The book you are currently holding in your hands is an offshoot of my Master's thesis entitled "A Genre Analytic Study of the Game Review Sections of Video Game Magazines". The reader might maintain that there is no difference between the original work and the offshoot and they would be right. The difference lies neither in the end product nor in the process of production, but in the approach to the product. As this was a linguistics thesis, my focus was primarily on the linguistic aspects of vi ...