Journal of Gaming & Virtual Worlds

Journal of Gaming & Virtual Worlds

ISSN: 1757-191X
E-ISSN: 1757-1928

The Journal of Gaming and Virtual Worlds focuses on theoretical and applied, empirical, critical, rhetorical, creative, economic and professional approaches to the study of electronic games across platforms and genres as well as ludic and serious online environments.

Journal Status	Active
Collection(s)	Intellect Communication and Media Collection 2022 Intellect Communication and Media Collection 2023 Intellect Communication and Media Collection 2024 Intellect Full Collection 2022 Intellect Full Collection 2023 Intellect Film and Media Collection 2022 Intellect Full Collection 2024 Intellect Film and Media Collection 2023 Intellect Film and Media Collection 2024

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- Subnautica: The undersea comfort game
  
  By Eoin Murray
- Doomsday libraries: Representations of libraries in post-apocalyptic video games
  
  By Brendan Fay
- Salvaging satire: An essay review of Blackbird Interactive’s Hardspace: Shipbreaker (2022)
  
  By Mark Mullen
- Heroism, vulnerability and care in civilian-focused wargames
  
  By Zsófia Orosz-Réti
- We have always been social: Comparing social expressiveness between single-player and multiplayer gamers
  
  Authors: Kelly Bergstrom and Nathaniel Poor
- Inclusivity and diversity in ‘Actual Play’: Studying The Adventure Zone
  
  Authors: Ryan Stanton and Mark R. Johnson
- Popular pleasures: Sharpening the tools for a popular aesthetic in video game criticism
  
  By Christopher Lukman
- The spectated, the social, the beautiful and the caring
  
  By Sonia Fizek
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Journal of Gaming & Virtual Worlds

Latest Articles Lasest articles RSS feed

Subnautica: The undersea comfort game

Doomsday libraries: Representations of libraries in post-apocalyptic video games

Salvaging satire: An essay review of Blackbird Interactive’s Hardspace: Shipbreaker (2022)

Heroism, vulnerability and care in civilian-focused wargames

We have always been social: Comparing social expressiveness between single-player and multiplayer gamers

Inclusivity and diversity in ‘Actual Play’: Studying The Adventure Zone

Popular pleasures: Sharpening the tools for a popular aesthetic in video game criticism

The spectated, the social, the beautiful and the caring

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A review of the use of psychophysiological methods in game research

To watch or to play, it is in the game: The game culture on Twitch.tv among performers, plays and audiences

Why gamers don’t learn more: An ecological approach to games as learning environments

Towards gamification transparency: A conceptual framework for the development of responsible gamified enterprise systems

Uncanny behaviour in survival horror games

Zombification?: Gamification, motivation, and the user

A man chooses, a slave obeys: agency, interactivity and freedom in video gaming

Taylorism 2.0: Gamification, scientific management and the capitalist appropriation of play

In control or in their shoes? How character attachment differentially influences video game enjoyment and appreciation

Go with the flow: The experience and affective outcomes of solo versus social gameplay