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THE CULTURE OF THE FAN

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To say that we live in times of cultural explosion of the video game is not only no exaggeration, but it is probably shooting too low. In recent years we have lived an outbreak of not only launches, but also the formats, the ways we have to talk, inform ourselves, and relate to them. Video games have become older, at least for the purpose of having become one of the entertainment industries that collect more money. The contemporary video game can be compared to an iceberg: on the visible surface there are all those things that regularly occupy us-the present, the calendar of events, the new releases-, but under it most of the ice remains submerged, configuring a part of the culture that is unnoticed, invisible and mute. A culture of the video game that exists, but that is spoken very little, and that is not accidental at all that also turns out to be the least commercially exploitable part. Part 1: Games, the only thing matters Part 2: Why didn't you know any of this? Understandin...