2026: Abstract Proceedings of DiGRA 2026

Papers

• Disco Elysium: Existential Reflection within Crisis

  Udbela Escanero Xi

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• WoW gets Trumped: Politics and Play in Azeroth during the Trump Era

  Samuel McCready

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• Playing Home: Gaming, Affective Routines, and Mediated Belonging among Chinese International Students

  Fanxi Feng

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• Gacha Game Collaborations and the Circulation of Affective Value

  Fanxi Feng

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• Misleading omissions of loot box presence disclosures: widespread unfair commercial practices in video game advertising on social media in Ireland and the EU

  Leon Xiao, Nicole Khoo

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• Landfill: Designing for Low-Carbon Pleasures

  Kara Stone, Chris Kerich

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• Exploring Critical Utopian Gaming Pedagogy in a youth club in Barcelona

  Kevin Marín-Rubio, Violeta Moldes-Rivas, Pol Asensio Casasús

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• Portraying Unfavorable Sociocultural Circumstances Through the Videoludic Picaresque

  David Matencio Duran

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• Beyond the Studio: Long-term Career Trajectories of Swedish Game Graduates

  Wilhelmina Statham

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• Ambivalent Alliance: How History, Memory, and Gameplay Reshape Women's Political Legacy

  Xiaoyi Sun

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• Designing Hybrid Agency: AI-Mech Collaboration in Contemporary Mecha Games

  Xiaoyi Sun

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• From Policy to Paradox: Diversity Washing, Policy Failures, and the Limits of Authentic Intersectional Pleasure in the European Video Game Industry

  Dawid Kościewicz, Gabriela Strzelec

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• Selling the American Dream: U.S. Gold, Intersectional Pleasures, and the Ludoindustrial Complex

  Regina Seiwald, Kieran Nolan, Alex Wade, Alan Meades

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• Understanding Game Monetization in China from a Gameworker Perspective

  Tianyi Zhangshao, Ben Egliston, Marcus Carter

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• When Localization Meets Game Design: Strengthening Collaboration

  Pierre-Yves Houlmont

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• The Classical Roman Reception in Genshin Impact: Within the region of the Sea of Bygone Eras

  Hanjun Shi

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• From the Eudaimonic to the Demonic in Gameplay Narratives

  Rob Gallagher

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• From Restoration to Extinction: Intersectional Pleasures in Ecological Game Reception

  Burcu Gumus

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• Rethinking Ludic Pleasure from an Object-oriented Perspective

  Xin Pan

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• How Streaming Facilitates Affective Transformation: A Case Study of Horror Game Spectatorship

  Xin Pan

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• No Room in the Infinite for the Masculine and Queer: How do dress-up pleasures in Infinity Nikki collide with player desire and queer/masculine fashion?

  Rory Summerley, Nicole Khoo

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• Death-Themed Games and Playing the 'Good Death'

  Heather Maycock

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• Analysing Historical Distortion in Large Language Model Roleplay

  Stefan Glasauer, Margarete Jahrmann, Thomas Brandstetter

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• Far from Perfect Compliance: Loot Box Prevalence, Probability Disclosure, and Compu Gacha Policy in Japanese Mobile Games

  Kuma Xiaoyu Xiong, Leon Xiao, Sunny Jie Yang, Anh-Thu Nguyen

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• Making Games Sustainable - One Short Story at the Time

  Patrick Prax

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• Let's Play The Sims: The Un(der)studied Women's Origins of a Media Format

  Tegan Pyke

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• 'Changing the Game Forever': MapleStory's Big Bang as a Climate Change Event

  David-Harold ten-Cate

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• Three rights to play: Liberalist, Fascist, and Compositionist

  Max Haiven

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• (Meta)identity: Renegotiating identity through metamodern design in Slay the Princess

  Katarzyna Matlas

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• Slow Gaming: Applying Slow Movement to Post-anthropocentric Play

  Katarzyna Matlas

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• A World to Build: World-building and Capitalism in Games

  Finn Dawson

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• The 'Chinese' Non-city: Thematic (in)coherence and level design in Sifu

