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1. Why Study Videogames?  2. What is a Videogame? Rules, Puzzles and Simulations: Defining the Object of Study  3. Manufacturing Fun: Platforms, Development, Publishing and Creativity  4. Videogame Players: Who Plays, for How Long and What it’s Doing to Them  5. Videogame Structure: Levels, Breaks and Intermissions  6. Narrative and Play, Audiences and Players: Approaches to the Study of Videogames  7. Videogames, Space and Cyberspace: Exploration, Navigation and Mastery  8. Videogames Players and Characters: Narrative Functions and Feeling Cyborgs  9. Social Gaming and the Culture of Videogames: Competition and Collaboration On and Off Screen  10. Future Gaming: Online/Mobile/Retro  Bibliography  Index