Tamer Thabet 
Game studies all over the place 
Video games and gamer identities

This work is meant to describe what constitutes the videogame identity according to game studies: aesthetics, fictions, meaning-making, performance, transformation, etc. and thus the difficulty facing game studies as an open market of ideas and an academic ‘un-discipline’. This inquiry leads the writer to the gamer’s identity; the aficionado and the connoisseur of fictional worlds.