"The business of videogames is both a prestige industry and a very opaque one. Based on dozens of firsthand interviews and covering the development of landmark games including Bioshock: Infinite, Epic Mickey, Dead Space, and more, and through the studios' shocking closures, this book will tell...

Introduction : for whom the love works in digital game production? -- The unequal ludopolitical regime of game production : who can play, who has to work? -- The end of the garage studio as a technomasculine space : financial security, streamlined creativity, and signs of friction -- Gaming the...

Introduction : for whom the love works in digital game production? -- The unequal ludopolitical regime of game production : who can play, who has to work? -- The end of the garage studio as a technomasculine space : financial security, streamlined creativity, and signs of friction -- Gaming the...

"Through a series of over 160 interviews, Keogh provides unprecedented access into the lives of game producers, exposing the limits of the concept of the "videogame industry" and challenging core assumptions in videogame research around creativity, professionalism, labor, diversity, education,...

Overcoming the Exploitation of Passion in Videogame Labor: Passion Play examines the intersection of passion, precarity, and collocation to pinpoint where and how interventions can be made towards better working conditions. Jackson contends that videogames and passion are inextricably linked and...

This paper offers a legal and an economic analysis of collective dismissals procedures. First, it explains the economic rationale for having collective dismissal procedures in place, in light of the fact that labour markets are not perfect. Second, it overviews the international labour standards...