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The Journal of Games Criticism is proud to announce the publication of its first special issue, edited by Aaron Trammell and Zack Lischer-Katz. Adapted from the Extending Play: The Sequel<\/i> conference held at Rutgers University in 2015, this issue\u2019s articles and interviews consider matters surrounding sequels and repetition in the world of video games and their study. The issue is available at\u00a0http:\/\/gamescriticism.org\/ Considering the Sequel to Game Studies\u2026<\/a><\/b>\u00a0by\u00a0A. Trammell & Z. Lischer-Katz<\/b><\/p>\n The <\/i>Extending Play conference at Rutgers University in 2015 underlined the importance of sequels and repetition to games and their study. Here the editors discuss these themes and introduce the interviews and articles that were adapted from the conference for this bonus issue.<\/u><\/u><\/i><\/p>\n The Replication of Ideology: An Interview with Adrienne Shaw and Marcus Boon<\/a><\/b>\u00a0by\u00a0Melissa Aronczyk<\/b><\/p>\n Shaw and Boon examine the iterative and repeating forces of ideology that work within games as a culture industry and play as a cultural practice. They discuss the importance for scholars to take these visible and invisible forces of power into account within the study of games.<\/u><\/u><\/i><\/p>\n Liberating Play: An Interview with Anna Anthropy and Miguel Sicart<\/a><\/b>\u00a0by\u00a0A. Gilbert<\/b><\/p>\n Anthropy and Sicart discuss the centrality of games within the discipline of game studies and consider how lessons learned from play studies might curb stagnation in the field.<\/i><\/u><\/u><\/p>\n Hanging in the Video Arcade<\/a><\/b>\u00a0by\u00a0S. Tobin<\/b><\/p>\n This paper decenters play and the player in the arcade by exploring another subject I call\u00a0<\/i>hangers. It explores the genealogies of player control, engagement and the policing of play practices in the American video arcade in the 1980s.<\/u><\/u><\/i><\/p>\n Assessing\u00a0Mass Effect 2<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim<\/i>: Using Collaborative Criteria for Player Agency in Interactive Narratives<\/a><\/b>\u00a0by\u00a0L. Joyce<\/b><\/p>\n This paper first establishes the criteria necessary to construct a digital interactive narrative game that contains both narrative agency and ludic agency before considering those criteria against two interactive narrative games:\u00a0<\/i>Mass Effect 2\u00a0and\u00a0<\/i>Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n Imperialism in the Worlds and Mechanics of First-Person Shooters<\/a><\/b>\u00a0by\u00a0A. Patel<\/b><\/p>\n This paper focuses on two highly popular first-person shooter games,\u00a0<\/i>Far Cry 2\u00a0and\u00a0<\/i>Far Cry 3, and examines how elements of their game worlds and mechanics reinforce (and disrupt) imperialist narratives.<\/u><\/u><\/i><\/p>\n Ludic Spolia in Sid Meier\u2019s Civilization: Beyond Earth<\/i><\/a><\/b>\u00a0by\u00a0E. McNeil<\/b><\/p>\n Using the art historical term spolia as a launching point, McNeil explores the reuse of gaming mechanics and visuals from Sid Meier\u2019s\u00a0<\/i>Civilization V\u00a0in Sid Meier\u2019s\u00a0<\/i>Civilization: Beyond Earth. She argues that this reuse was both practical and perhaps unintentionally subversive.<\/u><\/u><\/i><\/p>\n A Proceduralist View on Diversity in Games<\/a><\/b>\u00a0by\u00a0G. Smith<\/b><\/p>\n Looking at diversity and inclusion through a proceduralist lens allows us to more deeply analyze current games, as well as prompt new questions and avenues for technical and design research.<\/i><\/p>\n JGC (ISSN: 2374-202X) is currently seeking submissions from game developers, designers, bloggers, journalists, and scholars for its Summer\/Fall 2016 issue. This issue\u2019s submission deadline is August 1, 2016 and will be published on October 8, 2016. We accept articles, book reviews, experimental game reviews, and letters to the editor for review. Our submission guidelines are available at http:\/\/gamescriticism.org\/ For theory! The Journal of Games Criticism is proud to announce the publication of its first special issue, edited by Aaron Trammell and Zack Lischer-Katz. 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