 | Understanding Digital Games
Buy new: £17.29 / Used from: £11.99 A wide ranging and easy to read overview of approaches to understanding games - Shameless self promotion
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 | The Business and Culture of Digital Games: Gamework and Gameplay by Dr Aphra Kerr
Buy new: £19.65 / Used from: £17.88 Kerr is both rigorous and accessible in her style
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 | Handbook of Computer Game Studies by J Raessens
Buy new: £31.79 / Used from: £26.00 A broad ranging collection of papers on digital games more theoretically orientated than many collections
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 | Synthetic Worlds: The Business and Culture of Online Games by E Castronova
Buy used from: £6.75 Castronova's ideas are often challenging but always interesting
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 | Tomb Raiders and Space Invaders: Video Games in the 21st Century by Geoff King
Buy new: £15.19 / Used from: £9.24 Actually by Geoff King and Tanya Krzywinska with the subtitle 'Videogame forms & contexts'
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 | ScreenPlay: Cinema/videogames/interfaces by Tanya Krzywinska
Buy used from: £10.00 Great collection on the film/game links. The Spectacle of the Deathmatch paper is worth the cost of the book alone ;-)
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 | More Than a Game: The Computer Game as Fictional Form by Barry Atkins
Buy new: £9.01 / Used from: £7.15 More digital games stuff hot off the press from Manchester
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 | Play Between Worlds: Exploring Online Game Culture by TL Taylor
Buy new: £15.82 / Used from: £12.00 |
 | Computer Games: Text, Narrative and Play by Diane Carr
Buy new: £13.29 / Used from: £10.63 |
 | Chris Crawford on Game Design by Chris Crawford
Buy new: £26.34 / Used from: £17.15 Agree with him or not, Chris Crawford is a man with vision.
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 | The Game Maker's Apprentice: Game Development for Beginners by Jacob; Overmars, Mark Habgood
Buy new: £17.88 / Used from: £15.50 A wonderfully presented book with all the info and tools to create your first game
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 | Rules of Play: Game Design Fundamentals by K Salen
Buy new: £29.23 / Used from: £26.00 A clear and well thought through introduction to what games are made of.
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 | Digital Play: The Interaction of Technology, Culture and Marketing by Stephen Kline
Buy new: £17.09 / Used from: £14.15 |
 | Trigger Happy: The Inner Life of Videogames by Steven Poole
Buy used from: £6.35 An easy to read book that covers all the bases. Buy it - it's a bargain.
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 | Half--Real: Video Games Between Real Rules and Fictional Worlds by J Juul
Buy new: £18.63 / Used from: £18.65 |
 | Unit Operations: An Approach to Videogame Criticism by I Bogost
Buy new: £24.61 / Used from: £29.06 |
 | Postmortems from Game Developer: Insights from the Developers of "Unreal Tournament" "Black & White" "Age of Empire" and Other Top-selling Games (Gama Network Series) by Austin Grossman
Buy new: £25.65 / Used from: £16.17 |
 | The Ultimate History of Video Games by Steven L. Kent
Buy new: £10.49 / Used from: £9.96 An updated version of the well researched Kent's The First Quarter: A 25-Year History of Video Games.
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 | What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy by James Paul Gee
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 | Learning by Doing: A Comprehensive Guide to Simulations, Computer Games, and Pedagogy in e-learning and Other Educational Experiences by Clark Aldrich
Buy new: £29.45 / Used from: £40.85 A recent addition to the games and computer assisted learning field.
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 | Digital Game-based Learning by Marc Prensky
Buy used from: £17.94 Why am I recommending this? If you are in the least bit interested in games and education you've already got it!
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 | Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play-Element in Culture by Johan H. Huizinga
Buy used from: £15.50 If you're interested in games you'll have to read this at some point so do it now.
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 | The Medium of the Video Game
Buy new: £14.24 / Used from: £14.88 A little patchy but better than digging out Wolfs papers individually.
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 | Revolutionaries at Sony: The Making of the Sony Playstation and the Visionaries Who Conquered the World of Video Games by Reiji Asakura
Buy used from: £19.15 A fascinating history of how the PlayStation came to be.
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 | Opening the XBox by Dean Takahashi
Buy used from: £11.96 See the Xbox as part of MS' plan for world domination?
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