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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452304803321

Autore

Consalvo Mia <1969->

Titolo

Cheating [[electronic resource] ] : gaining advantage in videogames / / Mia Consalvo

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2007

ISBN

1-282-09880-2

9786612098802

0-262-27074-9

1-4294-7966-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Disciplina

794.8

Soggetti

Cheating at video games

Video games industry - Corrupt practices

Video games - Moral and ethical aspects

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-220) and index.

Sommario/riassunto

"In Cheating, Mia Consalvo investigates how players choose to play games and what happens when they can't always play the way they'd like. She explores a broad range of player behavior, including cheating (alone and in groups); examines the varying ways that players and industry define cheating; describes how the game industry itself has helped systematize cheating; and studies online cheating in context in an online ethnography of Final Fantasy XI."--Jacket.