Video category: 1908 books
Digital Games as History
How Videogames Represent the Past and Offer Access to Historical Practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
This book provides the first in-depth exploration of video games as history. Chapman puts forth five basic categories of analysis for understanding historical video games: simulation and epistemology, time, space, narrative, and affordance. Through these methods of analysis he explores what these...
Video Gaming in Science Fiction
A Critical Study
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
As video gaming and gaming culture became more mainstream in the 1970s, science fiction authors began to incorporate aspects of each into their work. This study examines how media-fueled paranoia about video gaming—first emerging almost fifty years ago—still resonates in modern science fiction....
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Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2014
Shaman, paragon, God-mode: modern video games are heavily coded with religious undertones. From the Shinto-inspired Japanese video game Okami to the internationally popular The Legend of Zelda and Halo, many video games rely on religious themes and symbols to drive the narrative and frame the storyline....
Mondo Nano
Fun and Games in the World of Digital Matter
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
In Mondo Nano Colin Milburn takes his readers on a playful expedition through the emerging landscape of nanotechnology, offering a light-hearted yet critical account of our high-tech world of fun and games. This expedition ventures into discussions of the first nanocars, the popular video games Second...
Future Gaming
Creative Interventions in Video Game Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
A sophisticated critical take on contemporary game culture that reconsiders the boundaries between gamers and games.
This book is not about the future of video games. It is not an attempt to predict the moods of the market, the changing profile of gamers, the benevolence or malevolence of the...
by Helen Capone
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2013
Four years ago I started playing videopoker. As a lark I started to analyze hands and came up with my crib notes which I am sure help to get a winning hand. But unfortunately the machine has the last say. I studied the most common videopoker games but not all. My family felt I should include these...
Storytelling in Video Games
The Art of the Digital Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Beginning with the structural features of design and play, this book explores video games as both compelling examples of story-telling and important cultural artifacts. The author analyzes fundamentals like immersion, world building and player agency and their role in crafting narratives in the Mass...
by Naughty Dog Studios
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
Jak and Daxter. Uncharted. The Last of Us. One studio has been responsible for the most iconic video game experiences of this generation. Now, Dark Horse Books invites you on a thirty-year retrospective tour, observing Naughty Dog's rise from an ambitious upstart to one of the most influential game...
by Julian Murdoch
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
In The Art of BioShock Infinite, delve deeper into the city of Columbia—the fabled floating metropolis that serves as a beacon of technology and achievement for the early 1900s! This deluxe hardcover features production designs and concept illustrations focusing on main characters Booker DeWitt,...
The Game Console
A Photographic History from Atari to Xbox
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
The Game Console is a tour through the evolution of video game hardware, with gorgeous full-color photos of 86 consoles. You’ll start your journey with legendary consoles like the Magnavox Odyssey, Atari 2600, Nintendo Entertainment System, and the Commodore 64. The visual nostalgia trip continues...
Console Wars
Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPR, Slate, Publishers Weekly, Goodreads
Following the success of The Accidental Billionaires and Moneyball comes Console Wars—a mesmerizing, behind-the-scenes business thriller that chronicles how Sega, a small, scrappy gaming company led by an unlikely visionary...
Getting Started with Dwarf Fortress
Learn to play the most complex video game ever made
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2012
Dwarf Fortress may be the most complex video game ever made, but all that detail makes for fascinating game play, as various elements collide in interesting and challenging ways. The trick is getting started. In this guide, Fortress geek Peter Tyson takes you through the basics of this menacing realm,...
by Dean Takahashi
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
This book is an in-depth journalistic effort to uncover the inside story of the making of Microsoft's Xbox 360 console. It chronicles the passion and drive behind the team that made it, and the second edition is updated with new information about the console's defect problem.
Masters of Doom
How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2003
Masters of Doom is the amazing true story of the Lennon and McCartney of video games: John Carmack and John Romero. Together, they ruled big business. They transformed popular culture. And they provoked a national controversy. More than anything, they lived a unique and rollicking American Dream,...