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Childhood is not Attainable AnymoreCritical Video Game Studies

Childhood is not Attainable Anymore

December 16, 2025
Speedrunning is Digital SportsCritical Video Game Studies

Speedrunning is Digital Sports

December 16, 2025
A Sequel About Sequels – Comparing Parallel Sequels in the Metroidvania GenreCritical Video Game Studies

A Sequel About Sequels – Comparing Parallel Sequels in the Metroidvania Genre

December 9, 2025
Beyond Class: Jatrick Pagoda Bingo as Gamification of the MundaneCritical Video Game Studies

Beyond Class: Jatrick Pagoda Bingo as Gamification of the Mundane

December 9, 2025
Mora Jai Puzzle Boxes – Minigames in a MegagameCritical Video Game Studies

Mora Jai Puzzle Boxes – Minigames in a Megagame

December 8, 2025
Replica vs. The Stanley ParableCritical Video Game Studies

Replica vs. The Stanley Parable

December 8, 2025
Prime Climb and other Tabletop games I think should be videogamesCritical Video Game Studies

Prime Climb and other Tabletop games I think should be videogames

December 8, 2025
Machinima Reflection! -Super Mario MovieCritical Video Game Studies

Machinima Reflection! -Super Mario Movie

December 8, 2025
TyperacerCritical Video Game Studies

Typeracer

December 8, 2025
Challenging Play, and the Greatest Game of All TimeCritical Video Game Studies

Challenging Play, and the Greatest Game of All Time

December 8, 2025
Blog of The Stanley ParableCritical Video Game Studies

Blog of The Stanley Parable

December 8, 2025
My Take on The Stanley ParableCritical Video Game Studies

My Take on The Stanley Parable

December 8, 2025
Who is the Player Character in “Do Not Feed the Monkeys”?Critical Video Game Studies

Who is the Player Character in “Do Not Feed the Monkeys”?

December 8, 2025
ElectroCity and the Efficacy of Educational GamesCritical Video Game Studies

ElectroCity and the Efficacy of Educational Games

December 8, 2025
The Grind: Esports and PlaybourCritical Video Game Studies

The Grind: Esports and Playbour

December 8, 2025
Oh Yeah, Luigi TimeCritical Video Game Studies

Oh Yeah, Luigi Time

December 8, 2025
Parsing MachinimaCritical Video Game Studies

Parsing Machinima

December 8, 2025
Endoparasitic: The Dark Souls of Sci-Fi One Arm Survival Antibodies-promoting 2D Bird-Eye Horror ShootersCritical Video Game Studies

Endoparasitic: The Dark Souls of Sci-Fi One Arm Survival Antibodies-promoting 2D Bird-Eye Horror Shooters

December 8, 2025
Trucks!Critical Video Game Studies

Trucks!

December 8, 2025
The Illusion of Choice in ReplicaCritical Video Game Studies

The Illusion of Choice in Replica

December 8, 2025
The Most Difficult Game in the Whole Entire WorldCritical Video Game Studies

The Most Difficult Game in the Whole Entire World

December 8, 2025
A Peek Behind the Curtain: Careers in Gaming With Riot GamesCritical Video Game Studies

A Peek Behind the Curtain: Careers in Gaming With Riot Games

December 8, 2025
Metagames in Dark Souls 3: The Challenge RunCritical Video Game Studies

Metagames in Dark Souls 3: The Challenge Run

December 8, 2025
Dark Souls 2 and Labor in GamesCritical Video Game Studies

Dark Souls 2 and Labor in Games

December 8, 2025
Dark Souls and Secrecy in the Game SpaceCritical Video Game Studies

Dark Souls and Secrecy in the Game Space

December 8, 2025
We Become What We Behold: On Media SensationalismCritical Video Game Studies

We Become What We Behold: On Media Sensationalism

December 8, 2025
Cookie Clicker: When Doing Nothing Feels ProductiveCritical Video Game Studies

Cookie Clicker: When Doing Nothing Feels Productive

December 8, 2025
The Type of Game that Can Effect Social ChangeCritical Video Game Studies

The Type of Game that Can Effect Social Change

December 8, 2025
The Buildup and Controversial Ending of Hades 2 (SPOILER HEAVY)Critical Video Game Studies

The Buildup and Controversial Ending of Hades 2 (SPOILER HEAVY)

December 8, 2025
Interfilm is BadassCritical Video Game Studies

Interfilm is Badass

December 8, 2025
Is Monotony an Integral Aspect of Games?Critical Video Game Studies

Is Monotony an Integral Aspect of Games?

