Millions of people around the world today spend portions of their lives in online virtual
worlds. Second Life is one of the largest of these virtual worlds. The residents of Second Life …

Recent research demonstrates that videogames enhance literacy, attention, reaction time,
and higher-level thinking. Several scholars have suggested that massively multiplayer …

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 …

Space is reconfigured through the participations of both gamers and the game, where game
is understood as the programming and hardware of a game technology. Extending our …

It is a defining quality of the category of games fitting under the label of the 'figure game'that
they not only establish a world to be explored and experienced, but also a subjective identity …

This article coins the term gamescape to offer a way of thinking about the implications of the
way in which landscape in video games is actively constructed within a particular ideological …

(Juul, 2006, np). On the one hand, the fact that computer games are researched from a wide
variety of different perspectives within various disciplines leads to a somewhat …

Games borrow ceaselessly from the past to constitute themselves. This locates the medium
at the heart of our contemporary obsession with how to engage the past and the “real.” In …

The main objective of this study is to identify features of mini-map design as a navigational
aid in the virtual geographical space in 100 popular video games for a computer platform …

The design and representation of time and space are important in any narrative form. Not
surprisingly there is an extensive literature on specific considerations of space or time in …