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Invisible Digital helps us makes sense of something we cannot see by presenting an innovative approach to digital images......more

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Explore the world of Genshin Impact in this stunning keepsake showcasing hundreds of illustrations. Genshin Impact is a ......more

Culture Specific Items in Chinese to English Video Game Translation aims to investigate the Chinese to English translati......more

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What video games teach us about building a better world What does it mean to build a world? Worldbuilding is traditional......more

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With its 46-character roster released over five seasons, Street Fighter V continued the franchise’s legacy as the king o......more

The Tetris Revolution: Henk B. Rogers’ Bold Quest to Turn a Soviet Puzzle into a Global Gaming Icon Discover the rivetin......more

Walk around an arcade nowadays and you’ll find it filled with countless penny pushing games and fruit machines. In the S......more

Collecting the artwork behind the fan-favorite game -- Mega Man X DiVE! This action-platforming adventure has written a ......more

This book explores the complex relationships between sport and video games, two of the largest entertainment sectors glo......more

This book explores the complex relationships between sport and video games, two of the largest entertainment sectors glo......more

A new perspective on the spatial complexity and plurality of Japanese videogames. Unboxing Japanese Videogames uncovers ......more

Professor Craig Caldwell’s Story Structure and Development provides a clear and practical approach to understanding the ......more

Pokémon is one of the most amazing pop culture phenomena of our epoch, with deep metaphysical roots and profound philoso......more

An in-depth investigation of the Twitch streamers who make up the largest population on the platform: those streaming to......more

A full-color over-sized hardcover volume chronicling the development of the newest game in the iconic Assassin’s Creed s......more

Told through the diverse and fascinating careers of nine streamers, this is the definitive story of Twitch and how the l......more

Assassin’s Creed Shadows is infused with a spirit of adventure, freedom, and opportunity. Developed in conjunction with ......more

Wordscapes, the top-rated word game played by more than 14 million fans, is now a puzzle book with the same word challen......more

Mysterious islands have appeared threaten the hometown of Ryza and her friends! In hopes of finding a way to save their ......more

"This collection of essays review and supplement current work focusing on sex and sexuality in games. The chapters provi......more

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Increasingly, digital games center their narratives during or immediately after the apocalypse. In 2017, Horizon Zero Da......more

Monsters fascinate us. From ancient folklore to contemporary digital games, they are at the core of the stories we tell.......more

This book provides a starting point for anyone interested in level and game design with zero prior knowledge. By analysi......more

Posthuman Gaming: Avatars, Gamers, and Entangled Subjectivities explores the relationship between avatar and gamer in th......more

Nintendo’s hugely popular and influential video game console system considered as technological device and social phenom......more

Working its way through the fascinating creation story and cultural footprint of the WipEout game series, WipEout Futuri......more

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The official art book for Amplitude Studios’ ENDLESS LEGEND, a fantasy style, Civ-like 4X game set in the Endless Space ......more

Examining the four main single player games in the franchise and its related spinoff games, this book explores the world......more

In Tokyo, a group of high school students have awakened the power of one’s true self - their Personas. Taking on the rol......more

For those on the Gamer’s Journey, there is a deep connection between our favorite games that transforms the meaning of "......more

In "The Psychology of The Last of Us," dive deep into the hauntingly profound narrative and characters of the groundbrea......more

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An encyclopedic collection of art and information from the global hit game Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade, presente......more

Game streamers and live commentators are producing increasingly comprehensive analyses of gameplay, yet scholarship stil......more

Over the past five decades, video games have evolved from primitive computer-lab experiments into one of the world’s mos......more

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"This volume successfully argues that the N64 reset expectations for what video games could be and set the standard for ......more

The engaging story of Intellivision, an overlooked videogame system from the late 1970s and early 1980s whose fate was s......more

Offers the most comprehensive analysis and discussion of medievalist computer games to date. Games with a medieval setti......more

Explore the world of BioWare’s latest fantasy epic, Dragon Age: The Veilguard, in-depth with this incredible, oversized ......more

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This book explores the representations of Central and Eastern European histories in digital games....more

How play and gaming culture have mainstreamed far right ideology through social media platforms. From #Gamergate to the ......more

Analyses the representation of gender, race and religion in video game music and explores three master categories of ide......more

Nothing is more synonymous with the twenty-first century than the image of a child on his or her smart phone, tablet, vi......more

How performances of tactical imperceptibility--or "stealth"--have become a key political practice in digital culture as ......more

This 12-month wall calendar is a retrospective of classic SEGA consoles including the Genesis, Saturn, Game Gear, and Dr......more

We are witnessing the collapse of the postwar consensus, the implosion of the caring society. In times of social, econom......more

This handbook offers the first fully comprehensive, interdisciplinary study of esports, one of the fastest growing secto......more

Playing at War offers an innovative focus on Civil War video games as significant sites of memory creation, distortion, ......more

Playing at War offers an innovative focus on Civil War video games as significant sites of memory creation, distortion, ......more

For this entry in the Game Design Deep Dive series, it’s a look at the shooter genre to discuss its history, design, and......more

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Discussing the state of play in contemporary popular culture, specifically the role of crime and crime control in the vi......more

Explore the Future of Gaming Step into a world where artificial intelligence revolutionizes the gaming industry, creatin......more

Comprising interviews with game developers at companies including Sega, Enix, Capcom, Hudson Soft, and Nihon Falcom, Jap......more