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Blood, Sweat, and Pixels (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 61 times as videogames)
avg rating 4.20 — 24,808 ratings — published 2017
Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)
by (shelved 53 times as videogames)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,313,994 ratings — published 2011
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as videogames)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,391,652 ratings — published 2022
Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as videogames)
avg rating 4.30 — 20,272 ratings — published 2003
Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as videogames)
avg rating 3.97 — 12,109 ratings — published 2014
Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as videogames)
avg rating 3.52 — 3,716 ratings — published 2010
The Legend of Zelda: Hyrule Historia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as videogames)
avg rating 4.55 — 9,227 ratings — published 2011
Renaissance (Assassin's Creed, #1)
by (shelved 19 times as videogames)
avg rating 3.72 — 19,645 ratings — published 2009
Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as videogames)
avg rating 3.79 — 8,374 ratings — published 2010
The Ultimate History of Video Games: From Pong to Pokemon - The Story Behind the Craze That Touched Our Lives and Changed the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as videogames)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,045 ratings — published 2001
BioShock: Rapture (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 16 times as videogames)
avg rating 3.99 — 11,666 ratings — published 2011
The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as videogames)
avg rating 4.39 — 3,425 ratings — published 2008
Ask Iwata: Words of Wisdom from Satoru Iwata, Nintendo's Legendary CEO (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as videogames)
avg rating 4.14 — 3,515 ratings — published 2021
Press Reset: Ruin and Recovery in the Video Game Industry (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as videogames)
avg rating 4.05 — 8,157 ratings — published 2021
Jacked: The Outlaw Story of Grand Theft Auto (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as videogames)
avg rating 3.60 — 2,054 ratings — published 2012
1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as videogames)
avg rating 3.83 — 590 ratings — published 2010
Replay: The History of Video Games (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as videogames)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,511 ratings — published 2010
Mass Effect: Revelation (Mass Effect, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as videogames)
avg rating 3.73 — 14,396 ratings — published 2007
Ready Player Two (Ready Player One, #2)
by (shelved 12 times as videogames)
avg rating 3.44 — 188,630 ratings — published 2020
Rules of Play: Game Design Fundamentals (Mit Press)
by (shelved 12 times as videogames)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,019 ratings — published 2003
Level Up!: The Guide to Great Video Game Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as videogames)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,139 ratings — published 2010
Game Over, Press Start to Continue: How Nintendo Conquered the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as videogames)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,586 ratings — published 1993
Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer System (Platform Studies)
by (shelved 12 times as videogames)
avg rating 4.05 — 823 ratings — published 2009
A Theory Of Fun For Game Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as videogames)
avg rating 3.90 — 3,478 ratings — published 2004
How to Do Things with Videogames (Electronic Mediations)
by (shelved 11 times as videogames)
avg rating 3.62 — 495 ratings — published 2011
Persuasive Games: The Expressive Power of Videogames (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as videogames)
avg rating 3.84 — 360 ratings — published 2007
Halo: The Fall of Reach (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as videogames)
avg rating 4.26 — 36,368 ratings — published 2001
Power-Up: How Japanese Video Games Gave the World an Extra Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as videogames)
avg rating 3.99 — 451 ratings — published 2004
Doom Guy: Life in First Person (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as videogames)
avg rating 4.29 — 2,500 ratings — published 2023
Game Feel (Morgan Kaufmann Game Design Books)
by (shelved 9 times as videogames)
avg rating 3.91 — 382 ratings — published 2008
What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as videogames)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,330 ratings — published 2003
Brotherhood (Assassin's Creed, #2)
by (shelved 9 times as videogames)
avg rating 3.94 — 10,631 ratings — published 2010
The Stolen Throne (Dragon Age, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as videogames)
avg rating 3.75 — 10,457 ratings — published 2009
Mass Effect: Ascension (Mass Effect, #2)
by (shelved 9 times as videogames)
avg rating 3.75 — 8,973 ratings — published 2008
Sid Meier's Memoir!: A Life in Computer Games (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as videogames)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,703 ratings — published 2020
Significant Zero: Heroes, Villains, and the Fight for Art and Soul in Video Games (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as videogames)
avg rating 3.98 — 788 ratings — published 2017
Odyssey (Assassin's Creed, #9)
by (shelved 8 times as videogames)
avg rating 3.71 — 1,503 ratings — published 2018
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild – The Complete Official Guide – Expanded Edition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as videogames)
avg rating 4.68 — 1,553 ratings — published 2018
The Umbrella Conspiracy (Resident Evil, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as videogames)
avg rating 3.94 — 8,915 ratings — published 1998
Rise of the Videogame Zinesters: How Freaks, Normals, Amateurs, Artists, Dreamers, Drop-outs, Queers, Housewives,and People Like You Are Taking Back an Art Form (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as videogames)
avg rating 3.86 — 745 ratings — published 2012
The Making of Prince of Persia (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as videogames)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,955 ratings — published 2011
Vintage Games: An Insider Look at the History of Grand Theft Auto, Super Mario, and the Most Influential Games of All Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as videogames)
avg rating 3.77 — 128 ratings — published 2009
The Art of the Last of Us Part II (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as videogames)
avg rating 4.63 — 804 ratings — published
Warcross (Warcross, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as videogames)
avg rating 4.12 — 123,218 ratings — published 2017
Aspho Fields (Gears of War, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as videogames)
avg rating 4.11 — 4,513 ratings — published 2008
The Secret Crusade (Assassin's Creed, #3)
by (shelved 7 times as videogames)
avg rating 4.00 — 10,118 ratings — published 2011
All Your Base Are Belong to Us: How Fifty Years of Videogames Conquered Pop Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as videogames)
avg rating 3.59 — 896 ratings — published 2011
Super Mario: How Nintendo Conquered America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as videogames)
avg rating 3.83 — 5,428 ratings — published 2011
Fun Inc.: Why Play is the 21st Century's Most Serious Business (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as videogames)
avg rating 3.39 — 325 ratings — published 2010
The CRPG Book Project - Expanded Edition (ebook)
by (shelved 6 times as videogames)
avg rating 4.45 — 281 ratings — published 2018
“The goals of the player are thus aligned with the goals of the protagonist; when the player succeeds, the protagonist succeeds. (...) The question is, can we imagine video games where this is inverted, such that when the player is successful, the protagonist fails? (...) Who would want to play Anna Karenina, the video game? Who would want to spend hours playing in order to successfully throw the protagonist under a train?”
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“When I play too many video games I begin to feel chubby-minded, caffeinated, bad.”
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