Fender’s music exposes the increasing struggle of everyday life in the UK.
- Associate Professor in Politics and International Studies, University of Leeds
When the army inserted a recruitment supplement in a gaming magazine was it reaching the right people?
The latest instalment of wildly popular videogame Call of Duty, Advanced Warfare, shows the narratives of today’s games can reveal the motives behind real-world politics. Over the past decade, fictional…
Manuel Noriega, the former dictator of Panama, is mounting a legal challenge against the publishers of computer game Call of Duty: Black Ops II because he was depicted in its narrative and thus played…
As early as 2009, Keiji Inafune, then head of R&D at games company Capcom saw the writing on the wall. “Japan is over. We’re done. Our game industry is finished,” he warned. And the 2014 BAFTA Games…
Hollywood’s most celebrated actors, actresses and directors are, by now, finalising their outfits and having their manicures in preparation for the impending Oscars ceremony on 2 March. It’s considerably…
The Red Cross has called for makers of videogames to more actively embed and interrogate the laws of war by, for example, punishing players for killing civilians or using torture to gain information. However…
The death of Hiroshi Yamauchi marks the end of an extraordinary career that spanned 53 years, during which the Nintendo president not only changed a company but left his mark on the very nature of the…
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