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"A thoughtful account of how optimization (also known as theorycrafting or the "moneyballing effect") has changed the way we play games from World of Warcraft to soccer"--

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"Playful Wearables presents foundational thinking about wearables and play. As play becomes ever more immersive, tools used to increase that immersiveness have to change with it"--

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How we talk about games as real or not-real, and how that shapes what games are made and who is invited to play them.

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An impassioned look at games and game design that offers the most ambitious framework for understanding them to date.

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"A monograph that surveys the formal elements of the 2D platforming game genre and examines how design choices act as ideological forms of pleasure, affect, and idea"--

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"An exploration of the world's first stand-alone stereoscopic 3D videogame platform: how it worked, how it was perceived, and how it built on a rich tradition of entertainment media created to trick our eyes"--

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"While much of the academic literature on streaming focuses on stars, Consalvo and two of her students have received significant funding to study the behaviors of "microstreamers" -- game streamers who have an audience of 20 or few viewers"--

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"An oversized hardcover volume cataloging art and developer commentary on Apex Legends, the hit competitive first-person shooter. Pore over the finest features of unique legendary skins, marvel at the deadly intricacies of every dynamic weapon, explore each nook and cranny of the game's battle-scarred arenas, Kings Canyon and World's Edge, and more!"--

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New collection of concept art, poster art and much more from the highly-anticipated Mass Effect: Andromeda videogame.

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"This freaking awesome hardcover art book for Trover Saves the Universe is the perfect companion piece to Squanch Games first fore into the gaming world. Dark Horse Books, and Squanch Games invite you to Feast your eye holes on over 190 pages of crazy concept art and intimate commentary straight from the mind of Rick and Morty's co-creators Justin Roiland!"--

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The Football Manager Guide to Football Management is for anyone who has ever believed that they could do a better job than their clubs manager. Its for anyone who has ever tried to prove that point by taking the hot seat in the management simulation Football Manager.

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Classic and cutting-edge writings on games, spanning nearly 50 years of game analysis and criticism, by game designers, game journalists, game fans, folklorists, sociologists, and media theorists.

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"Mailland places lawyers and the law at the center of the history of videogames, reconstructing traditional histories of games to include the social impact of lawyers and the law"--

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"Through a series of over 160 interviews, Keogh provides unprecedented access into the lives of game producers, exposing the limits of the concept of the "videogame industry" and challenging core assumptions in videogame research around creativity, professionalism, labor, diversity, education, and community"--

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Pro gaming's award-winning broadcaster Paul Redeye Chaloner brings us the definitive book on esports, the fastest growing entertainment phenomenon in the world today.

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"Treacherous Play examines the overlooked games where treachery, deception and duplicity is encouraged and demanded by the game"--

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"Roth explores the landscape of Japanese videogames through a metadata analysis of how they are spacialized across the Globe and how that constructs a notion of "Japanese-ness""--

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Thirty-nine essays explore the vast diversity of video game history and culture across all the world's continents.

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"In an increasingly hectic world, walking simulators provide a chance for a meditative online experience. Wandering Games will be the first book to explore this genre"--

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Moneyball meets videogaming in this fascinating, entertaining narrative about the quest to build the world's first major eSports league and the global race of the most gifted players to take home its first championship.

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"An unofficial Minecrafter's novel"--Cover.