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In the Obsidian detective role-playing game Pentiment, you embody the artist Andreas Maler (engl. ‘Painter’), who works on his masterpiece in the fictitious monastery of the small village of Tassing in Bavaria in 1518....
Most people call it video game tourism. Some culture correspondents might call it digital flaneurism, or meandering. I call it cultural landscaping. No ‘digital’, no ‘video game’ distinguishing or devaluing it. That’s because cultural...
“Historical accuracy” of works of pop culture is one of those things whose fascination never seems to completely fade for many people. That’s somewhat understandable but still misguided. “Historical accuracy” just doesn’t exist. And...
A guest article by Julia Prez. The German version can be found here. It happened to all of us: You just want to play for a little while, but somehow you end up playing...
There were several things that annoyed me about Final Fantasy X: Blitzball, Tidus’s whiny voice, the fact that it spawned that awful piece of fan service disguised as a sequel. But there was one thing...
Diese Hausarbeit wurde von Christina Kutscher geschrieben und Language at Play für eine Veröffentlichung zur Verfügung gestellt. Vielen herzlichen Dank dafür!
What are emoji and where do they come from? Where are they going?
Im Zuge meines Anglistik-Studiums habe ich eine Hausarbeit zur Literaturwissenschaft angefertigt, die sich mit zwei Kurzgeschichten desselben Namens beschäftigen. Daphne Du Mauriers und Elizabeth Bowens The Apple Tree beschäftigen sich beide zu unterschiedlichen Graden...
It’s one of the first mysteries of Twin Peaks diffuse mythological plot the audience encounters: When FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper enters a red-veiled waiting room in his dream at the end of the...
Im jeden zweiten Dienstag erscheinenden Game Studies Roundup sammeln wir aktuelle Beiträge jeder Machart innerhalb der Game Studies oder aus für Game Studies jeglicher Hinsicht interessanten Inhalten. Egal ob lesens-, hörens- oder sehenswert: Diese...