World War Z (the book): A meticulous, global history of the zombie apocalypse.
Graphic Novel About D&D’s Creator Is Enchanting, But Falls Into A Familiar Trap
Storytelling was never the same after Dungeons & Dragons. When players, guided by a dungeon master, knit a dense narrative whose many threads are each supported by their neighbors, it makes the case that many voices are greater than one. This is th…
A Good Book About The Guys Who Made Speedball
My copy of The Bitmap Brothers: Universe, an exhaustive (and gorgeous) history of the British studio behind games like Speedball and The Chaos Engine, arrived last week. And it’s awesome.
A Good Book About The Guys Who Made Speedball
My copy of The Bitmap Brothers: Universe, an exhaustive (and gorgeous) history of the British studio behind games like Speedball and The Chaos Engine, arrived last week. And it’s awesome.
Third Edition are running a Kickstarter to help get their very fancy video game books translated fro
Third Edition are running a Kickstarter to help get their very fancy video game books translated from French into English.Read more…
Five Great Books About Video Game Culture
Probably my favorite hobby next to playing video games is reading about people who love and design them. And I’m not talking licensed-by-Nintendo glory stories about CEOs overcoming their mistrust of Crash Bandicoot to make millions—I’m talking books about the rest of us, lovers on MMORPGs, struggling indie devs, self-hating gaming addicts, virtuous guild leaders, gold scammers and 10-year-old girls plugging in their first console.