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"The FGTeeV family gamers really, really love playing games! But for Duddy, one game is by far best: Super Realistic (And Totally Not Made Up) Zombie Battles from the War of 1812. Even though in Duddy's opinion the updated version doesn't stand up to the classic original, it doesn't mean that he can't quickly rack up all the power-ups, bonuses, and achievements to show the kids--Lexi, Mike, Chase, and Shawn--how it's done. That is until the game freezes!...
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"A modern love story about two childhood friends, Sam, raised by an actress mother in LA's Koreatown, and Sadie, from the wealthy Jewish enclave of Beverly Hills, who reunite as adults to create video games, finding an intimacy in digital worlds that eludes them in their real lives, from the New York Times best-selling author of The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry."--
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Reason magazine's editor-in-chief Matt Welch hosts a panel with Tracy Fullerton, who is the director of the Game Innovation Lab at the University of Southern California, and Spark Unlimited CEO Craig Allen, on May 8, 2014. Allen and Fullerton discuss why gaming appeals to so many, how our lives are being "gamified" using a wealth of quantitative data, and how gaming supports a free market society.
45) 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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Super Rabbit Boy falls down a pipe and discovers himself in a mirror reality where everyone good is now evil, including his mirror self, Super Rabbit Boss, and he must make friends with King Viking (now one of the good guys) and somehow defeat his alter ego in order to save this world--and somehow find a way back to his own reality.
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Riley Shiner is obsessed with a video game based on a real haunted house in his neighborhood. He has played the game so often he knows it by heart, but there's a level he just can't seem to beat. Riley and his twin sister Scarlet know the haunted house is full of monsters and evil spirits, but decide to spend the night there anyway.
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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...
53) Insignia
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Tom, a fourteen-year-old genius at virtual reality games, is recruited by the United States Military to begin training at the Pentagonal Spire as a Combatant in World War III, controlling the mechanized drones that do the actual fighting off-planet.
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Ralph and Penelope are faced with a new challenge when they begin the search for a spare part to fix a beloved videogame: how to navigate the internet. When trying to fix Sugar Rush the pair become engrossed in the World Wide Web after a router is plugged into the local arcade space, forcing them to find a wheel to replace the router with and get the arcade up and running again. Traversing through this new, technological landscape won't be easy, with...
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"Video games are an extremely popular form of entertaiment. In fact, it's estimated that sixty-seven percent of American adults aged eighteen and over play video games. But amidst fthe fun, there is a dark side to video gaming. Some people play so ferquently that this activity becomes an addiction that causes both mental and physcial health problems, as well as the loss of relationships, jobs, and money. [This book] discusses the negative physical...
57) Epic
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On New Earth, a world based on a video role-playing game, fourteen-year-old Erik pursuades his friends to aid him in some unusual gambits in order to save Erik's father from exile and safeguard the futures of each of their families.
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Have you ever wondered what video games would be like if they never changed? The first games were little more than bouncing dots on a plain screen. Modern games include astonishing action, realistic environments, and epic story lines. Take a look at how video games have evolved over the years, and learn about the kinds of games we might be playing in the future.
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Farnum dreams of running a famous zoo. But though the mobs he keeps are adorable, none of them draws anything close to a crowd. Farnum needs something strange and new--but he's the furthest thing from an adventurer. It takes a lot of convincing from his friends, but Farnum finally takes a chance and goes with them to explore a lush new biome . . . which is how he ends up falling down a waterfall and washing up in front of a mysterious purple portal....
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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.