A review by enriquedcf
The State of Play: Creators and Critics on Video Game Culture by Cara Ellison, William Knoblauch, Linus Larsson, Ian Bogost, Katherine Cross, Zoë Quinn, Anita Sarkeesian, Ian Shanahan, Dan Golding, Evan Narcisse, David Johnston, Leigh Alexander, Hussein Ibrahim, Anna Anthropy, Merritt Kopas, Ola Wikander, Daniel Goldberg, Brendan Keogh
5.0
Back when I bought this book in 2015, I didn't expect most of the issues discussed in these essays to still be around in 2019. That's both the most interesting and depressing thing about The State of Play, that this industry hasn't changed much in the past years, and an updated collection of essays could deal with the same topics, along with newer problems in the video game industry.
As any collection of essays, not all of them are great, but overall the quality of the writing and the approach to the themes by the different authors is pretty good; I would recommend this book to anyone that cares about videogames beyond the most basic stuff and I hope we eventually get a 2020 edition.
As any collection of essays, not all of them are great, but overall the quality of the writing and the approach to the themes by the different authors is pretty good; I would recommend this book to anyone that cares about videogames beyond the most basic stuff and I hope we eventually get a 2020 edition.