Real Games: What's Legitimate and What's Not in Contemporary Videogames

by Mia Consalvo and Christopher A Paul

How we talk about games as real or not-real, and how that shapes what games are made and who is invited to play them.

In videogame criticism, the worst insult might be "That's not a real game " For example, "That's not a real game, it's on Facebook " and "That's not a real game, it's a walking simulator " But how do people judge what is a real game and what is not--what features establish a game's gameness? In this engaging...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262042606
• ISBN13: 9780262042604
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.3" x 8.1"