This paper explores the general landscape of virtual communities and reflects upon their relevance to their agent community counterparts. It examines several disparate virtual communities in order to identify common threads and characteristics, which underpin social cohesion. In turn we introduce social realism and reflect on the extent to which, this can form the basis of a social scaffolding ...

In this paper we attempt to come to grips with the concept of perceived digital game realism. In particular, our main goal is to provide a quantitative exploration of the concept by reassessing the framework of perceived video game realism described by Malliet (2006), evaluating the adequacy of the concepts and categories within this framework, and subjecting the adapted framework to an explora...

This study investigates players’ perceived realism of historical video games. Perceived is understood as a multidimensional concept, going beyond the more traditional use ‘realism’ in game studies, where it often refers to plausibility or accuracy reconstructions. The further examines how relates enjoyment Specifically, this analyses Assassin's Creed, Creed Unity and Odyssey. Through an online ...