When it comes to academic analysis, mainstream humanities research seems confused about what to do with videogames. The problem is one of the classifications, in the first instance: ‘is it a story, is it a game, or is it a machine?’ After weathering many controversies with regards to their cultural status, video games are now widely accepted as a new textual form that requires its own media-specific analysis. Despite the rapid rise in research and academic recognition, video game studies have seldom attempted to connect with older media and to locate itself within broader substantive discourses of the earlier and more established disciplines, especially those in the humanities. Video games and Storytelling aims to re-address this gap and to bring video games to mainstream humanities research and teaching.

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