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Review of: Revolutionary Spirit: A Post-Punk Exorcism: The Teardrop Explodes, Care, The Wild Swans, and Beyond, Paul Simpson (2023)London: Jawbone, 296 pp.,ISBN 978-1-91103-683-8, p/bk, £16.95

Review of: You Are Beautiful and You Are Alone: The Biography of Nico, Jennifer Otter Bickerdike (2022)London: Faber and Faber, 393 pp.,ISBN 978-0-57135-001-8, h/bk, £20

Review of: Season of the Witch: The Book of Goth, Cathi Unsworth (2023)London: Nine Eight Books, 496 pp.,ISBN 978-1-78870-624-7, h/bk, £22

Review of: Deindustrialisation and Popular Music: Punk and ‘Post-Punk’ in Manchester, Düsseldorf, Torino and Tampere, Giacomo Bottà (2020)London: Rowman and Littlefield, 222 pp.,ISBN 978-1-78660-737-9, h/bk, £104.00

Exist to Resist, by Matthew Smith (2017) Bristol: Mattko, 224 pp., ISBN: 978-0-99578-320-1 h/bk, £50Vox 80–83, Garry O’Neill (ed.) (2019) Dublin: Hi Tone Books, 416 pp., ISBN 978-0-95694-936-3, p/bk, €40Peepshow, Samantha Bennett (2018) New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 203 pp., ISBN 978-5-0132-186-3, p/bk, £12.99Burning Down the Haus: Punk Rock, Revolution and the Fall of the Berlin Wall, Tim Mohr (2018) Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 363 pp., ISBN 978-1-61620-843-1, h/bk, £28.00

Review of: Sex Pistols: The End is Near 25.12.77, Kevin Cummins (2020)New York: ACC Art Books, 176 pp.,ISBN 978-1-78884-061-3, h/bk, £30

This paper draws on lessons learned from the development process of the entertainment games industry and discusses how they can be applied to the field of game-based learning. This paper examines policy makers and those wishing to commission or develop games for learning and highlights potential opportunities as well as pitfalls. The paper focuses on ten key points in which the authors feel from experience in both commercial game development and education that parallels are drawn between the entertainment and educational games development processes.

It is well documented that virtual worlds today are applied in both educational and commercial teaching and learning contexts. Where virtual worlds were once the reserve of entertainment, they have now taken on a variety of roles as platforms for business meetings, simulation, and training and education. In this context, the integration and interoperability with both online and offline resources and technologies is important. In this paper, the authors review progress toward increased integration and interoperability from the first virtual world games to today’s virtual world platforms. This paper highlights opportunities that will arise from further improvements in the ability to create virtual world platforms, content and activities that are truly interoperable, as well as more significant challenges along the way.