Masters of Doom
How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture
Written by David Kushner
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: May 11, 2004
Price: $15.95
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, escaping the broken homes...
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Extra Lives
Why Video Games Matter
Written by Tom Bissell
Format: eBook, 208 pages
On Sale: June 8, 2010
Price: $11.99
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...
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Technopoly
The Surrender of Culture to Technology
Written by Neil Postman
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: June 1, 2011
Price: $11.99
In this witty, often terrifying work of cultural criticism, the author of Amusing Ourselves to Death chronicles our transformation into a Technopoly: a society that no longer merely uses technology as a support system but instead is shaped by it--with radical consequences for the meanings of politics, art, education, intelligence, and...
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Knights of Sidonia, volume 4
Written by Tsutomu Nihei
Format: Trade Paperback, 186 pages
On Sale: August 6, 2013
Price: $12.95
A faction on the Sidonia that believes humanity's aggressive posture toward the Gauna is responsible for the extraterrestial behemoth's hostility desires to chart a seperate course. Hero Tanikaze and his middle-gendered friend Shinatose are both promoted while the scion of the Kunato family delves into dubious experiements in this installment of...
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