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A scholarly conversation of undergraduate video game research

Alan Wake: Remedy Entertainment’s Medium-Bending Cult Classic

By Jack Cahill

Alan Wake, ©2010 Remedy Entertainment,
Push and Pull: Effort and Strain in Hades

By Andrew Morais

Hades, © Supergiant Games, 2020
Promoting Resilience in Future Generations: A Call to Action in Another Crab’s Treasure

by Enzo Levati

Another Crab’s Treasure, © Aggro Crab 2024
Governance and Morality in Fallout 4

By Giulianni Crespo

Fallout 4, © Bethesda Game Studio, 2015
Blasphemous Delivers Something New by Looking in Its Spanish Roots

by Neal Ferrera

Blasphemous, © The Game Kitchen, 2019
Special Issue 2025: Sports Videogames and Gambling Addiction

By Kenneth Ibarra Suarez

FIFA 09, ©2009, EA Sports
Issue 3, Spring 2024

Life is Strange, © 2015 Don't Nod.
Issue 2, 2020: Nonviolence in Video Games

By Tony Dungan

Image Credit: Tony Dungan
Issue 1, 2019: Posthumanism & Video Games

By Tony Dungan and Israa Khalifa

Image Credit: Tony Dungan

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