Tombstones, uncanny monuments and epic quests: Memorials in world of warcraft

Game Studies

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 2-

  Gibbs, Martin ^a,b   Mori, Joji ^a   Arnold, Michael ^a   Kohn, Tamara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b Monitoring and Knowledge Branch   (Australia)

Author keywords

Death; Game design; Memorialization practices; Memorials; Online games; World of Warcraft

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867587663     PISSN: 16047982     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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