Gaming: Essays on Algorithmic Culture Volume 18

by Alexander R. Galloway

Book Overview

Video games have been a central feature of the cultural landscape for over twenty years and now rival older media like movies, television, and music in popularity and cultural influence. Yet there have been relatively few attempts to understand the video game as an independent medium. Most such efforts focus on the earliest generation of text-based adventures ( Zork, for example) and have little to say about such visually and conceptually sophisticated...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816648514
• ISBN13: 9780816648511
• Release Date: May 2006
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"