In 2016, a female videogame programmer and a female journalist were harassed viciously
by anonymous male online users in what became known as GamerGate. Male gamers …

Examining a wide range of Japanese videogames, including arcade fighting games, PC-
based strategy games and console JRPGs, this book assesses their cultural significance …

The Routledge Handbook of Reenactment Studies provides the first overview of significant
concepts within reenactment studies. The volume includes a co-authored critical introduction …

This book merges recent trends in game studies and multimodal studies to explore the
relationship between the interaction between videogames' different modes and the ways in …

In 1975, design engineer Dave Nutting completed work on a new arcade machine. A version
of Taito's Western Gun, a recent Japanese arcade machine, Nutting's Gun Fight depicted a …

This article argues that digital war games communicate misleading stereotypes about
Muslims that prop up patriarchal militarism and Islamophobia in the context of the US-led …

This book explores the impact of a video game's degree of realism or fictionality on its
linguistic dimensions, investigating the challenges and strategies for translating realia and …

In Respawn Colin Milburn examines the connections between video games, hacking, and
science fiction that galvanize technological activism and technological communities …

The Routledge International Handbook of Perpetrator Studies charts the growth and
development, foundations, key debates, and core concerns of Perpetrator Studies, an …

The Society and Space series explores the fascinating relationship between the spatial and
the social. Each title draws on a range of modern and historical theories to offer important …