Gyaku Ryona is a voyeuristic subgenre that involves the beating up of one male character by another. Several channels have emerged on YouTube and garnered respectable attention, by using fighting games as their main platform. These channels compile videos of virtual and erotic one- sided fights between two characters, which are in turn watched and requested by viewers.
Read MoreThis week we made the first of a series of visits to St Peter’s RC High School in Belle Vue where we’re working with pupils on the Game in Lab/Libellud Foundation funded ‘Games Imagining the Future’ project. The project investigates the ways in which board games might be used to support young people’s understandings of the crisis; to evaluate games as a tool through which they can explore and share their ideas about the climate crisis; and to identify the ways in which games mobilise individual or collective action.
Read MoreThe research group FLAME (Film, Languages and Media in Education) at Manchester Metropolitan University and FILTA (Film in Language Teaching Association) presents a special seminar: ‘Gamification: Introduction and application to action research’.
Read MoreThis is a recording of a talk presented by Dr Mark Peace and Dr John Lean about Manchester Metropolitan University's extra-curricular RISE programme.
Read MoreThis week, as part of the ESRC’s Festival of Social Science, Members of the MMGC and the Manchester School of Architecture (MSA) ran two events to test two new board games that challenge players to think about building and developing nation-wide infrastructures and their wide-ranging impacts.
Read MoreMMGC co-directors, Paul Wake and Chloe Germaine have been busy setting up a research project for Asmodee/ Game in Lab. Play and the Environment: Games Imagining the Future is a project that works with young people to ‘hack’ contemporary board games in order to explore climate change futures.
Read MoreManchester Game Studies Network is pleased to share some exciting news for tabletop gaming in the North West. After two years at Alexandra Palace in London, and third year running online, the Tabletop Gaming Live convention will be coming to Manchester in 2022.
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