This book provides the first in-depth exploration of video games as history. Chapman puts
forth five basic categories of analysis for understanding historical video games: simulation …

This article is about textual analysis, methodology, and representations (of bodies, identities
and social groups) in digital games. The issues under consideration include textual analysis …

Despite the huge sales of various historical videogames (eg Sid Meier's Civilization, Call of
Duty, Assassin's Creed) the discipline of history has shown surprisingly little interest in this …

Civilization V as one of the most successful and definitive works of the 4X videogame genre
presents a clear narrative of empire-building that, I will argue, is problematic when set …

Johan Huizinga opening this chapter is illustrative; the 'horrifying conclusion'of science
becoming 'merely a game'is quickly dispelled by Huizinga: he points out that scientific work …

Videogames containing cultural-heritage have been constructed, consumed and critiqued in
increasing quantities over the past 20 years. One of the key concerns expressed in both …

Play Redux is an ambitious description and critical analysis of the aesthetic pleasures of
video game play, drawing on early twentieth-century formalist theory and models of …

It is my hope that by now few deny that contemporary game series like Civilization or
Assassin's Creed constitute history.[1] However, such a broad term does not convey the …

Digital game-based learning has traditionally been examined from an 'artefact-
centric'perspective that focuses on understanding how game design and principles of …

Description: London; New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021.| Series: Imagines: classical
receptions in the visual and performing arts| Includes bibliographical references and index …