The Videogame Industry Does Not Exist, my new book with @themitpress is out now! This is my attempt to intervene in how we talk and think about gamemaking as not just an entertainment industry but as a cultural field, built up from complex tensions between commercial and creative pressures and identities.

It's open access, and you can read it here: https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5572/The-Videogame-Industry-Does-Not-ExistWhy-We-Should

I wrote a long thread on Twitter with a bunch of excerpts which I won't reproduce here, but it's there if you're interested: https://twitter.com/BRKeogh/status/1648452116749643778

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I've admittedly drifted back to Twitter this past month or so. Network effects are strong! But I should note here as well that my new book is out next week, and this week I received my author copies and this was very exciting.

Details on the book here: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262545402/

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Look at these amazing blurbs from amazing people for my forthcoming book, The Videogame Industry Does Not Exist

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https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262545402/