The videogame industry does not exist : : why we should think beyond commercial game production / / Brendan Keogh.
The precarious reality of videogame production beyond the corporate blockbuster studios of North America. The videogame industry, we're invariably told, is a multibillion-dollar, high-tech business conducted by large corporations in certain North American, European, and East Asian cities. But m...
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