Design Recommendations for Improving Immersion in Role-Playing Video Games. A Focus on Storytelling and Localisation by Vanessa Cesário, Mariana Ribeiro, António Coelho

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Portrayals of gender and identity in the soundtrack of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt by Cerys Elizabeth Eckersley

“…The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (CD Projekt Red, 2019) is an award-winning role-playing video game (RPG); the third instalment of The Witcher game series inspired by Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski’s fantasy novels. …”
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Sexism: in search of the Game Over. Gender representations in the most popular video games in Costa Rica by Margarita Salas Guzmán

“…It develops an analysis of the content of the four most popular role-playing video games used through the mobile systems which have the largest penetration in the country: Android and Apple.…”
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Simulation and database society in Japanese role-playing game fandoms: Reading boys' love dōjinshi online by Lucy Hannah Glasspool

“…These simulations are reappropriated by fans to create new content, in this case boys' love dōjinshi, which are in turn disseminated and consumed in an English-speaking online context. Fantasy role-playing video games, which often privilege heteronormativity and binary gender norms in their goals, narratives, and aesthetics, are among the most popular texts reimagined in this way. …”
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