Livin’ Da Dream? Playing Black, Illusions of Meritocracy, and Narrative Constraints in Sports Video Game Story Modes

This article discusses sports video game story modes in Fight Night Champion (EA Canada, 2011), a boxing game, NBA 2K16 (Visual Concepts, 2015), a basketball game, and the story that stretches across Madden NFL 18 (EA Tiburon, 2017) and Madden NFL 19 (EA Tiburon, 2018), EA Sports’ annual football se...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Michael Fuchs
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: European Association for American Studies 2021-09-01
Series:European Journal of American Studies
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/ejas/17368