E-GAMES Canada
Free-to-Play (F2P) games are games that combine the graphic and entertaining aspect of video games and the monetary and risk aspect of gambling. Due to advancements in technological sophistication and web connectivity, these mobile games have become the most popular entertainment activity to which Internet users devote the most time. The addictive elements of F2P games in our everyday lives therefore is an important topic of debate
Electronic Gam(bl)ing: Multinational Empirical Surveys Project (e-GAMES) is a project aimed at producing the first portrait of F2P gaming in Canada.
Your participation in this project will help generate the first Canadian databank on F2P gaming, player experience, moderate and excessive use practices, and harms associated with these games. This project could also provide answers on current debates concerning the regulation of these games.
Publications
Savard, A. C., Kairouz, S., Laforge, J. P., Morin-Bertrand, F. A., Blanchette-Martin, N., Costes, J. M., … Monson, E. (2025). “Try to Zone Out and Not Think of the World That Was Exploding”: The Experience of Free-to-Play Games and Everyday Life During the Pandemic. International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction, 1–12.
Laforge, J. P., Savard, A. C., & Kairouz, S. (2024). Du temps et des jeux: l’intégration des jeux mobiles free-to-play dans le quotidien des joueurs. Drogues, santé et société, 22(1), 22-44.
E-GAMES Canada research team
| Sylvia Kairouz, Ph.D. | Chairholder, Research Chair on Gambling Studies, Full professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Concordia University |
| Annie-Claude Savard, Ph.D. | Associate professor, École de travail social et de criminologie, Université Laval |
| Name | Affiliation |
| Francine Ferland, Ph.D. | Researcher at CIUSSS de la Capitale-Nationale Associate professor, School of Psychology, Université Laval |
| Martin French, Ph.D. | Associate professor, Department of sociology and anthropology, Concordia University |
| Eva Monson, Ph.D. | Assistant professeur, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Université Sherbrooke |
| David Nieborg, Ph.D. | Assistant professor, Department of Arts, Culture and Media, University of Toronto Scarborough |
| Jennifer Reynolds, Ph.D. | Postdoctorate, Concordia University |
| Romain Bach | Groupement Romand d'Études des Additions (Switzerland) |
| Jean-Michel Costes | Observatoire des Jeux (France) |
| Ingo Fiedler, Ph.D. | Universität Hamburg (Germany) |
Bernadeta Lelonek-Kulet, Ph.D. |
The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland, National Bureau for Drug Prevention, Poland |
| Adele Minutillo, Ph.D. | Isituto Superiore di Sanità, Roma |
Samantha Thomas, Ph.D. |
Deakin University (Australia) |
E-GAMES Canada funding:
