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(Editor-in-Chief in GameGeneration)
Andrei Zanescu is a postdoctoral fellow and part-time faculty member in Communication Studies, and Anthropology & Sociology, at Concordia University, in Montreal, Canada. He specializes in AAA studio cultural adaptation practices involving resonance as a corporate strategy, as well as the legitimation of games through the formation of awards bodies tied to film and television cultural capital. He regularly publishes game and platform studies concerning a range of games (Assassin's Creed, Magic the Gathering & DOTA 2) and awards bodies, and in New Media & Society (2021), Games & Culture (2024), The Journal of Consumer Culture (2021) and Convergence (Forthcoming). He is also a co-author of Streaming by the Rest of Us: Microstreaming Videogames on Twitch (MIT Press, 2025).
(Editor-in-Chief in GameGeneration)
Game critic and researcher. Since 2015, he has made games his life's work—as a critic, examining how games relate to society, and as a researcher, exploring how games, as commodities, take their place within it. He is the author of Mario, Born in '81 (2017) and The Birth of In-Game Spending (2022), among other works, and has contributed to documentaries including EBS's Docuprime as well as columns across various outlets. He received his PhD from the Graduate School of Communication at Yonsei University for his research analyzing digital games as time-rights commodities. He is the director of the game research lab Dragon Lab and serves as editor-in-chief of Game Generation.
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