Gaming: What You Need to Know about Video Games and Gaming Culture

The life of modern person today is all about video games. Even if you don't play yourself, you will meet for sure avid gamers around you, and the news from the games industry that not escaped you. This state of affairs leads to questions: what are video games and what place do they have in people's lives? The discipline of game studies is dedicated to answering these questions. Alexander Vetushinsky is one of the leading Russian representatives of this research area. His book Gaming is a philosophical reflection on the stages of game industry development, analysis of its established language and its place in modern cultural space.