# Cheating: Gaining Advantage in Videogames

- **Author:** Mia Consalvo
- **Read:** April 2008
- **Topic:** Technology
- **Published:** 2007
- **Pages:** 240
- **Picked by:** Tom
- **ISBN-13:** 9780262251211
- **Open Library:** https://openlibrary.org/works/OL9281256W
- **Cover:** https://rwbookclub.com/assets/images/covers/cheating-373.jpg
- **Canonical page:** https://rwbookclub.com/books/cheating/

## Synopsis

"In Cheating, Mia Consalvo investigates how players choose to play games and what happens when they can't always play the way they'd like. She explores a broad range of player behavior, including cheating (alone and in groups); examines the varying ways that players and industry define cheating; describes how the game industry itself has helped systematize cheating; and studies online cheating in context in an online ethnography of Final Fantasy XI."--Jacket.