performative Construction of Gendered Gamer Identities	1
“After All, They Don’t Know Me” Exploring the Psychological Mechanisms of Toxic Behavior in Online Games	1