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Despite record sales and an ever-growing global industry, the simple fact is that videogames are disappearing. Most obviously, the physical deterioration of discs, cartridges, consoles and controllers means that the data and devices will crumble to dust and eventually will be lost forever. However, there is more to the disappearance of videogames than plastic corrosion and bit rot. Best Before examines how the videogames industry's retail, publishing,...

The computer gaming industry is bigger than the film and music industries and is growing faster than both of them put together. This is the first major study of brands and gaming and shows huge opportunities for brand development.

"Introduces a practical critical method for analyzing existing games and designing future games"--

You've got your dream job - making video games. You have a great project, great designs, and clever controls. One morning, you get a call from your producer. Turns out that wall-jumping trick won't work because the artists don't have time to design a separate animation just for the plumber to move that way. Also, your lead designer keeps micromanaging the programmers, which is driving them crazy. Your E3 demo is due in two weeks, and you know there's...

This BBC Horizon program seeks to find out if the brains and behavior of an entire generation are being shaped by the hours they spend playing video games. The film explores how developers engineer their games to make sure they reach the sweet spot between frustration and boredom for the gamer, and Horizon looks at some of the scientific tests being carried out around the world to understand the impact of gaming on behavior, physiology, and neurobiology....

Uses the Star Trek future as a launching pad to discuss the forefront of modern physics today, from Newton to Hawking, from Einstein to Feynman, from Kirk to Picard, Krauss leads you on a voyage to the world of physics as we now know it and as it might one day be; featuring a section on the top ten physics bloopers and blunders in Star Trek.

Reason magazine's editor-in-chief Matt Welch hosts a panel with Tracy Fullerton, who is the director of the Game Innovation Lab at the University of Southern California, and Spark Unlimited CEO Craig Allen, on May 8, 2014. Allen and Fullerton discuss why gaming appeals to so many, how our lives are being "gamified" using a wealth of quantitative data, and how gaming supports a free market society.

"Featuring interviews with the creators of 36 popular video games, this book gives a behind-the-scenes look at the creation of some of the most influential and iconic games of all time. Recounting endless hours of painstaking development, the challenges of working with mega publishers and the uncertainties of public reception, the interviewees reveal the creative processes"--

This video game might be basic but without this, you wouldn't have what you can play today on your consoles! In this video, we will explain the story of Tennis for Two: America's very first video game.

"In the early days of arcades and Nintendo, many players didn't recognize Japanese games as coming from Japan; they were simply new and interesting games to play. But since then, fans, media, and the games industry have thought further about the "Japaneseness" of particular games. Game developers try to decide whether a game's Japaneseness is a selling point or stumbling block; critics try to determine what elements in a game express its Japaneseness--cultural...