Game Research Highlights
The four archetypes of digital game histories
| 17.4.2018
Presenting game history: the four archetypes of digital game histories.
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Game Research Highlights
The Stanley Parable makes the gameplay unfamiliar in the right way
| 12.4.2018
The effect of poetic gameplay can be undermined by unnecessary difficulties related to story or mechanics.
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Game Research Highlights
The Popular Memory of Trench Warfare of WWI Is Often not Engaged in Video Games
| 9.4.2018
Popular memory of WWI is something that video-games are scared to engage In his article “It’s Hard to Play in the Trenches: World War I, Collective Memory and
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Review
How Do I Get Thee to Deliver My Message – Love Letter Review
| 6.4.2018
Love it, or love it not.
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Players Don’t Reflect Themselves into their Avatars
| 5.4.2018
Avatars don’t seem to be projection of the identity of the player In his article “Getting Into the Game: An Examination of Player Personality Projection in Videogame Avatars”
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Transmission | 5 Games from #FGJX that Just Demanded Eyeballs. (All the Eyeballs I have)
| 4.4.2018
Early around January this year, the Global Game Jam took place yet again around the world. In Finland alone, #FGJX (a.k.a Finnish Game Jam) had more than 20
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Game Research Highlights
What Happens If We Make Gamification Customizable?
| 2.4.2018
Pushing the envelope of gamification just a little bit more.
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Game Research Highlights
A Second Look at Flow Theory in Games.
| 29.3.2018
tl;dr: Culture defines the Flow experience.
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Injustice 2: My Thoughts on the DLC Fighters
| 27.3.2018
It’s time to rank the DLC fighters of Injustice 2. The very first text I wrote for Playlab! was a review of the DC Comics fighting game Injustice
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Review
DreamWeb (Amiga/DOS) review
| 1.3.2018
Insane in the membrane – DreamWeb
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Review
JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Eyes of Heaven Review
| 27.2.2018
Eyes of Heaven is a bizarre game, but is it bizarre enough? JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure is a long-running and beloved manga and anime series, following the adventures of
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Game Research Highlights
Lads like Call of Duty: The statistical analysis of video game preferences
| 15.2.2018
From fans of FIFA to those who enjoy The Sims, there is plenty to analyze about gaming preferences. In their article “The Structure of Video Game Preference”, Rune
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Review
Attacktix Review
| 22.11.2017
Attacktix is a mini-figure based game, featuring familiar faces from StarWars, Transformers and Marvel Back in 2005 Hasbro released a mini-figure based franchise called Attacktix Battle Figure Game,
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Game Research Highlights
Going down the Gamification Rabbit Hole – Through the Ludic Glass
| 21.11.2017
Take a peek at the popular phenomenon of gamification from a cultural perspective and map the relationship between games, society and cultural dynamics.
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Review
Back to School | Detention Review
| 12.11.2017
Let's go back to school, for one last time.
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Review
Lustfärd till Avasaka – Huvimatka Aavasaksaan: You can still learn from an old educational board game today
| 31.10.2017
Lustfärd till Avasaka - Huvimatka Aavasaksaan is the oldest know Finnish board game from 1862 and still fun to play.
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Review
Doom Review
| 16.10.2017
Although slightly too long, #Doom revives the #old-school #shooter genre.
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Game Research Highlights
Mimicking Gamers: Understanding Gamification Through Roger Caillois.
| 21.9.2017
Through observing the long-term analogies between games and societies and the role performed by mimicry, Cassone's article provides an alternate view of the relationship between games, society, and
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Finnish Game Jam Scene
| 19.9.2017
Annakaisa Kultima, Kati Alha and Timo Nummenmaa, researchers at the University of Tampere, have coauthored a paper at the Academic Mindtrek 2016 that presents a case study of
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Review
Smash Up
| 18.9.2017
Try to master your card deck and the weird combinations of scifi-fantasy factions
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