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1	En kategorisering av våld i dator och tv-spel Holm-Öste, Jesper, Hubeny, Anthony January 2011 (has links) This essay will focus on video and computer game violence. We hope to uncover, with the help of semiotics, according to Barthes design, if this kind of violence can have a negative effect on youth and adolescents. How intense is the violence and how graphic is it?. PEGI is the European measurement for game age limits. In our essay we will analyze five different games, each game in its own PEGI-value, except two games that share the limit of 18+ were we instead will try to uncover what differences in the two games that puts them on the same age limit. The games we will be investigating are “Pokemon Black Version”, “Megaman X: Command Missions”, “World of Warcraft Cataclysm”, “Call of Duty: Black Ops” and “Gears of War 2”, “Gears of War 2” and “Call of Duty: Black Ops” are the games which shares the age limit of 18+. With the help of our semiotic findings and various studies from researchers C A. Anderson, Jesper Juul and Clive Thompson we hope to be able to categorize the different types of violence in said games, according to the amount of violence, how intense it is, the amount of blood and death, how realistic the violence is and what kind of messages the different games contains and compare our findings to PEGI´s own guidelines. Datorspel våld kategorisering tv-spel world of warcraft call of duty megaman pokemon gears of war Media and communication studies Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap
2	The Mechanics of War: Procedural Rhetoric and the Masculine Subject in the Gears of War and Mass Effect Series Snyder, Shane Michael 14 October 2015 (has links) No description available. Gender Studies Literature Masculinity Gender and Sexuality Game Studies War Rhetoric Procedural Rhetoric Gears of War Mass Effect September 12 This War of Mine
3	L337 Soccer Moms: Conceptions of "Hardcore" and "Casual" in the Digital Games Medium Boyer, Steven Andrew 15 July 2009 (has links) As digital games have become increasingly significant in the entertainment media landscape, the terms “casual” and “hardcore” have become the primary ways to describe gaming audiences, genres, and gameplay. However, these terms are saturated with outdated stereotypes involving gender, age, and class. Focusing on industrial discourse, this thesis examines this dichotomy, emphasizing areas of discontinuity and overlap to question why these terms have become so ubiquitous in gaming discourse and what functions they fulfill for a variety of groups including the industry, advertisers, and audience members. Ultimately, I suggest that these terms need to be replaced in order to move beyond restrictive stereotypes, proposing a new framework for digital games that takes into consideration user motivation, personal investment, and historical specificity. Online gaming portals Shareware Audience Industry discourse PopCap Games Gameplay Demographics Genre Hardcore Digital games Casual Pierre Bourdieu Gears of War 2 Digital distribution Gender Nerds Satisfaction and feedback Control schemes Difficulty Hardcasual

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