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Current Issue Issue 4, Spring 2025
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Alan Wake: Remedy Entertainment’s Medium-Bending Cult Classic
Blasphemous Delivers Something New by Looking in Its Spanish Roots
Governance and Morality in Fallout 4
How Does “The Gardens Between” Explore Friendship, Memory, and Critical Thinking
More Than Just Shapes: Recovery from Dissociation in Night in the Woods
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Trials and Tribulations – Finding the Truth and Becoming a Lawyer
Push and Pull: Effort and Strain in “Hades”
Promoting Resilience in Future Generations: A Call to Action in Another Crab’s Treasure
Kingdom Hearts 1.5 HD Remake: The Heart of Friendship
Special Issue: Roads to Research Project 2024-2025
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Sports Videogames and Gambling Addiction, Two Parallels? Not in the EA FC Series.
Issue 3, Spring 2024
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Princes and Portals- How Portal 2’s Wheatley is more Machiavellian than Moron
Faith and Fairness in Night in the Woods: Where’s The God in That?
The Role of Choices and Sexuality within Life is Strange
God of War: Ragnarök – A Game about Parenthood (Podcast)
Fathers Make Their Daughters: How Player Agency Changes the Meaning of Fatherhood in “Bioshock 2”
The Cute Borowskis and Family Dynamics in “Night in the Woods”
Unravel: Following the Threads Through Grief
Stardew Valley: Corporate vs. Human Greed
Love, Death, and Replikas
Cosmic Horror and SIGNALIS: What is True Madness, and How to Properly Visualize It
Issues 2019-2020
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Issue 1, Summer 2019: Posthumanism and Video Games
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What is Posthumanism, and Why Should You Care?
Nier: Automata and Purpose
Staying With the Trouble in Transistor
Embodiment in Transistor (Podcast)
Information, Materiality, and the Posthuman
Future Technology in Video Games
Posthumanism Glossary
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Issue 2, Spring 2020: Nonviolence and Video Games
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Introduction to Nonviolence and Video Games
Nonviolent Verbs and Why Video Games Need More of Them
How Do Games Make Nonviolent Conflict Engaging?
Undertale, Pacifism, and Learning in Video Games
Nonviolence Glossary
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