Examines the ways in which Japanese video games engage with social issues and national traumas

What if every part of our everyday life was turned into a game? The implications of “gamification.” What if our whole life were turned into a game? What sou

Timothy Rowlands brings a diverse mix of ethnographic, semiotic, and analytical approaches to analyze the massively multiplayer online game Everquest.

In the early days of Pong and Pac Man, video games appeared to be little more than an idle pastime. Today, video games make up a multi-billion dollar industry t

This Element takes the initiative to highlight the nascent state of audiovisual translation research centring on users of video games. It proposes ways of advan