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Myers's book makes a much-needed case for and contribution to video game studies addressing games as games (closed, fixed . 1) Myers manipulated the behavior of the other players without their knowledge or consent.

Myers's book makes a much-needed case for and contribution to video game studies addressing games as games (closed, fixed systems of rules that we interact with) rather than analyzing them primarily as narrative texts as we would with, say, literature or film. Myers provides a great foundation for and example of the direction that scholarly discourse on video games can and should go, a direction that involves increased theoretical rigor that will only make for a richer and more useful critical conversation.

Play Redux shows him continually relevant, never afraid of courting controversy. -Jesper Juul, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Play Redux is an ambitious description and critical analysis of the aesthetic pleasures of video game play, drawing on early twentieth-century formalist theory and models of literature. Employing a concept of biological naturalism grounded in cognitive theory, Myers argues for a clear delineation between the aesthetics of play and the aesthetics of texts.

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The book depicts a world becoming a series of less and less perfect games. A Playful Path by Bernard De Koven - ETC Press The book serves as a collection of ideas and tools to help us bring our playfulness back into the open

The book depicts a world becoming a series of less and less perfect games. PSX: The Guide to the Sony Playstation by Kevin Bryan - Lulu. com The Sony Playstation is the single most successful home video game system ever released, dominating in the USA and Europe. A Playful Path by Bernard De Koven - ETC Press The book serves as a collection of ideas and tools to help us bring our playfulness back into the open. When we find ourselves forgetting the life of the game or the game of life, this book can help us return to that which our soul is heir.

Play Redux is an ambitious description and critical analysis of the aesthetic pleasures of video game play .

Play Redux is an ambitious description and critical analysis of the aesthetic pleasures of video game play, drawing on early twentieth-century formalist theory and models of literature. Employing a concept of biological naturalism grounded in cognitive theory, Myers argues for a clear delineation between the aesthetics of play and the aesthetics of texts

Subject: Play - Social aspects.

Subject: Computer games - Social aspects. Subject: Play - Social aspects.

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David Myers is Reverend Aloysius B. Goodspeed Distinguished Professor at the School of Mass Communication, Loyola University New Orleans. Do you want to read the rest of this article? Request full-text.