The number of publications dealing with video game studies has exploded
over the course of the last decade, but the field has produced few
comprehensive reference works. The Routledge Companion to Video Game
Studies, compiled by well-known video game scholars Mark J. P. Wolf and
Bernard Perron, aims to address the ongoing theoretical and
methodological development of game studies, providing students,
scholars, and game designers with a definitive look at contemporary
video game studies.
Features include:
- comprehensive and interdisciplinary models and approaches for
analyzing video games;
- new perspectives on video games both as art form and cultural
phenomenon;
- explorations of the technical and creative dimensions of video games;
- accounts of the political, social, and cultural dynamics of video
games.
Each essay provides a lively and succinct summary of its target area,
quickly bringing the reader up-to-date on the pertinent issues
surrounding each aspect of the field, including references for further
reading. Together, they provide an overview of the present state of game
studies that will undoubtedly prove invaluable to student, scholar, and
designer alike.