No. #9 (2018): Special Issue „Video Gaming and Death“

edited by John W. Borchert

Published: 2018-12-15

Introduction

• Introduction to a Special Issue on Video Gaming and Death

  John W. Borchert

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Peer-reviewed Articles

• Death Narratives: A Typology of Narratological Embeddings of Player's Death in Digital Games

  Frank G. Bosman

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• No Sympathy for Devils: What Christian Video Games Can Teach Us About Violence in Family-Friendly Entertainment

  Vincent Gonzalez

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• Perilous and Peril-Less Gaming: Representations of Death with Nintendo's Wolf Link Amiibo

  Rex Barnes

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• "You Shouldn't Have Done That": "Ben Drowned" and the Uncanny Horror of the Haunted Cartridge

  John Sanders

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• Win to Exit: Perma-Death and Resurrection in Sword Art Online and Log Horizon

  David McConeghy

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• Death, Fabulation, and Virtual Reality Gaming

  Jordan Loewen

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• The Self Across the Gap of Death: Some Christian Constructions of Continued Identity from Athenagoras to Ratzinger and Their Relevance to Digital Reconstitutions

  Joshua Wise

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Reports

• Dying in the Game: A Perceptive of Life, Death and Rebirth Through World of Warcraft

  Wanda Gregory

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Interviews

• Interview with Dr. Beverley Foulks McGuire on Video-gaming, Buddhism, and Death

  John W. Borchert

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Reviews

• Graveyard Keeper: a Review

  Kathrin Trattner

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