Video & Mobile

This volume presents an original framework for the study of video games that use visual materials and narrative conventions from ancient Greece and Rome. It focuses on the culturally rich continuum of ancient Greek and Roman games, treating them not just...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820497341Author Chris BigumFormat HardbackPage Count 194Imprint Peter Lang Publishing IncPublisher Peter Lang Publishing IncSeries New Literacies and Digital...

Preserving, pausing, slowing, rewinding, replaying, reactivating, reanimating Has the ability to manipulate video game timelines altered our cultural conceptions of time? Video game scholar Christopher Hanson argues that the mechanics of time in digital...

Travel through the exciting culinary world of FINAL FANTASY XIV.Journey through the rich culinary landscape of FINAL FANTASY XIV. Featuring favorite flavors from across Hydaelyn and Norvrandt and easy-to-follow instructions, this tome provides numerous...

The groundbreaking trilogy concludes! Struggling to forget her harrowing past, Nova, a powerful psionic soldier-in-training, has found strength in her fellow trainees. That newfound resolve will be put to the test when she and her team are...

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 9791094723630Author Denis BrusseauxFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint Third EditionsPublisher Third Editions

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782377842483Author Benoit ReinierFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Third EditionsPublisher Third Editions

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781940535180Author Chris KohlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Boss Fight LLCPublisher Boss Fight LLC

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910175019Author Tyler DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Get PublishingPublisher Get PublishingWeight(grams) 95gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 3mm

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906897550Author Paolo RuffinoFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdSeries Future Gaming

The computer games industry has rapidly matured. Once a preoccupation only of young technophiles, games are now one of the dominant forms of global popular culture. From consoles such as Nintendo Wii and Microsoft's Xbox, to platforms such as iPhones and...

Ideology and the Virtual City is an exploration of modern society and the critical value of popular culture. It combines a prescient social theory that describes how `neoliberal' ideology in today's societies dominates our economic, political and...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732355231Author Jamie LendinoFormat HardbackPage Count 420Imprint Steel Gear PressPublisher Steel Gear PressWeight(grams) 785gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683833970Author Victoria RosenthalFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Insight EditionsPublisher Insight EditionsWeight(grams) 1105gDimensions(mm) 254mm *...

From his very first quest to attain the Triforce, explore Hyrule, and rescue Princess Zelda, Link has been on the ultimate adventure since 1986, and fans around the world have been involved in the journey all along the way. Now celebrating its 30th...

Since 2001, the Australian game company Halfbrick Studios has been changing the mobile games scene. After seven years of making licensed games, Halfbrick took a chance and released Fruit Ninja to the world-- and the world became obsessed with slicing...

With annual gross sales surpassing 100 billion U.S. dollars each of the last two years, the digital games industry may one day challenge theatrical-release movies as the highest-grossing entertainment media in the world. In their examination of the...

Alternate Reality Games (ARGs) challenge what players understand as "real." Alternate Reality Games and the Cusp of Digital Gameplay is the first collection to explore and define the possibilities of ARGs. Though prominent examples have existed for more...

Through interviews with developers, gamers, and journalists examining the phenomena of bedroom coding, arcade gaming, and format wars, mapped onto enquiry into the seminal genres of the time including driving, shooting, and maze chase, Playback: A...

In the 1990s, the Personal Computer (or PC) was on the rise in homes, and with it came new genres of play. Yet most of the games in these new genres featured fantasylands or humorous science fiction landscapes with low stakes and little to suggest the...

Brenda Laurel is best known for her work with Purple Moon, the pioneering game company she cofounded in the 1990s. Purple Moon's games were based on years of research Laurel completed in an effort to understand why computer games seemed to be of so...

Music Video Games takes a look (and listen) at the popular genre of music games - video games in which music is at the forefront of player interaction and gameplay. With chapters on a wide variety of music games, ranging from well-known console games...

From gaming consoles to smartphones, video games are everywhere today, including those set in historical times and particularly in the ancient world. This volume explores the varied depictions of the ancient world in video games and demonstrates the...

From gaming consoles to smartphones, video games are everywhere today, including those set in historical times and particularly in the ancient world. This volume explores the varied depictions of the ancient world in video games and demonstrates the...

From flight simulators and first-person shooters to MMPOG and innovative strategy games like 2008's Spore, computer games owe their development to computer simulation and imaging produced by and for the military during the Cold War. To understand their...

From security training simulations to war games to role-playing games, to sports games to gambling, playing video games has become a social phenomena, and the increasing number of players that cross gender, culture, and age is on a dramatic upward...

Sure, it's just what you've been clamouring for: an ultra slick, portable version of the most popular console gaming system in the world. But Sony's new PlayStation Portable (PSP) isn't just a handheld gaming device. Beyond its killer graphics and...

Video games have seemingly taken over our lives. Whereas gamers once constituted a small and largely male subculture, today 67 percent of American households play video games. The average gamer is now thirty-four years old and spends eight hours each...

Games software has its roots in a "cottage" industry, ignoring formal methodologies, instead leaving the programmers to find homespun solutions to the technical problems faced. The picture has now changed: the scale of the problems faced by programmers...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262539418Author Christopher A. PaulFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262536110Author Michael Z. NewmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdSeries Atari AgeDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 17mm

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262044653Author Noah Wardrip-FruinFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262044363Author Larissa HjorthFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdSeries Playful ThinkingWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782377842766Author Quentin BoetonFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Third EditionsPublisher Third Editions

The Fighter, the Sorceress, the Elf, the Wizard, the Amazon, and the Dwarf. These six heroes have come together to quest for riches, for glory, and for the honor of the kingdom of Hydeland!(Though really, it's mostly for the riches...) Join an epic...

While the Western was dying a slow death across the cultural landscape, it was blazing back to life as a video game in the early twenty-first century. Rockstar Games' Red Dead franchise, beginning with Red Dead Revolver in 2004, has grown into one of the...