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Understanding Counterplay in Video Games Alan F. Meades 9781138548695
SciFier: £48.06This book offers insight into one of the most problematic and universal issues within multiplayer videogames: antisocial and oppositional play forms such as cheating, player harassment, the use of... -
Videogames and the Gothic Ewan Kirkland (University of Brighton, UK.) 9781032073989
RRP: £38.99SciFier: £38.53This book will be a key contribution to both Gothic and digital game scholarship as it argues for close proximity between Gothic culture and the videogame medium itselfThis book explores the many... -
Videogames, Identity and Digital Subjectivity Rob Gallagher 9780367885359
SciFier: £41.13This book argues that games offer a means of coming to terms with a world that is being transformed by digital technologies. As blends of software and fiction, videogames are uniquely capable of... -
Video Game Policy: Production, Distribution, and Consumption Steven Conway 9780815396376
SciFier: £48.76This book analyzes the effect of policy on the digital game complex: government, industry, corporations, distributors, players, and the like. Contributors argue that digital games are not created nor... -
Identity and Play in Interactive Digital Media by Sara M. Cole (University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA)
SciFier: £41.13Recent shifts in new literacy studies have expanded definitions of text, reading/viewing, and literacy itself. The inclusion of non-traditional media forms is essential, as texts beyond written... -
The Playful Undead and Video Games: Critical Analyses of Zombies and Gameplay Stephen J. Webley 9781032177700
SciFier: £41.13This book explores the central role of the zombie in contemporary popular culture as they appear in video games. Moving beyond traditional explanations of their enduring appeal - that they embody an... -
The Paradox of Transgression in Games Torill Mortensen 9781032400617
SciFier: £41.13The Paradox of Transgression in Games looks at transgressive games as an aesthetic experience, tackling how players respond to game content that shocks, disturbs, and distresses, and how contemporary... -
Digital Games as History: How Videogames Represent the Past and Offer Access to Historical Practice Adam Chapman 9781138597822
SciFier: £44.60This 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 and... -
The Paradox of Transgression in Games Torill Mortensen 9780367418397
SciFier: £117.75The Paradox of Transgression in Games looks at transgressive games as an aesthetic experience, tackling how players respond to game content that shocks, disturbs, and distresses, and how contemporary... -
New Perspectives on the Social Aspects of Digital Gaming: Multiplayer 2 Rachel Kowert 9780367877231
SciFier: £41.13Expanding on the work in the volume Multiplayer, this new book explores several other areas related to social gaming in detail. The aim is to go beyond a typical "edited book" concept, and offer a... -
Longing, Ruin, and Connection in Hideo Kojima's Death Stranding Amy M. Green (University of Nevada, USA) 9781032226712
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £18.62This book offers the first close examination of the game Death Stranding's narrativeThe book also incorporates a strong foundation in game studies, most especially related to the concepts of... -
Longing, Ruin, and Connection in Hideo Kojima's Death Stranding Amy M. Green (University of Nevada, USA) 9781032223070
RRP: £49.99SciFier: £49.80This book offers the first close examination of the game Death Stranding's narrativeThe book also incorporates a strong foundation in game studies, most especially related to the concepts of... -
Immersion, Narrative, and Gender Crisis in Survival Horror Video Games Andrei Nae (University of Bucharest, Romania) 9781032048062
RRP: £38.99SciFier: £38.53This book investigates the narrativity of some of the most popular survival horror video games and the gender politics implicit in their storyworlds. In a thorough analysis of the genre that draws... -
Hybrid Play: Crossing Boundaries in Game Design, Players Identities and Play Spaces Adriana de Souza e Silva 9781032400587
SciFier: £41.13This book explores hybrid play as a site of interdisciplinary activity-one that is capable of generating new forms of mobility, communication, subjects, and artistic expression as well as new ways of... -
Representing Conflicts in Games: Antagonism, Rivalry, and Competition Bjoern Sjoeblom (Swedish Defence University, Sweden) 9781032285597
SciFier: £35.93This book offers an overview of how conflicts are represented and enacted in games, in a variety of genres and game systems. Games are a cultural form apt at representing real world conflicts, and... -
On Soulsring Worlds by Marco Caracciolo
RRP: £49.99SciFier: £49.80The first book-length study devoted to FromSoftware games, On Soulsring Worlds explores how the Dark Souls series and Elden Ring are able to reconcile extreme difficulty in both gameplay and... -
On Soulsring Worlds: Narrative Complexity, Digital Communities, and Interpretation in Dark Souls and Elden Ring Marco Caracciolo 9781032684017
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £22.04The first book-length study devoted to FromSoftware games, On Soulsring Worlds explores how the Dark Souls series and Elden Ring are able to reconcile extreme difficulty in both gameplay and... -
Video Games and Social Competence Rachel Kowert 9781138548978
SciFier: £46.33Despite their popularity, online video games have been met with suspicion by the popular media and academic community. In particular, there is a growing concern that online video game play may be... -
Forms and Functions of Endings in Narrative Digital Games Michelle Herte 9780367542535
SciFier: £41.13This book looks closely at the endings of narrative digital games, examining their ways of concluding the processes of both storytelling and play in order to gain insight into what endings are and... -
Sexuality in Role-Playing Games by Ashley ML Brown
SciFier: £46.33Role-playing games offer a chance to pretend, make believe, and share fantasy. They often invoke heavy themes into their game play: morality, violence, politics, spirituality, or sexuality. Although... -
Evolutionary Psychology and Digital Games: Digital Hunter-Gatherers Johannes Breuer (University of Cologne, Germany) 9780367585785
SciFier: £42.00Evolutionary Psychology and Digital Games: Digital Hunter-Gatherers is the first edited volume that systematically applies evolutionary psychology to the study of the use and effects of digital games... -
Gender, Age, and Digital Games in the Domestic Context Alison Harvey 9781138549012
SciFier: £48.06Western digital game play has shifted in important ways over the last decade, with a plethora of personal devices affording a range of increasingly diverse play experiences. Despite the celebration... -
Comics and Videogames: From Hybrid Medialities to Transmedia Expansions Andreas Rauscher 9780367539016
SciFier: £41.13This book offers the first comprehensive study of the many interfaces shaping the relationship between comics and videogames. It combines in-depth conceptual reflection with a rich selection of... -
Fans and Videogames by Melanie Swalwell
SciFier: £41.13This anthology addresses videogames long history of fandom, and fans' important role in game history and preservation. In order to better understand and theorize video games and game playing, it is... -
Videogames and Agency Bettina Bodi (De Montfort University, UK) 9781032288475
SciFier: £35.93Videogames and Agency explores the trend in videogames and their marketing to offer a player higher volumes, or even more distinct kinds, of player freedomThe book offers a new conceptual framework... -
The Dark Side of Game Play: Controversial Issues in Playful Environments Torill Elvira Mortensen 9781138548671
SciFier: £48.06Games allow players to experiment and play with subject positions, values and moral choice. In game worlds players can take on the role of antagonists; they allow us to play with behaviour that would... -
Asian Histories and Heritages in Video Games Yowei Kang 9781032609652
RRP: £45.99SciFier: £42.00This book explores the representations of national Asian histories in digital games. Situated at the intersection of regional game studies and historical game studies, this book offers chapters on...