Topical game research articles picked up and referenced by PlayLab! writers.
“What is a videogame camera”, asks Selim Krichane in his article When Seeing is Playing: The History of the Videogame Camera, which traces the first steps in the discourse revolving around the camera in videogames
Gregory Blomquist analyzes the positive depiction of the monstrous-female protagonist in StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm
How do video games portray children? Reay analyses a collection of 506 popular titles from the year 2009 to 2019 through an content analysis to find out representation.
In their research article, Neta Yodovich and Jinju Kim explore how women can access the male-dominant Gaming Community through Backseat Gaming with a lower chance of being criticized.
Modders are often generalized as being either good or bad, but their diversity calls for more nuanced discussion.
Many AAA studios cater to the masses, but many indie developers are telling stories with strong female characters leading the narratives.
Reddit discussion about achievement hunting can reveal the player’s feelings towards the game and the meta-game system surrounding it.
Students could benefit from interactive narrative design courses in video game education.
Animal mayhem games provide an interesting ground to explore boundaries between the human and non-human world.
How can emotional responses to games be effectively categorised for better distinction to improve narrative design and character development? The Empathy Spectrum provides a tool for an analytical approach to video game storytelling.
Children nowadays play a lot of games, and just like with everyone else, it can be quite a rough experience.
This is an overview of a study on how Nintendo's Animal Crossing: New Leaf has helped players cope with the isolation of COVID-19 lockdowns in early 2020. The study centers around the routines and player identities that arise from the game.
An archaeologist used real-life methods to study an abandoned community of player settlements in No Man’s Sky.
Not only is queer romance in RPG a good way to explore and and possibly self-discover, it can also be a way to fight against sexism and heteronormativity.
Do games and gamification pose a solution for the multidisciplinary conversation of sustainable development?
With the right building blocks, even the simplest digital video games can cause strong feelings of anxiety and fear.
The level of violent content in video games doesn’t lead to anti-social player behaviour on its own.
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First there was Atari, then Nintendo and so on. WRONG - first there was D&D.