# Real Games

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- Book: [Real Games](https://www.bookquiver.com/mia-consalvo/real-games) ([Real Games.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/mia-consalvo/real-games.md))
- Authors: [Mia Consalvo](https://www.bookquiver.com/mia-consalvo), [Christopher A. Paul](https://www.bookquiver.com/christopher-a-paul)
- Publisher: the_mit_press
- ISBN: 978-02-6204-260-4
- Pages: 224
- Published: 2019-10-01
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Hardcover

## Description

How we talk about games as real or not-real, and how that shapes what games are made and who is invited to play them. In videogame criticism, the worst insult might be “That's not a real game!”...