  Diego Barroso

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• Warning! Poor Compliance with Loot Box Probability Disclosure and Warning Regulations in Taiwan

  Yuchen Huang, Leon Xiao, Kuma Xiaoyu Xiong

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• We are trapped in the swamp of binary choices': An Investigation into the Feminist Consciousness of Chinese Female Otome Game Players

  Kuma Xiaoyu Xiong

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• Aesthetics of Prohibition: Moral Transgression, Control, and Pleasure in Political Games

  Regina Seiwald

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• Daily Rituals and Player Belonging in Video Games: The 'Sacrifice System[Xianji Liu]' in Stardew Valley Community Center Reconstruction

  Wenzi Liu

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• Feel the Force Around You: Haptic Narratology and the Problem of Focalization

  Alexander Vandewalle

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• Mythic Alternatives: Mythological Mechanics Beyond Violence

  Alexander Vandewalle, Marco Caracciolo

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• Asymmetric Play in a Competitive Landscape: Attitudes and Fairness

  Gordon Graham Bicker, Hailey Austin, Lynsay A. Shepherd, William Kavanagh, P. George Lovell

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• It's Just a Hoax': Climate Change Denial in Civilization VI's Reddit Communities

  Gaia Amadori

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• The Texture of Play: Feeling Your Way Through Teaching with Games

  Gaspard Pelurson

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• Games Against Death

  Martin Gibbs

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• Tracing Gender Affordances in Avatar Customization: A Methodological Framework

  Yisong Han

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• Absent Pleasures or Pleasurable Absence? Player Engagement in Minimalist Retro Horror Games

  Melanie Kreitler, Theresa Krampe

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• Temporalised Hyperobjects and Affective Play in Outer Wilds

  Karthik Kuduva Gopinath

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• Towards a New Paradigm for Understanding Men and Masculinity in Gaming

  Mikko Meriläinen, Kristine Jørgensen

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• Entropic Temporality & Care-Based Agency in Eco-Survival Games

  Karthik Kuduva Gopinath

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• Reshaping Failure: The Design of Hospites Teatro's Theatre Games

  Romi Sofia Abatangelo

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• Shut up and let us make the game' Game developers, preserving games, and the dynamics of corporate governance

  Will Buter

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• A Ludic PSY AI-Game-Engine for Utopia: Exploring Pl[AI] for a Viable Future

  Boris Abramovic, Georg Luif, Margarete Jahrmann

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• Engine Workers: Scalability and Frictions in Game Engine Culture

  Paolo Ruffino

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• Unplayable Encounters with the Anthropocene: Rethinking Scale and Agency in Game Studies

  Paolo Ruffino

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• Powered by GameSpy: Theorizing and Analyzing the GameSpy Network As Platform Infrastructure

  Alexander Ross, Nelanthi Hewa

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• Game as Inquiry: A Diffractive and Experimental Approach for Games with a Message

  Hongwei Zhou, Edward Melcer, Sonia Chiasson

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• Intersectional complexity between players and non-players in Bhutan

  Hitoshi Fujiwara

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• Queer Resistance Through Sexual Role-play. Arousal and Community

  Hanne Grasmo, J.Tuomas Harviainen

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• Deceptive Design in VR Games: Lies that invite Surprise and Pleasure

  Paul Psaila

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• Collective Memory Lapse: LLMs Omissions in Roleplay

  Margarete Jahrmann, Thomas Brandstetter, Stefan Glasauer

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• The Evolution of Emotion Work in The Sims 1-4

  Caighlan Smith

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• Pleasure in Play: Hyperscanning Shared Card Game Experience

  Theresa Rahel Demmer, Stefan Glasauer, Margarete Jahrmann, Georg Luif, Matthew Pelowski

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• Ecosystems and conflict in environmental themed analog wargames

  Michał Jutkiewicz

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• Arcade Soldiers: Early Japanese Shooters in Dialogue with Hollywood Militarism

  Shan Mu Zhao

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• Flanki: Drinking Games and Traditions of Students at AGH University of Kraków

