[Commlist] New issue of Gamevironments published

We are delighted to announce the latest regular issue of 
/gamevironments/, available here: 
https://journals.suub.uni-bremen.de/index.php/gamevironments/issue/view/20 
<https://journals.suub.uni-bremen.de/index.php/gamevironments/issue/view/20>.

We have five contributions:

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*Articles:*

*Silence, Distance and Disclosure. The Bleed between the Far-Right and 
Gaming*

by Imo Kaufman

https://doi.org/10.48783/gameviron.v18i18.232 
<https://doi.org/10.48783/gameviron.v18i18.232>

/Through a close reading of oral history data, this paper demonstrates 
how far-right ideas circulate through discursive discourses that 
simultaneously conceal and disclose in gaming space. Henry Urbach’s 
theory of the closet and queer disclosure will facilitate this, 
providing a framework in which we can observe how the far-right exists 
within gaming space whilst obscuring its proximity through fantastical 
distance and absence./

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*The White Peril. Colonial Expressions in Digital Games*

by Haryo Pambuko Jiwandono

https://doi.org/10.48783/gameviron.v18i18.174 
<https://doi.org/10.48783/gameviron.v18i18.174%20>

/This article studies expressions of orientalism and white supremacy 
through analyses of action-adventure games. It will discuss the 
historical bias of the adventure genre and its connection with 
orientalism and white supremacy, followed by framing them in a digital 
games context./

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*Reports:*

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*Gaming the Nation. A Research Report*

by Kathrin Trattner

https://doi.org/10.48783/gameviron.v18i18.242 
<https://doi.org/10.48783/gameviron.v18i18.242>

/A research report on the postdoctoral project /Gaming the Nation/. The 
project seeks to investigate how gamers discuss and negotiate the 
concept of the nation in relation to video games and whether or how 
their own constructions of national identity (in intersection with other 
social categorizations) impact these negotiations./

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*Interviews:*

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*Interview with Per Backlund, Professor of Informatics, in the Division 
of Game Development at the University of Skövde, Sweden*

by Lissa Holloway-Attaway

https://doi.org/10.48783/gameviron.v18i18.239 
<https://doi.org/10.48783/gameviron.v18i18.239>

/Professor Per Backlund shares his experience working for more than 20 
years as a researcher and teacher in videogames./

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*Reviews:*

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*Returning to My Appalachia. The Resurgence of /Fallout 76/. A Game Review*

by Nicholas David Bowman

https://doi.org/10.48783/gameviron.v18i18.238 
<https://doi.org/10.48783/gameviron.v18i18.238>

/Although the game was considered a failure by many, subsequent 
expansions of the game have been popular. This essay probes at least one 
reflective reason for the game’s endurance: the unique sense of place 
that it provides for players foraging, crafting, and exploring the West 
Virginia backcountry./


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