How Video Games Help People Make Better Decisions
From misguided beliefs about global warming to side effects of vaccination, biased decision making can wreak havoc. But how does …
Vaporware and Design Fiction
Unreleased products and unfulfilled promises help us speculate and discuss the possibilities of the future.
News (En)ga(ge)me(nt) Design
How to make journalism more engaging by applying approaches from serious game design?
Platform Studies and Computational Essentialism
Platform studies would benefit from including analog games into the scope of the framework.
Days Gone By: Nostalgia in Game Design
Nostalgia can rise from the most mundane things and drive players to explore.
The Precursors of Escape Room Design
Escape rooms combine digital and non-digital game ideas.
Identification in the Apocalypse
Identification in The Walking Dead is a fluid, ongoing process.
4x Gamer as Myth: Understanding through Player Mythologies
4X gamer as a player mythology.
Capitalism and Unfairness in Competitive Board Games
Games offer a good medium for critical reflection of social inequality.
Making games for philosophy
Self-reflexive videogames as tools for philosophy is a thought-provoking experiment.
The Dark Side of E-Sports
What does a French intellectual born 100+ years ago think about League of Legends?
The Allure of Struggle and Failure in Cooperative Board Games
Failing together is fun.
Critical alternative journalism from the perspective of game journalists
Alternative gamejournalism : Is the new watch dog of the gaming industry all bark and no bite?
Postcolonialism, Case: Civilization V
Civilization V is biased, imperialist and silences contrary voices. Like real history.
ASCII Graphics in Roguelikes
Nostalgia and old-school gameplay philosophy dictate the complex conventions of roguelikes
Bridging the Gap: The Neo Geo, the Media Imaginary, and the Domestication of Arcade Games
Domesticating the arcade experience: the story of Neo Geo
Fear and Loathing in Barovia
Curse of Strahd as an exploration of trauma and abuse.
The perfect ethical competition
Transforming violence into meaningful struggle in multiplayer games #ethics #ganking #trash-talk #multiplayer
Teaching German Literature Through Larp
Edu-larps may be just the thing for making German Studies more hands-on.
Through a Shot Glass, Darkly: The Study of Games in the Light of Drinking Games
Drinking games have been long overlooked in the field of game studies, despite what their study has to offer.
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