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Star Worlds: Freedom Versus Control in Online Gameworlds William Sims Bainbridge 9780472073283
SciFier: £94.53Star Worlds explores the future-oriented universe of online virtualworlds connected with popular science fiction-specifically, with StarWars and Star Trek-that have been inhabited for over a decade... -
Sword Art Online 1: Aincrad (light novel) Reki Kawahara 9780316371247
Yen PressRRP: £12.99SciFier: £9.21Read the novel that ignited the phenomenon!In the year 2022, gamers rejoice as Sword Art Online - a VRMMORPG (Virtual Reality Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game) like no other - debuts,... -
World Leader Pretend by James Bernard Frost
SciFier: £17.59Xeres Meticula is a failure. A casualty of the dot-com bust, he now lives in his parents' basement and spends all day on one pursuit, winning The Realm. Fortunately, he's not alone. Joining him in... -
Social Exclusion, Power, and Video Game Play: New Research in Digital Media and Technology David G. Embrick 9780739138618
SciFier: £51.99While many books and articles are emerging on the new area of game studies and the application of computer games to learning, therapeutic, military, and entertainment environments, few have attempted... -
Social Exclusion, Power, and Video Game Play: New Research in Digital Media and Technology David G. Embrick 9780739138601
SciFier: £113.99While many books and articles are emerging on the new area of game studies and the application of computer games to learning, therapeutic, military, and entertainment environments, few have attempted... -
Overlord, Vol. 1 (Light Novel) by Kugane Maruyama
Yen PressRRP: £15.99SciFier: £11.61For twelve years, the virtual world of Yggdrasil has served as the playground and battlefield for the skeletal lord Momonga and his guild of fellow monsters, Ainz Ooal Gown. But the guild's glory... -
Log Horizon, Vol. 1 (light novel) by Mamare Touno
Yen PressRRP: £10.99SciFier: £7.97Thirty thousand Japanese gamers awake one day to discover that the fantasy world of Elder Tales, an MMORPG that was formerly their collective hobby, has become their cold hard reality. Severed from... -
Shivers Down Your Spine by Alison Griffiths
SciFier: £95.78From the architectural spectacle of the medieval cathedral and the romantic sublime of the nineteenth-century panorama to the techno-fetishism of today's London Science Museum, humans have gained a... -
Women and Second Life by Dianna Baldwin
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £19.21This collection of new essays explores issues of identity, work and play in the virtual world of Second Life (SL). Fourteen women explore their experiences in this virtual environment. Topics include... -
The Semiotics of Architecture in Video Games by Dr Gabriele Aroni
SciFier: £112.99Video games are among the most popular media on the planet, and billions of people inhabit these virtual worlds on a daily basis. This book investigates the architecture of video games, the... -
The Semiotics of Architecture in Video Games by Dr Gabriele Aroni (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)
SciFier: £31.99Video games are among the most popular media on the planet, and billions of people inhabit these virtual worlds on a daily basis. This book investigates the architecture of video games, the... -
Deep Dive by Ron Walters
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.34Still reeling from the failure of his last project, video game developer Peter Banuk is working hard to ensure his next game doesn't meet the same fate. He desperately needs a win, not only to save... -
Log Horizon, Vol. 1 (manga) by Mamare Touno
Yen PressRRP: £10.99SciFier: £7.97The world of Elder Tales was supposed to be fun for everyone, but ever since the 12th expansion pack came out and trapped thirty thousand gamers within its fantastical confines, it's not much fun... -
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Log Horizon, Vol. 1 (manga) Mamare Touno 9780316383066 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £3.73The world of Elder Tales was supposed to be fun for everyone, but ever since the 12th expansion pack came out and trapped thirty thousand gamers within its fantastical confines, it's not much fun... -
Sword Art Online: Girls' Ops, Vol. 1 by Reki Kawahara
Yen PressRRP: £10.99SciFier: £7.97The virtual world of ALfheim Online might not be literally deadly, but there's still plenty of tough adventuring to be had. The trio of Liz, Silica, and Leafa set out on a quest for a magical ring... -
A More Perfect World by Rick Goldsmith
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £8.00A tale of thwarted love set in a place where the boundaries between the real and the virtual are dangerously blurred, and where your dearest memories may not be your own. A place where desire for a... -
Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games by R.V. Kelly
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £19.21This book is about the fastest growing form of electronic game in the world - the Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game (MMORPG). It introduces these self-contained three-dimensional virtual... -
Sword Art Online: Aincrad (manga) Reki Kawahara 9780316371230
Yen PressRRP: £15.99SciFier: £14.41In the year 2022, gamers rejoice as Sword Art Online - a VRMMORPG (Virtual Reality Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game) like no other - debuts, allowing players to take full advantage of... -
Internet Culture David Porter 9780415916844
SciFier: £37.66The internet has recently grown from a fringe cultural phenomenon to a significant site of cultural production and transformation. Internet Culture maps this new domain of language, politics and... -
Theorizing Twilight by Maggie Parke
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £19.21Since the publication of Twilight in 2005, Stephenie Meyer's four-book saga about the tortured relationship between human heroine Bella Swan and her vampire love Edward Cullen has become a... -
Fashion in the Metaverse by Bradley Quinn
