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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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
Ritual Crime Unit by E. E. Richardson
RebellionRRP: £9.99SciFier: £9.71Welcome to the Ritual Crime Unit.A hard-nosed career officer in a male-dominated world, DCI Claire Pierce of North Yorkshire Police heads Northern England's underfunded and understaffed Ritual Crime... -
New Pedagogical Approaches in Game Enhanced Learning by Sara de Freitas
RRP: £174.00SciFier: £145.49Digital games continue to enable innovative learning in the classroom, however, its implementation into the educational system requires a fundamental approach to achieve its greatest level of... -
The Icarus Mind by J Royce Lockwood
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.28Thirty years from now, the bulk of humanity lives in hyper-connected, automated urban centers around the world. But Michael Quinn and the small rustic community in the Driftless Reservation in the US... -
Game Addiction by Neils Clark
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £19.21In November of 2007, an eleven-year-old Vietnamese boy strangled an elderly woman for the equivalent of five U.S. dollars, then buried her body under a thin layer of sand in front of his house. When... -
Digital Anthropology Haidy Geismar 9781350078857
SciFier: £139.36Digital Anthropology, 2nd Edition explores how human and digital can be explored in relation to one another within issues as diverse as social media use, virtual worlds, hacking, quantified self,... -
Cyborg by Chris Bradford
RRP: £7.99SciFier: £6.25Scott and his gang of techno-hackers barely escaped with their lives when they planted the virus that destroyed Virtual Kombat. Now that the game is gone, they think they're finally safe. But VK... -
Green Valley by Louis Greenberg
Titan BooksRRP: £7.99SciFier: £5.87'Immersive, smart, eerily prescient and crackling with tension and atmosphere.' Sarah Lotz, author of Day Three and Day Four Chilling near-future SF for fans of Black Mirror and True Detective. ... -
Digital Anthropology Haidy Geismar 9781350078840
SciFier: £31.46Digital Anthropology, 2nd Edition explores how human and digital can be explored in relation to one another within issues as diverse as social media use, virtual worlds, hacking, quantified self,... -
Integrated Storytelling by Design: Concepts, Principles and Methods for New Narrative Dimensions Klaus Sommer Paulsen 9781041039860
SciFier: £40.18This thoroughly revised second edition equips readers with cutting-edge skills to create powerful concepts for interactive, digital, hybrid, and multi-platform narratives and experiences.Readers will... -
Sport and Play in a Digital World Ivo van Hilvoorde 9780367264697
SciFier: £42.86Digital technology plays an important role in the everyday lives of people. New types of 'digital sports', (sport) gaming, exergaming, cybersport and eSports increase in popularity all over the world... -
Sport and Play in a Digital World Ivo van Hilvoorde 9781138306837
RRP: £145.00SciFier: £143.07Digital technology plays an important role in the everyday lives of people. New types of 'digital sports', (sport) gaming, exergaming, cybersport and eSports increase in popularity all over the world... -
Richards & Klein by Guy Haley
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £7.97From Warhammer 40,000 author Guy Haley, his first original series remastered and collected together in this new omnibus edition! Meet Richards & Klein - the Holmes and Watson of the 22nd century... -
Genshin Impact: Official Art Book Vol. 1 MiHoYo 9780008566623
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £21.49Delve into the world of Genshin Impact in this beautiful memento showcasing hundreds of illustrations. Genshin Impact is a free-to-play open-world adventure RPG... -
Genshin Impact: Official Art Book Vol. 2 MiHoYo 9780008705817
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £24.39Explore the world of Genshin Impact in this stunning keepsake showcasing hundreds of illustrations. Genshin Impact is a free-to-play open-world adventure RPG that... -
Soul Beach: Soul Fire by Kate Harrison
RRP: £6.99SciFier: £5.48Alice Forster regularly talks with her dead sister, Meggie, in the virtual world of Soul Beach - an online paradise where dead teenagers are held in limbo.Alice has learned that if she can solve the... -
Genshin Impact: Official Art Book Vol. 2 MiHoYo 9780008705305
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £23.13Explore the world of Genshin Impact in this stunning keepsake showcasing hundreds of illustrations. Genshin Impact is a free-to-play open-world adventure RPG that... -
The Medium of the Video Game by Mark J. P. Wolf
RRP: £17.99SciFier: £14.78Over 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 world of games than they do in watching... -
