Parties, partying, and party games in single-player videogames

The authoritative version is published in DiGRA 2025 conference proceedings https://doi.org/10.26503/dl.v2025i2.2461 Petri Lankoski (Södertörn University, Sweden) & Tanja Välisalo (University of Jyväskylä, Finland) ABSTRACT Parties and partying appear in single-player videogames but have been studied little. In this paper, we investigate how parties are used and represented in videogames. In this explorative study, we analyzedContinue reading “Parties, partying, and party games in single-player videogames”

Pornographic Games on Steam: Genres, Modes, and Milieus

Petri Lankoski & Tanja Välisalo In Proceedings of DiGRA 2023, Authorative version at http://www.digra.org/dl/ © 2023 Authors & Digital Games Research Association DiGRA. Personal and educational classroom use of this paper is allowed, commercial use requires specific permission from the author. ABSTRACT Pornographic games have historically been distributed outside of mainstream channels. Steam, in 2018,Continue reading “Pornographic Games on Steam: Genres, Modes, and Milieus”