  Oskar Dobczyński, Aleksandra Szantyr

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• The Playful Pleasures of the Videogame Detective Board

  Cassandra Barkman

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• Dressing Against Code: How Twitch Plays with/on Green Screen Shorts

  Christine Tran

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• Diablerie of a Lore: A Comparative Analysis of Gaming Pleasure in Bloodlines and Bloodlines 2

  Deniz Özyurda Ergen, Erdinç Kaygusuz

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• Instrumental Pleasures: Game Informer and the Masculinist Review Discourse of Fantasy Game Magic

  Mikael Sebag

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• Football Without Fans: Are Matches Just for Gambling?

  Olli Sotamaa, Christopher Paul

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• Writing Back' To Which Empire?: Constructing Chinese Identities in Tabletop Roleplaying Games in Singapore

  Kellynn Wee

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• How to Play Academia: Conceptual and methodological observations

  Olli Sotamaa, Maximilian Brückner, Hanne Grasmo, Johanna Koljonen, Markus Kämäräinen, Jukka Särkijärvi, Essi Taino, Thais Weiller

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• The Relationship Between Signs and Context: Semiotic Meaning-Making in Digital Games

  David Gadelkarim

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• Community Resilience and Nostalgia: the case of the Metal Slug saga

  Brando Ratti, Nicola Costalunga

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• Shan-shui Game: Worldbuilding for a Pluriverse Through Relational Game Assets

  Haoran Chang

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• Guilty (Un)pleasures: The Reception of Muriel Tramis's Erotic Trilogy in France and the United Kingdom

  Filip Jankowski

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• Embodied Engagement with Environmental Storytelling in Walking Simulators: A Case Study of What Remains of Edith Finch (2017)

  Kexin Xiang

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• Feeling with, or Feeling like? Empathy, Identification, and the Pleasures of Self-Reflection in Story-Driven Games

  Garry Crawford, Neta Yodovich, Charlotte Gislam, Gaynor Bagnall, Seamus Simpson, Victoria Gosling, Maria Stukoff

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• The Gendered Differences in the Connections between Game Streaming and Gaming Motivations Throughout Adolescence

  Kalle Laakso, Tuuli Turja, Mikko Meriläinen

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• Female Machamp, Male Lopunny, and Bearded Dragon Gym Leaders Who May Like it Rough: Identarian Openness in Pokémon

  Juan Francisco Belmonte Ávila, David Matencio Durán

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• More man vs nature mechanics? Exploring romanticized notions of solitude in online forums on survival game

  Matilda Ståhl, Aska Mayer, Robyn Hope, Rainforest Scully-Blaker, Nicholas Taylor

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• Playing Across the Strait: Chinese WoW Diasporas on Taiwanese Servers

  Honglan Xu

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• Producing Games, Reproducing Inequalities: gender and labour in the Argentine Video Game Market.

  Daniela Denise Krepki, Romina Gala

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• Douchebag Games and the “Loser-y” Attitude: White, Male Gamer Imaginaries in the 00's

  Tom Apperley, Rainforest Scully-Blaker

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• Gotta get 'em all!' - A Game about Billionaires and Climate Obstruction

  Patrick Prax, Raymond Whitcher

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• Playing with the Past: The Pleasures of Nostalgic Design with Playdate

  Maxwell Foxman, Jack Perse

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• Desired but Also Undesired: Immigrant Game Workers in Between the Discourse of Labour Shortage and Anti-Immigration in Finland

  Solip Park

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• The Foreigner, The Joker: Dual Identity of Migrant Game Industry Workers in South Korea

  Solip Park

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• Intersectional Pleasures: Reframing the Value of BIPOC Game Studies and Production

  Lindsay Grace

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• Intersectional Pleasures and Limits of Game Cultural Participation and Belonging in Finland

  Usva Friman, Johan Kalmanlehto, Essi Taino, Mark Maletska

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• Playable folklore - Digital games and the representation of folklore and CH

  Barnabás Springer

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• Tarot, Money, and Mnemonics: Histories of Card Games Beyond Quantifiable-outcome Games

