Matthew Thomas PayneMatthew Thomas Payne is Associate Professor of Film, Television, and Theatre at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana, USA. He is author of Playing War: Military Video Games after 9/ 11 (2016), co-author of Ultima & Wordbuilding in the Computer Role-Playing Game (2024) and is co-editor of How to Play Video Games (2019), Flow TV: Television in the Age of Media Convergence (2011) and Joystick Soldiers: The Politics of Play in Military Video Games (2009). Read More Read Less