Game Studies, Next Level? Nuevos horizontes para una disciplina emergente

After being forged over the last decades, the discipline of Game Studies has completed its theoretical and methodological foundations and has developed an institutional interest on the part of academics from all over the world. This thematic issue of the journal index.comunicación presents a compilation of studies related to the discipline of Game Studies, carried out in Spain and focused on the exploration of the future of a hetero-heterogeneous and transversal discipline. Specifically, the focus is on features of the narrative characteristics of games, their persuasive potential and their social influence. The main objective of this special issue is to consolidate a point of reflection on the present and future research on Game Studies.