Paratextualizing Games Investigations on the Paraphernalia and Peripheries of Play (Paperback)

Paperback. Gaming no longer only takes place as a closed interactive experience in front of TV screens, but also as broadcast on streaming platforms or as cultural events in exhibition centers and e-sport arenas. The popularization of new technologies, forms of expression, and online services has had a considerable influence on the academic and journalistic discourse about games. This anthology examines which paratexts gaming cultures have produced i.e., in which forms and formats and through which channels we talk (and write) about games as well as the way in which paratexts influence the development of games. How is knowledge about games generated and shaped today and how do boundaries between (popular) criticism, journalism, and scholarship have started to blur? In short: How does the paratext change the text? The anthology seeks to examine video game paratexts: Which paratexts have gaming cultures produced? And how do paratexts influence the development of games? Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…