Game Studies: Who Will Continue to Blaze the Trail?

Games Studies is a recently established field. Regardless of whether or not we agree that 2001 was the “year one” of this emerging, viable and international field (Aarseth, 2001), the truth is that videogames have not been around much longer. Games, of course, pre-date videogames and have been studied for over a hundred years in the context of other fields including anthropology and the social sciences (Juul, 2001). However, as far as videogames are concerned, there have not been more than ten years of systematic, concerted, and collective study, research, and publication. Continue reading →