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  Economics You Can Play, Not Economics You Can Use?

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  Randy Nichols University of Washington Tacoma

  April 23, 2010

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  recently, though, games like Electronic Arts’ The Sims (2000) and all its spin-offs offer a distinctly ...
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  Guarantee Me You’ll Bring This Corporation Down: Narrative Closure and Resident Evil’s Anti-Corporate Politics

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  Sean Cashbaugh Department of American Studies, University of Texas at Austin

  May 22, 2013

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  Guarantee Me You’ll Bring This Corporation Down: Narrative Closure and Resident Evil’s Anti-Corporate Politics video games resident evil at the movies narrative capitalism Curator's Note The Resident Evil franchise revolves around the Umbrella Corpor ...
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  'A Hideo Kojima Game': A Brief Overview of Stylistic Traits

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  Claudius Stemmler University of Siegen

  August 05, 2019

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  'A Hideo Kojima Game': A Brief Overview of Stylistic Traits style auteur video games ludic procedural/ludic design Curator's Note Following the success of Metal Gear Solid (1998), Hideo Kojima became an auteur-like celebrity with a divisive ...
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  Playable Teaser, Kojima, and an Accidental Haunting of Genre

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  Ashley Darrow

  August 07, 2019

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  Playable Teaser, Kojima, and an Accidental Haunting of Genre video games gaming Hauntology game studies horror Curator's Note Hideo Kojima’s impact on digital gaming extends even to his lost projects. Playable Teaser, better known as P.T., was releas ...
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  The Character’s the Limit: The Limitations of the Media Mix in Video Games

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  Iman Isa University of British Columbia

  March 20, 2022

  character traits. As evidenced in the weapons catalogue in  Yakuza as well as the zombie survival spin ...
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  On Our Islands and In Our Homes: Amiibo in ‘Animal Crossing: New Horizons’

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  Bianca Chui The University of British Columbia

  March 25, 2022

  appeared in earlier versions of the Animal Crossing series, like New Leaf (2012) and spin-off games like ...
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  A sword far heavier than any sword has rights to be

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  Ruth Skinner Western University

  December 02, 2022

  and console spin-offs, animated films, a recent remake, and in adjacent Square Enix properties. [1] ...