ABSTRACT
There is growing recognition that the twenty-first-century media landscape has been profoundly shaped by the rise of digital games to an unprecedented level of cultural prominence. Most commonly registered through its seismic impact on the economic terrain of the entertainment sector, the digital game has also transformed the stock of symbolic and social capital in which global popular culture has traded since the late 1970s. In recent years, moreover, digital games have opened up new modes of representation, expanded the critical lexicon, and stimulated distinctive contributions to debates surrounding music, the visual arts, film, literature, and new media.
