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"In twelve-year-old Reyna Cheng's world, gaming is everything. Professional esports teams are the mainstream celebrities. Kids begin training from a young age, aspiring for the big leagues. Reyna is the up-and-coming junior amateur Dayhold gamer, competing in a VR battle royale against AI monsters and human players. But despite Reyna's rising popularity and skills, no one knows who she is. Gaming is still a boys' club and to protect herself against...
3) Game on
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"Samara Reynolds has built a large following as a gamer under an anonymous screenname, and uses her skills as a DEIA consultant to advocate for equal representation in video games. When she posted a video critiquing the popular game Legendsfall, she knew she'd get a reaction from her fans, but the video leads to hundreds of female gamers critiquing the game and its company, Artemis Games. The only thing more unexpected than starting an online movement...
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At home, Divya and Aaron grapple with their problems alone, but in the game, they have each other to face infinite new worlds...and the growing legion of trolls populating them. Soon the virtual harassment seeps into reality when a group called the Vox Populi begin launching real-world doxxing campaigns, threatening Aaron's dreams and Divya's actual life. The online trolls think they can drive her out of the game, but everything and everyone Divya...
5) Arena
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"A fast-paced and gripping near-future science fiction debut about the gritty world of competitive gaming... Every week, Kali Ling fights to the death on national TV. She's died hundreds of times. And it never gets easier... The RAGE tournaments--the Virtual Gaming League's elite competition where the best gamers in the world compete in a no-holds-barred fight to the digital death. Every bloody kill is broadcast to millions. Every player is a modern...
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Ninja, the undisputed champion of the world's most popular online battle royale, accepts a mysterious challenge and finds himself, along with dozens of other players, in the battle royale's universe, where they must start from scratch, avoid being ghosted, and maybe save the world.
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Examines the stories behind the creators of several popular video game titles, and how these creators came up with their ideas, including Ken Levine with his "Bioshock" games, Shigeru Miyamoto with "Super Mario," Yuji Naka with "Sonic the Hedgehog," and Todd Howard with "The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim."
9) Power up
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"Miles and Rhys know each other only as GRYPHON and BACKSLASH, and in the video game Mecha Melee they're an unstoppable team. They're the best friends they've got, online or in the real world. But real-life wrongdoing blasts their duo into a crater the size of Arcticon. With life online and off a complete mess and BattleCon--and the Every Game Ever tournament--just weeks away, can the boys play their way back to each other?"--Page [4] of cover.
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"Seventeen-year-old gaymer Noah Mitchell only has one friend left: the wonderful, funny, strictly online-only MagePants69. After years playing RPGs together, they know everything about each other, except anything that would give away their real life identities. And Noah is certain that if they could just meet in person, they would be soulmates. Noah would do anything to make this happen--including finally leaving his gaming chair to join a community...
11) Fan the flame
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When Lainey, sister of a massively popular video game streamer, decides to spill the truth about her hateful brother to his fans, she enlists the help of gamers SamTheBrave and ShadowWillow to help teach him a lesson.
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A groundbreaking anthology of short stories from award-winning writers and game-industry titans who have embarked on a quest to explore what happens when video games and science fiction collide. From text-based adventures to first-person shooters, dungeon crawlers to horror games, these twenty-six stories play with our notion of what video games can be-and what they can become-in smart and singular ways.
14) Overgeared: 1
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"Youngwoo Shin is a deadbeat in real life, working odd jobs to barely pay off his loans. Even his family has written him off as a hopeless video game addict. But when he logs in to the massively popular VR game Satisfy, Youngwoo becomes Grid the Warrior...who is also painfully mediocre. Everything changes when he stumbles across a tome containing the lost knowledge of a legendary blacksmith. The catch is, using it resets all his levels! In order to...
15) Darkroom
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Beatrice knows she doesn't have any followers. Nobody wants to watch her living her ordinary life. But then she strumbles across a new app, DARK[room]. Some users say it's super cool. Others say it's super dangerous. Beatrice downloads it and discovers that it allows her to see ghosts everywhere around her. And they're going to get her if she doesn't get them first. When Beatrice streams her haunted encounters, people think she's making them up. But...
17) Overgeared: 2
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Grid decides to help protect old man Khan's smithy from Mero Company for the sake of justice and the greater good--but mostly for the priceless sword and armor once worn by Pagma himself! But as usual, he's bitten off more than he can chew and finds out the hard way that his opponent is wealthy and well-connected and has no intention of playing fair. Entrapped by their scheme and forced into impossible odds, Grid will need the help of some unexpected...
18) Firebreak
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"New Liberty City, 2134. Two corporations have replaced the US, splitting the country's remaining forty-five states (five have been submerged under the ocean) between them: Stellaxis Innovations and Greenleaf. There are nine supercities within the continental US, and New Liberty City is the only amalgamated city split between the two megacorps, and thus at a perpetual state of civil war as the feeds broadcast the atrocities committed by each side....
19) Hostage run
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"Rick Dial is faced with an impossible choice: save the life of his best friend Molly. or save the free world. Rick Dial's career as a superstar quarterback ended when a car accident left him unable to walk. But his uncanny gaming ability caught the attention of a secret government organization trying to stop a high tech terrorist attack on America. He's been to the fantastical cyber world called the MindWar Realm. and returned to Real Life victorious....
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When Mark is sucked into the game "Go Wild", he becomes invisible which makes it that much harder for Jesse to find him.
"After Full Blast, Jesse Rigsby and his friend Eric has sworn off video games. But when Jesse is offered the chance to save his friend Mark, of course he says, "Yes." Problem is, Jesse is invisible now, sucked into the world of Go Wild| Poǩemon Go| tyle mobile game. To reach Mark, Jesse's going to have to shake the Bigfoot chasing...