Video & Mobile

In recent years, computer games have moved from the margins of popular culture to its center. Reviews of new games and profiles of game designers now regularly appear in the New York Times and the New Yorker, and sales figures for games are reported...

In the vein of their cult-classic dark fantasy titles Demon's Souls (2009) and the Dark Souls franchise (2011, 2014, 2016), game developers FromSoftware released the bleak Gothic horror Bloodborne in 2015. Players are cast in the role of hunters in a...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781775133520Author Blacknes GuyFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint Blacknes Guy BooksPublisher Blacknes Guy BooksWeight(grams) 331gDimensions(mm) 254mm *...

Final Fantasy VII altered the course of video game history when it was released in 1997 on Sony's PlayStation system. It converted the Japanese role-playing game into an international gaming standard with enhanced gameplay, spectacular cutscenes and a...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781500946128Author Rob WallingFormat PaperbackPage Count 30Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

The popular Postmortem column in Game Developer magazine features firsthand accounts of how some of the most important and successful games of recent years have been made. This book offers the opportunity to harvest this expertise with one volume. The...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609806392Author Daniel GoldbergFormat HardbackPage Count 258Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 314g

Playing at War offers an innovative focus on Civil War video games as significant sites of memory creation, distortion, and evolution in popular culture. With fifteen essays by historians, the collection analyzes the emergence and popularity of video...

Delicious Pixels: Food in Video Games introduces critical food studies to game scholarship, showing the unique ways in which food is utilized in both video game gameplay and narrative to show that food is never just food but rather a complex means of...

Videogames now rival Hollywood cinema in popularity and profits and there are huge followings for titles such as Tomb Raider or The Sims. Exactly what games offer, however, as a distinct form of entertainment, has received scant attention. This book is a...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781490383583Author Syd BoltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

Remember the days of bad graphics, glitchy software and seemingly pointless games? What were we thinking? How did we cope? This humorous yet fond look at gaming of old is sure to have gamers shaking their heads in wonder and chuckling at the craziness...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782377842780Author Gael BertonFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Third EditionsPublisher Third Editions

Step into a world of darkness! Towering castles...magical spells...demonic creatures...certain DEATH. The gothic video game has crossed generations, from 8-bit computers to the most powerful 4K PCs and consoles, to deliver dark thrills filled with...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262046312Author Marcus CarterFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

In Gaming Utopia: Ludic Worlds in Art, Design, and Media, Claudia Costa Pederson analyzes modernist avant-garde and contemporary video games to challenge the idea that gaming is an exclusively white, heterosexual, male, corporatized leisure activity and...

Good Video Games and Good Learning presents the most important essays by James Paul Gee devoted to the ways in which good video games create good learning. The chapters in this book argue that good games teach through well-designed problem-solving...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789829846Author Holger WesslingFormat PaperbackPage Count 348Imprint Acorn BooksPublisher Acorn BooksWeight(grams) 508gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 20mm

The last half-decade has seen the rapid and expansive development of video game music studies. As with any new area of study, this significant sub-discipline is still tackling fundamental questions concerning how video game music should be approached. In...

Volume 2 of SNES Omnibus is a fun and informative look at ALL the original Super Nintendo games released in the US starting with the letters N-Z. More than 375 games are featured, including such iconic titles as Star Fox, Super Mario Kart, Super Mario...

Video games can be truly rewarding experiences whether you're knocking Bowser into a fiery inferno, scrapping seconds off a lap time around Silverstone to turn it into a record breaker, or solving a head-scratching Picross puzzle after a quiet and...

This book provides the first in-depth exploration of video games as history. Chapman puts forth five basic categories of analysis for understanding historical video games: simulation and epistemology, time, space, narrative, and affordance. Through these...

This book is a multidisciplinary study of the translation and localisation of video games. It offers a descriptive analysis of the industry - understood as a global phenomenon in entertainment - and aims to explain the norms governing present industry...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781985382824Author Coloring CrewFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

The frighteningly furious fighting game crossover comes to its chaotic conclusion, as the demonic Jedah's master plan threatens not only the World Warriors and the Night Warriors, but the universe itself! Collects Issues #5-8 of the Street Fighter VS...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781500317409Author Alan FrancoisFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

A comprehensive, colorful look at everything to know and love about Super Mario, with character profiles, gameplay tips, and little-known triviaFor over 35 years, gamers young and old have gone on fantastic adventures with Mario, Luigi, Peach, Yoshi, and...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910515471Author Lee PriceFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Bennion KearnyPublisher Bennion KearnySeries HistoryWeight(grams) 558gDimensions(mm) 254mm *...

Here's a fun-filled trip back in time to the colorful arcades of the 1970s and '80s. More than 600 photos present the dot-munching PAC MAN, bomb-dropping SPACE INVADERS, and other favorites. Nostalgic baby boomers have made arcade video games one of the...

This is the first text that explores accessibility within a tabletop gaming context Accessibility in tabletop games is the single most fascinating problem domain for the field Disabled gamers represent a massive and largely untapped market for board...

Around the world, millions of people hijack cars in Grand Theft Auto, role play fantastical heroes in World of WarCraft, and crush candy on phones as small as wallets yet nearly as powerful as desktop computers. But long before video games became a...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262042604Author Mia ConsalvoFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdSeries Playful ThinkingDimensions(mm) 203mm * 137mm * 21mm

The last half-decade has seen the rapid and expansive development of video game music studies. As with any new area of study, this significant sub-discipline is still tackling fundamental questions concerning how video game music should be approached. In...

The newest addition to our Influential Video Game Designers series explores the work of Todd Howard, executive producer at Bethesda Studios, known for how he consistently pushes the boundaries of open-world gaming and player agency. Howard's games...

There have been many top 100 books before, but rarely one like this. Here are the best of the early video games, shown in over 400 color photos and described in incredible detail in the entertaining and informative text. Each game's entry features...

This book will be a key contribution to both Gothic and digital game scholarship as it argues for close proximity between Gothic culture and the videogame medium itselfThis book explores the many ways Gothic literature and media have informed videogame...

Pinball-ology! For enthusiasts, collectors, or anyone who has flipped, bumped, or banked a silver ball, the 3rd revised edition of pinball amusements has arrived! Extensive historical research details the progression of pinball over the decades, with...

The open world role-playing Assassin's Creed video game series is one of the most successful series of all time, praised for its in-depth use of historical characters and events, compelling graphics, and addictive gameplay. Assassin's Creed games offer...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798851935985Author Craig JoshFormat PaperbackPage Count 62Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 95gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

Focuses on teaching the reader how to create their own rigs that fit the specific needs of their own animators, game and animation. Includes access to a high-quality character model that the reader can use to follow along with the book.There is no other...