All tagged Books
Edmond Chang reviews Aaron Trammell’s Repairing Play: A Black Phenomenology. Trammell challenges Game Studies to engage with BIPOC histories, scholarship, and pedagogies ;through feeling and understanding that play is embodied practice, affective experiences; and “through the lens of Black radical tradition,” what he calls “a form of intellectual reparations.”
Tom Tyler’s scholarly book Game: Animals, Video Games, and Humanity asks how video games let us play (or play with) animals, what animals can teach us about play, and what humans owe to their non-human neighbors.
Samantha Tecson reviews Frenchie Lunning’s Cosplay: The Fictional Mode of Existence, an academic study of cosplay
There’s nothing more sought after in the games industry than the experience of flow, but is flow an ideology reinforcing the status quo?
What happens when slave revolts become play? Can a video game really reckon with slavery and its afterlife?
Tof Eklund recommends Shira Chess’s Play Like A Feminist, a book stressing the need for feminist interventions in gaming, even if it doesn’t always integrate intersectional issues like race and queerness.
Review of Ken Williams’ retrospective of adventure game company Sierra On-Line, Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings
Review of Sid Meier’s Memoir: A Life in Computer Games (W.W. Norton & Co., Book)
