<p><b><i>FEATURING: </i></b>IAN BOGOST - LEIGH ALEXANDER - ZOE QUINN - ANITA SARKEESIAN &amp; KATHERINE CROSS - IAN SHANAHAN - ANNA ANTHROPY - EVAN NARCISSE - HUSSEIN IBRAHIM - CARA ELLISON &amp; BRENDAN KEOGH - DAN GOLDING - DAVID JOHNSTON - WILLIAM KNOBLAUCH - MERRITT KOPAS - OLA WIKANDER<br><br><i>The State of Play</i> is a call to consider the high stakes of video game culture and how our digital and real lives collide. Here, video games are not hobbies or pure recreation; they are vehicles for art, sex, and race and class politics.<br><br>The sixteen contributors are entrenched—they are the video game creators themselves, media critics, and Internet celebrities. They share one thing: they are all players at heart, handpicked to form a superstar roster by Daniel Goldberg and Linus Larsson, the authors of the bestselling <i>Minecraft: The Unlikely Tale of Markus &quot;Notch&quot; Persson and the Game that Changed Everything</i>.<br><br><i>The State of Play</i> is essential reading for anyone interested in what may well be the defining form of cultural expression of our time.</p><p>&quot;If you want to explain to anyone why videogames are worth caring about, this is a single volume primer on where we are, how we got here and where we're going next. In every way, this is the state of play.&quot; —Kieron Gillen, author of<i>The Wicked &#43; the Divine</i>, co-founder of Rock Paper Shotgun</p>