Review of Christopher B. Patterson and Tara Fickle’s Made in Asia/America: Why Video Games Were Never (Really) About Us (2024)

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Book Review, Asia, America, gamevironments

A review of Christopher B. Patterson and Tara Fickle’s edited volume Made in Asia/America: Why Video Games Were Never (Really) About Us (2024).

Joleen Blom, Tampere University

Joleen Blom (PhD) is a postdoctoral researcher in the Centre of Excellence in Game Culture Studies at the Tampere University Game Research Lab. She researches the commercialization of game characters and their affective roles in games and transmedia monetization models, with a focus on Japanese popular culture. She is the author of Video Game Characters and Transmedia Storytelling (2023), and a co-editor of the edited collection Monstrosity in Games and Play (eds. Stang, Meriläinen, Blom, and Hassan 2025), both published at the Amsterdam University Press.