Games as Texts provides an overview and practical steps for analysing games in terms of their representations of social structures, class, power, race, sexualit

Computer games are one of the most exciting and rapidly evolving media of our time. Revenues from console and computer games have now overtaken those from Holly

Examining a wide range of Japanese videogames, including arcade fighting games, PC-based strategy games and console JRPGs, this book assesses their cultural sig

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