CFP: Postcolonialism, Orientalism, and Videogames CyberOrient: Journal of the Virtual Middle East and Islamic World Editor-in-Chief: Daniel M. Varisco Guest Editors: Souvik Mukherjee and Zahra Rizvi Submission Deadline: November 30, 2022 (Full Papers) Aim Video games have literally become a game-changing medium in global culture since the 1970s and yet the representation of gaming culturesContinue reading “Call for Papers: Special Issue of CyberOrient on Postcolonialism, Orientalism, and Video Games”
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Speaking to the ‘Missing’ Player: Subaltern Poetics in Indian Videogames
The degree of interactivity and agency of the player-character in videogames is often a moot question in Games Studies discourses (Atkins 2002 , Juul 2004, Salen and Zimmerman 2001). The assumption is that whether illusory or real, agency is an important element that drives the plot of digital games. To assume this, however, is toContinue reading “Speaking to the ‘Missing’ Player: Subaltern Poetics in Indian Videogames”
The Vanishing Curator: Souvik Kar
Playing back to the Empire, in videogames, is rife with tensions. The imperialist sentiment inherent in reverse-colonist discourse featured in most strategy-based videogames like Europa Universalis IV, where the player could conquer Europe playing for the Marathas, has been noted by Souvik Mukherjee (2017) as playing into the colonial logic while futilely trying to challengeContinue reading “The Vanishing Curator: Souvik Kar”
Digital Games Research Association, India 