This article explores the play practices of EVE Online industrialists: those primarily
responsible for generating the materials and equipment that drive the game's robust …

Officially organized, spectator driven eSport tournaments occur within the notoriously
transgressive and ruthless game EVE Online. In these tournaments spying, bribing and …

This volume addresses the persistent and frequently toxic associations between masculinity
and games. It explores many of the critical issues in contemporary studies of masculinity …

This chapter identifies three kinds of meaning at stake in video games: the meaning of
games, the meaning in games, and the meanings created around games and game culture …

Modern management theory has been established on the ashes of Taylorism, emphasizing
control over accountability, conformity over uniqueness, and constraint over freedom …

To date, much of the research about massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs) and the
people who play them has focused on studies of current players. Comparatively, little is …

This chapter explores why EVE Online players engage in the dark play of theft, betrayal, and
treachery. In the dark, hyper-capitalistic, and dystopian game of EVE Online, trust is a …

EVE Online, released in 2003 by CCP Games, is a space-themed Massively Multiplayer
Online Game (MMOG). This sandbox style MMOG has a reputation for being a difficult game …

Most game studies research on ethics and games examines the ways games encode,
express, and encourage ethical reflection and ideas through their systems, mechanics, and …

Early text-based multiuser dungeons (MUDs) required users to read through descriptions of
physical environments and type in commands in order to perform in-game actions. Player-to …