The Screens of Virtual Production: What is Real? Sian Mitchell 9781032732176
RRP: £145.00SciFier: £139.36This book is the first dedicated edited collection that explores the virtualization of screen-making processes from pre-production to post-production, while attuning to the aesthetic, ideological and... -
The Oxford Handbook of Virtuality Mark Grimshaw (Professor of Music, Professor of Music, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark) 9780199826162
RRP: £155.00SciFier: £146.49As this comprehensive and multi-disciplinary anthology makes clear, virtuality has a pedigree that pre-dates the computer age and modern virtual worlds, a pedigree that can be traced back to... -
Ready Reader One: The Stories We Tell With, About, and Around Videogames Megan Amber Condis 9780807180891
RRP: £60.00SciFier: £46.39Ready Reader One explores the many ways literature depicts, engages with, and imagines videogames and gamers. The diverse group of authors included in this collection take an expansive view of... -
Ready Reader One: The Stories We Tell With, About, and Around Videogames Megan Amber Condis 9780807182307
RRP: £29.95SciFier: £22.56Ready Reader One explores the many ways literature depicts, engages with, and imagines videogames and gamers. The diverse group of authors included in this collection take an expansive view of... -
Players and Their Pets by Mia Consalvo
SciFier: £24.73In the world of massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs), Faunasphere was but a blip on the screen in its short public life from 2009 to 2011. Its devoted players, many of them middle-aged women,... -
CTRL: Essays on Video Games Dean Fee 9781843519768
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £12.85This anthology of personal essays explore how video games have shaped our lives, our cultural imagination and contemporary storytelling. From novelists and critics to game designers themselves, the... -
(CON)science by PJ Manney
SciFier: £9.87PJ Manney concludes her visionary Philip K. Dick Award-nominated series of a world at war, a virtual search for identity, and the future of humanity. Five years ago, bioengineer Peter Bernhardt... -
Mountain of Black Glass: Otherland Book 3 Tad Williams 9781473641143
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £8.59Otherland is a realm of the imagination where anything can happen, a triumph of technology, a virtual world of enormous complexity and possibility. But Otherland is owned and controlled by a secret... -
Mortality Doctrine: The Rule Of Thoughts James Dashner 9780552571159
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £7.76Michael completed the Path. What he found at the end turned everything he'd ever known about his life completely upside down.He thought he'd been helping VirtNet Security to track down the... -
Digital Storytelling 4e: A creator's guide to interactive entertainment Carolyn Handler Miller 9781138341586
SciFier: £57.66This fourth edition of Digital Storytelling: A creator's guide to interactive entertainment dives deeply into the world of interactive storytelling, a form of storytelling made possible by digital... -
Mortality Doctrine: The Rule Of Thoughts James Dashner 9780552571159 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £2.35Michael completed the Path. What he found at the end turned everything he'd ever known about his life completely upside down.He thought he'd been helping VirtNet Security to track down the... -
Ready Player Two: The highly anticipated sequel to READY PLAYER ONE Ernest Cline 9781784758028
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £8.42Days after winning OASIS founder James Halliday's contest, Wade Watts makes a discovery that changes everything.Hidden within Halliday's vaults, waiting for his heir to find it, lies a technological... -
Woke Gaming: Digital Challenges to Oppression and Social Injustice Kishonna L. Gray 9780295744186
SciFier: £114.90From #Gamergate to the 2016 election, to the daily experiences of marginalized perspectives, gaming is entangled with mainstream cultures of systematic exploitation and oppression. Whether visible in... -
Naoki Urasawa's 20th Century Boys, Vol. 9 Naoki Urasawa 9781421523446
Viz MediaSciFier: £9.79This is the story of a gang of boys who try to save the world! The year is 2014, and Neo Tokyo is completely under the control of the Friend. Kanna has decided to stand up and avenge Kenji--will she... -
The Evolution of Fantasy Role-Playing Games Michael J. Tresca 9780786458950
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £13.61Tracing the evolution of fantasy gaming from its origins in tabletop war and collectible card games to contemporary web-based live action and massive multi-player games, this book examines the...