Bit by Bit: How Video Games Transformed Our World (Revised)

An acclaimed critic argues that video games are the most vital art form of our time Video...
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Author: Andrew Ervin
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Bit by Bit: How Video Games Transformed Our World (Revised) by Ervin, Andrew

Bit by Bit: How Video Games Transformed Our World (Revised)

€86,22

Bit by Bit: How Video Games Transformed Our World (Revised)

€86,22
Author: Andrew Ervin
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

An acclaimed critic argues that video games are the most vital art form of our time
Video games have seemingly taken over our lives. Whereas gamers once constituted a small and largely male subculture, today 67 percent of American households play video games. The average gamer is now thirty-four years old and spends eight hours each week playing--and there is a 40 percent chance this person is a woman.
In Bit by Bit, Andrew Ervin sets out to understand the explosive popularity of video games. He travels to government laboratories, junk shops, and arcades. He interviews scientists and game designers, both old and young. In charting the material and technological history of video games, from the 1950s to the present, he suggests that their appeal starts and ends with the sense of creativity they instill in gamers. As Ervin argues, games are art because they are beautiful, moving, and even political--and because they turn players into artists themselves.



Author: Andrew Ervin
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 05/01/2017
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.70w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780465039708


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 03/20/2017
Library Journal 04/15/2017 pg. 98
Booklist 04/15/2017 pg. 5
Choice 11/01/2017

About the Author
Andrew Ervin is the author of Extraordinary Renditions and Burning Down George Orwell's House. He has written essays and reviews for the New York Times Book Review, Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, and others. He teaches part time at Temple University and lives with his wife in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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