by Randy Nichols
about Randy Nichols
Randy Nichols is an assistant professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington Tacoma. He is the author of The Video Game Business, co-author of Inside the Video Game Business and has written numerous chapters and articles on the political economy of the video game industry.
Pokémon Go
Abstract: Much of our thinking about video games focuses on immediate questions of design, play, and fun. Using the 2016 mobile game Pokémon Go as an example, Randy Nichols offers an analysis of gaming products—whether a software franchise or a hardware product—as emblematic of globalization, revealing insights about how video games are made and what that means for players.