“ Queerness in Play is exemplary, variegated, and accessible. By bringing queer perspectives on popular video games, like the Legend of Zelda series and League of Legends, together with research on queer gaming communities, the collection explores not just the place of queerness as it already exists in games but also the many possible queer futures for games and their players.” (Bonnie Ruberg, editor of Queer Game Studies) The collection builds on key issues, such as queer representation, queer gameplay, and queer players, pushing current conversations around queerness and games in thought-provoking new directions. “ Queerness in Play is an important contribution to the vibrant, growing field of queer game studies. This is an essential read for anybody interested in cutting edge game research in the intersection of gender and sexuality.” (Jenny Sundén, author of Gender and Sexuality in Online Game Cultures: Passionate Play) Queer here is not a property, but functions brilliantly as a way of acting and playing against the grain of hetero-normality. “In the midst of the contentious culture of digital games, Queerness in Play is an urgent collection of essays in which the authors both trace and create queer possibility spaces in games by revisiting and reinventing the field of game studies.
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