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videoludica.game culture is proud to present the first videoludica‘s cover designed by Gabriele Fantuzzi aka {Delicatessen} and Mauro Ceolin aka RGB Project. In the age of remix, hypermedia remakes and mash-ups, books are customizable like every other cultural artefacts. Like avatar’s skins, a book can be reinvented by a

0. SolidLandscapes. An oxymoron. There is nothing “solid” about these virtual landscapes. Solid comes from Latin “solidus”, indicating firm and stable objects. The virtual landscapes of the videogames, on the other hand, are fluid and unstable. They simulate solidity, but are fragile, more fragile than the reality we take for

Edited by Matteo Bittanti, videoludica. game culture is a series of books about critically acclaimed and much-loved videogames of the past 40 years. By turns passionate, creative, and always informed, the thought-provoking books in this series demonstrate many different styles of writing about videogames. What binds this series together,