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Language: en
Pages: 228
Authors: Mark J. P. Wolf
Categories: Games & Activities
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-07-22 - Publisher: University of Texas Press

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Over a mere three decades, the video game became the entertainment medium of choice for millions of people, who now spend more time in the interactive virtual w
Video Games
Language: en
Pages: 318
Authors: Nicholas David Bowman
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-07-16 - Publisher: Routledge

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This entry in the BEA Electronic Media Research Series, born out of the April 2017 BEA Research Symposium, takes a look at video games, outlining the characteri
Gaming Matters
Language: en
Pages: 168
Authors: Judd Ethan Ruggill
Categories: Games & Activities
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-05-11 - Publisher: University of Alabama Press

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In Gaming Matters, McAllister and Ruggill turn from the broader discussion of video game rhetoric to study the video game itself as a medium and the specific fe
How to Talk about Videogames
Language: en
Pages: 219
Authors: Ian Bogost
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-11-15 - Publisher: U of Minnesota Press

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Videogames! Aren’t they the medium of the twenty-first century? The new cinema? The apotheosis of art and entertainment, the realization of Wagnerian gesamtku
Gaming the Iron Curtain
Language: en
Pages: 401
Authors: Jaroslav Svelch
Categories: Games & Activities
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-09-19 - Publisher: MIT Press

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How amateur programmers in 1980s Czechoslovakia discovered games as a medium, using them not only for entertainment but also as a means of self-expression. Asid