[ecrea] New Books Announcement: Violent Games & Music Games

It is my great pleasure to announce the impending publication of two new 
volumes in the Approaches to Digital Game Studies 
<http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/series/approaches-to-digital-game-studies/> 
book series.

Violent Video Games: Rules, Realism, and Effect 
<http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/violent-games-9781628925609/>(Gareth 
Schott, Senior Lecturer at the University of Waikato, New Zealand). This 
monograph draws on new insights achieved from research located at an 
intersection between humanities, social and computer sciences, to 
interrogate the nature and meaning of the “violence” encountered and 
experienced by game players. In focusing on the various ways "violence" 
is mediated by both the rule system and the semiotic layer of games, the 
aim is to draw out the distinctiveness of games' exploitation of 
violence or violent themes.

Music Video Games: Performance, Politics, and Play 
<http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/music-video-games-9781501308536/> (Michael 
Austin, Assistant Professor at Howard University, USA). This anthology 
investigates important themes surrounding the ways in which we play 
music and play with music in video games. Starting with the precursors 
to music games - including Simon, the hand-held electronic music game 
from the 1980s, this collection goes on to discuss issues in 
musicianship and performance, authenticity and “selling out,” and 
composing, creating, and learning music with video games.

Both volumes will be available on July 28, 2016 in paperback, hardback, 
and various ebook formats.

Orders via Bloomsbury will receive a 30% discount with the coupon code 
"gamestudies" on the checkout page.

Authors interested in proposing a volume to the series can learn more at 
https://sites.google.com/site/approachestodigitalgamestudies/ and 
contact the series editors at (gamestudies.books /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(gamestudies.books /at/ gmail.com)>.


Gerald Voorhees
Assistant Professor
University of Waterloo

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