A World of Excesses: Online Games and Excessive Playing by Faltin Karlsen

Playing with Sound: A Theory of Interacting with Sound and Music in Video Games (MIT Press)

In twiddling with Sound, Karen Collins examines game sound from the player's viewpoint. She explores the various ways in which avid gamers engage with a game's sonic features -- which come with not just tune but in addition sound results, ambient sound, discussion, and interface sounds -- either inside and outdoors of the sport.

Computer Games for Learning: An Evidence-Based Approach (MIT Press)

Many powerful claims are made for the tutorial price of machine video games, yet there's a want for systematic exam of the examine proof that will help such claims. This e-book fills that want through delivering, a accomplished and updated research of what study indicates approximately studying with computing device video games.

An Odyssey into Video Games and Pop Culture: The Collected Garwulf's Corner from The Escapist and More

A pioneer in game observation, Robert B. Marks used to be one of many first – if no longer the 1st – games concerns columnists within the English language. In March 2015 he back to take a clean new examine games and pa tradition. proposal scary, debatable, and insightful – and with new introductions – this assortment includes:- All 29 installments of Garwulf’s nook from the pages of The Escapist, protecting concerns starting from outrage tradition to range to the tradition battle over the Hugo Awards.

Playback – A Genealogy of 1980s British Videogames

Via interviews with builders, players, and reporters analyzing the phenomena of bed room coding, arcade gaming, and structure wars, mapped onto enquiry into the seminal genres of the time together with riding, taking pictures, and maze chase, Playback: A family tree of Eighties British Videogames examines how Eighties Britain has turn into the tradition of labor within the twenty first century and considers its desiring to modern society.