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Jim Rossignol
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University of Michigan Press 2008
Torn between unabashed optimism about the future of games and lingering doubts about whether they are just a waste of time, the book 'This Gaming Life' raises some important questions about this new and vital cultural form.
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Mark J. P. Wolf
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University of Michigan Press 2011
Video games have become a major cultural force, and within their history, Myst and its sequel Riven stand out as influential examples.
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Bonnie Nardi
Publisher
University of Michigan Press 2010
World of Warcraft is currently the most popular online world game on the planet. Bonnie Nardi, a well-known ethnographer who has published extensively on how
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James F Dunnigan
Publisher
Quill 1992
With the wide availability of the home computer, wargame enthusiasts (now numbering nearly half a million) regularly confront each other in action-
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Kevin Bryan
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Lulu.com 2005
The Sony Playstation is the single most successful home videogame system ever released, dominating in the USA, Japan and Europe. This book is
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Drew Davidson et al.
Publisher
2011
Following on Well Played 1.0 and 2.0, this book will also be full of in-depth close readings of video games that parse out the various meanings to be found in the experience of playing a game.
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Drew Davidson et al.
Publisher
Lulu.com 2008
This book focuses on strategies for applying games, simulations and interactive experiences in learning contexts. Throughout, the promises and problems of implementing games and media in learning experiences are explored.
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David Myers
Publisher
University of Michigan Press 2010
An ambitious description and critical analysis of the aesthetic pleasures of video game play, drawing on early twentieth-century formalist theory and models of literature.
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McKenzie Wark
Publisher
Harvard University Press 2007
Gamer Theory uncovers the significance of games in the gap between the near-perfection of actual games and the highly imperfect gamespace of everyday life in the rat race of free-market society. The book depicts a world becoming an inescapable series of less and less perfect games.
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Erik Champion et al.
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ETC Press 2012
Are games worthy of academic attention? Can they be used effectively in the classroom, in the research laboratory, as an innovative design tool, as a persuasive political weapon? Game Mods: Design, Theory and Criticism aims to answer these and more questions.