Video games have long been identified with masculinity. This gendering is found in games'
visuals and stories and structures the production of games and player experiences. Male …

Elden Ring is a game which appears typically masculine on its exterior, however its
narrative and gameplay are coded queer. In this thesis, I first discuss how Elden Ring …

The emergence of the genre of 'walking simulators' problematized the way by which a
'game'is defined. As walking simulators were relegated to the realm of being a non-game or …

This piece takes its cue from a pair of incidents–a not unfamiliar theme in game studies–
relating to game scholarship and its engagement with right-wing politics. In the first case …

This article offers a close reading of Ubisoft's Far Cry 5 (FC5)(2018) in the context of
apocalyptic rhetorics and evangelical Christian nationalism during the Trump Era. Building …

This article argues that a spatiotemporal approach to abjection in video games helps
scholars understand how confronting the abject in gameplay maps onto biopolitical …

This chapter proposes the chronotope of the archipelago as an imaginative, interpretive
heuristic that reveals the largely overlooked colonial vestiges specific to archipelagos in …

Online games have a reputation for toxicity. Forms of play that have been theorized as
transgressive from the perspective of idealized play have become highly normalized within …

Com o surgimento dos jogos digitais surgiu a cultura dos videojogos. Atualmente, com
aproximadamente 2.96 mil milhões de jogadores pelo mundo, o termo “gamer” torna-se …

When Capcom released Resident Evil Village, it instantly became notable for two features.
First, the game world is the most vast and dramatic of any entry in this long running action …