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Culture at Play: How Video Games Influence and Replicate Our World by Lindsey Joyce; Víctor Navarro-Remesal
Publication Date: 2020

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Woke Gaming: Digital Challenges to Oppression and Social Injustice by Kishonna L. Gray; David J. Leonard
Publication Date: 2018

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Video Games Have Always Been Queer by Bo Ruberg
Publication Date: 2019

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Women and Video Game Modding: Essays on Gender and the Digital Community by Bridget Whelan; Matthew Wilhelm Kapell
Publication Date: 2020

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Gaming Sexism: Gender and Identity in the Era of Casual Video Games by Amanda C. Cote
Publication Date: 2020

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Simulating Good and Evil: The Morality and Politics of Videogames by Marcus Schulzke
Publication Date: 2020

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Return to the Interactive Past: the Interplay of Video Games and Histories by Csilla E. Ariese-Vandemeulebroucke et al.
Publication Date: 2021

The Psychology of Video Games by Celia Hodent
Call Number: Fennell STACKS GV1469.3 .H63 2021

Publication Date: 2021
The Gamer's Brain: How Neuroscience and UX Can Impact Video Game Design by Celia Hodent
Call Number: Fennell STACKS GV1469.3 .H62 2018

Publication Date: 2018
How Games Move Us: Emotion by Design by Katherine Isbister
Call Number: Fennell STACKS GV1469.3 .I83 2016

Publication Date: 2016
Video Games and the Mind: Essays on Cognition, Affect and Emotion by Bernard Perron (Editor); Felix Schröter (Editor)
Publication Date: 2016

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Achievement Relocked: Loss Aversion and Game Design by Geoffrey Engelstein
Call Number: Fennell STACKS GV1469.3 .E655 2020

Publication Date: 2020
Game Love: Essays on Play and Affection by Jessica Enevold (Editor); Esther MacCallum-Stewart (Editor)
Publication Date: 2015

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Feature Articles

Video Games as Awareness Raisers, Attitude Changers, and Agents of Change by Elena Shliakhovchuk, International Journal of Computer Games Technology, 2024.
Appropriation or Erasure? Imagining Indigenous Futures in Games by Darcy Walliss, Journal of Games Criticism, 2023
What Are the Morals of Video Game Stories? A Content Analysis of the Most Popular Video Games by Marina A Klimenko et al., Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, 2023.

The Journal of Games Criticism
A non-profit, peer-reviewed game studies journal that strives to connect the conversations between traditional academics and popular game critics.
Coverage 2014-present

Featured Resource

How to Play Video Games by Matthew Thomas Payne; Nina B. Huntemann
Publication Date: 2019

What does Pokémon Go tell us about globalization? Is feminism boosted or bashed by Kim Kardashian: Hollywood? This book brings together forty original essays from today's leading scholars on video game culture, writing about the games they know best and what they mean in broader social and cultural contexts.