Volume 1, Issue 1: March 2023

ACM Games: Research and Practice wants to help readers orient themselves in this ever-shifting reality of games industry and games research.

Sebastian Deterding, Kenneth Mitchell, Brad King, Rachel Kowert

Psychological games research remains inefficient, and, at worst, incapable of fully answering key questions.

Nick Ballou

Future game professionals must be aware of the industry’s impact on environmental issues and possess the knowledge, skills, and motivation to effect change.

Mikhail Fiadotau

Understanding the diversity and extremity of player spending in mobile games via massive-scale transactional analysis

David Zendle, Catherine Flick, Sebastian Deterding, Joe Cutting, Elena Gordon-Petrovskaya, Anders Drachen.

A collection of short opinion pieces by industry and research veterans and new voices envisioning possible and desirable futures and needs for games and playable media.

Sebastian Deterding, Kenneth Mitchell, Rachel Kowert, Brad King

Game platforms should sit at the heart of our considerations of socio-technical assemblages.

T.L. Taylor

Online game companies can and should be included in new social media regulations.

Constance Steinkuehler

Embracing games as social infrastructure.

Kimberly Voll

We have an obligation to create design theory and practice that increases player happiness and health.

Daniel Cook

A probable future illuminated by looking back.

Lindsay Grace

The future of online games and games research.

Raph Koster

Benefits and pitfalls of 3D audio in games from a creative content and technical implementation point of view.

Martin Rieger and Dominik Zingler

Game data can improve the design, development, and management of games.

Anders Drachen and Günter Wallner