1. Games and Videogames 1.1 The Double Soul of Game Playing is an activity that
everyone has encountered more than once during his/her lifetime. Trying to provide a …

In the past few years there have been a number of theories emerge in media, film, television,
narrative and game studies that detail the rise of what has been variously described as …

Pervasive gaming is a genre of gaming systematically blurring and breaking the traditional
boundaries of game. The limits of the magic circle are explored in spatial, temporal and …

Mobile location-aware applications have become quite popular across a range of new areas
such as pervasive games and mobile edutainment applications. However it is only recently …

Pervasive games provide a new type of game combining new technologies with the real
environment of the players. While this already poses new challenges to the game developer …

Serious games embody a class of applications able to produce real world benefits for
individuals, or for the society, through the entertainment of players engaged in a game. The …

Games have not received the full attention of the requirements engineering community. This
scenario is becoming more critical as we move towards newer forms of games, such as …

Crossmedia games employ a wide variety of gaming interfaces based on stationary and
mobile devices to facilitate different game experiences within a single game. This article …

Over the decades, technologies envisioned by pioneers such as Douglas Engelbart are
becoming a reality. AI has become an important driver for technological progress, posing …

This article consists of a conceptual analysis—from the perspective of communication
sciences—of the relevant aspects that should be considered during operational steps in …