This course explores the relationship between videogames and culture by analyzing both in-game cultural representation and the real-life economic, political and societal effects of games across Latin America. Although this region may not be the first to come to mind when thinking of videogames, an examination of Latin America’s diverse contexts offers a unique view of how products of “global” media are transformed by local and regional practices particular to the multiple markets in which those media circulate. This course focuses on an explanation of key concepts for understanding the relationship between culture and games, including the effects of gameplay, spatialization and algorithmic structure on videogames’ meaning, as well as the social, political and economic implications of videogames as a cultural phenomenon.