Video Electronic Games category: 1829 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...
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...
The Ultimate History of Video Games: Volume Two
from Pong to Pokemon and beyond...the story behind the craze that touched our li ves and changed the world
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2010
Inside the Games You Grew Up with but Never Forgot
With all the whiz, bang, pop, and shimmer of a glowing arcade. The Ultimate History of Video Games reveals everything you ever wanted to know and more about the unforgettable games that changed the world, the visionaries who made them, and the fanatics...
Understanding Video Games
The Essential Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
Understanding Video Games is a crucial guide for newcomers to video game studies and experienced game scholars alike. This revised and updated third edition of the pioneering text provides a comprehensive introduction to the field of game studies, and highlights changes in the gaming industry, advances...
The Toxic Meritocracy of Video Games
Why Gaming Culture Is the Worst
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
An avid gamer and sharp media critic explains meritocracy’s negative contribution to video game culture—and what can be done about it
Video games have brought entertainment, education, and innovation to millions, but gaming also has its dark sides. From the deep-bred misogyny epitomized...
by Bonnie Ruberg
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2019
Argues for the queer potential of video games
While popular discussions about queerness in video games often focus on big-name, mainstream games that feature LGBTQ characters, like Mass Effect or Dragon Age, Bonnie Ruberg pushes the concept of queerness in games beyond a matter of representation,...
The Comic Book Story of Video Games
The Incredible History of the Electronic Gaming Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
A complete, illustrated history of video games--highlighting the machines, games, and people who have made gaming a worldwide, billion-dollar industry/artform--told in a graphic novel format.
Author Jonathan Hennessey and illustrator Jack McGowan present the first full-color, chronological...
Drawing Basics and Video Game Art
Classic to Cutting-Edge Art Techniques for Winning Video Game Design
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
"This book supports my own 30-year crusade to demonstrate that games are an art form that undeniably rivals traditional arts. It gives detailed explanations of game art techniques and their importance, while also highlighting their dependence on artistic aspects of game design and programming.”
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by World Video Game Hall of Fame
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
Inspired by the groundbreaking A History of the World in 100 Objects, this book draws on the unique collections of The Strong museum in Rochester, New York, to chronicle the evolution of video games, from Pong to first-person shooters, told through the stories of dozens of objects essential to the...
The Art of Failure
An Essay on the Pain of Playing Video Games
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
An exploration of why we play video games despite the fact that we are almost certain to feel unhappy when we fail at them.
We may think of video games as being "fun," but in The Art of Failure, Jesper Juul claims that this is almost entirely mistaken. When we play video games, our facial expressions...
Playing with Feelings
Video Games and Affect
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2018
How gaming intersects with systems like history, bodies, and code
Why do we so compulsively play video games? Might it have something to do with how gaming affects our emotions? In Playing with Feelings, scholar Aubrey Anable applies affect theory to game studies, arguing that video games let...
Atari Age
The Emergence of Video Games in America
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
The cultural contradictions of early video games: a medium for family fun (but mainly for middle-class boys), an improvement over pinball and television (but possibly harmful)
Beginning with the release of the Magnavox Odyssey and Pong in 1972, video games, whether played in arcades and taverns...
by Sarah James
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
People love video games, and that's not always a foul thing. Whether played on a hand-held device, a computer, or a TV, the games may provide hours of quiet fun. The games may boost PC skills and better eye-hand coordination. One field of study demonstrated that surgeons who play video games perpetrate...
Video Games Explained
Enhanced with internet access
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2013
Video game genres are used to categorize video games based on their gameplay interaction rather than visual or narrative differences. A video game genre is defined by a set of gameplay challenges. They are classified independent of their setting or game-world content, unlike other works of fiction...