Gameplay Mode

Author: Patrick Crogan
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Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0816653348

Gameplay Mode: War, Simulation, and Technoculture (Electronic Mediations)

From flight simulators and first-person shooters to MMPOG and innovative strategy games like 2008's Spore, computer games owe their development to computer simulation and imaging produced by and for the military during the Cold War. Get Gameplay Mode computer books for free.
To understand their place in contemporary culture, Patrick Crogan argues, we must first understand the military logics that created and continue to inform them. Gameplay Mode situates computer games and gaming within the contemporary technocultural moment, connecting them to developments in the conceptualization of pure war since the Second World War and the evolution of simulation as both a technological achievement and a sociopolitical tool.Crogan begins by locating the origins of computer games Check Gameplay Mode our best computer books for 2013. All books are available in pdf format and downloadable from rapidshare, 4shared, and mediafire.

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To understand their place in contemporary culture, Patrick Crogan argues, we must first understand the military logics that created and continue to inform them Crogan begins by locating the origins of computer games

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