Maria O’Brien (Queen’s University Belfast) Download the pdf   Abstract State supports for digital games production within the European Union are subject to State aid rules, which are ostensibly justified on cultural grounds under the terms of the treaties of the European Union. So far, there are few decisions granting approval by the European ...

Dany Guay-Bélanger (Université de Montréal), Maxime Deslongchamps-Gagnon (Université de Montréal), Francis Lavigne (Université de Montréal) & Bernard Perron (Université de Montréal) Download the pdf   Abstract This article presents the philosophy behind our preservation protocol and archival packages in an attempt to stimulate the discussion surrounding game(play) preservation initiated more than a decade ago. ...

Diego Cavallotti (University of Cagliari) Download the pdf   Abstract This paper focuses on the discourses surrounding video games developed within the Italian context during the 1980s. More precisely, it investigates the specialized magazines context, which, in those days, was mainly made up of game-oriented, tinkering-oriented, and video-oriented publications. Through an analysis of the ...

Gemma Fantacci (Università IULM) Download the pdf   Abstract Il panorama mediale attuale è ricco di contaminazioni tra la cultura videoludica e le pratiche artistiche contemporanee. In questo contesto, il videogioco si presenta come un medium versatile con cui intraprendere un processo di sovversione e ri-funzionalizzazione delle norme ludico-culturali per creare spazi di riflessione ...

Marco Benoît Carbone (Brunel University London), Federico Giordano (Università per Stranieri Perugia), Ivan Girina (Brunel University London), Ilaria Mariani (Politecnico di Milano), Marco Teti (eCampus) Download the pdf With the present issue, GAME celebrates ten years of activity as an independent academic journal, one that is neither tied to a commercial publisher ...

Edited by M. Benoit Carbone, F. Giordano, I. Girina, I. Mariani, M. Teti Download the pdf Summary Vol. 1 – Journal (peer-reviewed) M. Benoit Carbone, F. Giordano, I. Girina, I. Mariani, M. Teti – Ten years of GAME – Games as Art, Media, Entertainment B. Soderman, J. Keever – The Playful Turn and ...

Zahra Rizvi (Jamia Millia Islamia), Souvik Mukherjee (Centre for Studies in Social Sciences) Download the pdf   Abstract Despite the recent research on the role of the postcolonial and the Subaltern in videogames, the discourse of game studies remains restricted to titles that are focused on and developed in the Global North. Often, games ...

Luca Paolo Bruno (University of Florence) Download the pdf   Abstract During the last ten years, there has been an increasing interest within Game Studies towards video games produced in Japan, deployed as culturally “Japanese” and circulated as such. This has produced an encounter-cum intersection between Game Studies and Japanese Studies, leading to emerging ...

Stefano Caselli (University of Malta), Krista Bonello Rutter Giappone (University of Malta), Tomasz Z. Majkowski (Jagiellonian University in Crakow) Download the pdf   Abstract As a multidisciplinary field of study, historical game studies has become increasingly established as a stand-alone branch, albeit one having clear interdisciplinary links with (and significance for) both history and game ...

Braxton Soderman (University of California Irvine), Justin Keever (University of California Irvine) Download the pdf   Abstract This article examines the playful turn during the last decade and a half of game studies in relation to the idea of critical play. It analyzes critical play broadly, as a design paradigm, as a form of ...