… people who watch television or play video games, whether they are … This book is not a
collection of instructions; video games … They don’t write about video games to assign a number of …

… games (and video games) as a new form of media entertainment, they typically highlight those
games… Not only do game players actively process information provided by the medium (as …

… mechanisms by which playing video games may foster real-world … gaming. Finally, we end
with a call to intervention researchers and practitioners to test the positive uses of video games…

… of role, rule, and pretend play in video games. With an eye toward … play across species, we
discuss whether video games may fulfil the five criteria from Burghardt (2005) to identify play. …

… The explosion in research on video games in the past 10 years has helped increase our
understanding of how video games affect players. It is clear that video games are powerful …

… In that sense, video game play is one of the most fundamentally important activities we can
take part in. For me though, there was a simpler reason that I was playing Warcraft that night, …

… This study investigates why people choose to watch others play video games, on services
such as … this emerging form of new media in the context of online games and video streams. …

… that characterize video games. Cheng is sensitive to the operatics of video game music (and …
Video games and game music share something with Baz Luhrmann’s Moulin Rouge, which …

… of video game play that children reported (“How often would you say you play video games…
A lot or a little?”), (b) what they did to make sure they understood how to play a game (“What …

… single PC games, the formation of the Chinese video game industry and market dates back
to the early 1980s. We begin with a brief history of the three forms of video games, including …