Games and Culture

Article	Citations
Social Realism in Red Orchestra 2 (2011)	67
Machina ex Dea, Dea ex Machina: Gaia/GAIA/All-Mother and Lugones’ “World”—Traveling in Horizon Zero Dawn (2017)	31
The Practice of Oldhammer: Re-Membering a Past Through Craft and Play	27
Survey on Localization From the Development Perspective	26
Erratum	18
“Fear the Old Blood”: The Gothicism of Bloodborne	17
Mask of the Translator: Walter Benjamin and Metal Gear Solid’s Difficult Relationship with Localization	17
Virtual Allies: Why Allyship is Critical to Diversification of Virtual Reality Gaming?	16
Horror Video Games and the “Active-Passive” Debate	15
High Fantasy RPGs and the Materiality of the Medieval Book	15
Livestreaming History: The Streamer-Historian and Historical Games Outreach	14
Uses and Gratifications of Biophilic Simulation Games	14
Identifying Playfulness: An Empirical Study on How Adults Recognize and Define Playfulness Across Culture	14
“A Definition of Enchantment”: A New Approach to the Analysis of Magic Systems in Fantasy Games	14
Esports Cannot Defeat Homophobia With Capitalism	13
Exploring Player Understandings of Historical Accuracy and Historical Authenticity in Video Games	12
Identification of Memorable Game Experiences: Analysis of Escape Rooms Visitors’ Experiences	12
Problematic Gaming at a Crossroad: Exploring the Interplay Between Internet Gaming Disorder, Toxic Attitudes, and Empathy in Digital Entertainment	12
Esports as a Cultural Microcosm for Studying Psycholinguistics	11
“What are you Bringing to the Table?”: The Something Awful Let’s Play Community as a Serious Leisure Subculture	11
To the Center of Nowhere: Deep Mapping Digital Games’ Paratextual Geographies	11
The MTGO Virtual Economy: A Case Study on a “Play-to-Earn” Game That has Existed Since Before Cryptocurrency Was Even Invented	10
Players Just Want to Have Fun? An Exploratory Survey on Hedonic and Eudaimonic Game Motives	10
Czech Appeal: Why and How National Game Productions Use Local Themes and Settings	10
“We're All Mad Here!”: Becoming God in Bloodborne	10

Hey, You ! The Importance of Pragmatics in Localizations of Mass Effect in French and Spanish	10
Emotions in Game Data Work	9
“As if Possessed by a Demon”: Subjectivity, Possession, and Undeadness in Metal Gear Solid	9
Returning to Azeroth: Nostalgia, Sense of Place, and Social Presence in World of Warcraft Classic	9
The Rise of Gaming Nations	9
“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 Sense of Wonder”: Gaming Capital and Nostalgia for Inexperience in Magic: The Gathering	8
Perceived Foolishness: How Does the Saltybet Community Construct AI vs AI Spectatorship?	8
A Typology of Metagamers: Identifying Player Types Based on Beyond the Game Activities	8
The Stupid, the Ridiculous, the Camp: How Goat Simulator's “Messy” Design Facilitates Queer Play	7
Finish—Spare the Shame: Realism of Hellish Quart and Alt-Sarmatian Ideology	7
Virtual Heterotopias and the Contested Histories of Kowloon Walled City	7
Serious Games and Game Performance Before and During the Israel-Hamas War: The Case of Fact Finders and PeaceMaker	7
Beyond the Game Itself: Understanding Authorial Intent, Player Agency, and Materiality as Degrees of Paratextuality	7
Streamers as Arts Educators: Exploring Their Streaming Approaches as Pedagogical Practices	7
Fantasies of Adequacy: Mythologies of Capital in Dark Souls	7
Play and Misinformation: How America's Conspiracy Culture Became Gamified	7
Understanding How Marginal National Video Game Industries Differ	6
The Ones Who Walk Away from Hallownest: Hollow Knight's Radical Response to the Omelas Dilemma	6
“I think I Get Why y’all do this Now”: Reckoning With Elden Ring 's Difficulty in an Online Affinity Space	6
The Problem of Memory in the Assassin's Creed Series (2007–2020)	6
Metamodern Nature of Hideo Kojima's Death Stranding Synopsis and Gameplay	6
I Play, Therefore I Think: Procedural Philosophy in Remedy Entertainment's Alan Wake 2 (2023)	6
FORGE: A Framework for Organizing Rewards in Gamified Environments	6
A Conservative Metric of Power Creep	5
MeetDurian: Can Location-Based Games be Used to Improve COVID-19 Hygiene Habits?	5
Peace in the Valley: A Media and Discourse Analysis of Eric Barone's Stardew Valley Through Utopian Theory	5
Exoplanetary Exploration and the End of the World in 22 Minutes: Philosofiction in Outer Wilds	5
The ‘First Person Shooter’ Perspective: A Different View on First Person Shooters, Gamification, and First Person Terrorist Propaganda	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
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
The Business of Play: Financialization and Optimization in World of Warcraft	4
Introduction: Reconsidering Paratext as a Received Concept	4
The Beautiful Rule: Thinking the Aesthetics of Game Rules	4
