Live streaming on Twitch is a new form of online broadcasting of video games. Aside from
the visual game, it features computer-mediated communication between a speaking …

This article applies psychological-sociological accounts of the 'apophatic', a form of negative
thinking, to examples of gaming practices to conceptualise a new theory of videogame …

Voice control is an increasingly common feature of digital games, but the experience of
playing with voice control is often hampered by feelings of embarrassment and dissonance …

The Discourse of Games is complex and multilayered. It involves the ways in which games
and those who design them communicate meanings to players, and the ways in which …

This chapter examines the quasi-paradoxical relationship between cooperative and impolite
verbal behavior in co-situated (“co-sit”) player communication. In doing so, it takes a broad …

Videogames, gamification, game culture, and cultures of play have become a global,
ethnographically and culturally diverse paradigm of our hypermediated everyday lives …

Twin particle projector cannons (PPCs) fizz with electricity. Jets of energized lightning pulse
forward, crashing into the center torso of my prized Mech, a 'Hatchetman'HCT-3 F. A brief …

For the past 30 years museums and art galleries on both sides of the Atlantic have been
resistant to exhibiting digital games as art and have instead embedded them in exhibitions …

Live streaming on Twitch is a new form of online broadcasting of video games. Aside from
the visual game, it features computer-mediated communication between a speaking …