Book Review: Game: Animals, Video Games, and Humanity

Melissa Bianchi, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication, Media, and the Arts at Nova Southeastern University. Her scholarship contributes to ecomedia studies by examining how video games complicate notions of environmental agency, ecological responsibility, and the posthuman. Her recent publications include essays, such as “Ecoplay: The Rhetorics of Games about Nature” in Mediating Nature (Routledge, 2019) and “Lost in the Woods: Procedurality and the Uncanny in The Legend of Zelda Series” in Madness in the Woods (Peter Lang, 2020), along with forthcoming chapters in Ecogames (Amsterdam University Press) and Animals in Science Fiction (Palgrave Macmillan).