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As players attempt to 'pass' in Octodad or explore the pleasure of failure in Burnout: Revenge, Ruberg asserts that, even within a dominant gaming culture that has proved to be openly hostile to those perceived as different, queer people have always belonged in video games-because video games have, in fact, always been queer.

Miller can bring to the popular 2007 video game Portal, or what Eve Sedgwick offers Pong, Ruberg models the ways game worlds offer players the opportunity to explore queer experience, affect, and desire. In the first book dedicated to bridging game studies and queer theory, Ruberg resists the common, reductive narrative that games are only now becoming more diverse. Video Games Have Always Been Queer argues that the medium of video games itself can-and should-be read queerly. 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 can be played, interpreted, and designed queerly, whether or not they include overtly LGBTQ content. Queer Game Studies features essays by game designers, journalists and academics, some from the very first. Smith, Creative Applications, Queer Game Studies- an Alternative Lens for Reading VideogamesĬhiconuclear, Anait Games, Queer Game Studies, de Adrienne Shaw y Bonnie Ruberg (eds.Argues for the queer potential of video games I co-edited this anthology with Bonnie Ruberg. Raymond Simon, Game On!, Off the Bookshelf: Queer Game Studies Marcus Tran Degnan, LA Review of Books, Gaming Gone QueerĪlex Tunney, Lambda Literary, Queer Game Studies Review Woohoo, it’s official The board of the Society of Cinema and Media Studies has selected Liz Ellcessor (University of Virgina) and myself as the new incoming co-editors-in-chief of the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies the premier peer-reviewed academic journal in the field of media studies.

Jason Lajoie, Electronic Book Review, What is queer game studies?Ĭharley Reed, Critical Studies in Media Communication Tasia Alexopoulos, Feminist Media Studies Deshane, First Person Scholar, Re-imagining the Borderlands The index was written by Cathy Hannabach from Ideas on Fire.Į. 4In The Queer Games Avant-Garde: Reimagining the Medium of Video Games, Bonnie Ruberg has pieced together a series of interviews with game makers which focus on the queering of video games as well as on the creators’ personal narratives and aspirations related to the creative process. It is a landmark anthology on what we are calling a paradigm shift, where queer topics are not just discussed in games but key concepts from queer theory are shifting the very boundaries of game studies.

Queer Game Studies features essays by game designers, journalists and academics, some from the very first Queerness and Games Conference. I co-edited this anthology with Bonnie Ruberg.