Games and Culture

Papers
(The TQCC of Games and Culture is 4. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)
ArticleCitations
Mask of the Translator: Walter Benjamin and Metal Gear Solid’s Difficult Relationship with Localization80
Erratum35
Survey on Localization From the Development Perspective29
Machina ex Dea, Dea ex Machina: Gaia/GAIA/All-Mother and Lugones’ “World”—Traveling in Horizon Zero Dawn (2017)28
The Practice of Oldhammer: Re-Membering a Past Through Craft and Play18
“A Definition of Enchantment”: A New Approach to the Analysis of Magic Systems in Fantasy Games17
Social Realism in Red Orchestra 2 (2011)17
Horror Video Games and the “Active-Passive” Debate16
Livestreaming History: The Streamer-Historian and Historical Games Outreach16
Uses and Gratifications of Biophilic Simulation Games15
Identifying Playfulness: An Empirical Study on How Adults Recognize and Define Playfulness Across Culture15
Virtual Allies: Why Allyship is Critical to Diversification of Virtual Reality Gaming?15
High Fantasy RPGs and the Materiality of the Medieval Book13
Esports Cannot Defeat Homophobia With Capitalism13
“Fear the Old Blood”: The Gothicism of Bloodborne13
Identification of Memorable Game Experiences: Analysis of Escape Rooms Visitors’ Experiences12
The MTGO Virtual Economy: A Case Study on a “Play-to-Earn” Game That has Existed Since Before Cryptocurrency Was Even Invented12
Problematic Gaming at a Crossroad: Exploring the Interplay Between Internet Gaming Disorder, Toxic Attitudes, and Empathy in Digital Entertainment12
Exploring Player Understandings of Historical Accuracy and Historical Authenticity in Video Games12
Czech Appeal: Why and How National Game Productions Use Local Themes and Settings12
Emotions in Game Data Work11
The Rise of Gaming Nations11
To the Center of Nowhere: Deep Mapping Digital Games’ Paratextual Geographies10
Esports as a Cultural Microcosm for Studying Psycholinguistics10
Hey, You ! The Importance of Pragmatics in Localizations of Mass Effect in French and Spanish10
“What are you Bringing to the Table?”: The Something Awful Let’s Play Community as a Serious Leisure Subculture10
Players Just Want to Have Fun? An Exploratory Survey on Hedonic and Eudaimonic Game Motives10
Geopolitical Implications of E-Sports9
“We're All Mad Here!”: Becoming God in Bloodborne9
Perceived Foolishness: How Does the Saltybet Community Construct AI vs AI Spectatorship?9
Designing the Future? The Metaverse, NFTs, & the Future as Defined by Unity Users9
“A Crown is Warranted With Strength”: Bosses, Fantasy, and Democracy in Elden Ring9
“As if Possessed by a Demon”: Subjectivity, Possession, and Undeadness in Metal Gear Solid9
“The Sense of Wonder”: Gaming Capital and Nostalgia for Inexperience in Magic: The Gathering9
Gameplay Bricks Model, a Theoretical Framework to Match Game Mechanics and Cognitive Functions9
“I think I Get Why y’all do this Now”: Reckoning With Elden Ring 's Difficulty in an Online Affinity Space8
Beyond the Game Itself: Understanding Authorial Intent, Player Agency, and Materiality as Degrees of Paratextuality8
Fantasies of Adequacy: Mythologies of Capital in Dark Souls8
Finish—Spare the Shame: Realism of Hellish Quart and Alt-Sarmatian Ideology8
Virtual Heterotopias and the Contested Histories of Kowloon Walled City8
A Typology of Metagamers: Identifying Player Types Based on Beyond the Game Activities8
Streamers as Arts Educators: Exploring Their Streaming Approaches as Pedagogical Practices7
I Play, Therefore I Think: Procedural Philosophy in Remedy Entertainment's Alan Wake 2 (2023)7
Play and Misinformation: How America's Conspiracy Culture Became Gamified7
Understanding How Marginal National Video Game Industries Differ7
Serious Games and Game Performance Before and During the Israel-Hamas War: The Case of Fact Finders and PeaceMaker7
The Stupid, the Ridiculous, the Camp: How Goat Simulator's “Messy” Design Facilitates Queer Play6
FORGE: A Framework for Organizing Rewards in Gamified Environments6
A Conservative Metric of Power Creep6
The Ones Who Walk Away from Hallownest: Hollow Knight's Radical Response to the Omelas Dilemma6
Corrigendum to “It's Not a Game! Rules of Notice and Hermeneutics of Suspicion in Contemporary FMV Games”6
MeetDurian: Can Location-Based Games be Used to Improve COVID-19 Hygiene Habits?6
Metamodern Nature of Hideo Kojima's Death Stranding Synopsis and Gameplay6
The Problem of Memory in the Assassin's Creed Series (2007–2020)6
Exoplanetary Exploration and the End of the World in 22 Minutes: Philosofiction in Outer Wilds6
The Business of Play: Financialization and Optimization in World of Warcraft5
The Table and the Tomb: Positioning Trans Power and Play Amid Fantasy Realism in Dungeons & Dragons5
Failing to See a Difference: Closing a Gender Gap in a Challenging Video Game5
Analog Simulation and the Indian Wars: Encountering the Other Through Board Wargames5
Peace in the Valley: A Media and Discourse Analysis of Eric Barone's Stardew Valley Through Utopian Theory5
The Moral Service of Trans NPCs: Examining the Roles of Transgender Non-Player Characters in Role-Playing Video Games5
Taxonomy of Studies on the Use of Video Games in Entrepreneurship Education: A Systematic Literature Review with a Textometric Analysis5
The ‘First Person Shooter’ Perspective: A Different View on First Person Shooters, Gamification, and First Person Terrorist Propaganda5
“Go. Just take him.”: PTSD and the Player-Character Relationship in The Last of Us Part II4
How Does Exposure to General and Sexual Harassment Relate to Female Gamers’ Coping Strategies and Mental Health?4
Among the Casters: A Qualitative Study of Work and Play in Nottingham's Lead Belt4
“You’ve Been Living Here For as Long as You Can Remember”: Trauma in OMORI's Environmental Design4
Character-Driven Storytelling Design for Digital Games: A Scoping Review4
“A Legend From Before You Were Born”: Final Fantasy VII, Folklore, and Popular Culture4
The Data-Driven Myth and the Deceptive Futurity of “the World’s Fastest Growing Games Region”: Selling the Southeast Asian Games Market via Game Analytics4
Gaming Capital on Overwatch's Official Forums4
How Accessible is This Video Game? An Analysis Tool in Two Steps4
Critical Nostalgia and the Utopian Impulse in UFO 504
Beyond Game Blocks: Adolescent Girl Players' Perspectives During COVID-194
Introduction: Reconsidering Paratext as a Received Concept4
Thought Experiments in Video Games: Exploring the (Un)Ethics of Motherhood in Frictional Games’ Amnesia: Rebirth4
The Beautiful Rule: Thinking the Aesthetics of Game Rules4
Reshaping the Battlefield: The International Committee of the Red Cross, Video Games, and Public Relations4
‘You Game Like a Girl’: Perceptions of Gender and Competence in Gaming4
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