  Nick Koppenhagen

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• Player Experience of Hybridity in a Narrative Boardgame

  Sasha Soraine, Melissa J. Rogerson

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• Representation, Resistance, and Moderation: The Politics of Review Bombing in Assassin's Creed Shadows

  Alan Tapscott Baltar, Jordi Justicia Villanueva, Ona Anglada Pujol, Mercè Oliva Rota

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• From Pixels to Planet: How Game Makers Strive for Planetary Impact Beyond the Magic Circle

  Ruth Eggel, Sonia Fizek

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• Rendering Romania. A Corpus-Based Analysis of Othering in Video Games

  Vlad Pojoga, Maria Chiorean

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• Killing them Softly: Exploring the Contradictory Pleasures of Cosy Detective Videogames

  Dean Bowman, James McLean

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• Artistic In-Game Photographs as Media of Care

  Sebastian Möring

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• Monstera pocketii: The Botanical Vitality of Pokémon

  Nikolas Matovinovic

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• Nostalgic Development Practices: Fantasy Consoles and DIY Game Engines

  Logan Davis

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• Predicting Trolling Behaviors Using In-Game Timeline Data: Uncovering Divergent Mechanisms Behind AFK and Item Tier-Dropping in MOBA Games

  Sanghyuk Lee

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• Interactivity as Embodied Pleasure: A Media-Phenomenological Reframing through "Interactive" Short Videos

  Jie Lu

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• Flesh, Plastic, Stone: The Pleasure of Recontextualised Character Models

  Rob Gallagher

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• Retellings as a New Player Discourse: A case study of Let's Play Videos

  Changxing Yan

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• The Hero with a Thousand Misattributions: Scrutinizing the Hero's Journey in Videogame Discourse

  Jacqueline Moran

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• Making Virtual Romance Real: Intimacy and Relational Labor in Otome Games Cosplay Commission

  Shu Wang, Hao Sun

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• From Player-Centered to Agent-Centered: A New Paradigm for Interactive Narrative in the Age of Large Language Models

  Tianxing Zhou, Yutong Zhang, Yanhe Zhao, Zihan Chen, Lue Sun

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• Repeated pleasures: Motivations for replaying story-driven games

  Koji Yoshimura, Philippe Chauveau

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• Hussars of Might and Magic: The Influence of Gaming Media on Polish Gaming Canons

  Krzysztof Olszamowski, Anna Kożuch, Krzysztof Mroczek

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• Quiet Play: How Desktop Moyu Games Carve Out Enjoyment Inside Workplace

  Ningxi Guo, Wing Tung Jamie Tse, Chengsi Chelsea Wang

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• Grand Theft Auto: National Identity, Transnational Production, and the Ambivalent Politics of Play

  Iain Donald, Esther Wright

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• Achievement Unlocked: The Art of Localizing Minecraft's Advancements

  Manon Lejoly, Pierre-Yves Houlmont

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• The Reinvention of Hardcore: Authenticity and Identity Among Korean "Real" Gamers

  Tae-Jin Yoon, Dowon Seo, Kyunghyuk Lee

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• Imbalanced Pleasures? System Design and Social Rules in the Survivors-like Game Megabonk

  Mateusz Felczak

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• Game Parlours or Incidental Etchings? Material Traces of Incised Boardgames in Ancient South Asian Communal Spaces.

  Adrija Mukherjee

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• Player 'superstitions' or algorithmic literacy? Marvel Rivals players' practices in the age of AI Matchmaking

  Feng Zhu, Maria Ruotsalainen

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• Myth, Memory, and the Melting Pot: Anti-Imperialism in Rockstar's Red Dead Redemption 2

  Iain Donald

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• To Play (or Not to Play) the Nakba

  Andrea Giaime Alonge

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• "That's such a show!": Constructing the Entertaining Spectacle in Game Live Streaming

  Xuanyi Mao, Leyi Ding

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• Applied ethics techniques for video game ethics

  Eliya Cohen

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• Forms of self-reflexivity in team hero shooters and beyond

