Computer Games: Text, Narrative and Play

by David Buckingham, Gareth Schott, Diane Carr, et al.

Computer games are one of the most exciting and rapidly evolving media of our time. Revenues from console and computer games have now overtaken those from Hollywood movies; and online gaming is one of the fastest-growing areas of the internet. Games are no longer just kids' stuff: the majority of players are now adults, and the market is constantly broadening. The visual style of games has become increasingly sophisticated, and the complexities of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745634001
• ISBN13: 9780745634005
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.9" x 9.7"