
Romance in the Digital Game
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Book title positions optional romance in the AAA game as a central object of analysis. Based on the close analysis of some of the most commercially and culturally significant games of the last 30 years like Grand Theft Auto IV (2008), the Mass Effect series (2007-21) and the Elder Scrolls series (1994-2024), it is the first full-length monograph to effectively and comprehensively categorise how mainstream gaming asks its audience to engage with romance. It interrogates the idiosyncrasies of romance in the popular games to provide fresh insights into messaging surrounding normative social understandings of love, sex and intimacy.
By theorising four representational categories of romance-Limerent, Physical, Domestic and Ludic-Automatic Love introduces a new theoretical framework for scholars to understand romance, gender and sexuality in gaming.
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