Ruffino, Paolo. 2018. Future Gaming: Creative Interventions in Video Game Culture. London: Goldsmiths Press. ISBN 9781906897550 [Book]

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This book is not about the future of video games. It is not an attempt to predict the moods of the market, the changing profile of gamers, the benevolence or malevolence of the medium. This book is about those predictions. It is about the ways in which the past, present and future notions of games are narrated and negotiated by a small group of producers, journalists and gamers, and about how invested these narrators are in telling the story of tomorrow.

In Future Gaming Paolo Ruffino suggests the story could be told another way. Considering game culture, from the gamification of self-improvement to GamerGate’s sexism and violence, Ruffino lays out an alternative, creative mode of thinking about the medium: a sophisticated critical take that blurs the distinctions among studying, playing, making and living with video games. Offering a series of stories that provide alternative narratives of digital gaming, Ruffino aims to encourage all of us who study and play (with) games to raise ethical questions, both about our own role in shaping the objects of research, and about our involvement in the discourses we produce as gamers and scholars. For researchers and students seeking a fresh approach to game studies, and for anyone with an interest in breaking open the current locked-box discourse, Future Gaming offers a radical lens with which to view the future.

Item Type:	Book
Keywords:	video games, game culture, digital gaming, game studies, ethics
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Goldsmiths Press
Date:	28 March 2018
Item ID:	26802
Date Deposited:	02 Sep 2019 08:21
Last Modified:	12 Jun 2021 10:54
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/26802

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