Category: Book Announcements

Rated M for Mature: Sex and Sexuality in Video Games edited by Matthew Wysocki and Evan Wl Lauteria Available from Bloomsbury Academic

Orizzonti di Forza. Fenomenologia della guida videoludica (Horizons of Forza. Phenomenology of Ludic Driving), has been published in the ongoing LUDOLOGICA series (volume 27).

Steven Conway and Jennifer deWinter are delighted to announce their new edited collection Video Game Policy: Production, Circulation, Consumption from Routledge. In this book, you will find an international approach from game studies scholars, media scholars, lawyers, and policy makers engaging with questions concerning games, policy, and power.

Souvik Mukherjee writes… Dear All, My book Videogames and Storytelling: Reading Games and Playing Books is now available from Palgrave MacMillan:

Announcing the release of The Video Game Debate: Unravelling the Physical, Social, and Psychological Effects of Digital Games.  Now, for the first time, you can catch up with the state of the research relating to digital game effects in an easy to read volume. “The Video Game Debate…” is a compilation of short review articles about the…

Author Stefano Gualeni writes: The book explores several intersections between posthumanism and game studies, and it casts new light on interactive digital simulations as the context in which a new humanism has already begun to arise.

Luca Papale writes: I am glad to announce the publication of the first Italian Game Studies book about sex, sexuality, pornography and eroticism in video games:

Routledge recently published a bumper crop of new game studies books. Details below.

Anton Nijholt writes: My recent (edited) book on More Playful User Interfaces just appeared in Springer’s Gaming Media and Social Effects series. It contains chapters on..

This book showcases contemporary examples of three-dimensional virtual world use for Internet and web-mediated tertiary education from across the globe that cut across a range of disciplinary contexts and settings. By doing so, it seeks to promote scholarly dialogue as well as to assist the development and dissemination of good practice and best practices in…

Author Jennifer deWinter writes: I am pleased as punch to announce my recently published book Shigeru Miyamoto: Super Mario Bros., Donkey Kong, The Legend of Zelda, now our with Bloomsbury Press.