To state that scary video games—or games that have commonly been labeled “survival
horror”—are the video game genre par excellence has become, for me, a sort of jingle used …

Documenting, understanding and transcoding the history of games into narrative form is a
daunting task. Confronted with such an enormous quantity of traces, historians are naturally …

The chapter discusses the role and function of cinematic cut-scenes in single-player games,
in particular with respect to long-standing debates over in-game vs. cinematic storytelling …

Technological change and development have been ongoing in the motion picture industry
since its beginnings some 125 years ago. What further advancements of digitalization can …

Zusammenfassung Der Beitrag stellt zentrale Diskursstränge im Kontext des interaktiven
Storytellings vor. Ein erzähltheoretischer Analyseansatz dient in einem zweiten Schritt dazu …

Upon its premiere in 1992, Midway's Mortal Kombat spawned an enormously influential
series of fighting games, notorious for their violent “fatality” moves performed by …

This 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 …

An in-depth exploration of a neglected video game platform of the 1990s and a reflection on
the way we construct the cultural history of video games. In The Media Snatcher, Carl …

Interactive movies have the bad reputation of combining the worst of cinema and video
games. The success of the game Fahrenheit (released in North America as Indigo …

This dissertation examines the formal evolution of adventure games from 1976 to 1999. It
aims at understanding the genre's emergence, its institution and transformations. The …