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The cross-cultural interactions of Japanese videogames and the West, from DIY localization by fans to corporate strategies of "Japaneseness."

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How we talk about games as real or not-real, and how that shapes what games are made and who is invited to play them.

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"While much of the academic literature on streaming focuses on stars, Consalvo and two of her students have received significant funding to study the behaviors of "microstreamers" -- game streamers who have an audience of 20 or few viewers"--

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In Players and Their Pets, Mia Consalvo and Jason Begy chart the brief life of a massively multiplayer online game (MMOG) called Faunasphere, examining how the game evolved over the course of its entire life cycle from 2009 to 2011 in terms of design as well as how its player community responded to changes and events.