Real games : what's legitimate and what's not in contemporary videogames / Mia Consalvo and Christopher A. Paul.

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"Real Games is an exploration of how the discourses surrounding videogames shapes what games get made and played as well as who is invited to play them. By making appeals to 'real games,' players and developers center certain kinds of experiences and marginalize others. The authors argue that this p...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Playful thinking (Cambridge, Mass)
Main Authors: Consalvo, Mia, 1969- (Author)
Paul, Christopher A. (Author)
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2019]
Series:Playful thinking (Cambridge, Mass)
Subjects:
Video games > History.
Video games > Design.
Video games > Social aspects.
Video games industry > History.
Video games.
Video games industry.
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:xxxvii, 180 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Format: Book

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