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Video Game of the Year: A Year-by-Year Guide to the Best, Boldest, and Most Bizarre Games from Every Year Since 1977

Jordan Minor - Abrams Image
Format: Paperback
Breaking down the 40-year history of the world's most popular art form, one video game at a time. Pong. The Legend of Zelda. Final Fantasy VII. Rock Band. Fortnite. Animal Crossing: New Horizons. For each of the 40 years of video game history, there is a defining game, a game that captured...
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You've Been Played: How Corporations, Governments, and Schools Use Games to Control Us All

Dr. Adrian Hon - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
How games are being harnessed as instruments of exploitation - and what we can do about it Warehouse workers pack boxes while a virtual dragon races across their screen. If they beat their colleagues, they get an award. If not, they can be fired. Uber presents exhausted drivers with challenges...
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Seven Games: A Human History

Oliver Roeder - ‎W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
A group biography of seven enduring and beloved games, and the story of why -- and how -- we play them.Checkers, backgammon, chess, and Go. Poker, Scrabble, and bridge. These seven games, ancient and modern, fascinate millions of people worldwide. In Seven Games, Oliver Roeder charts their...
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