Critical Game Studies and Its Afterlives: Why Game Studies Needs Software Studies and Computer History

My peer-reviewed article and field review, “Critical Game Studies and Its Afterlives: Why Game Studies Needs Software Studies and Computer History” is now published on Just Tech, the digital publishing platform for the Social Science Research Council!

In this article, I perform a field review of critical game studies’ past, present, and my hopes for the future of the field, linking the study of games to ongoing antiracist, feminist, queer, and trans critiques of games, play, software, and computer history.

You can download a PDF copy of the article below, or read the article on the Just Tech website here: https://just-tech.ssrc.org/field-reviews/critical-game-studies-and-its-afterlives-why-game-studies-needs-software-studies-and-computer-history/