Extra lives : why video games matter / Tom Bissell.
2010
GV1469.3 .B55 2010 (Mapit)
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Title
Extra lives : why video games matter / Tom Bissell.
Author
Bissell, Tom, 1974-
Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
9780307378705
0307378705
0307378705
Publication Details
New York : Pantheon Books, c2010.
Language
English
Description
xiv, 218 p. ; 22 cm.
Call Number
GV1469.3 .B55 2010
Dewey Decimal Classification
794.8
Summary
A personal assessment of the author's addiction to video games explores his favorites, their roles as modern forms of popular art, and their habit-forming appeal while considering how he has neglected his professional and social responsibilities in favorof gaming activities.
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Includes index.
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Table of Contents
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Headshots
The unbearable lightness of games
The grammar of fun
Littlebigproblems
Braided
Mass effects
Far cries
Grand thefts.