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My Mother Was a Computer by N. Katherine Hayles
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
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
Video games have been a central feature of the cultural landscape for over twenty years and now rival older media …
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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
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 Patrick LeMieux, Stephanie Boluk
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
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
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“To my taste, the greatest American myth of cosmogenesis features the maladjusted, antisocial, genius teenage boy who, in the insular …
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Computers invaded British homes for the first time in the early 1980s, with a wave of cheap, futuristic microcomputers that …
