Power Play: Games, Politics, Culture

Long disregarded as inconsequential entertainment, video games are now increasingly recognized as a complex medium of profit, passion, and artistry with a tremendous impact on players and on culture at large. Power Play approaches video games as formidable cultural forces, prioritizing the way power circulates within and beyond game texts, industry, and culture. The series attends to the formal, computational realities of video games as entangled with questions of race, gender, sexuality, disability, and coloniality. Books in the series address how video games shape and are shaped by culture, ideology, and the people who play them while imagining the ways they could be shaped differently. Above all, Power Play expands existing disciplinary conversations in video game studies about how video games matter and to whom.