Lecture – The Hardcore Gamer is Dead: Long Live Gamers (Ryan Moeller, Assoc. Prof., Dept. of English at Utah State University)
In this talk, Prof. Moeller argues that the ethos, identity, or the “dwelling places” of the “hardcore gamer” were created and maintained by the computer game industry in order to sell mass quantities of games to a relatively affluent consumer base with leisure time on...