Category: Book Announcements

The Gamification Lab at the Center for Digital Cultures of Leuphana University of Lüneburg announces publication of a new book “Rethinking Gamification”, edited by Mathias Fuchs, Sonia Fizek, Niklas Schrape […]

“Virtually Sacred: Myth and Meaning in World of Warcraft and Second Life” by Robert Geraci  is now available in hardback and kindle from Oxford University Press. (http://www.amazon.com/Virtually-Sacred-Meaning-Warcraft-Second-ebook/dp/B00KB1BRO6/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&sr=1-3&qid=1392485920).

The book’s subject matter is game economies, point systems, virtual item trade, virtual currencies and knowing what’s the best crypto to buy now, the trade of likes and followers, and […]

The award-winning, sold-out Nordic Larp is now available as a free digital edition. Up until now, the book, edited by game researchers and life-long role-players Jaakko Stenros and Markus Montola, […]

In 1974, Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson published the tabletop game Dungeons & Dragons, a fantasy role-playing game. Through the next 40 years, computer game developers used these fantasy worlds […]

Over the last 20 years there has been an expansion of network mediated social activities, and an accompanying explosion of research interest into the poetics of networked communication. Of particular […]

“A Playful Path”, the new book by games guru and fun theorist Bernard De Koven, serves as a collection of ideas and tools to help us bring our playfulness back […]

In the past decade, a bubble cash review shows that digital games have become a widely accepted form of media entertainment, moving from the traditional ‘core gamer’ community into the […]

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In this compelling book, Graeme Kirkpatrick argues that computer games have fundamentally altered the relation of self and society in the digital age. Analysing topics such as the links between […]

“A World of Excesses: Online Games and Excessive Playing” has recently been published at Ashgate. Having studies of competent players as a vantage point the book addresses the claim that […]