This book provides the first in-depth exploration of video games as history. Chapman puts forth five basic categories of analysis for understanding historical video games: simulation and epistemology, time, space, narrative, and affordance. Through these methods of analysis he explores what these games uniquely offer as a new form of history and how they produce [...]

With all the whiz, bang, pop, and shimmer of a glowing arcade. The Ultimate History of Video Games reveals everything you ever wanted to know and more about the unforgettable games that changed the world, the visionaries who made them, and the fanatics who played them. From the arcade to television and from the PC to the [...]

‘Engaging, clear and often witty, this is a much needed comprehensive introduction to media studies.’ John Ellis, Professor and Head of Research, Bourne ‘In his book, Jostein Gripsud provides an admirable overview of communication studies…It is one of the strengths of this book that he presents some conclusions from his previous works that are not [...]

Revue Quaderni, 2008, Jeu vidéo et discours. Violence, addiction, régulation. Quaderni ; Communication, technologies, pouvoirs. n°67, Villers lès Nancy, Sapientiaux

IG L'esprit du jeu vidéo, 2012, IG Magazine HS n°3 Jeu vidéo et horreur Anatomie d'un genre, Roubaix

In the first decade of the twenty-first century, video games are an integral part of global media culture, rivaling Hollywood in revenue and influence. No longer confined to a subculture of adolescent males, video games today are played by adults around the world. At the same time, video games have become major sites of corporate [...]

In South Korea, online gaming is a cultural phenomenon. Games are broadcast on television, professional gamers are celebrities, and youth culture is often identified with online gaming. Uniquely in the online games market, Korea not only dominates the local market but has also made its mark globally. In Korea’s Online Gaming Empire, Dal Yong Jin [...]

The Video Game Theory Reader 2 picks up where the first Video Game Theory Reader(Routledge, 2003) left off, with a group of leading scholars turning their attention to next-generation platforms-the Nintendo Wii, the PlayStation 3, the Xbox 360-and to new issues in the rapidly expanding field of video games studies. The contributors are some of the most [...]

Hamlet on the Holodeck Here, Murray shows how the computer is reshaping the stories we live by and discusses the properties and pleasures of digital environments and connects them with the traditional satisfactions of narrative.

A distinguishing feature of video games is their interactivity, and sound plays an important role in this: a player’s actions can trigger dialogue, sound effects, ambient sound, and music. And yet game sound has been neglected in the growing literature on game studies. This book fills that gap, introducing readers to the many complex aspects [...]

« Comment définir les cultures du numérique ? Quels possibles ouvrent-elles aux citoyens, aux décideurs politiques, aux acteurs sociaux ? Quelles conséquences pour nos sociétés ? Ce numéro spécial de Communications, marquant les 50 ans de la revue, propose un bilan critique des usages et des imaginaires du numérique. Les ordinateurs en réseaux n’ont pas [...]

Digital Play Traces the development of video gaming from its origins in hacker circles to its status as a $20 billion global cultural industry. This book intends to debunk cyber-guru optimism about globally networked digital communications by analysing the management practices of the corporations that designed and marketed video games to youthful audiences.

A l’appui des appréciations innombrables que chacun de nous (profane, amateur, cinéphile ou critique) porte au fil des jours sur tel et tel films de cinéma, il n’est guère difficile de repérer certains critères fortement récurrents. Sous des habillages infiniment variés – du plus naïf au plus distingué -, Laurent tullier, isole six critères de [...]

Les jeux vidéo ont fêté leurs vingt-cinq ans d’existence commerciale en 1997. Tantôt à la mode, secteur en pleine expansion technologique, tantôt méprisés, oubliés, engloutis dans une grave crise économique, les jeux vidéo sont une étoile clignotante dans le ciel des industries culturelles. Pourtant, malgré un bon quart de siècle de vie mouvementée, ils sont [...]

Au cinéma d’hier, soumis à une censure politique codifiée, ont succédé les spectacles douteux de la télé-réalité ou la diffusion massive des jeux vidéo destinés aux jeunes. Jouant avec les images et les stéréotypes, les industries du loisir contribuent pour une part importante à forge l’imaginaire et les valeurs de nos contemporains. Cet ouvrage en [...]

Le phénomène d’engouement des jeux vidéo chez les jeunes a de quoi intriguer bien des parents, des éducateurs et des politiciens. Pourtant ce phénomène n’est pas nouveau, il date maintenant de trente ans. Si la plupart des adultes n’y comprenaient rien, les économistes en ont tenu compte à partir du moment où le chiffre d’affaires [...]

Patrick Prax, 1970, Co-creative Game Design as Participatory Alternative Media , Uppsala, Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis