Innovation in the British Video Game Industry since 1978

2021 ◽  
Vol 95 (3) ◽  
pp. 543-567
Author(s):  
Denise Tsang
Keyword(s):  
Video Game ◽  
Computer Literacy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Video Game Industry ◽  
Mobile Gaming ◽  
British Industry ◽  
Game Industry ◽  
Regional Clustering ◽  
New Generation ◽  
Start Ups

This article examines the evolution of the video game industry in Britain from its start in 1978. The industry originated with passionate hobbyists and amateurs who benefited from the national broadcaster's campaign to expand computer literacy. Unlike the regional clustering of the industry in the United States and Japan, the British industry was dispersed geographically, consisting of mini-clusters with porous boundaries. During the 2000s, the fragmented British industry was largely acquired by U.S. and Japanese multinational companies and became part of global value chains, but the development of mobile gaming and digital distribution provided opportunities for a new generation of start-ups to emerge in Britain.

scholarly journals The Presence of Female Designers in French Video Game Industry, 1985–1993

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (6) ◽  
pp. 670-684 ◽  
Author(s):  
Filip Jankowski
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Video Game ◽  
The United States ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Self ◽  
Video Game Industry ◽  
Game Industry ◽  
Everyday Experiences ◽  
Game Developers

Increasingly, more people do notice that female designers wrote their first games in the 1970s and 1980s. However, there was another country where women did also design games decades before the #GamerGate movement. This article examines the selected works of three French designers: Clotilde Marion, Chine Lanzmann, and Muriel Tramis. The analysis of those games took into account the self-representation of those designers—and women in general—within the game content. The conducted research has proven that within their games, Marion, Lanzmann, and Tramis included their everyday experiences as women. Using such techniques as simulated point of view and authorial signature, those women indicated their own role in the development and showed how females in general face male oppression against them. This means that the United States is not the only country with a long tradition of female game developers. Thus, video game history remains an undiscovered research field.

scholarly journals Impact on the video game industry during the COVID-19 pandemic

Athenea ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-13
Author(s):  
Luz Ortiz ◽  
Héctor Tillerias ◽  
Christian Chimbo ◽  
Veronica Toaza
Keyword(s):  
Video Games ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Video Game ◽  
Intelligent Systems ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Publishing Industry ◽  
The United States ◽  
Video Game Industry ◽  
Game Industry ◽  
Online Video Games

This work presents trends and comparisons that show a change in the consumption and production of video games in times of confinement due to the health emergency. The video game industry has modified its philosophy and adapted its products to the new requirements and trends of consumers who see in this activity a way to appease the psychological and social impact due to quarantine and isolation. There is evidence of a 65% increase in the use of online video games, which has broken a world record. Products that have new aspects and considerations never before proposed by this great industry have been developed and offered, such as thematic games related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Keywords: Video game, pandemic, online games, confinement. References [1]M. Olff, Screening for consequences of trauma–an update on the global collaboration on traumatic stress.European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 2020. [2]Z. Li, China’s Digital Content Publishing Industry: The 2019 Annual Report on Investment Insights and Market Trends. Publishing Research Quarterly, 2020. [3]R. Agis, An event-driven behavior trees extension to facilitate non-player multi-agent coordination in video games, Expert Systems with Applications, 2020. [4]O. Wulansari, Video games and their correlation to empathy: How to teach and experience empathic emotion. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, 2020. [5]C. Bachen, Simulating real lives: Promoting Global Empathy and Interest in Learning Through SimulationGames. Sage Journal, 2012. [6]S. Fowler, Intercultural simulation games: A review (of the united states and beyond). Sage Journals, 2010. [7]G. Chursin, Learning game development with Unity3D engine and Arduino microcontroller. Journal ofPhysics: Conference Series, 2019. [8]K. Hewett, The Acquisition of 21st-Century Skills Through Video Games: Minecraft Design Process Modelsand Their Web of Class Roles. Sage Journal, 2020. [9]R. Bayeck, Exploring video games and learning in South Africa: An integrative review. Educational TechnologyResearch and Development, 2020. [10]K. Hewett, The 21st-Century Classroom Gamer. Games and Culture, 2021.

White-Collar Criminality Within the Video Game Industry

2020 ◽  
pp. 155541202097562
Author(s):  
Allen Copenhaver ◽  
O. Hayden Griffin
Keyword(s):  
Video Game ◽  
White Collar Crime ◽  
White Collar ◽  
The United States ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Video Game Industry ◽  
Unethical Conduct ◽  
Theoretical Inquiry ◽  
Game Industry ◽  
Price Gouging

Edwin Sutherland’s concept of white-collar crime remains incredibly influential in contemporary criminological research and thought. Sutherland’s work was critical of several of the most influential industries in the United States, highlighting both their criminal and unethical conduct. Today, the video game industry has garnered tremendous influence over society and until recently, has seemed to escape criminological critique (other than for that of the potential negative effects of violent games) and white-collar crime theoretical inquiry. This study aims to change that, as we analyze the video game industry for its involvement in many traditional (and some more contemporary) forms of white-collar crime. More specifically, we discuss overpromising, broken games, and price gouging.

Bluehole: Bluehole’s spectacular success in the video game industry

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-155
Author(s):  
Yongjin Oh ◽  
Seungchul Lee ◽  
Jaewon Lee
Keyword(s):  
Video Game ◽  
Video Game Industry ◽  
Game Industry

scholarly journals Surrounded by a wall: The hermetic language of the Polish community of video gamers. Do Poles know the language of Polish gamers? The results of a survey-based study

2020 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 81-112
Author(s):  
Rafał Maćkowiak
Keyword(s):  
Video Game ◽  
Entertainment Industry ◽  
Game Development ◽  
Video Game Industry ◽  
Large Group ◽  
Colloquial Language ◽  
Game Industry ◽  
Sheer Size ◽  
Video Gamers

The video game industry is today one of the most rapidly developing branches of the entertainment industry. Such corporations as Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo are increasing their investment engagement in the manufacture of gaming hardware (e.g. computers, consoles, and tablets), and in game development for various platforms. There has developed and continues to expand an extensive terminology which due to the increasing consolidation of the user base is progressing towards producing a sociolect. Linguists have not yet examined the lexis of gamers which is why it must be studied considering the extent of the phenomenon and the sheer size of the gamer community. Video gamers form a large group. At this point it must be stressed that the gamer community and the lexis specific for it does not exist in isolation. The lexis used by gamers continues to permeate outside the community, e.g. to other media or the colloquial language. The author of this article conducted a survey to check whether the lexis of video gamers is known to random respondents. This article presents the results of the survey.

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