The field of historical game studies continues to burgeon year on year. 1 Scholarly work in
the area ranges from considerations of the textual representation of history, 2 to videogames' …

How culture uses games and how games use culture: an examination of Latin America's
gaming practices and the representation of the region's cultures in games. Video games are …

For two decades, Rockstar Games have been making games that interrogate and represent
the idea of America, past and present. Commercially successful, fan-beloved, and a frequent …

The vast majority of commercial military-themed video games produced after the September
11, 2001 terrorist attacks celebrate America's War on Terror as a grave but necessary and …

This article aims to identify the relationship between video games and neoliberal values. To
fulfil this aim, it analyses the covers of the 20 top-selling video games in the United States …

The popular media and some aspects of social science research view computer gaming
either in disruptive pathological terms or through one-dimensional notions, such as violence …

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 …

Drawing on Debord's the society of the spectacle and Evans and Giroux's notion of the
spectacle of violence, this paper argues that a discourse on war, organised violence, and …

In the cultural controversy surrounding “violent video games,” the manufacturers and players
of games often insist that computer games are a form of harmless entertainment that is …

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 …