Replicación y extensçao: the missing Latin American experience in global games scholarship

From their development in the early 1960s to their global prominence today, video games are an increasingly ubi-quitous feature of entertainment culture. Likewise, video games and their supposed and actual effects on players fea-ture prominently in public discourse and academic research. However, international scholarly outlets have largely omit-ted the Latin American experience with video games, despi-te the region’s sustained and growing gaming culture—in some cases, with gameplay rates that outpace regions that are more commonly featured in scholarship (such as the United States). This essay presents as a broad call for scho-larship that directly engages with Latin American gamers and gaming culture, as part of larger efforts to move media communication research towards authentic and meaning-ful global engagement.

Games are global but how about games scholarship? -- Latin american-focused games scholarship lacking in international journals -- A need for non-weird data -- Immediate opportunities for diversifying published research -- Replications as key scholarly contributions -- Conclusion