All Your Base Are Belong to Us: How Fifty Years of Videogames Conquered Pop Culture
10 best books like All Your Base Are Belong to Us: How Fifty Years of Videogames Conquered Pop Culture (Harold Goldberg): Blood, Sweat, and Pixels: The Triumphant, Turbulent Stories Behind How Video Games Are Made, Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture, Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation, Super Mario: How Nintendo Conquered America, Replay: The History of Video Games, The Ultimate History of Video Games: From Pong to Pokemon - The Story Behind the Craze That Touched Our Lives and Changed the World, Under the Dome: Part Two, Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World, Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter, Jacked: The Outlaw Story of Grand Theft Auto
Blood, Sweat, and Pixels: The Triumphant, Turbulent Stories Behind How Video Games Are Made
Developing video games—hero's journey or fool's errand? The creative and technical logistics that go into building today's hottest games can be more harrowing and complex than the games themselves, often seeming like an endless maze or a bottomless abyss. In Blood, Sweat, and Pixels, Jason Schreier...
Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture
| Author | David Kushner |
| ISBN | 0812972155 |
Masters of Doom is the amazing true story of the Lennon and McCartney of video games: John Carmack and John Romero. Together, they ruled big business. They transformed popular culture. And they provoked a national controversy. More than anything, they lived a unique and rollicking American Dream,...
Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation
| Author | Blake J. Harris |
| ISBN | 0062276697 |
Following the success of The Accidental Billionaires and Moneyball comes Console Wars—a mesmerizing, behind-the-scenes business thriller that chronicles how Sega, a small, scrappy gaming company led by an unlikely visionary and a team of rebels, took on the juggernaut Nintendo and revolutionized...
Super Mario: How Nintendo Conquered America
| Author | Jeff Ryan |
| ISBN | 1591844053 |
The story of Nintendo's rise and the beloved icon who made it possible.
Nintendo has continually set the standard for video-game innovation in America, starting in 1981 with a plucky hero who jumped over barrels to save a girl from an ape.
The saga of Mario, the portly plumber who became...
| Author | Tristan Donovan |
| ISBN | 0956507204 |
A riveting account of the strange birth and remarkable evolution of the most important development in entertainment since television, Replay is the ultimate history of video games. Based on extensive research and over 140 exclusive interviews with key movers and shakers from gaming's past, Replay...
| Author | Steven L. Kent |
| ISBN | 0761536434 |
Inside the Games You Grew Up with but Never Forgot
With all the whiz, bang, pop, and shimmer of a glowing arcade. The Ultimate History of Video Games reveals everything you ever wanted to know and more about the unforgettable games that changed the world, the visionaries who made them, and the fanatics...
| Author | Stephen King |
| ISBN | 1476767289 |
All hell has broken loose in Chester's Mill after an invisible force field suddenly and inexplicably descends on the small Maine town, isolating all within it from the outside world. As the grim reality of the situation dawns and panic sets in, each other town's denizens reveals their true nature in...
Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World
| Author | Jane McGonigal |
| ISBN | 0224089250 |
More than 31 million people in the UK are gamers. The average young person in the UK will spend 10,000 hours gaming by the age of twenty-one. What's causing this mass exodus? According to world-renowned game designer Jane McGonigal the answer is simple: videogames are fulfilling genuine human needs....
Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter
| Author | Tom Bissell |
| ISBN | 0307378705 |
Tom Bissell is a prizewinning writer who published three widely acclaimed books before the age of thirty-four. He is also an obsessive gamer who has spent untold hours in front of his various video game consoles, playing titles such as Far Cry 2, Left 4 Dead, BioShock, and Oblivion for, literally, days....
Jacked: The Outlaw Story of Grand Theft Auto
| Author | David Kushner |
| ISBN | 0470936371 |
Inside the making of a videogame that defined a generation: Grand Theft Auto Grand Theft Auto is one of the biggest and most controversial videogame franchises of all time. Since its first release in 1997, GTA has pioneered the use of everything from 3D graphics to the voices of top Hollywood actors and...
Stay Awhile and Listen : How Two Blizzards Unleashed Diablo and Forged a Video-Game Empire
| Author | David L. Craddock |
| ISBN | 0988409909 |
Two companies. Two opposing cultures. One multi-billion-dollar video-game empire.
Stay Awhile and Listen: How Two Blizzards Unleashed Diablo and Forged a Video-Game Empire - Book 1 invites readers to discover the origin of Blizzard North, a studio built by gamers, for gamers, and Blizzard...
As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980
| Author | Susan Sontag |
| ISBN | 0374100764 |
This, the second of three volumes of Susan Sontag's journals and notebooks, begins where the first volume left off, in the middle of the 1960s. It traces and documents Sontag's evolution from fledgling participant in the artistic and intellectual world of New York City to world-renowned critic and...
Vragen die ik kreeg over de Holocaust
Hédi Fried overleefde Auschwitz en reist al ruim dertig jaar langs middelbare scholen en universiteiten om over de Holocaust, antisemitisme en racisme te vertellen. In dit boek beantwoordt ze de vragen die haar gesteld werden en die haar het meest zijn bijgebleven.
Op openhartige, indringende...
| Author | Stephen King |
| ISBN | 1476767270 |
On an entirely normal, beautiful fall day in Chester's Mill, Maine, the town is inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field. Planes crash into it and fall from the sky in flaming wreckage, a gardener's hand is severed as "the dome" comes down on it, people...
| Author | Stefan Hertmans |
| ISBN | 9029049286 |
De herinneringen van een "kleine Vlaamse leugenaar" op zoek naar de verloren tijd.
Op groteske, maar even vaak ontroerende wijze steekt Stefan Hertmans (Gent, 1951) in zijn roman 'Naar Merelbeke' de draak met de drang die in elke schrijver huist, en dus ook in hem: het verlangen om zijn eigen...
| Author | Paul Auster |
| ISBN | 0571240763 |
Man in the Dark is Paul Auster’s brilliant, devastating novel about the many realities we inhabit as wars flame all around us.
Seventy-two-year-old August Brill is recovering from a car accident in his daughter’s house in Vermont. When sleep refuses to come, he lies in bed and tells himself...
| Author | Jeroen Brouwers |
| ISBN | 9025442250 |
In een door kloosterlingen geleid jongenspensionaat vindt in de jaren vijftig van de vorige eeuw seksueel misbruik, sadisme en vernedering plaats. Broeder Bonaventura is er getuige van en zwijgt zoals iedereen. Maakt dit hem medeplichtig? Het hout geeft een cynisch beeld van de misdaden en de hypocrisie...
De blinde stoker van de hamam van Fez
De blinde stoker van de hamam van Fèz, het nieuwe boekhandelsgeschenk van Confituur ism uitgeverij De Bezige Bij, is een tintelende vertelling over de erotiek van de verbeelding. In deze kleine parabel neemt Stefan Hertmans de lezer mee naar Marokko, waar hij in het badhuis van Fèz de blinde vuurstoker...
