While popular discussions about queerness in video games often focus on big-name,
mainstream games that feature LGBTQ characters, like Mass Effect or Dragon Age, Bonnie …

Finalist, 2021 John Hope Franklin Prize, given by the American Studies Association Seeking
ways to understand video games beyond their imperial logics, Patterson turns to erotics to re …

While the educational possibilities for the Nintendo Switch video game Animal Crossing:
New Horizon seem near-endless, we have been particularly struck with the game's …

Otome games is a category of games originated in Japan that are marketed specifically to
women. While genres in this particular category tend to range from RPGs to visual novels …

Adopting a walkthrough of the game application, participant observation of online fan
communities, and a narrative analysis of storylines, this study seeks to understand how local …

This book looks at social representations of romantic love as portrayed in films and
interpreted by their audiences, using cinema as a means for analysing the state of romantic …

El género romántico se encuentra presente en todas las formas existentes de
entretenimiento por la capacidad que presenta de apelar a sentimientos y emociones …

In her chapter “On a History of Love and Affection Games,” Lindsay Grace claims that love
has been one of the less explored themes in digital games. She writes:“[t] he reality is that …

This thesis concerns the place of love in games. Specifically, it addresses the question of
whether human players can fall in love with computer-generated characters in the context of …

Role-playing games (RPGs) allow players to engage in virtual activities, from the mundane
(like gardening, cooking, or collecting objects) to the exotic (like fighting monsters, casting …