December 8, 2025
Parallel Modernization of the MetroidvaniaCritical Video Game StudiesVideogame

Parallel Modernization of the Metroidvania

December 8, 2025
Race Around the Jing: Scav in BeijingCritical Video Game Studies

Race Around the Jing: Scav in Beijing

December 8, 2025
The Price of Nostalgia: How Pokémon Legends: Z-A Exemplifies the Commodification of a FranchiseCritical Video Game Studies

The Price of Nostalgia: How Pokémon Legends: Z-A Exemplifies the Commodification of a Franchise

December 7, 2025
Cookie Clicker gameplay screenshot showing large cookie
The Pleasure of Doing Nothing!! Idle Games Make Labor Feel Like PlayCritical Video Game Studies

The Pleasure of Doing Nothing!! Idle Games Make Labor Feel Like Play

December 7, 2025
Does Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Make a Mockery of the American Judicial System?Critical Video Game Studies

Does Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Make a Mockery of the American Judicial System?

December 6, 2025
games are great at feeling (medievalists design games)Critical Video Game Studies

games are great at feeling (medievalists design games)

December 6, 2025
Considering Approaches to Thinking in Zimmerman’s SystemsCritical Video Game Studies

Considering Approaches to Thinking in Zimmerman’s Systems

December 6, 2025
We Become What We Behold: The Aesthetics of Social CommentaryCritical Video Game Studies

We Become What We Behold: The Aesthetics of Social Commentary

December 5, 2025
Habitica and Embedded DesignCritical Video Game Studies

Habitica and Embedded Design

December 5, 2025
We Become What We Behold: Truth and ContextCritical Video Game Studies

We Become What We Behold: Truth and Context

December 5, 2025
An Analysis of We Become What We Behold Under the Lens of Embedded DesignCritical Video Game Studies

An Analysis of We Become What We Behold Under the Lens of Embedded Design

December 5, 2025
I was an Unethical BillionaireCritical Video Game Studies

I was an Unethical Billionaire

December 4, 2025
“Woke”-ness and Embedded Prosocial Game DesignCritical Video Game Studies

“Woke”-ness and Embedded Prosocial Game Design

December 4, 2025
Phone StoryCritical Video Game Studies

Phone Story

December 4, 2025
Lego Heroica: A Forgotten ClassicCritical Video Game Studies

Lego Heroica: A Forgotten Classic

December 4, 2025
We Become What We BeholdCritical Video Game Studies

We Become What We Behold

December 4, 2025
Death and GamesCritical Video Game Studies

Death and Games

December 3, 2025
Learning Success Strategies: Educational Games and Cultural CapitalCritical Video Game Studies

Learning Success Strategies: Educational Games and Cultural Capital

December 2, 2025
Film and TV Adaptations of VideogamesCritical Video Game Studies

Film and TV Adaptations of Videogames

December 2, 2025
Clicker to Idle Game PipelineCritical Video Game Studies

Clicker to Idle Game Pipeline

December 1, 2025
Does Anyone Remember JumpStart?Critical Video Game Studies

Does Anyone Remember JumpStart?

December 1, 2025
You Are What You Eat: Conscious Media ConsumptionCritical Video Game Studies

You Are What You Eat: Conscious Media Consumption

December 1, 2025
Labor for Pleasure: Why Are Labor Games So Fun?Critical Video Game Studies

Labor for Pleasure: Why Are Labor Games So Fun?

December 1, 2025
My Experience of Machinima ScreeningCritical Video Game Studies

My Experience of Machinima Screening

December 1, 2025
Cookie ClickerCritical Video Game Studies

Cookie Clicker

December 1, 2025
Dystopian Economies: Top 10 BEST Ways to SCAM Your Players into the American DreamCritical Video Game Studies

Dystopian Economies: Top 10 BEST Ways to SCAM Your Players into the American Dream

November 30, 2025
My skepticism of video games in elementary math educationCritical Video Game Studies

My skepticism of video games in elementary math education

November 30, 2025
Video Games in EducationCritical Video Game Studies

Video Games in Education

November 30, 2025
The Children Yearn for the Mines: Minecraft and LaborCritical Video Game Studies

The Children Yearn for the Mines: Minecraft and Labor

November 29, 2025