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Journal of Gaming & Virtual Worlds 15.3 is out now!
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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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https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-gaming-virtual-worlds

 

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

 

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

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