Game history did not unfold uniformly and the particularities of space and place matter. Yet many digital game and software histories are silent with respect to geography. The orthodoxy that the U.S. and Japan \u2013 and to a lesser extent the U.K. \u2013 constituted the \u2018centres\u2019 at the outset of the industry has enjoyed such legitimacy that many accounts do not even bother to mention the \u2018where\u2019 that their material or statistics pertain to. That many histories have been written by journalists and \u2018insiders\u2019 \u2013 comprising what Huhtamo calls the \u201cchronicle era\u201d of game history \u2013 largely accepting the game industry\u2019s \u2018global\u2019 rhetoric has no doubt contributed to this situation. However, it means that locality has largely been left out of game history (with some notable exceptions), at least until recently. Given the great historic diversity of games and contexts for their play, an appreciation of socio-cultural and geographic specificity is important to develop, particularly if other histories are to be told, for instance, from the \u2018periphery\u2019 rather than the \u2018centre\u2019.<\/p>\n
There is a burgeoning interest in discussing locality with respect to game history. Whilst this degree of interest is welcome, the local needs to be critically-situated if it is not to simply become a new orthodoxy, celebrated for its own sake.<\/p>\n
This anthology is intended to bring together scholarship which addresses the critical potential of the local for game history, asking how this might encourage a maturation of historical work on and around games.<\/p>\n
Please send abstracts (300 words) and a brief bio to melanie.swalwell@flinders.edu.au by 31st August, 2015. Full papers will be due in February 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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