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1. Gaming Law in a Nutshell (Nutshells) (2017)
Gaming Law in a Nutshell discusses all aspects of gambling law, and on all levels: federal, state, tribal, local and international. It covers all forms of gaming, legal and illegal, from traditional casinos and lotteries to internet poker and e-sports, pari-mutuel betting to daily fantasy sports and social media games. Two of the nation’s leading experts explain why legal gambling, one of the fastest growing industries in the world, still faces restrictions on its right to advertise or even have its contracts enforced. The Nutshell has separate discussions of…
2. Woke Gaming: Digital Challenges to Oppression and Social Injustice (2018)
From #Gamergate to the 2016 election, to the daily experiences of marginalized perspectives, gaming is entangled with mainstream cultures of systematic exploitation and oppression. Whether visible in the persistent color line that shapes the production, dissemination, and legitimization of dominant stereotypes within the industry itself, or in the dehumanizing representations often found within game spaces, many video games perpetuate injustice and mirror the inequities and violence that permeate society as a whole.Drawing from groundbreaking research on counter and oppositional gaming and from popular games such as World of…
3. Game On! 2019: All the Best Games: Awesome Facts and Coolest Secrets (2018)
Get ready for another awesome year of gaming with this ultimate guide to the best games, including a definitive list of the biggest games of the past year and the new ones coming in 2019. Featuring Five Nights at Freddy’s and Hello Neighbor!Game On! 2019, the most comprehensive guide to all the best games, tech, and YouTube stars, features some of the year’s greatest moments, including exclusive interviews with YouTube legends, top streamers, and game developers.This complete guide is packed with information on all the latest gaming hardware, tech, and essential mobile games. Also included are the best…
4. Gaming the World: How Sports Are Reshaping Global Politics and Culture (2013)
Professional sports today have truly become a global force, a common language that anyone, regardless of their nationality, can understand. Yet sports also remain distinctly local, with regional teams and the fiercely loyal local fans that follow them. This book examines the twenty-first-century phenomenon of global sports, in which professional teams and their players have become agents of globalization while at the same time fostering deep-seated and antagonistic local allegiances and spawning new forms of cultural conflict and prejudice. Andrei…
5. OpTic Gaming: The Making of eSports Champions (2016)
OpTic Gaming, the four-time Call of Duty Major League Gaming Champions and one of the top eSports teams in the world, now takes fans behind the controller—into the game and the minds of the greatest gamers in the world—in this fascinating and unique memoir and insider guide.Emerging on the scene in 2006, OpTic Gaming has dominated the Call of Duty e-sports arena, thanks to the talents of legendary players such as Matt “NaDeSHoT” Haag, the biggest eSports personality on earth; Seth “Scump” Abner, the best Call of Duty player in the world; Midnite, one…
6. A Gamers Guide To Building A Gaming Computer (2015)
If you want a book that’s easy to follow and will show you how to build a gaming computer from start to finish, then this is the one for you. This book is written in an ‘easy to understand’ manner that will take you through all computer parts individually to help you choose each computer component. There’s also help throughout this book on choosing quality computer components and a guide on picking out a version of Windows. Finally, there’s a guide on how to build a gaming computer and how to install Windows 10. So let’s not hang around any longer… let’s get started….
7. Hardcore Gaming 101 Presents: Contra and Other Konami Classics (2017)
UNOFFICIAL AND UNAUTHORIZED. Let’s attack aggressively! Contra and Other Konami Classics, brought to you by long-standing retro video game website Hardcore Gaming 101, includes a complete rundown of all of the games in Konami’s classic Contra series, ranging from its arcade and NES roots, to its modern day mobile incarnations. Also included is an extensive look at the very popular (in Japan) Ganbare Goemon / Legend of the Mystical Ninja series, as well as many of Konami’s 8-bit Famicom and Nintendo Entertainment System releases….
