Playing war : military video games after 9/11 /

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No video game genre has been more popular or more lucrative in recent years than the "military shooter." Franchises such as Call of Duty, Battlefield, and those bearing Tom Clancy's name turn over billions of dollars annually by promising to immerse players in historic and near-future...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Payne, Matthew Thomas (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : New York University Press, [2016]
Subjects:
War video games > Psychological aspects.
War video games > Social aspects.
Jeux vidéo de guerre > Aspect psychologique.
Jeux vidéo de guerre > Aspect social.
GAMES > Reference.
GAMES > Travel Games.
War video games > Psychological aspects
Alltag
Computerspiel
Gesellschaft
Kriegführung
Kriegsspiel
Subjektivität
Virtualisierung
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : welcome to ludic war
  • Nintendo war 2.0 : towards a new modality of ludic war play
  • The first-personal shooter : narrative subjectivity and sacrificial citizenship in the modern warfare series
  • Fighting the good (preemptive) fight : American exceptionalism in Tom Clancy's military shooters
  • Through a drone, darkly : visions of dystopic ludic war
  • Marketing military realism : selling the gameplay modality of ludic war
  • Promotion of self in everyday strife : gaming capital of the ludic soldier
  • Conclusion : the ludification of war culture.

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