Gameology: Commentary and Resources for the Game Studies Community

Ian (and everyone else) Sure Aphra has a three paragraph discussion of what is at stakes with the term digital games in the introduction of her book (pages 3-4).

Her concern is that many designations are platform specific (videogames, computer games). She states that 'This book uses the term "digital games" to refer to the entire field and to embrace arcade, computer, console and mobile games in all their diversity' (3). Thus she uses digital games to refer to the entire field (4), while the other terms are used to deal with specific 'subsectors of the field' (4).

Check it out, its pretty sweet, really different from your work and the other work that Zach has been discussing here (Juul, Galloway) because its trying to describe how the digital games industry operates globally. I recommend it as teaching material.