...Amanda Phillips This article traces a limited affective history of game studies in order to understand why marginalized scholars frequently feel unwelcome and uncomfortable in the field. Following the work of Clare Hemmings and Sara Ahmed, it digs into the inaugural issue of the journal Game...

... Video Computer System, and many of the subsequent books have also been close analyses of specific gaming consoles. In figuring the platform as the overlooked and under-theorized material base of digital creativity, platform studies extends the structural metaphor of “levels” from game studies, which...