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Thumb-bangers : exploring the cultural bond between video games and heavy metal
(Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2012)
Heavy metal and video games share an almost simultaneous birth, with Black Sabbath’s debut album in 1970 and Nolan Bushnell’s Computer Space in 1971. From Judas Priest’s ‘Freewheel Burning’ music video in 1984 to Tim ...
Narratology
(Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2014)
This essay provides an overview of the different types of study that can be conducted when considering the narrative aspects of video game play. It contextualizes this research among the larger movements of narratology, ...
Action
(Routledge, 2014)
This essay describes two different phenomena: action games, understood as a genre of games in which the player’s sensori-motor skills prevail over his cognitive activity, and a general theory of action-taking in context ...
Canada
(The MIT Press, 2015)