Beyond Game Blocks: Adolescent Girl Players' Perspectives During COVID-19	4
“You’ve Been Living Here For as Long as You Can Remember”: Trauma in OMORI's Environmental Design	4
“A Legend From Before You Were Born”: Final Fantasy VII, Folklore, and Popular Culture	4
Analog Simulation and the Indian Wars: Encountering the Other Through Board Wargames	4
Failing to See a Difference: Closing a Gender Gap in a Challenging Video Game	4
How Does Exposure to General and Sexual Harassment Relate to Female Gamers’ Coping Strategies and Mental Health?	4
Critical Nostalgia and the Utopian Impulse in UFO 50	4
‘You Game Like a Girl’: Perceptions of Gender and Competence in Gaming	4
The Moral Service of Trans NPCs: Examining the Roles of Transgender Non-Player Characters in Role-Playing Video Games	4
Taxonomy of Studies on the Use of Video Games in Entrepreneurship Education: A Systematic Literature Review with a Textometric Analysis	4
“Go. Just take him.”: PTSD and the Player-Character Relationship in The Last of Us Part II	4
Reshaping the Battlefield: The International Committee of the Red Cross, Video Games, and Public Relations	4
‘Born of the Blood, Made Men by the Blood, Undone by the Blood’: Bloodborne as a Critical Reflection of Ghosts of the Anthropocene	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
Cultural Imperialism and Video Game Localization: A Case Study of Revelations: Persona	3
Exploring the Etymology of YouXi: A Chinese Perspective on the Concept of Game	3
Binary Barriers: Avatar Creation and Play for Nonbinary Video Game Players	3
Playing with Character: A Framework of Characterization in Video Games	3
Experience in Videogame Display: An Extension of the Matrix Model	3
How Accessible is This Video Game? An Analysis Tool in Two Steps	3
The Game-Like Experience of Virtual Reality Art: Sensational Players and Critical Audiences	3
The Ground Floor Approach to Video Game Accessibility: Identifying Design Features Prioritized by Accessibility Reviews	3
The Development of Video Game Representations of the Middle East	3
It's Not Always About You: The Subject and Ecological Entanglement in Video Games	3
The Doors of Perception: Horror Video Games and the Ideological Implications of Ludic Virtual Reality	3
Mutants and Zombies Everywhere! Or Villains, Violence, and Selfishness: Questions of Humanity in the Post-apocalyptic (Pandemic) Video Game	3
Gaming Capital on Overwatch's Official Forums	3
Thought Experiments in Video Games: Exploring the (Un)Ethics of Motherhood in Frictional Games’ Amnesia: Rebirth	3
Games and Culture Special Issue publication notice	3
Times They Are A-Changin’? Evolving Representations of Women in the Assassin's Creed Franchise	3
Gatekeeping the Gatekeepers: An Exploratory Study of Transformative Games Fandom & TikTok Algorithms	3
Why do We Play? Towards a Comprehensive Player Typology	3
Translation Solutions in Professional Video Game Localization in Iran	3
Gaming I, II, and III: Arcades, Video Game Systems, and Modern Game Streaming Services	3
Videogames as an ‘Unheroic’ Medium: The Child Hero's Journey	2
Conceptualizing the Roles of Involvement and Immersion in Persuasive Games	2
“Religious” and “Gamer”: Negotiating the Legitimacy of Video Games in a Muslim Context	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
Becoming a Gamer: Performative Construction of Gendered Gamer Identities	2
“After All, They Don’t Know Me” Exploring the Psychological Mechanisms of Toxic Behavior in Online Games	2
Setting the Game Agenda: Reviewing the Emerging Literature on Video Gaming and Psychological Well-Being of Sexual and Gender Diverse Youth	2
The Technological Mediation of Collective Memory Through Historical Video Games	2
Profiles, Perceptions, and Experiences of Video Game Translators	2
Resilient Values in Game Industry Formation: Institutional Perspective to the Finnish Context	2
Game-Assisted Social Activism: Game Literacy in Hong Kong’s Anti-Extradition Movement	2
It's Not a Game! Rules of Notice and Hermeneutics of Suspicion in Contemporary FMV Games	2
Fear of Monsters: Toward an Understanding of the Threat of the Computational Monster Read Through the Theoretical Lens of Game-Play	2
Towards Representational Adequacy: A Critical Analysis of Transgender Representation in Tell Me Why	2
“Video Games Were My First Safe Space”: Queer Gaming in the Animal Crossing New Horizons LGBTIQA+ Community	2
Foreign Yet Familiar: J. L. Borges’ Book of Imaginary Beings and Other Cultural Ferrymen in Japanese Fantasy Games	2
Is Death Only the Beginning? How People Mourn Artificial Characters in Social Media	2
Disco Pinball: Declining Games and Depression in Disco Elysium	2
Chippin’ In: An Analysis of the Criminological Concepts Within Cyberpunk 2077	2
