Virtual Ascendance - Video Games and the Remaking of Reality

Video gaming is wildly popular and getting even more so as interfaces and devices improve. This popular account of the rise of gaming offers insight into its popularity and place in our culture as well as the impact it has on our daily lives – from the doctor’s office to the family room sofa.

List of contents

Introduction
1: Down The Rabbit Hole
I Am Therefore I Game
2: From The Coin-op To The Console: How Did We Get Here?
Let The Games Begin
1972: A Pong Odyssey
3: Let The Games Begin: Competitive Videogaming And The Birth Of The Cyberathlete
Cyberathletes And The Leagues Who Love Them
4: Alphabet Soup: MMOs, MUDs, And RPGs-D&D In The 21st Century
5: No Console Required: Casual Games (or, Gaming For The Rest Of Us)
6: Dressed For The Symphony: Videogames Take Center Stage
7: From The Flat Screen To The Big Screen: Videogames
Invade Hollywood
Star Wars 1313: The Empire Strikes Back
8: Virtual Life
9: And We Are Merely Players: Videogames And Society
Good Enough For Government Work: CDC Gets Into The Game
10: Games For Health
From Rehab to Wii-hab:Using Videogames to Heal
11: War Games: Combat Evolved
12: It's William Gibson's World, We're Just Living In It
Bibliography

About the author

By Devin C. Griffiths

Summary

Video gaming is wildly popular and getting even more so as interfaces and devices improve. This popular account of the rise of gaming offers insight into its popularity and place in our culture as well as the impact it has on our daily lives – from the doctor’s office to the family room sofa.

Product details

• Authors: Devin C. Griffiths, Devin C Griffiths, Devin C. Griffiths, Griffiths Devin C.
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2016
• EAN: 9781442216952
• ISBN: 978-1-4422-1695-2
• No. of pages: 234
• Subjects: Guides > Hobby, home > Games, quizzes; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > IT; COMPUTERS / Programming / Games, Human-Computer Interaction, Ethical & social aspects of IT, Human–computer interaction, COMPUTERS / Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Games development & programming, GAMES & ACTIVITIES / Video & Mobile, Computer games / online games: strategy guides, Games development and programming, COMPUTERS / Social Aspects