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In 2016, a female videogame programmer and a female journalist were harassed viciously by anonymous male online users in what became known as GamerGate. Male ga
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Future Gaming
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A sophisticated critical take on contemporary game culture that reconsiders the boundaries between gamers and games. This book is not about the future of video