David Kushner
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"The book explains how British prep school brothers Sam and Dan Houser took their dream of fame, fortune, and the glamor of American pop culture and transformed it into a worldwide videogame blockbuster. Written by David Kushner, author of Masters of Doom and a top journalist on gaming, and drawn from over ten years of interviews and research, including firsthand knowledge of Grand Theft Auto's creators and detractors. Offers inside details on key...
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"In 1994, ... entrepreneur Gary Kremen used a $2,500 loan to create the first online dating service, Match.com. Only 5 percent of Americans were using the Internet at the time, and even fewer were looking online for love. He quickly bought the Sex.com domain too, betting the combination of love and sex would help propel the Internet into the mainstream. Imagine Kremen's surprise when he learned that someone named Stephen Michael Cohen had stolen the...
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If you think a gang of real-life geeks can’t take on the world and win big...think again. And whatever you do, don’t sit down across a gaming table from Jon Finkel, better known as Jonny Magic. "Jonny Magic and the Card Shark Kids" is his amazing true story: the jaw-dropping, zero-to-hero chronicle of a fat, friendless boy from New Jersey who found his edge in a game of cards–and turned it into a fortune!
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PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2017
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English
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Rise of the Dungeon Master tells, in graphic form, the story of Gary Gygax, co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons, one of the most influential games ever made. Like the game itself, the narrative casts the reader into the adventure from a first person point of view, taking on the roles of the different characters in the story.
Gygax was the son of immigrants who grew up in Lake Geneva, WI, in the 1950s. An imaginative misfit, he escaped into...
Gygax was the son of immigrants who grew up in Lake Geneva, WI, in the 1950s. An imaginative misfit, he escaped into...
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Avec l'appui de plusieurs centaines d'interviews réalisées sur six ans, David Kushner, également auteur de Jacked : l'histoire officieuse de Grand Theft Auto, a retracé l'histoire d'id Software et de leurs titres séminaux : les jeux de tir Wolfenstein 3-D, Doom et Quake. Ce récit, il nous en fait part à travers Les Origines de Doom. Les débuts de Carmack et Romero, construit comme un roman palpitant qui nous plonge en immersion dans le quotidien...
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English
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If you think a gang of real-life geeks can’t take on the world and win big...think again. And whatever you do, don’t sit down across a gaming table from Jon Finkel, better known as Jonny Magic. Jonny Magic and the Card Shark Kids is his amazing true story: the jaw-dropping, zero-to-hero chronicle of a fat, friendless boy from New Jersey who found his edge in a game of cards–and turned it into a fortune!
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English
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If you think a gang of real-life geeks can’t take on the world and win big...think again. And whatever you do, don’t sit down across a gaming table from Jon Finkel, better known as Jonny Magic. Jonny Magic and the Card Shark Kids is his amazing true story: the jaw-dropping, zero-to-hero chronicle of a fat, friendless boy from New Jersey who found his edge in a game of cards–and turned it into a fortune!
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From "Masters of Doom" author, David Kushner, comes "Prepare to Meet Thy Doom", a compilation of true gaming stories covering many facets of America's biggest entertainment business: the video game industry. In addition to more than a dozen fascinating tales of game creation, play, business, and controversy, "Prepare to Meet Thy Doom" follows up on Kushner's previous bestseller, "Masters of Doom" with a long-awaited update on id Software founders...
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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David Kushner grew up in the early 1970s in the Florida suburbs. It was when kids still ran free, riding bikes and disappearing into the nearby woods for hours. One morning in 1973, however, everything changed. David's older brother Jon biked through the forest to the convenience store for candy, and never returned. Decades later, now a grown man with kids of his own, Kushner found himself unsatisfied with his own memories and decided to revisit the...
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Perseus Books Group
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"Shows how a leaderless band of volunteers successfully used hacktivism to fight for the underdog, embarrass their rich and powerful targets--from Sony and Paypal to the Church of Scientology and Ferguson Police Department--all in the name of freedom of speech and information. Their exploits blurred the distinction between 'online' and 'reality,' and help shape our contemporary world"--
11) Levittown: two families, one tycoon, and the fight for civil rights in America's legendary suburb
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Walker & Co
Pub. Date
2009.
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English
13) Silk road
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Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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Ross Ulbricht launches the website Silk Road, a completely anonymous drug market, catching the focus of disgraced DEA agent Rick Bowden. As their private lives erode, they are trapped in an elaborate game of cat-and-mouse.
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Publisher
Nation Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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"Rise of the Dungeon Master tells, in graphic form, the story of Gary Gygax, co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons, one of the most influential games ever made. Like the game itself, the narrative casts the reader into the adventure from a first person point of view, taking on the roles of the different characters in the story. Gygax was the son of immigrants who grew up in Lake Geneva, WI, in the 1950s. An imaginative misfit, he escaped into a virtual...
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Bold Type Books
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"A deep, nostalgic dive into the advent of gaming, Easy to Learn, Difficult to Master returns us to the emerging culture of Silicon Valley. At the center of this graphic history, dynamically drawn in colors inspired by old computer screens, is the epic feud that rages between Atari founder Nolan Bushnell and inventor Ralph Baer for the title of "father of the video game." While Baer, a Jewish immigrant whose family fled Germany for America, developed...
