The State of Play
  • Published: 15 November 2015
  • ISBN: 9781609806392
  • Imprint: Seven Stories Press
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $45.00

The State of Play

Creators and Critics on Video Game Culture

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Sixteen leading video game creators and opinion makers on the state of video game culture.

FEATURING: IAN BOGOST - LEIGH ALEXANDER - ZOE QUINN - ANITA SARKEESIAN & KATHERINE CROSS - IAN SHANAHAN - ANNA ANTHROPY - EVAN NARCISSE - HUSSEIN IBRAHIM - CARA ELLISON & BRENDAN KEOGH - DAN GOLDING - DAVID JOHNSTON - WILLIAM KNOBLAUCH - MERRITT KOPAS - OLA WIKANDER

The State of Play is a call to consider the high stakes of video game culture and how our digital and real lives collide. Here, video games are not hobbies or pure recreation; they are vehicles for art, sex, and race and class politics.

The sixteen contributors are entrenched—they are the video game creators themselves, media critics, and Internet celebrities.  They share one thing: they are all players at heart, handpicked to form a superstar roster by Daniel Goldberg and Linus Larsson, the authors of the bestselling Minecraft: The Unlikely Tale of Markus "Notch" Persson and the Game that Changed Everything.

The State of Play is essential reading for anyone interested in what may well be the defining form of cultural expression of our time.

"If you want to explain to anyone why videogames are worth caring about, this is a single volume primer on where we are, how we got here and where we're going next. In every way, this is the state of play." —Kieron Gillen, author of The Wicked + the Divine, co-founder of Rock Paper Shotgun
  • Published: 15 November 2015
  • ISBN: 9781609806392
  • Imprint: Seven Stories Press
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $45.00
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About the author

Daniel Goldberg

Daniel Goldberg and Linus Larsson are two
of Sweden’s best-known writers on new technology and the Internet. Their first book, Svenska Hackare, a nonfiction account of the Scandinavian hacker scene and phenomena such as The Pirate Bay, was published in spring 2011 to critical acclaim in Sweden. This is their first book to appear in English.

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Praise for The State of Play

"If you want to explain to anyone why videogames are worth caring about, this is a single volume primer on where we are, how we got here and where we're going next. In every way, this is the state of play."--Kieron Gillen, author of The Wicked + the Divine, co-founder of Rock Paper Shotgun
"Video games are now on the front lines of the culture wars. The State of Play gathers essential voices who are trying to make a more just, more true, more playful gamespace, one that's fun for everybody."--McKenzie Wark, author of Gamer Theory