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Gamer Nation
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Author : John Wills
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2019-05-21
Gamer Nation written by John Wills and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-21 with History categories.
Explores how games actively influence the ways people interpret and relate to American life. In 1975, design engineer Dave Nutting completed work on a new arcade machine. A version of Taito's Western Gun, a recent Japanese arcade machine, Nutting's Gun Fight depicted a classic showdown between gunfighters. Rich in Western folklore, the game seemed perfect for the American market; players easily adapted to the new technology, becoming pistol-wielding pixel cowboys. One of the first successful early arcade titles, Gun Fight helped introduce an entire nation to video-gaming and sold more than 8,000 units. In Gamer Nation, John Wills examines how video games co-opt national landscapes, livelihoods, and legends. Arguing that video games toy with Americans' mass cultural and historical understanding, Wills show how games reprogram the American experience as a simulated reality. Blockbuster games such as Civilization, Call of Duty, and Red Dead Redemption repackage the past, refashioning history into novel and immersive digital states of America. Controversial titles such as Custer's Revenge and 08.46 recode past tragedies. Meanwhile, online worlds such as Second Life cater to a desire to inhabit alternate versions of America, while Paperboy and The Sims transform the mundane tasks of everyday suburbia into fun and addictive challenges. Working with a range of popular and influential games, from Pong, Civilization, and The Oregon Trail to Grand Theft Auto, Silent Hill, and Fortnite, Wills critically explores these gamic depictions of America. Touching on organized crime, nuclear fallout, environmental degradation, and the War on Terror, Wills uncovers a world where players casually massacre Native Americans and Cold War soldiers alike, a world where neo-colonialism, naive patriotism, disassociated violence, and racial conflict abound, and a world where the boundaries of fantasy and reality are increasingly blurred. Ultimately, Gamer Nation reveals not only how video games are a key aspect of contemporary American culture, but also how games affect how people relate to America itself.
Gamer Nation
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Author : Eric Geissinger
language : en
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Release Date : 2018-07-31
Gamer Nation written by Eric Geissinger and has been published by Prometheus Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-31 with Games & Activities categories.
A tech-industry insider takes a critical look at the effect games are having on our short- and long-term happiness and assesses the cultural prospects of a society increasingly obsessed with gaming. The American "game economy" has become an enormous enterprise, devouring roughly one-ninth of America's entire economic output. This overview of arguably the most influential segment of the entertainment industry examines the perspectives of gaming enthusiasts, addicts, designers, arcade owners, psychologists, philosophers, and more. Weighing the positive and negative aspects of games, the author considers their effect not only upon the players but upon culture and society. What trade-offs are being made when people play games for twenty-plus hours a week? The author puts particular emphasis on Candy Crush, whose enormous popularity has left all other games far behind. Since 2013 it has been installed over a billion times and its simplicity has disrupted previous game-design assumptions, proving new games don't have to be sophisticated and graphically immersive. He also offers insights from interviews with experts on the mechanics of manipulation. Sophisticated psychological tools are used to design games that are compelling, irresistible, and possibly addicting. In a few case, obsessive game-playing has been the cause of death. Whether you enjoy games as a harmless pastime or are suspicious of their effects on the quality of your family's life, you'll want to read this wide-ranching exploration of the growing game phenomenon.
Gamer Nation
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Author : John Wills
language : en
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Release Date : 2019-05-21
Gamer Nation written by John Wills and has been published by Johns Hopkins University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-21 with History categories.
Ultimately, Gamer Nation reveals not only how video games are a key aspect of contemporary American culture, but how games affect how people relate to America itself.
Playstation Nation
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Author : Olivia and Kurt Bruner
language : en
Publisher: Center Street
Release Date : 2009-05-30
Playstation Nation written by Olivia and Kurt Bruner and has been published by Center Street this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-05-30 with Family & Relationships categories.
When Olivia Bruner saw video games overtaking her young sons' lives, she decided to learn the facts behind addiction. What she found was shocking: that most games are designed to be highly addictive-triggering physiological reactions in the brain similar to those associated with substance abuse-and that one out of five kids becomes addicted to computer and video games. And while many parents screen the content of games to protect their children from violent and sexual themes, few understand the forces causing their children to become hooked on the "digital drug." This book arms parents with the facts they need and concrete steps to protect our children from this very real epidemic. A must-read for all parents.
Junana
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Author : Bruce Caron
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2015-06-24
Junana written by Bruce Caron and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-24 with categories.
