Aarseth, E. (2021). Two Decades of Game Studies. Game Studies, 21(1). Espen Aarseth This issue of Game Studies marks the 20 th anniversary of the journal. Game Studies was conceived on a rainy evening fjord cruise during the third Digital Art and Culture (DAC) conference, in Bergen in August 2000, when Susana Tosca and I agreed that an academic journal dedicated to the study of computer games was needed. We then learned that Lisbeth Klastrup and Jesper Juul from the IT Univer

Leino, O. T. (2021, April). Existential Hermeneutics and the Tragedy of the Art Game. In GameCult Talks: Meaning of Games Talks. Olli Leino Building on computer game studies, phenomenology, existentialism, and art history, I address the technological specificity of computer games as an expressive medium. Based on on Gadamer's notion of risk in gameplay, and, Sartre's duality of freedom and responsibility, I identify the'gameplay condition', the player's responsibility for the

Holopainen, J., & Hamari¹, J. (2021, April). Space Pace: Method for Creating Augmented Reality Tours Based. In Interactivity and Game Creation: 9th EAI International Conference, ArtsIT 2020, Aalborg, Denmark, December 10–11, 2020, Proceedings (Vol. 367, p. 119). Springer Nature. Jussi Holopainen In this paper, guidelines are presented for creating videobased guided tours that employ 360 video content and produce the feeling of augmented reality. The benefit of the approach pr

LEINO, O. T. (2021, March). Are Art Games Tragic?. In Art X Arthouse Games and Playful Media. Olli Leino

LEINO, O. T. (2021, March). Materiality, intersubjectivity, and tactical ludic action in gameplay performance. In TimeCanvas 2021: Elter Ego. Olli Leino

Xiao, L. Y., Aarseth, E., Ferguson, C., Flick, C., Nielsen, R. K., & Zendle, D. (2021). PANEL PROPOSAL Loot boxes in video games: What do we know so far and what should we study in the future?. Leon Y. Xiao and Espen Aarseth Unlike the video games of yore which were sold as complete software products, most video games today contain in-game microtransactions that allow for players to purchase additional content for more money. Indeed, many games (particularly on mobile platfor

Aarseth, E. (2021). Game Studies. In M. J. P. Wolf (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Video Games: The Culture, Technology, and Art of Gaming (Second ed., Vol. 2, pp. 383-384). ABC-CLIO. Espen Aarseth