How to Do Things with Videogames

by Ian Bogost

Book Overview

In recent years, computer games have moved from the margins of popular culture to its center. Reviews of new games and profiles of game designers now regularly appear in the New York Times and the New Yorker , and sales figures for games are reported alongside those of books, music, and movies. They are increasingly used for purposes other than entertainment, yet debates about videogames still fork along one of two paths: accusations of debasement...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081667647X
• ISBN13: 9780816676477
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.6" x 8.5"