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

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"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 defin...

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Online Access: Full Text (via MIT Press)
Main Author: Consalvo, Mia, 1969-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2007.
Subjects:
Cheating at video games.
Video games industry > Corrupt practices.
Video games > Moral and ethical aspects.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : To cheat or not to cheat : is that even the question?
  • pt. 1. A cultural history of cheating in games.
  • Creating the market : Easter eggs and secret agents
  • Guidance goes independent : the rise of the strategy guide publishers
  • Genies, sharks and chips : the technological side to cheating
  • pt. 2. Game players.
  • Gaining advantage : how videogame players define and negotiate cheating
  • The cheaters
  • Busting punks and policing players : the anti-cheating industry
  • A mage's chronicle : cheating and life in Vana'diel
  • pt. 3. Capital and game ethics.
  • Capitalizing on paratexts : gameplay, ethics, and everyday life.

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