bAn analysis of the game engine Unreal through feminist, race, and queer theories of technology and media, as well as a critique of the platform studies framework itself.b pIn this first scholarly book on the Unreal game engine, iEnacting Platformsi, James Malazita explores one of the major contemporary game development platforms through feminist, race, and queer theories of technology and media, revealing how Unreal produces, and is produced by, broader intersections of power. Taking a novel critical platform studies approach, he also raises deeper questions what are the material and cultural limits of platforms themselves What is the relationship between the analyst and the platform of study, and how does that relationship in part determine what counts as the platform itself Malazita also offers a forward-looking critique of the platform studies framework itself. pThe Unreal platform serves as a kind of technical and political archive of the games industry, highlighting how the techn