Video Electronic Games category: 1829 books
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.
All Your Base Are Belong to Us
How Fifty Years of Videogames Conquered Pop Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
Through the stories of gaming's greatest innovations and most beloved creations, journalist Harold Goldberg captures the creativity, controversy--and passion--behind the videogame's meteoric rise to the top of the pop-culture pantheon.
Over the last fifty years, video games have grown from...
by John Shirley
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2011
WHAT KIND OF MAN MAKES A LIVING IN HELL?
His name’s Roland. Soldier class, a former mercenary, he’s on a full-time mission to scrape a living out of the most dangerous planet in the galaxy.
Is he qualified? He’s well armed, he’s ruthless, and he’s tougher than skag hide. And,...
You Died
The Dark Souls Companion
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Award-winning journalists Keza MacDonald and Jason Killingsworth embark on a far-ranging exploration of Dark Souls one of the most influential, enigmatic and best-loved video games in history and the slightly mad people who play it. It has three questions at its heart: where did Dark Souls come from,...
Making Democracy Fun
How Game Design Can Empower Citizens and Transform Politics
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2014
Drawing on the tools of game design to fix democracy.
Anyone who has ever been to a public hearing or community meeting would agree that participatory democracy can be boring. Hours of repetitive presentations, alternatingly alarmist or complacent, for or against, accompanied by constant heckling,...
101 Awesome Builds
Minecraft® Secrets from the World's Greatest Crafters
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
With more than 100 million participants Minecraft has become a global craze and is one of the most popular video games ever
101 Awesome Builds provides players at all levels the tools to excel in the most popular aspect of the game: building. Featuring step-by-step, colorful guides to builds...
Limitless Sky
No Man's Sky Unofficial Discovery Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
A game of survival, exploration, and discovery, No Man's Sky is one of the fastest-growing phenomena in video game history, attracting and astounding players of all ages. The game's 18 quintillion planets are procedurally generated, meaning you could very well be the first person to ever set eyes...
by Bioware, Jeremy Barlow
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
Mass Effect: Andromeda, one of the year's most hotly anticipated video games, will be released in Spring 2017. Dark Horse is pleased to be releasing Mass Effect: Discovery, the canonical comic continuation!
A young Turian military recruit goes undercover in order to infiltrate the mysterious...
by Adam Aarons
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2010
Special limited introductory price.
With hundreds of pages, 40 images, & dozens of up to date links, The No Bull MAME Arcade Builder's Guide is the ultimate resource for anyone thinking about building the arcade of their dreams.
The guide covers everything from initial concept & planning...
Master Builder 3.0 Advanced
Minecraft® Secrets and Strategies from the Game's Greatest Players
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
The smash hit video game Minecraft continues to grow in popularity and in gameplay, adding more features and updating existing ones to make them richer and more complex. Players who mastered the basics with Minecrafter and leveled up with Minecrafter 2.0 Advanced can now become experts with Minecrafter...