Extra Lives
Why Video Games Matter
New York : Vintage Books, 2011.
Format: Book
Edition: First Vintage Books edition.
Description: xiv, 242 pages ; 21 cm
"In just a few decades, video games have grown increasingly complex and sophisticated, and the companies that produce them are now among the most profitable in the entertainment industry. Yet few outside this world have thought deeply about how these games work, why they are so appealing, and what they are capable of artistically. Blending memoir, criticism, and first-rate reportage, Extra Lives is a milestone work about what might be the dominant popular art form of our time."--Publisher.
Contents:
Fallout -- Headshots -- The unbearable lightness of games -- The grammar of fun -- Littlebigproblems -- Braided -- Mass effects -- Far cries -- Grand thefts
Subjects:
Video games -- History.
Video games -- Social aspects.
Video games.
Video games -- Social aspects.
Video games -- History.
Video games -- Social aspects.
Video games.
Video games -- Social aspects.
ISBN:
9780307474315 (pbk.)
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
SPORTS Games Bis | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |
Originally published: New York : Pantheon Books, c2010. With new appendix.
Includes index.
Includes index.