In this article, I argue that digital games hold the potential to influence processes of cultural memory related to past and contemporary forms of marginalization. By bringing cultural memory studies into dialogue with game studies, I account for the ways through which digital games and practices of play might influence historical discourses and memory politics pertaining to marginalized identities. ...

The treatment of colonialism in video games, barring a few notable exceptions, is marked by a Western and, specifically, late 19th-century imperialist bias. Simultaneously, in the past two decades of multifaceted research and the development of robust theoretical frameworks in the still fledgling discipline of game studies, postcolonial discourses, whether they comprise critiques of imperialism or ...

Denne artikel undersøger de økonomiske og kulturelle forhold mellem digitale platforme og norske og danske spiludviklere. Hvor digitale platforme som Apples og Googles appbutikker, Valves Steam og Sonys, Microsofts og Nintendos onlinebutikker har gjort det lettere for spiludviklere i Norge og Danmark at nå ud til millioner af potentielle kunder, introducerer jeg nogle udfordringer og kritiske ...