  Feng Zhu, Eva Liu

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• This industry has ruined me': categorizing the experiences of Brazilian feminist gaming streamers through an intersectional approach

  Beatriz Blanco

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• Mod Choreography: Transforming the Contexts of Digital Play

  Bart Simon, Darren Wershler

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• Cuz She is My Daughter': How Players Navigate Ludo-Narrative Dissonance

  Xuanyi Mao

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• Sacred Places: Designing 360° Narrative VR Games for Hybrid Use in CAVE and Mobile HMD Setups

  Elina Roinioti, Anastasios Theodoropoulos, George Lepouras

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• Transparency Isn't Enough: How Ordinary Features of Games Contribute to Exploitative Monetization

  Eliya Cohen

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• Visual Representations of Alternative Masculinities in a Mexican Gaymer Community's Instagram Content

  Daniel Salinas, Jesús Alejandro Ramos-Nolazco

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• Loyalty vs. Heresy: Kitbashing and Materiality Negotiation in Tabletop Games

  Runhua Zhao, Michele Newman

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• Bridging Generations Through Play: Older Adults Gamers and Identity Formation

  Vasil Arangelov

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• Re-evaluating Hyper-Realism in Virtual Reality Game Design through the Embodied Simulation Gap

  Zhehao Sun, Yuanyuan Xu, Patricia Lasserre, Aleksandra Dulic, Megan Smith

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• From Play to Idols: How Superfans Shape Esports Ecologies

  Mo Jia

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• Physical Blind Boxes' Compliance with Information Disclosure Requirements: Exploring the Game-like Nature of Blind Box Consumption in the Chinese Regulatory Context

  Xiaoyao Ren, Leon Xiao, Xiaoyu Xiong, Yuchen Huang, Ching Yiu Lo

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• And the Crops Withered: Designing TTRPGs To Enliven Myths

  Michael DeAnda

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• Make Games No One Wants to Play

  Hanine El Mir

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• The Absent Teacher in Eco-Games: A Theoretical Framework for Teacher Integration in Eco-Games

  Yuanyuan Xu, Zhehao Sun, Yin-Shan Lin, Patricia Lasserre, Aleksandra Dulic

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• Exploring Experiential Fidelity in Board Game Adaptations of Video Games

  Sasha Soraine

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• Why Do They Stay Home? The Dual Structure of Identity and Constraints in Offline Esports Consumption

  Lihua Quan, Yue Dong, Changsok Yoo

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• Digital Gaming, Disability, and Social Capital: Understanding Intersectional Pleasures and Community Formation

  Emma Leigh van der Schyff, Andrew Campbell, Leanne Togher

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• Balancing In/formality within the Brno Video Game Industry Ecosystem

  Jan Švelch, Jan Houška, Tereza Fousek Krobová, Jaroslav Švelch

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• Parasocial Incidental Politics: How Twitch Users Navigate Political Content and Misinformation in Livestreaming Environments

  Antonia Wurm, Maria F. Grub, Jeffrey Wimmer

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• Neurodivergent Pleasures in Game Environmental Design

  Michał Płachta

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• How Accessible QTE Inputs Reshape Suspense Trajectories in Survival Horror

  Lynda Mc Donald

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• Affective Predation: Gendered play, Monetisation, and Precarity in Otome Gacha Games

  Tianyi Zhangshao, Wenqi Tan, Yiwen Wang

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• The domesticating role of memes in esports cultures

  Josh Jarrett, Maria Ruotsalainen

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• It is time to stop painting - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 as a dilemma of pleasant fictionality

  Kacper Karwacki

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• Mapping eco(politics) in ecogames

  Michał Kłosiński

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• Playing anachronism in Time: Towards the Ludobiography in the Context of Chinese Indie Games

  Yi Liu, Yahuai Lu, Boyang Liang

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• What Now? Ecogames after Missed Climate Targets

  Conor McKeown

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• Buy, build, live: The Sims' American Dream, neoliberal utopia and its impact on city design

