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My Mother Was a Computer by N. Katherine Hayles
5 stars
We live in a world, according to N. Katherine Hayles, where new languages are constantly emerging, proliferating, and fading into …
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If the fantasy of control is the problem, then videogame controllers are the solution. What can videogames tell us about …
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How to Talk about Videogames by Ian Bogost
Videogames! Aren’t they the medium of the twenty-first century? The new cinema? The apotheosis of art and entertainment, the realization …
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Ghosts in the Machine by Lana Polansky
Ghosts in the Machine is an anthology of 13 original short stories that each look at the imperfections of life …
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How to Do Things with Videogames by Ian Bogost (Electronic Mediations)
4 stars
In recent years, computer games have moved from the margins of popular culture to its center. Reviews of new games …
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Gaming by Alexander R. Galloway (Electronic Mediations)
5 stars
Video games have been a central feature of the cultural landscape for over twenty years and now rival older media …
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4 stars
The definitive introduction to game theory.
This comprehensive textbook introduces readers to the principal ideas and applications of game theory, …
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Exploring Videogames with Deleuze and Guattari by Colin Cremin, Colin Cremin
Exploring Videogames with Deleuze and Guattari analyses different aspects of the medium, including the social and cultural context in which …
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Digital Games As History by Adam Chapman
This book provides the first in-depth exploration of video games as history. Chapman puts forth five basic categories of analysis …
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Approaches to Videogame Discourse by Astrid Ensslin, Isabel Balteiro
The first significant collection of research in videogame linguistics, Approaches to Videogame Discourse features an international array of scholars in …
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Metagaming by Stephanie Boluk, Patrick LeMieux (Electronic Mediations)
The greatest trick the videogame industry ever pulled was convincing the world that videogames were games rather than a medium …
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Half-Life 2: Raising the Bar by David Hodgson
4 stars
Unprecedented access behind Half-Life and Half-Life 2, forward by Valve founder Gabe Newell, hundreds of art, design, pre-production, and other …
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Masters of Doom by David Kushner
4 stars
“To my taste, the greatest American myth of cosmogenesis features the maladjusted, antisocial, genius teenage boy who, in the insular …
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5 stars
Computers invaded British homes for the first time in the early 1980s, with a wave of cheap, futuristic microcomputers that …
