Hey you, looking at the screen. Perhaps you can provide a definition of a gamer. If your answer is, “one who plays games,” you fail to grasp all that has become synonymous with the term. The stereotypes and the rare. The many and the few. The problematic entities that both nourish and hinder the video game industry.
Gamer Culture, Nintendo Wii, World of WarCraft
You’ve heard it before: “He plays World of Warcraft? He must be a nerd.” “Wait, that’s a girl? Seriously?” or even “Video games? Don’t you have a life?” Maybe you’ve even caught yourself in the middle of saying something like that. But whether we’ve said it, thought it or been told it, we’ve all been subject to them: gaming stereotypes.
