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Videogame Distribution and Steam’s Imperialist Practices: Platform Coloniality in Game Distribution
by Tathagata Mukherjee Published September 2023 Download full pdf of article here. Abstract With more than 120 million active monthly users (Steam, 2021) and over 44,000 games available for purchase (SteamSpy, 2021), Steam is a central figure with a near-monopolistic grasp over videogame distribution for desktop computing users. Its expansion into non-anglophone territories and displacement Continue reading
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