The purpose of this article is to provide an overview of hypercasual and hybrid-casual video
gaming and their influence on digital leisure. Existing sport and leisure scholarship on video …

Kratos, protagonist of God of War (2005–current), is an archetypal representation of toxic
masculinity. For much of the series, his rage drives much of the narrative and game …

The interactions with humans, and simultaneously, making of real‐time decisions in physical
systems, are involved in many applications of artificial intelligence. An example of these …

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 paper shows how heterogenous web data can be retrieved from global yet regionally
tailored online platforms such as Amazon. A systematic data retrieval approach was applied …

This study demonstrates how heterogenous data can be retrieved from global yet regionally
tailored online retail platforms. A systematic data retrieval approach is suggested to obtain …

This article offers a social history of funfairs and arcades in mid-20th-century urban England.
Critiquing existing histories of games for often neglecting players and the specific locales in …

Proceedings of DiGRA 2018 Conference: Women, LGBTQI and Allies© 2018 Authors &
Digital Games Research Association DiGRA. Personal and educational classroom use of …

This volume examines fifty of the most important video games that have contributed
significantly to the history, development, or culture of the medium, providing an overview of …

The international success of Japanese game design provides an example of the invisibility
of female game composers, as well as of gendered identification in game music production …