Research - Video Game Journalism

Google search: "immersion + [video game journalism site]"

http://www.gameinformer.com/blogs/members/b/shotgun65_blog/archive/2012/07/16/immersion-in-gaming-how-to-know-a-player-is-immersed.aspx

http://www.gameinformer.com/blogs/members/b/thegodofwine7_blog/archive/2013/02/15/4-things-that-totally-destroy-the-immersion.aspx

http://techtv.mit.edu/videos/4413-lecture-clint-hocking-the-territory-is-not-the-map-hyper-realism-and-the-new-immersion-paradigm

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/09/11/dishonored-devs-try-to-pin-down-immersion/

http://kotaku.com/tag/immersion

http://kotaku.com/5716027/do-video-games-really-need-to-be-immersive?comment=34528157#comments

http://kotaku.com/5603786/against-immersion

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-03-09-bastion-dev-dlc-can-compromise-atmosphere-and-immersion

So i found all these articles in my search for immersion on various video game journalism sites but what i found contradicted my belief that immersion is a very thinly spread concept.

What i found is that while it still means slightly different things to different people, the basic definitions people cite mostly revolve around narrative immersion, and while i believe that there is more to immersion than that, immersion into a story is probably the most fundamental form in which that term can be used, not just for video games but for all mediums.

I will be making appropriate amendments to my essay to reflect this finding.