During the last decade, virtual goods have become an important target of consumption
online (especially in games, virtual worlds and social networking services) amongst physical …

The goal of this article is to add a complementary perspective to the study of social network
sites by surveying how the political economy of social media platforms relates to the …

During recent years, the practice of adding game design to non-game services has gained a
relatively large amount of attention. Popular discussion connects gamification to increased …

Twenty years since the Internet transformed gambling products and services, the
convergence of online games and gambling has initiated a new means of consuming …

In the last decade our mobile phones have been infiltrated by angry birds, our computers by
leagues of legends and our social networks by pleas for help down on the farm. As digital …

Pokémon GO is a location-based augmented reality mobile game based on the Pokémon
franchise. After the game was launched globally in July 2016, it quickly became the most …

Selling in-game content has become a popular revenue model for game publishers. While
prior research has investigated latent motivations as determinants of in-game content …

Freemium has become de facto business model for games and many other online services.
We investigate how consumers' perceived value is associated with their intention to use …

In this study we investigate purchase behavior for virtual goods in three free-to-play game
environments. In the modern free games, publishers sell virtual goods in order to generate …

With keen competition in the online game industry, game developers and publishers are
finding new ways to induce players' to spend money on subscriptions and virtual items. As …