8. How to Build a Computer: The Best Beginner’s Guide to Building Your Own PC From Scratch! (2018)
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9. Audit and Accounting Guide: Gaming 2018 (2018)
Most of the accounting and financial reporting practices of entities undertaking gaming or gaming-related activities (collectively referred to as “gaming entities”) are essentially the same as those of other industries. However, some activities of gaming entities are unique. Developed by leading experts, this guide delivers “how-to” strategies for handling audit and accounting issues common to entities in the gaming industry, so accounts and financial managers can provide high-quality services to their clients. Updated for recent auditing standards, this guide…
10. Guinness World Records 2018 Gamer’s Edition: The Ultimate Guide to Gaming Records (Guinness World Records Gamer’s Edition) (2017)
From the global authority in record-breaking comes the 11th edition of the world’s best-selling videogames annual. Packed with the latest records, coolest stars and the biggest games, the Guinness World Records Gamer’s Edition is the go-to bible for every gaming fan. Just ask the five million readers who’ve made it an international sensation!Inside you’ll find amazing stats, thrilling facts, inspirational tales, lightning-quick speed-runs and dazzling photos. Read about the records behind your favorite games including Mario, Overwatch, FIFA, WWE and Rocket…
11. The Comic Book Story of Video Games: The Incredible History of the Electronic Gaming Revolution (2017)
Author Jonathan Hennessey and illustrator Jack McGowan present the first full-color, chronological origin story for this hugely successful, omnipresent artform and business. Hennessey provides readers with everything they need to know about video games–from their early beginnings during World War II to the emergence of arcade games in the 1970s to the rise of Nintendo to today’s app-based games like Angry Birds and Pokemon Go. Hennessey and McGowan also analyze the evolution of gaming as an artform and its impact on society. Each chapter…
12. High Stakes: Florida Seminole Gaming and Sovereignty (2008)
In 1979, Florida Seminoles opened the first tribally operated high-stakes bingo hall in North America. At the time, their annual budget stood at less than $2 million. By 2006, net income from gaming had surpassed $600 million. This dramatic shift from poverty to relative economic security has created tangible benefits for tribal citizens, including employment, universal health insurance, and social services. Renewed political self-governance and economic strength have reversed decades of U.S. settler-state control. At the same time, gaming has brought new dilemmas to reservation communities and triggered outside…
13. Gaming the Vote (2009)
At least five U.S. presidential elections have been won by the second most popular candidate, but these results were not inevitable. In fact, such an unfair outcome need never happen again, and as William Poundstone shows in Gaming the Vote, the solution is lurking right under our noses.In all five cases, the vote was upset by a “spoiler”―a minor candidate who took enough votes away from the most popular candidate to tip the election to someone else. The spoiler effect is more than a glitch. It is a consequence of one of the most surprising intellectual discoveries of the twentieth century: the “impossibility theorem” of the…
Best Gaming Books Worth Your Attention
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Making Smart Cities More Playable: Exploring Playable Cities
Author(s): Anton Nijholt
Publisher: Springer Singapore, Year: 2020, Size: 14 Mb, Download: pdf
ID: 2411653
Location-Based Gaming
Author(s): Dale Leorke
Publisher: Springer Singapore;Palgrave Macmillan, Year: 2019, Size: 6 Mb, Download: pdf
ID: 2254723
Internet Gaming Disorder: Theory, Assessment, Treatment, and Prevention
Author(s): Daniel King; Paul Delfabbro
Publisher: Academic Press, Year: 2019, Size: 5 Mb, Download: pdf
ID: 2308702
VR, Simulations and Serious Games for Education
Author(s): Yiyu Cai, Wouter van Joolingen, Zachary Walker
Publisher: Springer Singapore, Year: 2019, Size: 5 Mb, Download: pdf
ID: 2314011
eSports is Business: Management in the World of Competitive Gaming
Author(s): Tobias M. Scholz
Publisher: Palgrave, Year: 2019, Size: 2 Mb, Download: pdf
ID: 2349911
Gamification in Learning and Education: Enjoy Learning Like Gaming
Author(s): Sangkyun Kim, Kibong Song, Barbara Lockee, John Burton
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Year: 2018, Size: 8 Mb, Download: pdf
ID: 2152580
Agent-based Modeling meets Gaming Simulation
Author(s): K. Arai, H. Deguchi, H. Matsui (eds.)
Publisher: Springer, Year: 2018, Size: 2 Mb, Download: pdf
ID: 2191160
The Toxic Meritocracy of Video Games: Why Gaming Culture Is the Worst
Author(s): Christopher A. Paul
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press, Year: 2018, Size: 5 Mb, Download: pdf
ID: 2246246
Gamer Nation: The Rise of Modern Gaming and the Compulsion to Play Again
Author(s): Eric Geissinger
Publisher: Prometheus Books, Year: 2018, Size: 789 Kb, Download: epub
ID: 2246800
Please note that this booklist is not errorless. Some books are absolutely hot items according to Los Angeles Times, others are composed by unknown writers. On top of that, you can always find additional tutorials and courses on Coursera, Udemy or edX, for example. Are there any other relevant books you could recommend? Drop a comment if you have any feedback on the list.