Do League of Legends players overestimate their skills – The ELO Hell phenomenon
Research investigates, are low-ranked LoL players affected by Dunning-Krueger effect and blame failures on others
What Do We Know About Professional Gaming?
A look into the current research on professional gaming and professional gamers in e-sports.
“Mom! We made a game in school, and it was awesome!” Implementation of game design activities in children’s formal contexts
Authors observe children designing games at school to analyze collaboration and digital skills. Reports indicate higher motivation and interesting results …
Socializing, exploring or perhaps challenging oneself – different motivations of play.
Eleven motivations of play were found in this research, some more obvious than others.
Thanks a lot, Tolkien: Stereotypes and Identity Construction in CRPG’s
How does identity construction work in digital games and what can we learn from it through studying character creators?
Colorful pixels for 150,000 € – understanding virtual skin buyers in CS:GO
This research was conducted to find reasoning for why players spend tons of cash for a feature that adds zero …
“I never asked for this”: Reinforcing social-emotional skills through video game interactions
Social interaction between player and non-player characters can be useful for developing social-emotional skills.
Film adaptations of video games as a way to remember gameplay
A new study indicates how incorporating gameplay referrals into film adaptations of videogames may affect the viewing experience.
Highlight of “Role-Playing Games and Well-Being” by Kerttu Lehto (2021)
Impacts of role play games (RPGs) in the study of well being is undeniable.
When Non-player Characters (NPCs) play
Are Non-Player characters a way of human-AI co-operation?
Value capture in gamification can help deal with addiction
In this article, Michael Ridge chooses gamification as the subject of analysis to develop one of the cases in which …
A Mind Game in Game – Creating ludic unreliability to challenge players’ inference of the designer’s intention.
Common practices of game artifacts are shifted by implied designers delivering thoughts to create ludic unreliability for players by inviting …
What is localization and how it has influenced in video games?
This research highlight explains what localization is in videogames, and how the industry manages it with its clientele, according to …
Who gets to decide? – Representation and inclusion in Overwatch community
When two Overwatch characters were revealed to be LGBTQ, discussions flared in the community. Tanja Välisalo and Maria Ruotsalainen ask: …
Discovery of self through roleplay
How can RPGs and LARP help trans people to explore and develop their identity? Josephine Baird's research of self-expression, exploration …
In Search of the Camera: Selim Krichane’s article When Seeing is Playing: The History of the Videogame Camera
“What is a videogame camera”, asks Selim Krichane in his article When Seeing is Playing: The History of the Videogame …
An abject object: Gregory Blomquist’s article Postmodern Medusa: The Monstrous-Feminine in StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm
Gregory Blomquist analyzes the positive depiction of the monstrous-female protagonist in StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm
Underrepresented group – A content analysis of child characters in video games
How do video games portray children? Reay analyses a collection of 506 popular titles from the year 2009 to 2019 …
Backseat Gaming: An Alternate Way into The Gaming Community
In their research article, Neta Yodovich and Jinju Kim explore how women can access the male-dominant Gaming Community through Backseat …
How are Video Game Modders Viewed by Players?
Modders are often generalized as being either good or bad, but their diversity calls for more nuanced discussion.
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