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Why Game Studies Now? Video Games: A New Art Form

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Video games are a new art form, and this, the author argues, is one good reason why now is the right time for game studies. As a new art form, one largely immune to traditional tools developed for the analysis of literature and film, video games will challenge researchers to develop new analytical tools and will become a new type of "equipment for living," to use Kenneth Burke's phrase for the role of literature. This article discusses several of the features that make video games a unique art form, features that will, the author believes, come to play a role in analyses of games in the emerging field of game studies.

Key Words: video games • learning • psychology • education

Games and Culture, Vol. 1, No. 1, 58-61 (2006)
DOI: 10.1177/1555412005281788


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