Due to continued groundbreaking digital advancements, Internet use has increased
significantly. This has led to a heated debate in relation to weighing the many advantages of …

Games are considered promising for engaging people with climate change. In virtual worlds,
players can adopt empowering roles to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions and/or adapt to …

Online gamers represent themselves virtually through their in-game avatar, providing
opportunities for connection and self-expression. Prior research indicates associations …

Abstract In" Liminality and the Smearing of War and Play in Battlefield 1," Debra Ramsay
deploys Arnold van Gennep and Victor Turner's concept of liminality to facilitate a close …

Violence in video games has been a controversial object of public discourse for several
decades. The question of what kind of emotional experiences players enact when playing …

The rendered body is pure possibility, but it has been treated with an imaginatively limited
lens that belies its potential for radical reimagining. I want to challenge those imaginative …

Following the debut of Kizuna Ai, the self-proclaimed first Virtual YouTuber in 2016, a new
market and genre of online content creators exploded in popularity. Vtubers are …

In digital games research, the concept of the avatar is a much discussed topic. Many works
have been dedicated to understanding every aspect of this phenomenon, ranging from the …

Background: With an estimated revenue of US $282.30 billion by 2024 and a projected
market size of US $363.20 billion by 2027. In this day and age games appeal to all ages and …

Este texto propone un estudio de la verosimilitud en los videojuegos narrativos. En el marco
de los estudios audiovisuales, los Games Studies, la narratología y la teoría de los mundos …