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Last year, I fell in love with a very fancy book about the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis. Well, that book is now ready to…
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If you like reading about games, check out "StoryBundle." It's a new pay-what-you-want bundle of ebooks about video games, including work from some great writers, from Geoff Keighley to Ian Bogost. You can pay whatever you want and get the first six; pay more than $12 and you'll get three more good ones.
Chrono Trigger is an upcoming book by Michael P Williams. It's...all about Chrono Trigger, looking at parallels…
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The vast majority of people playing a big-deal MMO probably view it as an escape, something to do when not clocking…
A Childhood Spent With Computers: Writer/Kotaku contributor Leigh Alexander has published an ebook titled Breathing Machine: A Memoir of Computers. It's all about growing up alongside the computers of the 1980s and 90s, and it's good! You can get it at Amazon or a bunch of other places, and read an excerpt here.
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Realm Lovejoy used to work as an artist at Valve, where she helped define the look of everything from Portal to Left…
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