What's in the box? Exploring UK players' experiences of loot boxes in games; the conceptualisation and parallels with gambling

SE Hodge, M Vykoukal, J McAlaney, RD Bush-Evans… - Plos one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Loot boxes are a popular mechanic within many video games, but it remains unclear if some
forms of loot boxes can be seen of as gambling. However, the perspectives of players are …

The right to the virtual city: Rural retreatism in open-world video games

J Denham, M Spokes - new media & society, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
This article uses Lefebvre's spatial triad and his concept of The Right to the City to
categorise open-world video games as contested virtual spatial experiences, interconnected …

The reification of structural violence in video games

J Denham, S Hirschler, M Spokes - Crime, Media, Culture, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
The Grand Theft Auto franchise features prominently within existing research exploring
graphic, virtual, lawless, and damagingly realistic interpersonal violence within video …

Cross-cultural Invariance of the Internet Gaming Disorder Scale-Short-Form (IGDS9-SF) in Seven Latin American Countries

JA Blandón-Castaño, DX Puerta-Cortés… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Springer
Due to the growing increase of online video gamers and the possible psychosocial
consequences of excessive gaming, it is important to validate reliable and culturally …

[PDF][PDF] An educational leap of faith: Exploring the connections between instructional architectures and digital game spaces

M Sardo, M Thibault - 8th International GamiFIN Conference …, 2024 - researchportal.tuni.fi
The educational potential of games is nowadays widely accepted. Games, however, are
multimodal artifacts, featuring many characteristics that can contribute to educational …

'I wasn't me, grieving in my room. I was spiderman': gaming, loss and self-care following COVID-19

M Spokes, J Denham, M Coward-Gibbs, C Veal - Mortality, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Building on MS Stroebe and Schut's (1999)'dual process model'(DPM), this paper draws on
data from a survey of young people who identify as regular gamers (n= 450) and semi …

[PDF][PDF] https://orcid. org/0000-0002-2539-8292 and Spokes, Matthew ORCID: https://orcid. org/0000-0002-6456-3879 (2021) The Right to the Virtual City: Rural …

JO Denham - ray.yorksj.ac.uk
This paper uses Lefebvre's (1991) spatial triad and his concept of The Right to the City
(1968) to categorise open-world video games as contested virtual spatial experiences …

[PDF][PDF] VIDEOGAMES AND HORROR: FROM AMNESIA TO ZOMBIES, RUN!(2019) BY

D STOBBART - FANTASTIKA - fantastikajournal.com
VIDEOGAMES AND HORROR: FROM AMNESIA TO ZOMBIES, RUN!(2019) BY Page 127 127
Fantastika Journal• Volume 5• Issue 1• May 2021 Stobbart, Dawn. Videogames and Horror …

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[引用][C] https://orcid. org/0000-0002-2539-8292 and Spokes, Matthew ORCID: https://orcid. org/0000-0002-6456-3879 (2020) The Right to the Virtual City: Rural …