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López-Rúa, Paula. 2019. From Carmageddon and Invizimals to SimCity and Digimon: Blending Patterns in Videogame Titles. Complutense Journal of English Studies 27 : 183–204. 22 pp.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English

Abstract

This paper examines both the structure and motivations of blending on the basis of the analysis of a corpus containing 80 (mainly overlapping)blends retrieved from the field of videogaming. In particular, the author studies that the motivation for constructing blends in videogaming seems to be conditioned by economic reasons since such overlapping instances of blends constitute a key feature of the game which can awake the interest of a potential buyer.