Matt Leone’s excellent oral history of Final Fantasy VII has been turned into a book by Read Only Memories, with some extra content and gorgeous art added to the original interviews. I just got a copy and it’s great.

Read-Only Memory are taking John Szczepaniak’s excellent three-volume series The Untold History of Japanese Game Developers, condensing it into one book and adding a bunch of new stories and art. The result is Japansoft: An Oral History, currently taking orders on Volume.

This is Shareware Heroes, a new book that has behind the scenes tales from studios like id, Epic and Apogee as they blazed a free-to-try trail across the PC market in the 80s and 90s.

Sega Master System: a visual compendium is an upcoming coffee table book from Bitmap Books, the same team behind the incredible Super Famicom box art collection.

HG101's Kurt Kalata has written a hardcover book “covering 101 weird, obscure, historically important, and just plain cool Japanese video games.” You can grab it on Kickstarter.

For followers of our Fine Art feature, here’s State of the Art : A Digital Art Anthology, a coffee table book showcasing the work of some of the world’s best concept artists, like Ian McQue and Goro Fujita.