Consalvo, Mia,  1969- <br/><br/>
Cheating :  gaining advantage in videogames / 
Mia Consalvo. 
 - 228 p. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> Introduction : to cheat or not to cheat : is that even the question? --  A cultural history of cheating in games --  Creating the market : Easter eggs and secret agents --  Guidance goes independent : the rise of strategy guide publishers --  Genies, sharks, and chips : the technological side to cheating --  Game players --  Gaining advantage : how videogame players define and negotiate cheating --  The cheaters --  Busting punks and policing players : the anticheating industry --  A mage's chronicle : cheating and life in Vana'diel --  Capital and game ethics --  Capitalizing on paratexts : gameplay, ethics, and everyday life.  I.  1.  2.  3.  II.  4.  5.  6.  7.  III.  8. 
<br/><br/> "In Cheating, Mia Consalvo investigates how players choose to play games and what happens when they can't always play the way they'd like. She explores a broad range of player behavior, including cheating (alone and in groups); examines the varying ways that players and industry define cheating; describes how the game industry itself has helped systematize cheating; and studies online cheating in context in an online ethnography of Final Fantasy XI."--BOOK JACKET. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780262033657 (hardcover : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>Standard No.: </label>2492446 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2006030942 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Cheating at video games<br/>Video games industry--Corrupt practices<br/>Video games--Moral and ethical aspects
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>GV1469.34.C67  / C66 2007 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>794.8