Paratext is a frequently used concept in game studies, mentioned approximately 300 times
in the 2010s alone. However, it is not Gérard Genette's original definition from 1982, but …

This film review of Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, released by Netflix in 2018, discusses the
nature of the interactive genre, focusing on its current and future effects on data mining …

How the Super Nintendo Entertainment System embodied Nintendo's s resistance to
innovation and took the company from industry leadership to the margins of videogaming …

This book brings together ideas about defamiliarization and poetic gameplay that I have
been exploring for some time but had not clearly grounded either historically or theoretically …

Game Studies is a young research field compared to other media studies disciplines, such
as literary theory and film studies. Games research has often struggled to balance the …

This book investigates the narrativity of some of the most popular survival horror video
games and the gender politics implicit in their storyworlds. In a thorough analysis of the …

Abstract" Strategy" in videogames can bear a lot of meanings; so does" strategy games." The
intuitive approach is to consider strategy games as descendants of wargames and …

This paper lays out a unified framework of the ergodic animage, the rule-based and
interactiondriven part of visual representation in video games. It is the end product of a three …

An in-depth exploration of a neglected video game platform of the 1990s and a reflection on
the way we construct the cultural history of video games. In The Media Snatcher, Carl …

El cine y los videojuegos han mantenido de forma constante una relación ambivalente de
rechazo, influencia y colaboración. Desde sus comienzos, la Ludología puso el centro de la …