  Anna Kożuch, Maksymilian Fuławka, Eryk Froń

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• Aiōn and Digital Play: Toward a Cosmo-Phenomenological Approach

  Camila Freitas

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• Pleasures Under Pressure: Misogyny, Moral Outrage, and Creative Contraction in Contemporary Chinese Game Culture

  Boyang Liang, Dora Cheng Zhang, Yahuai Lu

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• Right click to de-escalate - Call of Duty & turning propaganda into pleasure

  Maksymilian Fuławka

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• Valuable Childhoods: Nostalgia, Intersectionalities, and Vintage Game Fairs

  Alison Croasdale, Bruno De Paula

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• Now You’re Playing with Graphics Processing Power: Nvidia and the Discursive Pleasure of Artificial Intelligence

  David Murphy, Joshua Jarrett

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• Perhaps, this is Hell': Descent Into SIGNALIS

  Loris Rimaz

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• Experiences of Age and Gender in Early UK Tabletop Role-Playing Magazines

  Nick Webber, E. Charlotte Stevens

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• Bodily Pleasures of Repetitive Labour and Rhythm in Finnish Cottage Simulator

  Johan Kalmanlehto, Haron Walliander

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• Looping Across Genres: How Time Loops, Roguelikes, and Cyclical Levels Shape Narrative Structure

  Brent Van Mol

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• Lifting the Fog of War: Militarism, Colonialism and Encyclopedic Pleasures in Digital Play

  Dennis Jansen, Keerthi Sridharan

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• Time vs. History in JRPGs

  Nick Webber

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• Let's play the 'refugee crisis': a postcolonial deconstruction of the refugee in post-2015 European videogames

  Laurence Herfs

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• No Good Endings: The Tragic Pleasure of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

  Benjamin Horn

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• Old Pleasures, Dying Flames: Final Fantasy XIV and the Evolution of the MMO Genre

  Benjamin Horn

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• How Can an Unfinished Multiplayer Networking Scheme Produce Pleasure? XBAND as an Affective Infrastructure

  Qi Cao

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• Tracing the political economy of the 'microgame'

  Rory Manning Graham

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• Making the Past Count: Developing quantitative measures for past-player experience

  Keerthi Sridharan, Aris Politopoulos, Filip van Dijk, Angus Mol

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• Introducing The Comet Cock, a Murderous AI Dating Sim

  Carl Therrien, Samuel Poirier-Poulin

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• Nostalgic Ludopopulism and Neoreactionary Movements in Game Development

  James Malazita

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• On Inhabiting Nonhuman Bodies: Review of Research Perspectives

  Iwona Marinov

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• Constructing Civilizations: A Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis of Fictional Languages in Chants of Sennaar

  Yile Zhang, Hao Chang, Yiying Lu, Yanyu Chen

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• For the Trees: Envisioning Sustainable Futures Through Ecomodded Minecraft

  Rosemary McDonald, Bart Simon, Maia Earl

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• Tacky Games

  Mathias Fuchs

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• The Place of the Marginalized: Witchers and Dwelling in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

  Daniele Monaco

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• Schrödinger's Feminist Cat: The Positional Feminism of Five Hearts Under One Roof

  William Dunkel

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• Counterfeit Circuits: Decolonial Practices and the Rise of Video Games in Brazil

  Emmanoel Ferreira

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• Between Punches and Flying Attacks: Ludonarrative Imaginaries in 1980s Beat 'em Up Games

  Emmanoel Ferreira, Victor Navarro-Remesal

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• Transforming Pixels into Plates: Harnessing Game Strategies for Sustainable Food Practices.

