Category: Journal Issues

Games academics and games industry professionals around the world are invited to submit papers for the first Springer-owned editions of The Computer Games Journal. This journal was launched as an independent online publication back in early 2012. To date, six editions containing exciting papers by leading researchers, entrepreneurs and computing students have been published. On…

Online gaming systems, which mix various multimedia such as image, video, audio, and graphics to enable players to interact with each other over the Internet, are now widely used not just for entertainment, but also for socializing, business, commerce, scientific experimentation, and many other practical purposes. ….

The ageing population is becoming a challenge for governments, practitioners and researchers alike. Worldwide statistics show, how the current and future estimated projections are increasing. With this in mind, researchers and health practitioners have been attempting to identify suitable and innovative information and communication technologies (ICT’s) approaches to facilitate healthy ageing, rehabilitation and maintain quality…

Game studies – or the academic study of digital games – is a relatively new field, drawing scholars from a range of disciplines who are interested in the formal, cultural, and social aspects of digital games. It has developed most rapidly in Europe and North America, but game studies also has significant presence elsewhere, with…

Press Start (http://press-start.gla.ac.uk) is a new peer-reviewed, open access journal of game studies, run by HATII at the University of Glasgow and due for launch in October this year. Reviewers and editorial board members are comprised entirely of students and recent graduates.