Gaming Representation

<p>Recent years have seen an increase in public attention to identity and representation in video games including journalists and bloggers holding the digital game industry accountable for the discrimination routinely endured by female gamers queer gamers and gamers of color. Video game developers are responding to these critiques but scholarly discussion of representation in games has lagged far behind. <i>Gaming Representation</i> examines portrayals of race gender and sexuality in a range of games from casuals like Diner Dash to indies like Journey and The Binding of Isaac to mainstream games from the Grand Theft Auto BioShock Spec Ops The Last of Us and Max Payne franchises. Arguing that representation and identity function as systems in games that share a stronger connection to code and platforms than it may first appear the contributors to this volume push gaming scholarship to new levels of inquiry theorizing and imagination.</p>