The Routledge Companion to Video Game Studies

"The number of publications dealing with video game studies has exploded over the course of the last decade, but the field has not yet produced a comprehensive reference work. The Routledge Companion to Video Game Studies, by well-known video game scholars Mark Wolf and Bernard Perron, aims to address the on-going theoretical and methodological development of game studies, providing students, scholars, and game designers with a definitive look at contemporary video game studies. Features include: -comprehensive and interdisciplinary models and approaches for analyzing video games; -new perspectives on video games both as art form and cultural phenomenon; -explorations of technical and creative dimensions of video games; -accounts of the economical, political, social, and cultural dynamics of video games"--

Mark J. P. Wolf is a Full Professor and Department Chair in the Communication Department at Concordia University, Wisconsin. His books include Abstracting Reality, The Medium of the Video Game, Virtual Morality, The Video Game Theory Reader, The Video Game Explosion, The Video Game Theory Reader 2, Myst and Riven: The World of the D'ni, Before the Crash, The Encyclopedia of Video Games, and Building Imaginary Worlds. With Bernard Perron, he is the co-editor of the Landmark Video Game book series.

Bernard Perron is Full Professor of Cinema at the University of Montreal. His books include The Video Game Theory Reader, The Video Game Theory Reader 2, Horror Video Games, Silent Hill: The Terror Engine, and Figures de Violence. With Mark J. P. Wolf, he is the co-editor of Landmark Video Game book series.