Electronic category: 5606 books
Gaming
Essays On Algorithmic Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2006
Video games have been a central feature of the cultural landscape for over twenty years and now rival older media like movies, television, and music in popularity and cultural influence. Yet there have been relatively few attempts to understand the video game as an independent medium. Most such efforts...
Metagaming
Playing, Competing, Spectating, Cheating, Trading, Making, and Breaking Videogames
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
The greatest trick the videogame industry ever pulled was convincing the world that videogames were games rather than a medium for making metagames. Elegantly defined as “games about games,” metagames implicate a diverse range of practices that stray outside the boundaries and bend the rules:...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
Games and simulations have emerged as new and effective tools for educational learning by providing interactivity and integration with online resources that are typically unavailable with traditional educational resources. Design, Utilization, and Analysis of Simulations and Game-Based Educational Worlds...
by Markospokus
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2012
This book is designed for and dedicated to all those who would like to start making electronic music, but don't exactly know where or how to begin. It’s designed to give you the kick start you need in order to save the time you would otherwise be spending finding out information for yourself,...
by Kevin Baker
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
The ultimate guide to retro game consoles, an ideal reference for collectors and enthusiasts..Write ups, specs and pictures of over 85 collectible consoles and variant models from 1972 to 2000. From the Magnavox Odyssey right through to the Sega Dreamcast.Including the history of the evolution of electronic...
by Marcus Lindley
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013
This book describes in detail the Wii hardware, technical problems, most popular Wii games and how people play their Wii and Gamecube ROMs/games on a standard PC. A useful section is the list of GameCube games that work on the Wii. Many GC games have better graphics than the PS1 and Xbox, with some...
Weekend Societies
Electronic Dance Music Festivals and Event-Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
From massive raves sprouting around the London orbital at the turn of the 1990s to events operated under the control of corporate empires, EDM (Electronic Dance Music) festivals have developed into cross-genre, multi-city, transnational mega-events. From free party teknivals proliferating across Europe...
by Dina Santorelli
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Daft Punk are one of the most enigmantic and mysterious groups to exist in the modern age. Erupting out of the French house movement in the nineties, they continue to craft hugely popular, electronic masterpieces behind an inscrutable persona.
A Trip Inside The Pyramid is the first book to...
This Gaming Life
Travels in Three Cities
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2010
"In May 2000 I was fired from my job as a reporter on a finance newsletter because of an obsession with a video game.
It was the best thing that ever happened to me.”
So begins this story of personal redemption through the unlikely medium of electronic games. Quake*, World of...
by Hse Games
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
*UNOFFICIAL GUIDE* With my Ultimate Plants vs Zombies Garden Warfare Game Guide you will learn exactly what you need to know in order to become an expert player and beat every level! This is a complete guide with everything you need to know about the game. - Supports PC, Xbox, & Playstation. -...
Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism 2014
Proceedings of the International Conference in Dublin, Ireland, January 21-24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2014
The papers presented in this volume advance the state-of-the-art research on social media and Web 2.0, electronic tourism marketing, website development and evaluation, search engine marketing and optimization, IT adoption and diffusion, virtual travel communities, mobile technologies, management...
Music Video Games
Performance, Politics, and Play
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
Music Video Games takes a look (and listen) at the popular genre of music games – video games in which music is at the forefront of player interaction and gameplay. With chapters on a wide variety of music games, ranging from well-known console games such as Guitar Hero and Rock Band to new, emerging...
B-to-B Electronic Marketplaces
Successful Introduction in the Chemical Industry
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Evi Hartmann discusses the following research questions: What is the relation between a given purchase situation and the characteristics of a B-to-B E-marketplace? Can a fit between the two be defined from a relationship perspective? How does the interplay between the purchase situation and the B-to-B E-marketplace characteristics influence the success of a supplier relationship?
E-Commerce and Web Technologies
16th International Conference on Electronic Commerce and Web Technologies, EC-Web 2015, Valencia, Spain, September 2015, Revised Selected Papers
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
This book constitutes the revised proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Electronic Commerce and Web Technologies (EC-Web) held in Valencia, Spain, in September 2015.
The 10 full papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 28 submissions. The papers...