In this timely new book, Christopher Paul analyzes how the words we use to talk about video games and the structures that are produced within games shape a part

The first significant collection of research in videogame linguistics, Approaches to Videogame Discourse features an international array of scholars in linguist

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An examination of free-to-play and mobile games that traces what is valued and what is marginalized in discussions of games. Free-to-play and mobile video games

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