Video Electronic Games category: 1829 books
The Video Game Industry
Formation, Present State, and Future
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
The Video Game Industry provides a platform for the research on the video game industry to draw a coherent and informative picture of this industry. Previously this has been done sparsely through conference papers, research articles, and popular science books. Although the study of this industry is...
by Kyle W. Bell
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2011
Picking good games can be hard. Avoiding duds can be even more difficult. That's why smart consumers turn to experts on the subject. Game Freaks 365 was founded to help people choose games that are worth their hard-earned dollar and bypass games that are better suited for the trash can. Writing about...
by Anonymous
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2015
Secrets Behind Game Testing And Making Some Cash! Get All The Support And Guidance You Need To Be A Success At Game Testing! The technology of video games has progressed a great deal since the creation of the first video game systems. An example of an earlier video game would be Pong. In this game...
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by Eric Michael
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
Playstation 4 or Xbox One -- Which of the exciting new video game consoles should YOU buy?For the first time ever, entertainment giants Sony and Microsoft are squaring off in a straight-up battle for video game supremacy, as both companies roll out their long awaited systems simultaneously....
Video Game Policy
Production, Distribution, and Consumption
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
This book analyzes the effect of policy on the digital game complex: government, industry, corporations, distributors, players, and the like. Contributors argue that digital games are not created nor consumed outside of the complex power relationships that dictate the full production and distribution...
Gaming Matters
Art, Science, Magic, and the Computer Game Medium
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2011
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In his 2004 book Game Work, Ken S. McAllister proposed a rigorous critical methodology for the discussion of the “video game complex”—the games themselves, their players, the industry that produces them, and those who review and market...
Power-Up
How Japanese Video Games Gave the World an Extra Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2016
"Chris Kohler brings the passionate intensity of a hardcore fan to his writing, but he also has the background knowledge and the critical facilities to explore video games as an industry, as a medium, and as a cultural phenomenon." — Wired.
Why are Japanese video games a worldwide sensation?...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
Over a mere three decades, the video game has become the entertainment medium of choice for millions of people, who now spend more time in the interactive virtual world of games than they do in watching movies or even television. The release of new games or game-playing equipment, such as the PlayStation...
Retro Gaming Hacks
Tips & Tools for Playing the Classics
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005
Maybe it was the recent Atari 2600 milestone anniversary that fueled nostalgia for the golden days of computer and console gaming. Every Game Boy must ponder his roots from time to time. But whatever is driving the current retro gaming craze, one thing is certain: classic games are back for a big...
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Sex and Sexuality in Video Games
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
The word sex has many implications when it is used in connection with video games. As game studies scholars have argued, games are player-driven experiences. Players must participate in processes of play to move the game forward. The addition of content that incorporates sex and/or sexuality adds...
Ready Player Two
Women Gamers and Designed Identity
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Cultural stereotypes to the contrary, approximately half of all video game players are now women. A subculture once dominated by men, video games have become a form of entertainment composed of gender binaries. Supported by games such as Diner Dash, Mystery Case Files, Wii Fit, and Kim Kardashian: Hollywood—which...
Game Time
Understanding Temporality in Video Games
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
Preserving, pausing, slowing, rewinding, replaying, reactivating, reanimating. . . . Has the ability to manipulate video game timelines altered our cultural conceptions of time?
Video game scholar Christopher Hanson argues that the mechanics of time in digital games have presented a new model...
Blood, Sweat, and Pixels
The Triumphant, Turbulent Stories Behind How Video Games Are Made
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
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Developing video games—hero's journey or fool's errand? The creative and technical logistics that go into building today's hottest games can be more harrowing and complex than the games themselves, often seeming like an endless maze or a bottomless abyss. In Blood, Sweat,...
Your Video Streaming Guide
This Definitive Handbook Will Teach You How To Use Video Streaming And Will Let You Learn So Many Things Including Getting The Best Software Video Streaming, Streaming Video Recording Ideas, Finding The Excellent Streaming Video Player
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2012
Video is the medium that is used in the transfer of information, and we can all pretty much acknowledge that a video constitutes several different types of images strung together in a clip. Streaming video is a series of images that are constantly being streamed, or played and broadcasted,...