You don't technically need to be the last one standing, unlike in other battle royale games out there, you just need your bum on that seat as it flies you to freedom.
12 players go in, grab melee weapons, attempt to collect enough blood samples to summon the chopper, and then grab the only seat on said chopper to get the heck out of dodge. It's been so popular that the developers are making a battle royale spin-off, but it's what they're calling a brutal royale. This provides a theoretically rich, rigorous and coherent perspective on how contemporary hegemonic gaming shapes and is in turn shaped by gaming.Dying Light's particular blend of parkour and zombies made for quite the amazing game when it came out in 2015, and it turns out that even three years later, thousands of people are still playing Techland's creation. Masculinities in Play offers scholars and students of videogames and gaming a high-quality interdisciplinary survey of key work examining this intersection through masculinity studies. “This collection is a timely intervention into the field of game studies that tracks the mutually constitutive elements of digital gaming and contemporary masculinity through multiple contexts: digital games, gaming technologies and the cultures of players. Including an eclectic body of scholarship, this is a vital contribution to gaming scholarship examining masculinities in and around digital landscapes that helps us better understand the relationships between representations, subjectivities, and the interactions between.” (Tristan Bridges, Assistant Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA) Masculinities in Play pushes work on masculinities and media in new directions. “A must-read for anyone interested in the role media play in social inequalities, Taylor and Voorhees’ unique collection of scholarship examines gendered representations in gaming cultures, the communities of people who participate, and the systems of inequality supported and celebrated. Taylor, Professor of Comparative Media Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) “This is a vitally important contribution to not only game studies, but critical conversations about masculinity and culture more broadly.” (T.
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