Masters of Doom - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Masters of Doom write by David Kushner. This book was released on 2003-04-24. Masters of Doom available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Masters of Doom is the amazing true story of the Lennon and McCartney of video games: John Carmack and John Romero. Together, they ruled big business. They transformed popular culture. And they provoked a national controversy. More than anything, they lived a unique and rollicking American Dream, escaping the broken homes of their youth to co-create the most notoriously successful game franchises in history—Doom and Quake—until the games they made tore them apart. Americans spend more money on video games than on movie tickets. Masters of Doom is the first book to chronicle this industry’s greatest story, written by one of the medium’s leading observers. David Kushner takes readers inside the rags-to-riches adventure of two rebellious entrepreneurs who came of age to shape a generation. The vivid portrait reveals why their games are so violent and why their immersion in their brilliantly designed fantasy worlds offered them solace. And it shows how they channeled their fury and imagination into products that are a formative influence on our culture, from MTV to the Internet to Columbine. This is a story of friendship and betrayal, commerce and artistry—a powerful and compassionate account of what it’s like to be young, driven, and wildly creative. “To my taste, the greatest American myth of cosmogenesis features the maladjusted, antisocial, genius teenage boy who, in the insular laboratory of his own bedroom, invents the universe from scratch. Masters of Doom is a particularly inspired rendition. Dave Kushner chronicles the saga of video game virtuosi Carmack and Romero with terrific brio. This is a page-turning, mythopoeic cyber-soap opera about two glamorous geek geniuses—and it should be read while scarfing down pepperoni pizza and swilling Diet Coke, with Queens of the Stone Age cranked up all the way.”—Mark Leyner, author of I Smell Esther Williams
Game Engine Black Book: DOOM
Game Engine Black Book: DOOM - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Game Engine Black Book: DOOM write by Fabien Sanglard. This book was released on . Game Engine Black Book: DOOM available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. It was early 1993 and id Software was at the top of the PC gaming industry. Wolfenstein 3D had established the First Person Shooter genre and sales of its sequel Spear of Destiny were skyrocketing. The technology and tools id had taken years to develop were no match for their many competitors. It would have been easy for id to coast on their success, but instead they made the audacious decision to throw away everything they had built and start from scratch. Game Engine Black Book: Doom is the story of how they did it. This is a book about history and engineering. Don’t expect much prose (the author’s English has improved since the first book but is still broken). Instead you will find inside extensive descriptions and drawings to better understand all the challenges id Software had to overcome. From the hardware -- the Intel 486 CPU, the Motorola 68040 CPU, and the NeXT workstations -- to the game engine’s revolutionary design, open up to learn how DOOM changed the gaming industry and became a legend among video games.
I Smell Esther Williams
I Smell Esther Williams - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook I Smell Esther Williams write by Mark Leyner. This book was released on 1995-01-31. I Smell Esther Williams available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A community theater's production of Special Yearnings triggers a string of underground nuclear explosions from St. Louis to Worcester, Massachusetts. A man frantically swats at the blaze that his girlfriend has ignited in his trousers, while her family tries to figure out whether his agonized sign language means "Under the Volcano" or "No Time for Sergeants." Charo, Marianne Faithfull, and Napoleon's sister swap glittering witticisms and pornographic come-ons with languid aesthetes and unhinged suburbanites. Such scenarios are just par for the course in this gloriously disorienting volume by Mark Leyner, author of My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist and Et Tu, Babe, and a writer who plays the English language the way Jimi Hendrix played the guitar: at blinding speed, dangerous volume, and with a perfect mixture of lyricism and sheer menace.
Doctor Doom and the Masters of Evil
Doctor Doom and the Masters of Evil - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Doctor Doom and the Masters of Evil write by . This book was released on 2009-07-29. Doctor Doom and the Masters of Evil available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Bring on the bad guys! You've gotta ask yourself: If Doctor Doom's the most evil guy ever, how much more evil is it gonna get when he puts a whole team of villains to work? It's the series where the bad guys get their say, and they're letting their actions do the talking. Featuring the Sinister Six; the Circus of Crime; Blastaar, the Living Bomb-Burst; Selene, the Black Queen; Princess Python; Magneto, Master of Magnetism; a platoon of Sentinels; and more!"--Page 4 of cover
Jacked
Jacked - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Jacked write by David Kushner. This book was released on 2012-04-03. Jacked available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Inside the making of a videogame that defined a generation: Grand Theft Auto Grand Theft Auto is one of the biggest and most controversial videogame franchises of all time. Since its first release in 1997, GTA has pioneered the use of everything from 3D graphics to the voices of top Hollywood actors and repeatedly transformed the world of gaming. Despite its incredible innovations in the $75 billion game industry, it has also been a lightning rod of debate, spawning accusations of ethnic and sexual discrimination, glamorizing violence, and inciting real-life crimes. Jacked tells the turbulent and mostly unknown story of GTA's wildly ambitious creators, Rockstar Games, the invention and evolution of the franchise, and the cultural and political backlash it has provoked. 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 episodes in the development of the series, including the financial turmoil of Rockstar games, the infamous "Hot Coffee" sex mini-game incident, and more Whether you love Grand Theft Auto or hate it, or just want to understand the defining entertainment product of a generation, you'll want to read Jacked and get the real story behind this boundary-pushing game.
