The Sims is always an interesting beast to tackle because it resists, or at least cannot be accurately captured by, short description. The game functions in some sense as a life simulator, wherein the player creates or selects a family, … Read more

Chronotope, literally “time-space”, is a concept developed by Mikhael Bakhtin in “Forms of Time and of the Chronotope in the Novel”. In essence, it is a concrete whole in which there is a particular and visible relationship between space and … Read more

This article out of the University of Alcala in Spain details an investigation into the use of video games in an educational context as part of a multimodal approach to education, in order to more actively engage with students and … Read more