Ten years after the Game opened on the social network Junana, gamers across the planet are reforging their towns and cities, their farms and factories into a million small engines for an emergent future: a world-wide Game Nation. Some gamers are young and eager for adventure, some are older and seek serenity. Everyone who joins a grange gets a share. Sharing is the heart of the new order, that and Shine: your accomplishments and reputation. This new economy expresses a capitalism refocused on sustainable, durable consumption and on machines that anyone can build and use. As a million daisies bloom across the Earth, the rest of the world remains fascinated by their celebrity icons and the lure of fortune and fame. They can't even see the future being built by their peers in abandoned strip malls and auto dealerships. Samantha Mooney is running from her family, fleeing a life most of her friends would die for. She is running into a new future, one where she will need to forge her own Shine. Joseph Kumbar just turned eleven. The Game has big plans for this little man. Joseph's family makes a tiny living selling sandals on the streets of Mysore, India. Joseph isn't running anywhere. The Game Nation found him right where he lives. And then it turned his life around. The rest-of-the-world is not about to sit back and get blind-sided by a bunch of radical capitalists. Since they can't beat them, they have plans to destroy the Game Nation. Now it's us or them for the future of the planet.
Gamer Army
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Author : Trent Reedy
language : en
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Release Date : 2018-11-27
Gamer Army written by Trent Reedy and has been published by Scholastic Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-27 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
In this timely and thrilling novel, Ender's Game meets Ready Player One and several terabytes of fast-paced video game action as five gamers are recruited into a tech giant's secret program. After Rogan Webber levels up yet again on his favorite video game, Laser Viper, the world-famous creator of the game invites him to join the five best players in the country for an exclusive tournament. The gamers are flown to the tech mogul's headquarters, where they stay in luxury dorms and test out cutting edge virtual-reality gaming equipment, doing digital battle as powerful fighting robots. It's the ultimate gaming experience.But as the contest continues, the missions become harder, losing gamers are eliminated, and the remaining contestants face the growing suspicion that the game may not be what it seems. Why do the soldiers and robots they fight in Laser Viper act so weird? What's behind the strange game glitches? And why does the game feel so... real?Rogan and his gamer rivals must come together, summoning the collective power of their Gamer Army to discover the truth and make things right... in a dangerous world where video games have invaded reality.
Red Dead Redemption
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Author : John Wills
language : en
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Release Date : 2023-03-30
Red Dead Redemption written by John Wills and has been published by University of Oklahoma Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-03-30 with Games & Activities categories.
While the Western was dying a slow death across the cultural landscape, it was blazing back to life as a video game in the early twenty-first century. Rockstar Games’ Red Dead franchise, beginning with Red Dead Revolver in 2004, has grown into one of the most critically acclaimed video game franchises of the twenty-first century. Red Dead Redemption: History, Myth, and Violence in the Video Game West offers a critical, interdisciplinary look at this cultural phenomenon at the intersection of game studies and American history. Drawing on game studies, western history, American studies, and cultural studies, the authors train a wide-ranging, deeply informed analytic perspective on the Red Dead franchise—from its earliest incarnation to the latest, Red Dead Redemption 2 (2018). Their intersecting chapters put the series in the context of American history, culture, and contemporary media, with inquiries into issues of authenticity, realism, the meaning of play and commercial promotion, and the relationship between the game and the wider cultural iterations of the classic Western. The contributors also delve into the role the series’ development has played in recent debates around working conditions in the gaming industry and gaming culture. In its redeployment and reinvention of the Western’s myth and memes, the Red Dead franchise speaks to broader aspects of American culture—the hold of the frontier myth and the “Wild West” over the popular imagination, the role of gun culture in society, depictions of gender and ethnicity in mass media, and the increasing allure of digital escapism—all of which come in for scrutiny here, making this volume a vital, sweeping, and deeply revealing cultural intervention.
The Nation
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1897
The Nation written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1897 with Current events categories.
Speccy Nation
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Author : Dan Whitehead
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
Release Date : 2012-09-06
Speccy Nation written by Dan Whitehead and has been published by Createspace Independent Pub this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-06 with Games categories.
A tribute to the ZX Spectrum and the golden age of British gaming from veteran games journalist Dan Whitehead. Witty write-ups on fifty classic games that helped define the ZX Spectrum.
Go Nation
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Author : Marc L. Moskowitz
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2013-08-31
Go Nation written by Marc L. Moskowitz and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08-31 with Social Science categories.
Go (Weiqi in Chinese) is one of the most popular games in East Asia, with a steadily increasing fan base around the world. Like chess, Go is a logic game but it is much older, with written records mentioning the game that date back to the 4th century BC. As Chinese politics have changed over the last two millennia, so too has the imagery of the game. Today, it marks the reemergence of cultured gentlemen as an idealized model of manhood. Moskowitz uses this game to come to a better understanding of Chinese masculinity, nationalism, and class, as the PRC reconfigures its history and traditions to meet the future.