Every day thousands of people broadcast their gaming live to audiences over the internet
using popular sites such as Twitch, which reaches more than one hundred million viewers a …

From Pong to virtual reality, Understanding Video Games, 4th Edition, takes video game
studies into the next decade of the twenty-first century, highlighting changes in the area …

In an April 07, 2018, Saturday Night Live (SNL) sketch, a group of friends are sitting around
a table, playing the popular board game Life (1960, Hasbro). The group is multicultural, with …

The competitive practice of videogames, known as electronic sports, has changed the
traditional entertainment consumption scenario associated with games, creating a new kind …

The discussion around children's digital game culture has resulted in two contradictory
images of children: the passive, antisocial children uncritically and mechanically consuming …

How Flash rose and fell as the world's most ubiquitous yet divisive software platform,
enabling the development and distribution of a world of creative content. Adobe Flash began …

User-Generated Content (UGC) refers to any form of content, such as posts and images,
created by users rather than by professionals. In recent years, UGC has become an …

This article examines the fan practice of Let's Plays—video recordings that video game
players create of themselves playing that include live commentary or riffing. I argue that the …

In this excerpt from the author's new book," Watch Me Play: Twitch and the Rise of Game
Live Streaming,"(Princeton University Press, 2018), she discusses some of the work game …

Video games are a challenging object of study for the musicologist because they are never
played the same way twice. As interactive texts, they lack the static and repeatable form of …