Explores the culture that made military shooter video games popular, and key in
understanding the War on Terror No video game genre has been more popular or more …

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 documents how players report the positive discomfort of playing the third-person
military shooter Spec Ops: The Line (Yager Entertainment, 2012), and analyses their …

In recent years, the games industry has made a major move towards data-driven
development, using data analytics and player modeling to inform design decisions. Data …

This essay isolates and explores a growing body of communication scholarship devoted to
the relationship between media and security. It begins by reviewing communication's …

This article contributes to a small, but growing, scholarship on military videogames.
Focusing specifically on diverse manifestations of temporality within these games, it …

Military videogames play an important role in violent actors' communication strategies, and
while scholars have attempted to theorize their significance, too much attention is devoted to …

Game spaces are central to player experience. This has long been understood among video
game designers and developers. It has even been explored in relation to the transformation …

This article demonstrates the significance of military videogames, exploring the changes in
representations (how war is depicted) and production processes (the links between the …

International relations scholarship has long emphasized that popular culture can impact
public understandings and political realities. In this article, we explore these potentials in the …