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La saga Uncharted es la cima de los videojuegos que querían ser películas. Nathan Drake, Chloe Frazer, Elena Fisher, Víctor …
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La vida en juego by Alberto Venegas
Se puede pensar en el videojuego como un mero entretenimiento, pero hay otra forma de verlos: como dispositivos que reflejan …
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A video game is half-real: we play by real rules while imagining a fictional world. We win or lose the …
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Commodore VIC 20 by Giacomo M. Vernoni
Commodore VIC 20: A Visual History is a book about the computer that marked Commodore's debut in home computing: it …
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Playing War by Matthew Thomas Payne
No video game genre has been more popular or more lucrative in recent years than the “military shooter.” Franchises such …
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The Making of Prince of Persia by Jordan Mechner
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Before Prince of Persia was a best-selling video game franchise and a Jerry Bruckheimer movie, it was an Apple II …
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Video Games as Culture by Daniel Muriel, Garry Crawford
Video games are becoming culturally dominant. But what does their popularity say about our contemporary society? This book explores video …
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In Unit Operations, Ian Bogost argues that similar principles underlie both literary theory and computation, proposing a literary-technical theory that …
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The Unity Game Engine and the Circuits of Cultural Software by Benjamin Nicoll, Brendan Keogh
Videogames were once made with a vast range of tools and technologies, but in recent years a small number of …
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How filling life with play-whether soccer or lawn mowing, counting sheep or tossing Angry Birds-forges a new path for creativity …
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The Grasshopper by Bernard Suits
In the mid twentieth century the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein famously asserted that games are indefinable; there are no common threads …
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My Mother Was a Computer by N. Katherine Hayles
We live in a world, according to N. Katherine Hayles, where new languages are constantly emerging, proliferating, and fading into …
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If the fantasy of control is the problem, then videogame controllers are the solution. What can videogames tell us about …
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How to Talk about Videogames by Ian Bogost
Videogames! Aren’t they the medium of the twenty-first century? The new cinema? The apotheosis of art and entertainment, the realization …
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Ghosts in the Machine by Lana Polansky
Ghosts in the Machine is an anthology of 13 original short stories that each look at the imperfections of life …
