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Book
Metagaming: Playing, Competing, Spectating, Cheating, Trading, Making, and Breaking Videogames
Typology category
enhancedAuthors
Stephanie Boluk and Patrick LeMieux
Publication year
2017
Experimental aspects:
Boluk and LeMieux shine a hundred spotlights on play’s diversity in, on, around, between, through, and without video games. Their wildly eclectic book careens from competitive e-sports and video game spectatorship to hacking, modding, speedrunning, experimenting, and critiquing video games—all valid ways of engaging with the medium that tend to fall outside analyses which see these activities as merely the metagame.