Book description
Argues for the queer potential of video games
While popular discussions about queerness in video games often focus on big-name, mainstream games that feature LGBTQ characters, like Mass Effect or Dragon Age, Bonnie Ruberg pushes the concept of queerness in games beyond a matter of representation, exploring how video games…
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Why read it?
1 author picked Video Games Have Always Been Queer as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I always love finding work that challenges how I see things and shifts my perspective in some way. This is one of those books!
Even better, whenever I teach a group about this book and the arguments it makes about games a handful of people have a deep transformation about their understanding of games.
Reading this book will shake up how you think about video games, what they do, and how they work. And you might be in that group of people who can’t stop seeing the world in a different way because of your new perspective!
From Christopher's list on understanding games.
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