Abstract

In this talk, Paolo Ruffino introduces the audience to his latest monograph ‘Future Gaming: Creative Interventions in Video Game Culture’ (2018, Goldsmiths and MIT Press). The talk highlights some of the ways in which the past, present, and future of games are narrated by a small group of producers, journalists, and gamers, and how differently those same stories could be told. Through a creative reading of video game culture, Ruffino investigates and re-interprets events such as GamerGate, the hacking of PlayStation Network, and the exhumation of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial from the desert of New Mexico.