Today over half of all American households own a dedicated game console and gaming
industry profits trump those of the film industry worldwide. In this book, Soraya Murray moves …

In this article, I argue that digital games hold the potential to influence processes of cultural
memory related to past and contemporary forms of marginalization. By bringing cultural …

The present article brings game studies into dialogue with cultural memory studies and
argues for the significance of computer games for historical discourse and memory politics …

This article reports on a study with 11 bit studios and their game, This War of Mine. Rather
than a formal analysis of the game, our objective was to situate the research in game …

Video games permeate our everyday existence. They immerse players in fascinating
gameworlds and exciting experiences, often inviting them in various ways to reflect on the …

The Paradox of Transgression in Games looks at transgressive games as an aesthetic
experience, tackling how players respond to game content that shocks, disturbs, and …

This article documents how players report the positive discomfort of playing the third-person
military shooter Spec Ops: The Line (Yager Entertainment, 2012), and analyses their …

Virtual History examines many of the most popular historical video games released over the
last decade and explores their portrayal of history. The book looks at the motives and …

The Routledge International Handbook of Perpetrator Studies charts the growth and
development, foundations, key debates, and core concerns of Perpetrator Studies, an …

The article is an analysis of three Polish games depicting the Warsaw Uprising of 1944--
Uprising44: The Silent Shadows (DMD Enterprise, 2012), Little Insurgents (Miłuński, 2009) …