With the volume, Dr. Hart invites readers to engage a wide variety of academic perspectives that discuss shifts in video game production and marketing in the face of an evolving and maturing gaming public. These essays offer a far more complex and compelling discussion beyond a “dollars and cents” economic analysis of the video game industry; they also provide insight into the interplay between the industry and how it creates and markets games for changing audiences.

Nicholas D. Bowman, West Virginia University

There is a web of critical issues at play in the economic world of games, and Hart’s collection begins to untangle them. These essays start a much needed conversation about the unseen economic motivations in gaming culture.

Sky LaRell Anderson, Denison University

The reality of the video game industry is that it is a business and economic forces have tremendous impact upon its growth and development. The Evolution and Social Impact of Video Game Economics functions as a valuable guide to game scholars for understanding how such forces interact with the games that they play and study.

Matthew Wysocki, Flagler College