- Toolkit Upgrade: How Below Zero Carries Subnautica’s Design Philosophy Forward
- AI Dungeon and Narrative Newness
- New Responsibilities: How Insomniac’s Spider-Man Evolves the Mythos
- The Mystery Generation Engine: Subnautica and Systemic Wanderlust
- Derelict 54 Devlog
- A Little Closer to the Horizon, Please: Horizon Zero Dawn Review
- The Proto-MMO: RuneScape and Unstructured, Massively Multiplayer Play
- Friends & Fat Loot: Looking at Trick-Or-Treating as a Game Space
- Leveling Up Ain’t What It Used To Be: Destiny, RuneScape, and Leveling Systems
- The Mirror’s Edge Legacy
- Revisiting Soma: Another Kind of Adventure Game
- Critical Rebellion, Critical Revolution: An Exploration of the Group Dynamics of GamerGate and the Gaming Community
- Hacknet and Games as Software
- Horror, Not Terror: Resident Evil 7 and REmake
- Thumper, Language, and One Hell of a VR Trip
- The Fantasy Simulation: How Skyrim’s Open World Creates Moments of Discovery
- Musical Platforming: Dustforce, Runner2, and Game Feel
- Monolith’s 2005 Halloween: FEAR and Condemned’s Approaches to Action Horror
- Hacking & Jamming: Uplink, Guitar Hero, and Fantasy Through Abstraction
- Massive Effect 3: Massive Reversal
- By Will and Wits Alone – Near Death & Survival-Themed Games
- Massive Effect 2: Mass Appeal
- Massive Effect (Get It?)
- Screw You, Ubisoft, I’m Gonna Go Do Parkour
- Overwatch & Support Classes
- Notes on Her Story
- Smashing Plastic Guitars (And The Patriarchy): My Confusing Journey Into Guitar Hero and Emergent Narratives
- You Are Needed – Gaming: The Successor To Film as a Modernist Medium
- Slow Down The Violence
- No Man Is An Island – Overcoming Player-Centric Worldviews Through Telltale’s The Walking Dead
- The Changing Game – A Feminist Exploration of the Transformative Potential of Gaming
- How Should I Play?
- The Walking Dead and Disempowerment – Short Piece
- Out From Behind the Glass – The Evolution of the Bioshock Franchise and Interactive Storytelling
- Living the Game World – The Oculus Rift, STEM System, and First Person Immersion
- Experiments with Interactive Storytelling
- Blurring The Line: Exploring Societal Conceptions of Violence Through Spec Ops – The Line
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