Video Electronic Games category: 1829 books
Video Games
An Introduction to the Industry
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
A highly visual, example-led introduction to the video game industry, its context and practitioners. Video Games explores the industry's diversity and breadth through its online communities and changing demographics, branding and intellectual property, and handheld and mobile culture.
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Parables of the Posthuman
Digital Realities, Gaming, and the Player Experience
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2015
In its intimate joining of self and machine, video gaming works to extend the body into a fluid, dynamic, unstable, and discontinuous entity. While digital gaming and culture has become a popular field of academic study, there has been a lack of sustained philosophical analysis of this direct gaming...
by The Cheat Mistress
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
Hello, and welcome to an exciting new video game ezine, EZ Gamer. Throughout this text-based ezine we aim to provide you with an insightful view on all things video games. We are dedicated gamers with many years of video games experience - We believe a social life is not necessary if there's an awesome...
Gaming Representation
Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Video Games
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
Recent years have seen an increase in public attention to identity and representation in video games, including journalists and bloggers holding the digital game industry accountable for the discrimination routinely endured by female gamers, queer gamers, and gamers of color. Video game developers...
Playing with Sound
A Theory of Interacting with Sound and Music in Video Games
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
An examination of the player's experience of sound in video games and the many ways that players interact with the sonic elements in games.
In Playing with Sound, Karen Collins examines video game sound from the player's perspective. She explores the many ways that players interact with a game's...
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...
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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....
by The Cheat Mistress
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2012
Cheats Unlimited are the specialists when it comes to video game cheats, tips and walkthrough guides. Fronted by the glamorous and gorgeous CheatMistress, Cheats Unlimited has helped over seven million gamers worldwide over the last 12 years. Through phone lines, fax machines, the Web and WAP sites...
Virtual Ascendance
Video Games and the Remaking of Reality
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2013
From school lunchrooms to the White House press room, video games are an integral part of our popular culture, and the industry behind them touches all aspects of our lives, gamer and non-gamer alike. Business and entertainment, health and medicine, politics and war, social interaction and education,...
Videogames for Humans
Twine Authors in Conversation
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
"Thanks to tools like Twine and to a vigorous creative scene, alternative creators have seized control of that creaky word, hypertext, hybridized it with the videogames they grew up loving, and have turned it into a powerful, in-your-face, diverse, exciting field. Voices we have never heard before....
Silent Hill
The Terror Engine
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2012
Silent Hill: The Terror Engine, the second of the two inaugural studies in the Landmark Video Games series from series editors Mark J. P. Wolf and Bernard Perron, is both a close analysis of the first three Silent Hill games and a general look at the whole series. Silent Hill, with its first title...
by Kyle W. Bell
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 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. This guide...
Debugging Game History
A Critical Lexicon
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
Essays discuss the terminology, etymology, and history of key terms, offering a foundation for critical historical studies of games.
Even as the field of game studies has flourished, critical historical studies of games have lagged behind other areas of research. Histories have generally been...
by The Cheatmistress, The Cheat Mistress
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
Cheats Unlimited are the specialists when it comes to video game cheats, tips and walkthrough guides. Fronted by the glamorous and gorgeous CheatMistress, Cheats Unlimited has helped over seven million gamers worldwide over the last 12 years. Through phone lines, fax machines, the Web and WAP sites...