The “metaverse” has gained immense attention as the next internet frontier, holding
significant economic implications, especially for the IT sector. To establish the groundwork …

While popular discussions about queerness in video games often focus on big-name,
mainstream games that feature LGBTQ characters, like Mass Effect or Dragon Age, Bonnie …

An avid gamer and sharp media critic explains meritocracy's negative contribution to video
game culture—and what can be done about it Video games have brought entertainment …

Cultural stereotypes to the contrary, approximately half of all video game players are now
women. A subculture once dominated by men, video games have become a form of …

When the Nintendo Wii was released in 2006, it ushered forward a new era of casual
gaming in which video games appealed to not just the stereotypical hardcore male gamer …

In The Queer Games Avant-Garde, Bonnie Ruberg presents twenty interviews with twenty-
two queer video game developers whose radical, experimental, vibrant, and deeply queer …

How we talk about games as real or not-real, and how that shapes what games are made
and who is invited to play them. In videogame criticism, the worst insult might be “That's not a …

Gamers have been troublemakers as long as games have existed. As our popular
understanding of “gamer” shifts beyond its historical construction as a white, straight …

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 amateur programmers in 1980s Czechoslovakia discovered games as a medium,
using them not only for entertainment but also as a means of self-expression. Aside from the …