Category: Book Announcements

In Mondo Nano Colin Milburn takes his readers on a playful expedition through the emerging landscape of nanotechnology, offering a light-hearted yet critical account of our high-tech world of fun and games. […]

The book is concerned with narrative in digital media that changes according to user input—Interactive Digital Narrative (IDN). It provides a broad overview of current issues and future directions in […]

In the world of massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs), Faunasphere was but a blip on the screen in its short public life from 2009 to 2011. Its devoted players, many […]

The Formation of Gaming Culture: UK gaming magazines, 1981-1995 by Graeme Kirkpatrick describes how games played on computers became computer games. By analysing the first gaming magazines, which were published in […]

Games are increasingly becoming the focus for research due to their cultural and economic impact on modern society. However, there are many different types of approaches and methods than can […]

Nike+, Foursquare, Opower, Khan Academy: more and more products, services, and organizations are infused with elements from games and play. But what are the social ramifications of this “gameful world”? […]

Joost Raessens writes… We are glad to announce that the digital version of our book Playful Identities: The Ludification of Digital Media Cultures is now available online as a free […]

What does love have to do with gaming? As games have grown in complexity, they have increasingly included narratives that seek to engage players with love in a variety of […]

It is a pleasure to announce that Amsterdam University Press has now published the edited volume “Playful Identities: The Ludification of Digital Media Cultures”. See http://nl.aup.nl/books/9789089646392-playful-identities.html (see also Table of […]

Advances in technology have enabled animators and video game designers to design increasingly realistic, human-like characters in animation and games. Although it was intended that this increased realism would allow […]

In this era of big media franchises, sports branding has crossed platforms, so that the sport, its television broadcast, and its replication in an electronic game are packaged and promoted […]

Rank-and-file game developers bring videogames from concept to product, and yet their work is almost invisible, hidden behind the famous names of publishers, executives, or console manufacturers. In this book, […]