Recent decades have seen a dramatic shift away from social forms of gambling played
around roulette wheels and card tables to solitary gambling at electronic terminals. Slot …

This article sets out to historicize the development of e-sport (organized competitive digital
gaming) in the early 1980s using three new conceptual frameworks. We identify e-sport as …

Pausing, slowing, rewinding, replaying, reactivating, reanimating... Has manipulating video
game timelines altered our experience of time?“Compelling.”—Choice Video game scholar …

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 …

This paper aims to create a shorthand for video game history–from video games' infancy to
the current subscription model that is dominating gaming. In this essay, I will apply the …

Despite a growing academic interest in in-game monetization, much less attention has been
paid to the production context of microtransactions. With this chapter, we aim to address this …

Drawing on game theory and interviews that were personally conducted with pinball
pioneers—from CEOs of independent and corporate pinball companies to notable designers …

Cheating in video games has existed largely as long as games themselves have been
around, and has proved to be a dynamic and controversial practice. Yet the history of the …

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 …

Revisiting early critical responses to computer and video games as a cultural form—before
the establishment of games studies as an academic field in the early 2000s—reveals a …