Eric Stein Under Review:Fictional Games: A Philosophy of Worldbuilding and Imaginary Play. Stefano Gualeni and Riccardo Fassone. Bloomsbury Academic, January 2023. Throughout the media we enjoy, from novels to films to video games, we encounter games that exist as “part[s] of fictional worlds,” games that “cannot actually be—or at least were not originally meant to … Continue reading Imagined Agency: Review of Stefano Gualeni and Riccardo Fassone’s Fictional Games
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Hot Dogs and Fallout 76: Review of Making Our Future by Emily Hilliard
Ellie Campbell Under Review:Making Our Future: Visionary Folklore and Everyday Culture in Appalachia. Emily Hilliard. University of North Carolina Press, November 2022. To do the work of a folklorist is inherently to believe in the future. The work of memory institutions and the people who inhabit them—archivists, librarians, museum workers, and documentarians—is often assumed to … Continue reading Hot Dogs and Fallout 76: Review of Making Our Future by Emily Hilliard
Mechanics of Speculation: Review of Cameron Kunzelman’s The World Is Born From Zero
Mechanics of Speculation: Review of Cameron Kunzelman's The World Is Born From Zero Eric Stein Under Review:The World is Born from Zero: Understanding Speculation and Video Games. Cameron Kunzelman. De Gruyter Oldenbourg, July 2022. The eighth volume in De Gruyter's Video Games and the Humanities series, Cameron Kunzelman's The World Is Born From Zero is … Continue reading Mechanics of Speculation: Review of Cameron Kunzelman’s The World Is Born From Zero
Being Meat: Review of Tom Tyler’s Game: Animals, Video Games, and Humanity
Being Meat: Review of Tom Tyler’s Game: Animals, Video Games, and Humanity Eric Stein Under Review:Game: Animals, Video Games, and Humanity. Tom Tyler. University of Minnesota Press, May 2022. To talk about Tom Tyler’s Game: Animals, Video Games, and Humanity, we need to talk about meat. Indeed, if Tyler’s final chapter is to be taken … Continue reading Being Meat: Review of Tom Tyler’s Game: Animals, Video Games, and Humanity
Glitter in the Rug: Review of Battle of the Linguist Mages by Scotto Moore
Glitter in the Rug: Review of Battle of the Linguist Mages by Scotto Moore Clara Cohen Under Review:Battle of the Linguist Mages. Scotto Moore. Tordotcom, January 2022. The title of this book is a bit misleading. Despite the many battles between linguist mages which explode regularly off the page, accompanied by showers of sparkles and … Continue reading Glitter in the Rug: Review of Battle of the Linguist Mages by Scotto Moore
Joyful Study: Review of Experimental Games: Critique, Play, and Design in the Age of Gamification by Patrick Jagoda
Joyful Study: Review of Experimental Games: Critique, Play, and Design in the Age of Gamification by Patrick Jagoda Eric Stein Under Review: Experimental Games: Critique, Play, and Design in the Age of Gamification. Patrick Jagoda. University of Chicago Press, 2020. Patrick Jagoda’s Experimental Games is a thorough, insightful elaboration of an art-critical practice that he … Continue reading Joyful Study: Review of Experimental Games: Critique, Play, and Design in the Age of Gamification by Patrick Jagoda
Review Copy Received: Kimberly Unger’s Nucleation
ARB regularly posts updates about review copies—print and digital—received by the editors and available for review. We receive this as a result of editor-direct outreach to presses to inquire about specific books and topics, as well as via our page describing review copy policy, available here. Update (9.9.2020): A reviewer has been secured for this … Continue reading Review Copy Received: Kimberly Unger’s Nucleation
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