
Journal of Gaming & Virtual Worlds 15.3 is out now!
Intellect is pleased to announce that Journal of Gaming & Virtual Worlds 15.3 is out now!
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Aims & Scope
The peer-reviewed Journal of Gaming & Virtual Worlds explores the cultural effects of gaming and virtual worlds across platforms and genres, as their increasing popularity begins to affect culture as a whole. It also critically evaluates cutting-edge market trends and technological developments.
This title is indexed with Scopus and the Web of Science’s Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI).
Issue 15.3
Editorial
The spectated, the social, the beautiful and the caring
SONIA FIZEK
Articles
Popular pleasures: Sharpening the tools for a popular aesthetic in video game criticism
CHRISTOPHER LUKMAN
Inclusivity and diversity in ‘Actual Play’: Studying The Adventure Zone
RYAN STANTON AND MARK R. JOHNSON
KELLY BERGSTROM AND NATHANIEL POOR
Heroism, vulnerability and care in civilian-focused wargames
ZSÓFIA OROSZ-RÉTI
Essays
Salvaging satire: An essay review of Blackbird Interactive’s Hardspace: Shipbreaker (2022)
MARK MULLEN
Doomsday libraries: Representations of libraries in post-apocalyptic video games
BRENDAN FAY
Subnautica: The undersea comfort game
EOIN MURRAY