Gaming and Gamers in Times of Pandemic

Cover\nHalf Title\nTitle\nCopyright\nContents\nFigures\nTable\nIntroduction: Gamers and Gaming in the Strangest of Times\nPart One During the Pandemic …\n	1 Roblox in Lockdown: Understanding Young People’s Digital Social Play in the Pandemic (Hugh Davies and Larissa Hjor\n	2 “I’ve Played More Minecraft with the Kids”: Gaming and Family Dynamics in the Early Stage of the COVID-19 Pandemic (Mikko\n	3 Uses and Appropriations of the Cozy Game Animal Crossing: New Horizons during the Lockdown1 (Gabrielle Trépanie\n	4 Gaming (the Pandemic) with Vision Impairment: An Autoethnographic Account (Lobna Hassan)\nPart two The Lasting Impact of the Pandemic\n	5 When the Virtual Office Became Reality: Digital Game Development during and after the Lockdown (Jakub Majewski)\n	6 The Influence of COVID-19 on Newspaper Discourses on Video Games in Cross-cultural Perspective: Between Safe Social Spaces an\n	7 A Review of Studies on Location-Based Live-Service Games during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Players’ Behavior and Reluctance to Re\n	8 Pandemic Gaming and Wholesome Philosophy: How New Players Reimaged Gaming Practices (Noel Brett and Sasha Soraine)\nPart three Lessons Learned\n	9 “It Was All without Emotions, and This Wasn’t the Same Anymore”: “Replacing” Traditional Sports with E-Sports during the COVI\n	10 Playing as the World Falls Apart: The Use of Video Games during the COVID-19 Crisis—the Case of Italy (Arianna Boldi,\n	11 Reflection Inception: Creating a Reflective COVID-19 Game by Reflecting on the Pandemic (Adam Jerrett)\nContributors\nIndex