More than Let's Plays? Towards a content analysis ofgame-related YouTube videos

From the very beginning, digital games have never been solely about individual experience.They have been part of shared experiences involving co-presence, collaborative exploration, spectatorship and community building in private and public contexts (Nakazawa 1984).In addition, respective discourse about games and the experience of play took place in magazines, advertisements, walkthrough guides and game centers' communication notes (Picard 2013, Kato 2011).