Phillip Penix-Tadsen is the author of the book Cultural Code: Video Games and Latin America (MIT Press, 2016), which brings together the critical vocabularies of game studies and Latin American studies to offer a synthetic theorization of the relationship between video games and culture. Currently, Penix-Tadsen is working on the edition of a new anthology, Video Games and the Global South, whose collaborators examine the versatile relationship between video games and the cultures of Africa, the Middle East, the Indian subcontinent and other parts of Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean. Prof. Penix-Tadsen received his Ph.D. in Latin American literature and culture from Columbia University, and is currently Associate Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies at the University of Delaware. He is a specialist in contemporary Latin American cultural studies, focusing on the intersections between politics, economics, new media and visual culture in Latin America today.