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Thus, my hope is that a new wave of research can emerge that meets
somewhere between studying the virtual worlds of games, the play of gam-
ers and the creative productive and intensely laborious worlds of video game
developers. The collection of chapters contained in this volume is, perhaps,
a fi rst volley of renewed interest in understanding the broader phenomenon
that is “the video game industry.” As the very title of the volume indicates,
this is not the software industry, but something worthy of inquiry in and of
itself. This is the video game industry.
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