“…Companies like Valve attempt to capture the metagame through international e-sports and online marketplaces while the corporate history of Super Mario Bros. is undermined by the endless levels of Infinite Mario, the frustrating pranks of Asshole Mario, and even Super Mario Clouds, a ROM hack exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art. One of the only books to include original software alongside each chapter, Metagaming transforms videogames from packaged products into instruments, equipment, tools, and toys for intervening in the sensory and political economies of everyday life. …”

“…Her work has been shown at Come Out and Play, UCLA Art Sci Center, The Whitney Museum for American Art and Creative Time. John Sharp is a designer, art historian, curator and educator with over twenty five years of involvement in the creation and study of art and design. …”