Special Issues

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• "Blood for the Blood God!" Engaging with Gods and Religion in the Warhammer 40K Universe

  Tara Smith

  201-211

• “The World is a Maze of Illusions.” Peripheral Religion and Enchantment in Cyberpunk 2077

  Leonid Moyzhes, Mikael D. Sebag

  97-138

• “This is a Zombie Apocalypse – it’s an Entirely Different Situation.” Teachers’ Deductive and Inductive Framing of Digital Games in Ethics Education

  Tobias Staaby

  115-143

• Gamevironments as an Analytical Lens for Studying Gaming and Culture. A Critical Revision

  Kerstin Radde-Antweiler

  1-33

• A Case Study of Teaching Complex Skills in Philosophy Through Games. Are You Flourishing?

  Karl Egerton

  19-51

• A Ludic Litmus Test. Sara Is Missing, Gamevironments, and Gregory Bateson's Theory of Play

  Gregory Price Grieve

  34-59

• Asymmetries and Limits in the Transformative Power of Video Games for Women

  Katharine Sarikakis, Ayça Becerir, Oleksandra Gudkova, Lisa Baumgartner

• Belongingness and Resistance in Platformed Play: Feminist Agency among Female Gamers in China

  Weijie Huang, Payal Arora, Mara Yerkes

• Beyond Play. Towards a Non-Gaming-Centric Gaming Research

  Christian Schwarzenegger, Kerstin Radde-Antweiler, Karsten D. Wolf

• Capturing Play Beyond the Game. A Category System for Game-Related YouTube Videos

  Martin Roth, Vincenzo Idone Cassone

• Community, Alienation and the Experience of Networks. Gamevironments and Theories of Community

  Dom Ford

  119-143

• Creating Cult Controversies. Peripheral Religions in the Video Game Baldur’s Gate 3

  Dunja Sharbat Dar

  58-96

• Cultural Heritage, Video Games and Video Gaming. Researching Global Actants with Gamevironments

  Xenia Zeiler

  60-83

• Designing Keep the Faith. Creating a Storytelling Game About a Religion in Transition

  Greg Loring-Albright

  192-214

• Gamevironments Revisited from the Perspective of Game Production Studies

  Vit Šisler, Jan Švelch

  166-207

• Gaming Streamers as Intermediaries: A Multi-Level Intermediation Framework across Self, Community, and Platformised Industry

  Antonia Wurm, Paula Nitschke, Jeffrey Wimmer

• Genre as Gamevironment: Epistemic Genres Beyond Play

  Alexander Hurezeanu, Mark Nunes, Pamela Maria Schmidt, S. Heeg

• Harnessing the Soft Power of Videogames in Digital Diplomacy

  Amanda Rodriguez Espinola

• Ludonarratology and Gamevironments in Dialogue

  Zhange Ni

  84-118

• Ma Nishtana: What is Jewish about Jewish Games?

  Jessica Hammer, Gabrielle Rabinowitz, Ben Bisogno

  52-79

• Nerfing My Religion. A Cognitive Mapping of Faiths in Crusader Kings III and Europa Universalis IV

  Christopher McMahon

  22-57

• Peripheral Religions and Games. Introduction

  Carolin Puckhaber, Aska Mayer, Knut V.M. Wormstädt

  1-21

• Playing to Grow. Roundtable Interview on Games, Education, and Character

  Owen Gottlieb, Matthew Farber, Paul Darvasi

  178-205

• Re-Imagining Christian Education Through Neurodivergent Fellowship, Play, and Leadership in Online Videogaming

  Erin Raffety, Maria Insa-Iglesias

  80-114

• Review of Christopher B. Patterson and Tara Fickle’s Made in Asia/America: Why Video Games Were Never (Really) About Us (2024)

  Joleen Blom

  220-230