Becoming Bayek: Blackness, Egypt, and Identity in Assassin's Creed: Origins	2
The Use of Games in Citizen Science Based on Findings from the EyeWire User Study	2
The COVID Season: U.S. Collegiate Esports Programs’ Material Challenges and Opportunities During the 2020–21 Pandemic	2
Postphenomenology, Kill Cams and Shooters: Exploring the Code of Replay Sequences	2
Between Subjectivity and Flourishing: Creativity and Game Design as Existential Meaning	2
Becoming Afflicted, Becoming Virtuous: Darkest Dungeon and the Human Response to Stress	2
Undertale’s Loveable Monsters: Investigating Parasocial Relationships with Non-Player Characters	2
Video Games Interventions to Reduce Radicalization and Violent Extremism in Young People: A Systematic Review	1
Share the Experience, Don’t Take it: Toward Attunement With Neurodiversity in Videogames	1
Background Checks: Disentangling Class, Race, and Gender in CRPG Character Creators	1
Desert Bus: Abusive Game Design, The Martyrdom Effect, and Fan Activism on Twitch.tv	1
Desire and Delusion: Fetish of Brazilian Favela in Videogame (Mis)representation	1
The Show, the Game, and the Old Gods: On the Ontological Reframing and the Fiction/Real Boundary	1
‘You’ve met with a terrible fate, haven’t you?’: A Hauntological Analysis of Carceral Violence in Majora’s Mask	1
Video Games as Social Institutions	1
Creative, Technical, Entrepreneurial: Formative Tensions in Game Development Higher Education	1
Video Game Development in India: A Cultural and Creative Industry Embracing Regional Cultural Heritage(s)	1
Toward a Study of Pinball	1
Developing Meaning: Critical Violence and Eudaimonic Entertainment in the Seventh Console Generation	1
Aesthetics, Engagement, and Narration: Temporal Constraint as an Articulator of Ludo-Narrative Time	1
Datafication of Digital Intimacy: The Dual Logic of Empowerment and Commodification	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
Dark Patterns Meet the Gamer's Dilemma: Contrasting Morally Objectionable Content with Systems in Video Games	1
Playing With Needles: Technology, Gender and Playful Participation in Online Knitting Communities	1
The Economy of Time, the Rationalisation of Resources: Discipline, Desire and Deferred Value in the Playing of Gacha Games	1
The Collector, the Glitcher, and the Denkbilder: Toward a Critical Aesthetic Theory of Video Games	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
Gamification is not Working: Why?	1
Worlds of Light, Fading. Dead Games and End-of-Life Software as Ruins of Digital Interactive Entertainment	1
Symbolic Violence in the Language of Game Descriptions of Blackness: The Case of Pathfinder	1
Dungeons, Dragons, and Rogues: How Picaresque Literature Shaped the Thief Class in Dungeons & Dragons	1
Rhyming Rudely: From Medieval Flyting to Invective Poetry in Video Games	1
Replaying Wartime Résistance? Studying Ludic Memory-Making in the Open World Game The Saboteur	1
The Significance and Complexities of Anti-Corporate Gamer Activism: Struggles Against the Exploitation and Control of Game-Worlds in 2000s China	1
Challenging Heroic Narratives of Polar Exploration in Indie Video Games	1
Stochastic Process Approaches for Modeling of Games	1

Broken Promises Marketing. Relations, Communication Strategies, and Ethics of Video Game Journalists and Developers: The Case of Cyberpunk 2077	1
Dynamic Music Video: Categorizing the Convergence of Video Games and Music Videos	1
Balancing Ethics, Art and Economics: A Qualitative Analysis of Game Designer Perspectives on Monetisation	1
Importance of Social Videogaming for Connection with Others During the COVID-19 Pandemic	1
Newsgames: The Use of Digital Games by Mass-Media Outlets to Convey Journalistic Messages	1
Bridge Babies and Rebuilding America: Reproductive Commodification in Death Stranding	1
Looking for the Gamic Gaze: Desire, Fantasy, and Enjoyment in Gorogoa	1
Trains, Stations, and Railways as Harbingers of Biopolitics in Digital Games: From Governance to Hauntology	1
Nature Playing: On the Experience of Contemplating Technologically Mediated Nature within the Game World of Riders Republic	1
‘It's Just Not Safe’: Gender-Based Harassment and Toxicity Experiences of Women in Esports	1
Recentering Indigenous Epistemologies Through Digital Games: Sámi Perspectives on Nature in Rievssat (2018)	1
The Other Squid Game: How Splatoon 3 Promotes a Culture of Coziness, Inclusivity, and Becoming-Cephalopod	1
“Protecting our female gaze rights”: Chinese Female Gamers’ and Game Producers’ Negotiations with Government Restrictions on Erotic Material	1
Reflecting on Celeste : Abstracting Trans Representation	1
Experience, Rationality, Situation and Fallibilism: Establishing a Feminist Pragmatist Epistemology in Game Studies	1
The Future of Games Scholarship: An Interview With James Paul Gee	1