Gaming Globally: Production, Play, and Place

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction....Pages 1-15
Front Matter....Pages 17-17
Who Plays, Who Pays? Mapping Video Game Production and Consumption Globally....Pages 19-39
Women in Video Games: The Case of Hardware Production and Promotion....Pages 41-57
Redefining the Console for the Global, Networked Era....Pages 59-73
Brazil: Tomorrow’s Market....Pages 75-77
Video Game Development in Argentina....Pages 79-81
Front Matter....Pages 83-83
Crafting a Path into Gaming Culture....Pages 85-90
Heterogeneity in Game Histories....Pages 91-99
Playing at Being Social: A Cross-Generational Case Study of Social Gaming in Shanghai, China....Pages 101-117
Unintended Travel: ROM Hackers and Fan Translations of Japanese Video Games....Pages 119-138
Front Matter....Pages 139-139
Equip Shield: The Role of Semipermeable Cultural Isolation in the History of Games and Comics....Pages 141-161
Indiana Jones Fights the Communist Police: Local Appropriation of the Text Adventure Genre in the 1980s Czechoslovakia....Pages 163-181
How Do You Say Gamer in Hindi?: Exploratory Research on the Indian Digital Game Industry and Culture....Pages 183-201
Australian Video Games: The Collapse and Reconstruction of an Industry....Pages 203-207
Front Matter....Pages 209-209
Game Censorship and Regulation in the United States....Pages 211-214
Space Wars: The Politics of Games Production in Europe....Pages 215-231
Internet Development and the Commercialization of Online Gaming in China....Pages 233-250
Video Game Development in the Middle East: Iran, the Arab World, and Beyond....Pages 251-271
Back Matter....Pages 273-279