2019 marked ten years since the publication of Nick Dyer-Witheford and Greig de Peuter's
Games of Empire, which has become a seminal book in videogame cultural criticism. Ten …

Amidst ecological collapse and environmental catastrophe, humankind is surrounded by
indications that our habitat is turning against us in monstrous ways. The very environments …

This article discusses how genre-related procedural rhetorics might be employed in video
games to (re) shape the way we think about history. The theoretical interpretation follows a …

Anchored in the Anthropocene era's paradigm of human mastery over nature, Cities:
Skylines grants its players extensive agency to shape untouched terrains into sprawling …

Research on media brands is a growth area, but recently most of this research has focused
on news media brands leaving the management of narrative media brands underexplored …

With more than 120 million active monthly users (Steam, 2021) and over 44,000 games
available for purchase (SteamSpy, 2021), Steam is a central figure with a near-monopolistic …

Aim of the Study: This study aimed to investigate the influence of TikTok (TT) reels on
sha** political narratives for Pakistani political parties in the contemporary era of …

Many scholars have looked at how players engage with games of Empire in ways that both
reproduce and subvert capitalist-colonial narratives of resource accumulation, war, and …

This paper considers the aesthetics and nostalgic discourses found in the post-apocalyptic
gameworlds portrayed by Serbian indie game developer Demagog Studio as well as …

This book tells the story of the history of popular culture in Europe since 1800, providing a
framework which challenges traditional associations that have formulated popular culture …