I am an avid gamer myself, and am in tune with a lot going on in gaming communities and check regularly, forums, websites, blogs for new movies, parodies, comics etc. for different works of fan fiction (which is work from the fans of a particular series/piece of work, but it is not from the original creators/writers/directors).
One of the more popular gaming works of fan fiction is the Red vs. Blue videos, which takes from the original Halo franchise and turns it into a comedic series of video's using the games characters and forming new dialogue for the characters.
There are so many example of fan fiction in gaming out there that it is hard to show someone how it works, unless they are in the culture, understand the workings and interests of the fans of this particular culture. But one game culture and community that I was apart of for a long time was form the game, Team Fortress 2. This community was one where fans are very important to the workings of the game itself, where developers of the game sent out polls, and ideas of the next levels or characters etc. and the gamers would send there own designs and ideas in, sort of like a competition and the community would vote for the best and the developers would implement the ideas into the game. Developers would constantly look for feedback and request that gamers sent in their ideas to further the game. There was a whole community surrounding this game alone, including comics, movies, blogs etc. this was one of my favorite works of fan fiction from the culture.
There is so much to cover in gaming cultures alone, that even games themselves can have cultures based around them. There are many exhibitions all over the world for gamers to attend and meet up, express there opinions and ideas, show others their own work, and meet the creators of the original work.
Some of the these Expo's are: Comic Con, California Extreme, Penny Arcade Expo (which is run by fans).
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