What Is Playing Cyborg: An Investigation of the Gamer as a Figure

The Trophy Called “Asian Hands”

“…However, the local gaming communities formed around individual games might have no recognition of this global community or fighting games as a category, as was revealed in my MPhil fieldwork in India (New Delhi and Mussoorie), where the interviewed gamers affiliated themselves to a single game and insisted that one game was completely differ ent from any other. 15 The fGC has no central governing body or institution. It is an imagined international community held together by lore regarding origins, legends about heroes, and stories from the undocumented under ground past.…”