Gameology: Commentary and Resources for the Game Studies Community

I would agree with you on this point Mark.

Computer games and console games still have very distinct interfaces and thus very distinct play experiences; blanketing them under the term videogame seems to elide some very important distinctions in favor of a console model. I say this because I associate "video" with a television interface. I think you are also right to point out the fact that the gamer community definitely makes and continues to reinscribe a certain division between console gamers (videogamers) and PC gamers (hobbyists) that cannot be ignored.

That is why I struggle in my own writing, always forcing myself to differentiate between the two. In that way I really don't mind the term "digital game" for its utility. Of course, I also would not want to just discard the various other sub-terms (videogame, computer game, arcade game).

Perhaps all my problems could be solved by using the blanket term videogame and then breaking it down into console games and computer games?

Tanner
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