The textbook provides an accessible and comprehensive overview of the fundamental approaches of interdisciplinary Game Studies. With its clear division into the thematic areas of games, interfaces, and players, it serves as a foundation for seminars in cultural, media, and film studies, as well as a compact introduction for newcomers. The key fields, approaches, and methods of this new, multifaceted, and highly dynamic discipline are presented through central concepts and illustrated with selected examples. A particularly relevant focus from the perspective of cultural, media, and film studies is the previously overlooked aesthetic approaches to the audiovisual design of video games.