The Art of Failure

An Essay on the Pain of Playing Video Games

by (author) Jesper Juul

Atari to Zelda

Japan's Videogames in Global Contexts

by (author) Mia Consalvo

Video Games Around the World

edited by Mark J.P. Wolf
foreword by Toru Iwatani

Works of Game

On the Aesthetics of Games and Art

by (author) John Sharp

Uncertainty in Games

by (author) Greg Costikyan

The Gameful World

Approaches, Issues, Applications

edited by Steffen P. Walz & Sebastian Deterding

A Year with Minecraft

Behind the Scenes at Mojang

by (author) Thomas Arnroth

Playing with Religion in Digital Games

edited by Heidi A. Campbell & Gregory P. Grieve
contributions by Oliver Steffen, Peter F. Likarish, Brenda S. Gardemour Walter, Nathan Abrams, Xenia Zeiler, Jason Anthony, Vit Sisler, Michael Waltemathe, Kevin Schut, Shanny Luft, Rachel Wagner & Rabis Gregory

The Last of Us: American Dreams

illustrated by Faith Erin Hicks
by (author) Neil Druckmann

Playing with Sound

A Theory of Interacting with Sound and Music in Video Games

by (author) Karen Collins

Before the Crash

Early Video Game History

contributions by Mark J.P. Wolf, Jessica Aldred, Ralph H. Baer, Brett Camper, Karen Collins, Ross A. Dannenberg, Leonard Herman, Erkki Huhtamo, Carly A. Kocurek, Sheila C. Murphy, Ed Rotberg, Tim Skelly, Carl Therrien, Staci Tucker & Zach Whalen

Cheating

Gaining Advantage in Videogames

by (author) Mia Consalvo