Volume 2, Issue 1: March 2024

Your second volume of ACM Games: Research and Practice

August 11, 2024,

Issue

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The Game Industry’s Cataclysmic Layoffs: Where Do We Go from Here?

The games industry has been seeing unparalleled mass layoffs since 2022. Cheap debt, the COVID-19 bubble, investor imprudence, and executive extravagance have produced an unsustainable boom and investment spree that has flowed into today’s disastrous bust.

Amanda Farough, Michael Futter

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Extremist Activities in Digital Gaming Spaces: Challenges and Opportunities for Counter-extremism

Since the livestreamed right-wing extremist terror attack in Christchurch (New Zealand) in 2019, researchers, policymakers, tech companies, and individuals working on preventing and countering extremism have sought to cast a light on extremist activities in digital gaming spaces.

Linda Schlegel

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At the Nexus of Gaming and Extremism

So we could capture the learning and needs of researchers, policy-makers, practitioners, and industry—and thus the Extremism and Gaming Research Network (EGRN) was born.

Jessica White, Galen Englund

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Co-Creating Transformative Futures through the Lens of Deep Game Design

We need a profound shift in how we approach the design of our playful spaces of possibility.

Doris Rusch

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You've (Not) Been Warned: Developer Best Practices for Content Warnings and Why Compassion Matters

Content warnings are an essential accessibility feature in games with distressing and traumatic content.

Kelli Dunlap

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Pokémon GO as an Advertising Platform: The Case for Locative Advertising in Location-based Games

The Case for Locative Advertising in Location-based Games

John Dunham, Jiangnan Xu, Konstantinos Papangelis, Nicolas Lalone, Michael Saker, David Swartz.

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