RRP: £35.00SciFier: £24.23This book examines a significant moment in fashion's evolution when technological innovations are inspiring designers, brands and consumers to think beyond conventional clothing in the real world and... -
Wordplay and the Discourse of Video Games: Analyzing Words, Design, and Play Christopher A. Paul (Seattle University) 9780415834995
SciFier: £41.13In this timely new book, Christopher Paul analyzes how the words we use to talk about video games and the structures that are produced within games shape a particular way of gaming by focusing on how... -
Machinima by Phylis Johnson
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £19.21Unlike traditional animation techniques that use specialized 3D animation software, machinima --a term derived from the words ""machine"" and ""cinema""--records the action in real-time interactive... -
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Sword Art Online 1: Aincrad (light novel) Reki Kawahara 9780316371247 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £2.57Read the novel that ignited the phenomenon!In the year 2022, gamers rejoice as Sword Art Online - a VRMMORPG (Virtual Reality Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game) like no other - debuts,... -
Ctrl-Alt-Play by Matthew Wysocki
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £19.21[The word ""control"" has many implications for video games. On a basic level, without player control, there is no experience. Much of the video game industry focuses on questions of control and ways... -
For the Win by Cory Doctorow
RRP: £15.99SciFier: £13.49A provocative and exhilarating tale of teen rebellion against global corporations from the New York Times bestselling author of Little Brother. Not far in the future... In the... -
Sword Art Online Reki Kawahara 9780316407380
Yen PressRRP: £10.99SciFier: £7.97Kazuto Kirigaya (aka Kirito) has beaten Sword Art Online, a VRMMORPG that transformed into a literal game of death, and returned to the real world. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for Asuna... -
System Shock by Liam O'Donnell
SciFier: £5.34"Daniel felt his bones creak and his body stretch as the System lost control of its programming..." In the year 2115, Daniel and Jack are lost in their favourite Virtual Reality game when suddenly... -
Sword Art Online: Progressive 1 (light novel) by Reki Kawahara
Yen PressRRP: £11.99SciFier: £8.59'There's no way to beat this game. The only difference is when and where you die...'One month has passed since Akihiko Kayaba's deadly game began, and the body count continues to rise. Two thousand... -
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Second Lives Tim Guest 9780099493778 [USED COPY]
RRP: £15.99SciFier: £2.12We've always dreamed of perfect places: Eden, heaven, Oz - places over the rainbow, beyond death and loss.Now, through computer technology, we can inhabit those worlds together. Each week, between 35... -
Thinking about Video Games: Interviews with the Experts David S. Heineman 9780253017154
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £17.05The growth in popularity and complexity of video games has spurred new interest in how games are developed and in the research and technology behind them. David Heineman brings together some of the... -
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Username: Regenerated Joe Sugg 9781473636941 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £2.36BOOK 2 IN THE USERNAME SERIES BY JOE SUGGEvie is safe at home, but her heart remains in e.scape, the virtual world her father created for her. She's desperate to return, but the app that transports... -
Thinking about Video Games: Interviews with the Experts David S. Heineman 9780253017109
RRP: £70.00SciFier: £55.88The growth in popularity and complexity of video games has spurred new interest in how games are developed and in the research and technology behind them. David Heineman brings together some of the... -
The Avatar Faculty: Ecstatic Transformations in Religion and Video Games Jeffrey G. Snodgrass 9780520384361
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £21.24The Avatar Faculty creatively examines the parallels between spiritual and digital activities to explore the roles that symbolic second selves-avatars-can play in our lives. The use of avatars can... -
The Art of Ready Player One Gina McIntyre 9781785658563
Titan BooksRRP: £35.00SciFier: £23.60Discover the captivating art of Steven Spielberg's Ready Player One. Our dystopian world lies on the brink of chaos and collapse, but the people have found their salvation in the OASIS, an... -
The Avatar Faculty: Ecstatic Transformations in Religion and Video Games Jeffrey G. Snodgrass 9780520384354
RRP: £80.00SciFier: £65.38The Avatar Faculty creatively examines the parallels between spiritual and digital activities to explore the roles that symbolic second selves-avatars-can play in our lives. The use of avatars can... -
100 Videogames James Newman 9781844571611
SciFier: £96.88Videogames are one of the most culturally, socially and economically significant, not to mention pervasive, media forms. The global videogames industry is worth billions of dollars and growing year... -
EA Sports FIFA: Feeling the Game Prof Raiford Guins (Indiana University, Bloomington, USA) 9781501375385
SciFier: £31.99If there is anything close to a universal game, it is association football, also known as soccer, football, fussball, futbol, fitba, and futebol. The game has now moved from the physical to the... -
EA Sports FIFA: Feeling the Game Prof Raiford Guins (Indiana University, Bloomington, USA) 9781501375347
SciFier: £112.44If there is anything close to a universal game, it is association football, also known as soccer, football, fussball, futbol, fitba, and futebol. The game has now moved from the physical to the... -
Skyfisher by Dan Dowhal
SciFier: £14.69Desperately fleeing for his life, Brad Evans escapes Manhattan and hides in a trailer in the country. There he writes an expos of Phasmatia, the world's first great Internet religion, and its...