  Fabian Bellaard, Teresa De La Hera, Julia Kneer

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• Decentralising Queer Game Studies: The British Situation

  Andrew Bell, Robin Zingarelli

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• Cursed Coziness: Cursed Mechanics in Dark Cozy Games

  Manon Portos Minetti, Corine Gerritsen

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• Veggie Vigilantes: Queering Crime Tropes in Cosy Comedy Games

  Poppy Wilde, Bettina Bódi

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• Moneyball, but for kids: Games as vehicles for predatory prediction markets

  Florence Chee, Daniel Joseph

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• Spectating the Samurai: Performing and Preserving History through Twitch

  Corine Gerritsen, Michael Pennington

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• Default' Leadership - Critiquing Normative Leader Identities in Single-Player Videogames

  E. Jules Maier-Zucchino

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• Cultivating History: Gender, Power, and Reflection in Cozy Botanical Games

  Corine Gerritsen, Bettina Bódi

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• Pleasure Not For Everyone: Epistemic Injustice Towards Ukrainian Game Studies

  Mark Maletska, Kseniia Harshina

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• Is gameplay fun after all? Queer Indigenous resistances through gameplay

  Leandro Wallace

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• Pleased to play, paid to please: memory commodification within Roblox's creator economy

  Elisabetta Zurovac, Gaia Amadori

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• Oneiric Timescapes: History and Image-Affects in BenignLand and The Séance of Blake Manor

  Vinicius Marino Carvalho

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• Posthuman Cuteness: Affective and agentic tensions

  Poppy Wilde

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• In Mem(e)ory of Uuugggg: Mod-Users' use of RimWorld's Steam Workshop as a Memorial Site

  Mike Hyslop Graham

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• An Exploration of Cozy Games as Coping Mechanism to Manage Mental Well-being

  Argyrios Emmanouloudis, Vivian Hsueh Hua Chen

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• When Space Becomes Cardboard: Rethinking Escape Room Narratives in Tabletop Games

  Konrad Augustyniak, Malwina Jura

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• Queer Games Studies Material Turn: Centering Trans Bodies in Video Games

  Mark Maletska, Robin Zingarelli

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• Artificial Pleasures and Ideological Subjectivation in Video Games: The Function of Positive Artefact Emotions in the Naturalisation of Ideology

  Andrei Nae

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• The Conjurative Voice of the Player in Escape Rooms: A Framework

  Richard Sherriff, Millicent Gunn

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• Ghost in the Dreamcast: Ludomusical Hauntology and Pleasures of a 90s Cross-Franchise Specter

  Milly Gunn

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• Diegetic Pleasure: Multimodal Immersion and Emotional Engagement in Escape Rooms

  Konrad Augustyniak

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• The Convergence of Historical Game Design and Digital Heritage

  Michal Mochocki

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• Make it Cuddle, Make it Fight, Market it Pink: Virtual Pets and Affective Economies of Gendered Play

  Milly Gunn

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• Beyond necessity and passion: Crunch as a habitus in the field of video game production

  Juan Francisco Torres-Díaz, Joel Feliu, Adriana Gil-Juárez

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• 18XX Forever: Railway Time and Fossil Play on the Tabletop

  Steven Gotzler

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• Beyond the Video Game Nasties: Censorship and the Online Safety Act

  Andra Ivanescu

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• My Cozy Hero: How Cozy Games Challenge Conventional Hero Dynamics

  Mia Consalvo, Kelly Boudreau, Andrew Phelps

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• The Ludic Narrator: Towards the New Typology

  Maciej Nawrocki

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• They managed to make lesbians unattractive': anti-woke activism in No Alphabets mod in Baldur's Gate 3

  Robin Zingarelli, Kristian A. Bjørkelo

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• Virtual Reality in the 2020s: Peace Machine or War Machine?

  Dennis Jansen, Laurence Herfs

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• Between Pleasure and Harm: Transcreating a Serious Game on Older Adult

  Constance Lafontaine, Kim Sawchuk, Sarita Israel

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• Hauntecology: Arboreal Pleasures as represented in Elden Ring (2021)

  Will McKeown

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• The FMV Interval': The Long Dormant Period of Full Motion Video games 1998 - 2015

  Scott Knight, Jakub Majewski

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• Global Games Education Now: Regional Realities and Pedagogical Innovations

  Andrew Phelps, Lindsay Grace, Hartmut Koenitz, Mia Consalvo, Kelly Boudreau

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• Killjoy Play: Illness, Disability, and No-Fun Pleasures in Video Games

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