This article examines the notion of genre in video games. The main argument is that the
market-based categories of genre that have been developed in the context of video games …

I owe a great deal to Peter Hunt and Nicholas Tucker, who both kindly read drafts of this
book as it emerged and gave wise advice, strategic feedback and encouragement as …

If we intend to teach through educational media, we also have to teach about those media.
This article explores the implications of this perspective for the use of computer games in the …

To state that scary video games—or games that have commonly been labeled “survival
horror”—are the video game genre par excellence has become, for me, a sort of jingle used …

Video games open portals to fantastical worlds where imaginative play and enchantment
prevail. These virtual settings afford us considerable freedom to act out with relative …

It is a familiar experience of play to be found, with only minor variations, in any one of many
3D platform adventure games, from Super Mario 64 (1996) to any of the iterations of Tomb …

Identifying educational competencies for the 21 st workplace is driven by the need to
mitigate disparities between classroom learning and the requirements of workplace …

This article analyses the player–avatar relation in Final Fantasy 7, drawing on multimodality
theory to analyse textual structures both in the game and in the discourse of player …

Never before has research in literacy been so exciting yet so challenging. Well beyond the
advent of the information age, educators are immersed in a knowledge society (Goldman …

Why have zombies resonated so pervasively in the popular imagination and in media,
especially films? Why have they proved to be one of the most versatile and popular monster …