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Vendor: Mia Consalvo
Atari to Zelda: Japan's Videogames in Global Contexts
The cross-cultural interactions of Japanese videogames and the West--from DIY localization by fans to corporate strategies of "Japaneseness." In the early days of arcades and Nintendo, many players didn't recognize Japanese games as coming from Japan; they were simply new and interesting games to...- $40.00
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Players and Their Pets: Gaming Communities from Beta to Sunset
In the world of massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs), Faunasphere was but a blip on the screen in its short public life from 2009 to 2011. Its devoted players, many of them middle-aged women, entered a world that did not build on common fantasy...- $23.00
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Real Games: What's Legitimate and What's Not in Contemporary Videogames
How we talk about games as real or not-real, and how that shapes what games are made and who is invited to play them.In videogame criticism, the worst insult might be "That's not a real game!" For example, "That's not a real game, it's...- $30.00
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Sports Videogames
From Pong to Madden NFL to Wii Fit, Sports Videogames argues for the multiple ways that sports videogames-alongside televised and physical sports-impact one another, and how players and viewers make sense of these multiple forms of play and information in their daily lives. Through...- $190.00
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Streaming by the Rest of Us: Microstreaming Videogames on Twitch
An in-depth investigation of the Twitch streamers who make up the largest population on the platform: those streaming to small audiences or even no one. The vast majority of people who stream themselves playing videogames online do so with few or no viewers. In...- $45.00
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