Manners maketh player – How bad player behaviour is perceived in CS:GO esports.
In this article, the authors explore different kinds of bad behaviour in CS:GO esports, from throwing to bug exploitation, and how they are perceived by the spectators.
Topical game research articles picked up and referenced by PlayLab! writers.
Analyzing the antagonist; how Portal’s GLaDoS echoes patriarchal values
A study that investigates the villain of "Portal" by Valve, GLaDoS through a psychoanalytical lens. Does the monstrous mother’s behaviour originate from the patriarchy?
Deceivers, seducers, mothers – Female monstrosity in Dungeons & Dragons
The Monster Manual represents women through misogynistic tropes, following in the footsteps of medieval bestiaries. Combining statistics with descriptions of monsters creates a new game mechanic, the ludic bestiary.
Why do people play old games?
Kristian Redhead Ahm challenges existing literature on the motivations of playing old games, also known as retrogaming. He finds out that nostalgia is not the sole reason for retrogaming.
Why do people like watching others stream their gameplay?
A study on what factors and aspects make watching #Twitch streams enjoyable. #enjoyment #streaming
The need for new forms of gameplay in the face of climate change
We face an enormous danger in climate change, are video games the way to survive?
The Korean video game industry started from piracy
Jo investigates the early stages of South Korea’s gaming industry. He argues that pirated games and consoles functioned as South Korea’s starting point for gaming before the era of local game development.
Watch-time or donations? Twitch streamer – choose one
Viewer engagement is guided by how, and what about, the streamer communicates.
It’s More Than Skin-Deep: Creating Diversity in Digital and Non-Digital Games
Diversity in games requires more than player-customizable avatars. The extensive game analysis outlines five strategies for creating more inclusive characters in games.
From Space to place: Creating Meaningful Environments in Video Games
One of Red Dead Redemption 2’s greatest achievements is the dynamic, “lived in” feel of its environment. Research highlight from Westerside and Holopainen’s article breaks down how these affective spaces are created and how they carry the narrative throughout the game. #rdr2
Interactive Illusions – Where Player Agency Lies
Lauded as a core concept in gaming, interactivity in video games is based on illusory agency. Real player interaction might not lie within the games themselves, but outside.
Towards Paradise – Where gaming adaptations of Dante’s Comedy still stoop
Dante’s Comedy holds near unparalleled transmedia potential which has been widely but incompletely tapped in numerous gaming adaptations. A “game for change” could be created were it given the attention it deserves. #dante #comedy #medievalism
Player Views on Artificial Intelligence in The Game Alien: Isolation
A new study peers into what players of Alien Isolation think about its AI. Are you a simulationist or an experientialist?
Perverting Play – Healslutting in Overwatch
Humans have the remarkable ability to sexualize anything, so, naturally, playing videogames has been subject to this tendency. One interesting form of this is the healslut phenomenon in Activision Blizzard’s Overwatch.
Walking simulators as storytellers – ‘What Remains of Edith Finch’ as an example of literary gaming
Are walking simulators only good for walking, or is there any literary depth to it? Bozdog et al. delves into this in their article: ‘Worlds at Our Fingertips: Reading (in) What Remains of Edith Finch’
Gamer can’t be defined unequivocally – Polish and American gamers have differences
Gamers in Poland and the United States differ from time used playing games and gaming devices used but play similar types of games. #gamer #research #gamerculture
Digitaalisella kilpapelaamisella on värikäs historia Suomessa
Kilpapelaaminen on aina ollut monipuolista jopa Suomessa.
The Disabilities in The Imagined Future
Mass Effect trilogy gives us a perspective of a possible future where the disabilities haven't been written off but are still present, existing among futuristic technologies.
Speedrunning – To Destroy is to Transform
A study on speedrunning a zombie game, Left 4 Dead, counters the view of the practice as only game-breaking to that of a generative process which can provide new aspects for the narrative of the game.
Soda Machines – A Mere Symbols of Refreshment or Representations of Our Capitalistic Reality
Soda machines in video games contain purposes of consumerism, aesthetic, ludic, and narrative, to enhance players' presence. Furthermore, they fortify the consumerist values of modern capitalism.
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