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Italicize video game series and stand-alone video games. Individual video game levels, chapters, or episodes of a standalone video game should use standard double quotes (for example, "Milkman Conspiracy"). Italicize titles of in-universe fictional works that would be italicized if they were real, e.g. Red Book of Hergest. Similarly, use double ...
Use {{Italic title}} to italicize the part of the title before the first parenthesis. Use {{Italic disambiguation}} to italicize the part of the title in the parenthesis. Use the {{DISPLAYTITLE:}} magic word or {{Italic title|string=}} template for titles with a mix of italic and roman text, as at List of Sex and the City episodes and The Hustler.
Those that are published works (board games, roleplaying games, video games) are italicized like titles of other major works: Scrabble, Dungeons & Dragons, The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind. Non-stand-alone add-on publications, such as RPG modules and DLCs are minor works and take quotation marks. Sport and game rule books and rule sets are also ...
Here's a convincing argument that a game is a game, and not a major artistic work whose title should be italicized: “Game Over: On italicizing the titles of video games.” Worth a read. —Michael Z. 2012-01-24 16:52 z. His argument wouldn't carry much weight here, as we actually do italicize board game titles such as Monopoly.
I'd say use italics even on the shortened versions of the names. By "longform titles" I mean "titles of long-form works" (which includes games), not "the long versions of titles". - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 06:25, 26 November 2005 (UTC) Alright, just wanted to make sure.
Italics should be used for the following types of names and titles, or abbreviations thereof: Major works of art and artifice, such as albums, books, video games, films, musicals, operas, symphonies, paintings, sculptures, newspapers, journals, magazines, epic poems, plays, television programs or series, radio shows, comics and comic strips ...
List of Games for Windows titles. List of Games for Windows – Live titles ... List of video games notable for negative reception; Other. Lists of cancelled video games;
Among these best-selling video games on this list, many of them were developed or published by Nintendo; three Nintendo titles were published with their affiliate, The Pokémon Company. Other publishers with multiple entries on the list include Activision with eight games, Rockstar Games with three games, and Blizzard Entertainment and CD ...