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By Nina B. Huntemann, Ben Aslinger
A suite of formerly unpublished essays via either verified and rising students on games within the worldwide context. It represents the transnational nature of games when it comes to commercial, textual, and participant practices, and advances cross-disciplinary techniques to online game stories. It comprises essays from students from seven international locations interpreting video game cultures on macro- and micro-levels and investigates the transforming into transnational nature of electronic play. They comment on international locations now not often tested through online game experiences – together with the previous Czechoslovakia, Turkey, India and Brazil – and in addition provides new views to the worldwide gaming hubs of China, Singapore, Australia, Japan, and the USA. through analyzing either the main markets in addition to areas and localities that experience frequently been under-served by means of dominant commercial gamers and under-examined by way of either reporters and students, this assortment deals a extra nuanced, fluid, and hybrid photograph of gaming. those essays additionally offer new instructions for video game reports because the box matures past the binaries of hardware/software, ludology/narratology, and major/indie improvement. as well as full-length essays, short snapshots of case reviews are integrated. the variety of areas and views explored within the snapshots and full-length essays support domesticate new floor for examine and element to possibilities for students attracted to the cross-pollination of gaming and globalization reviews.
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