Metagaming Playing, Competing, Spectating, Cheating, Trading, Making, and Breaking Videogames

• Main Author: Boluk, Stephanie (auth)
• Other Authors: LeMieux, Patrick (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: University of Minnesota Press 2017
• Series: Electronic Mediations
• Subjects: Ethical & social aspects of IT; Computer games / online games: strategy guides; Popular culture; Science & Technology Studies; Sociology; Cultural Studies
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

The greatest trick the videogame industry ever pulled was convincing the world that videogames were games rather than a medium for making metagames. Elegantly defined as "games about games," metagames implicate a diverse range of practices that stray outside the boundaries and bend the rul...