Gaming has not only become a multibillion industry, it is now a sports and a network of different socio-cultural scenes. In this Diggit file on Games, Gaming and Culture, our authors dig deep into the world of gaming by focusing on gaming from different angles. From politics to language use, from Farmville2 to the comeback of FMV games.
Full Motion Video (FMV) games, which were popular in the early and mid-nineties but then became outdated, are making a surprising comeback. The lack of interactivity the genre is often derided for is precisely its strength.
By examining voices from Pokémon Go communities and developers, this article aims to formulate Pokémon Go as a gamified self-tracking application that could play a part in individuals' betterment of themselves.
FarmVille 2 draws heavily on cultural scripts which normalise the exploitation of animals, thus celebrating capitalism. Through a speciesist representation of human-nonhuman animal relations, FarmVille 2 perpetuates oppressive models of practice.
The article focuses on Fire Emblem, now one of Nintendo's most beloved franchises, and its community, examining what it takes to be a fan, where fans are found, deviance and the community, language quirks and other social traits.
This article seeks to explore these themes in the world of Bioshock Infinite and analyze them from a metapolitical perspective. The article will examine how these themes play a role in our present-day political discourse.
Pokémon Go has brought more changes into our society than we used to think. These changes took place on the individual, social, cultural, political, and economic levels and evolved ever since the official launch of Pokémon Go.
This article examines how videogame Angry Goy 2 constructs its anti-Semitic and white supremacist messages, and if this videogame is ready to effectively enter and succeed in the metapolitical arena.
This paper tries to uncover the reason behind the impact globalization has on eSports, the impact eSport have on globalization and how Twitch.TV helps enhance this.
The controversies around today's video games have provoked discussions about political correctness connected to new diverse characters.
Just two weeks before the release of Red Dead Redemption 2, we might consider whether it is worth the human costs of its developers.
The price of buying the same game via Steam in different countries may be different, but why does Steam make this setting?
This article analyzes the ways in which e-sports are a phenomenon of globalization.
In our common sense thinking, language is deeply connected to space. Two societal developments have the potential to disturb these bonds: increased human mobility and increased access to the internet.
This paper aims to explore the linguistic landscape of Twitch.tv. Three different emotes taken from three streams are analysed. The results indicate that the usage of these emotes is universal; that they are highly mobile and complex.
This article analyses the role of videogames withinin the arts, especially when it comes to their soundtrack.
There are sociological and anthropological lessons to be learned from the biggest hype of the summer of 2016: Pokémon Go.
