I am a PhD candidate in the Science and Technology Studies Department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and have performed ethnographic fieldwork at Vicarious Visions over the past two and a half years. My dissertation research is titled, "Playing the New Economy: Video Game Development in India and the United States," and is being funded by a National Science Foundation grant. My work examines the diverse forces and activities -- laws, technologies, collaboration, and workplace cultures, for example -- that shape video game development, and make it tenable in today's globalized economy. My broader research questions, "What can the everyday worlds of video game developers teach us about the 'new' economy?" and "How do these worlds differ across national and cultural boundaries?" links the game industry to global processes.