[Air-L] New Books Announcement: Violent Games & Music Games

[Gerald Voorhees]

It is my great pleasure to announce the impending publication of two new
volumes in the Approaches to Digital Game Studies
<http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/series/approaches-to-digital-game-studies/> book
series.

Violent Video Games: Rules, Realism, and Effect
<http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/violent-games-9781628925609/>(Gareth Schott,
Senior Lecturer at the University of Waikato, New Zealand). This
monograph draws
on new insights achieved from research located at an intersection between
humanities, social and computer sciences, to interrogate the nature and
meaning of the “violence” encountered and experienced by game players. In
focusing on the various ways "violence" is mediated by both the rule system
and the semiotic layer of games, the aim is to draw out the distinctiveness
of games' exploitation of violence or violent themes.

Music Video Games: Performance, Politics, and Play
<http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/music-video-games-9781501308536/> (Michael
Austin, Assistant Professor at Howard University, USA). This anthology
investigates
important themes surrounding the ways in which we play music and play with
music in video games. Starting with the precursors to music games -
including Simon, the hand-held electronic music game from the 1980s, this
collection goes on to discuss issues in musicianship and performance,
authenticity and “selling out,” and composing, creating, and learning music
with video games.

Both volumes will be available on July 28, 2016 in paperback, hardback, and
various ebook formats.

Orders via Bloomsbury will receive a 30% discount with the coupon code
"gamestudies" on the checkout page.

Authors interested in proposing a volume to the series can learn more at
https://sites.google.com/site/approachestodigitalgamestudies/ and contact
the series editors at gamestudies.books at gmail.com.


Gerald Voorhees
Assistant Professor
University of Waterloo