Game Studies

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Fun, Taste, & Games

Fun, Taste, & Games

Transgression in Games and Play

Transgression in Games and Play

Gaming the Iron Curtain

Gaming the Iron Curtain

Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out, Tenth Anniversary Edition

Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out, Tenth Anniversary Edition

How Games Move Us

How Games Move Us

The Media Snatcher

The Media Snatcher

Handmade Pixels

Handmade Pixels

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Transgressing Play: Video games and gaming studies at the MIT Press

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Does Lara Croft Wear Fake Polygons? Gender and Gender-Role Subversion in Computer Adventure Games

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Gaming the Iron Curtain

How Teenagers and Amateurs in Communist Czechoslovakia Claimed the Medium of Computer Games
Jaroslav Švelch 2018
- Hardcover $45.00 £38.00
Many Splendored Things

Thinking Sex and Play
Susanna Paasonen 2018
- Hardcover $30.00 £25.00
Resonant Games

Design Principles for Learning Games that Connect Hearts, Minds, and the Everyday
Eric Klopfer, Jason Haas, Scot Osterweil, and Louisa Rosenheck 2018
- Hardcover $40.00 £32.00
Future Gaming

Creative Interventions in Video Game Culture
Paolo Ruffino 2018
- Hardcover $30.00 £25.00
A Play of Bodies

How We Perceive Videogames
Brendan Keogh 2018
- Hardcover $35.00 £28.00
Families at Play

Connecting and Learning through Video Games
Sinem Siyahhan and Elisabeth Gee 2018
- Hardcover $30.00 £25.00
Super Power, Spoony Bards, and Silverware

The Super Nintendo Entertainment System
Dominic Arsenault 2017
- Hardcover $29.95 £25.00
Sport 2.0

Transforming Sports for a Digital World
Andy Miah 2017
- Hardcover $9.75 £7.99
Atari Age

The Emergence of Video Games in America
Michael Z. Newman 2017
- Hardcover $29.95 £25.00
- Paperback $16.95 £13.99
Connected Gaming

What Making Video Games Can Teach Us about Learning and Literacy
Yasmin B. Kafai and Quinn Burke 2016
- Hardcover $19.75 £15.99
Debugging Game History

A Critical Lexicon
Henry Lowood and Raiford Guins 2016
- Hardcover $50.00 £40.00
Zones of Control

Perspectives on Wargaming
Pat Harrigan and Matthew G. Kirschenbaum 2016
- Hardcover $50.00 £40.00