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New Game Plus: A Study of Video Game Narratives is a scholarly thesis that examines three dominant narrative forms in video games, namely, linear, branching, and rhizomatic. These narrative forms help contextualize this study’s consideration of the history of video games which r…

This dissertation analyzes the changing meanings surrounding home video game usage and consumption during the first two decades of their commercial presence in the United States. It explores the evolution of home video games as technological devices, consumer goods, and popular …

Space-themed video games have enjoyed perennial popularity in the American video game industry, and they are present in “big moments” in the history of the medium, from the development and proliferation of ur-game SpaceWar! to Atari’s origins through Nolan Bushnell’s creation of…

This dissertation focuses attention on the capacity of servers, the mundane building blocks of internet infrastructure that support online social environments, to be understood as worlds themselves, as places with names, histories, and politics. This dissertation turns to game s…