How about playing a video game based on people’s experiences and cultures of the past. Game Studies touch upon a wide range of themes, including whether games can be used to communicate stories, to represent history, diversity and much more. This field entails critically analysing video games. Game Studies is a very new discipline worldwide, with primary research completed as recently as the 1990s.
This post presents an interview with Souvik Mukherjee, an assistant professor at Cultural Studies at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences (CSSS), who sheds light on this emerging area. In the interview, he speaks about – What is Game Studies? Is Game Studies a part of academic curricula globally? The major trends in Game Studies?
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