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Anthropy, Anna – Rise of the Videogame Zinesters: How Freaks, Normals, Amateurs, Artists, Dreamers, Dropouts, Queers, Housewives, and People Like You Are Taking Back an Art Form – 2012
Bissell, Tom – Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter – 2010
Bogost, Ian – How to Do Things With Videogames – 2011
Bogost, Ian – How to Talk About Videogames – 2015
Bogost, Ian – Persuasive Games: The Expressive Power of Videogames – 2007
Bogost, Ian – Play Anything: The Pleasure of Limits, the Uses of Boredom, and the Secret of Games – 2016
Bogost, Ian – Unit Operations: An Approach to Videogame Criticism – 2006
Bogost, Ian and Others – Newsgames: Journalism at Play – 2010
Boss Fight Books – Continue? The Boss Fight Books Anthology – Boss Fight Books Anthology #1 – 2015
Boss Fight Books – Nightmare Mode: An Anthology – Boss Fight Books Anthology #2 – 2021
Burch, Ashly and Anthony Burch – Metal Gear Solid – Boss Fight Books #9 – 2015
Cassell, Justine and Henry Jenkins – From Barbie to Mortal Kombat: Gender and Computer Games – Barbie and Mortal Kombat #1 – 1998
Corriea, Alexa Ray – Kingdom Hearts II – Boss Fight Books #16 – 2017
Cote, Amanda C. – Gaming Sexism: Gender and Identity in the Era of Casual Video Games – 2020
Dimopoulos, Konstantinos – Virtual Cities: An Atlas & Exploration of Video Game Cities – 2020
Donnelly, Joe – Checkpoint: How Video Games Power Up Minds, Kick Ass, and Save Lives – 2020
Ellison, Cara – Embed With Games: A Year on the Couch With Game Developers – 2015
Goldberg, Daniel and Linus Larsson – The State of Play: Creators and Critics on Video Game Culture – 2015
Hall, L.E. – Katamari Damacy – Boss Fight Books #17 – 2018
Harper, Todd – The Culture of Digital Fighting Games: Performance and Practice – 2014
Huntemann, Nina B. and Matthew Thomas Payne – Joystick Soldiers: The Politics of Play in Military Video Games – 2009
Kafai, Yasmin B. and Others – Beyond Barbie and Mortal Kombat: New Perspectives on Gender and Gaming – Barbie and Mortal Kombat #2 – 2008
Kafai, Yasmin B. and Others – Diversifying Barbie and Mortal Kombat – Barbie and Mortal Kombat #3 – 2017
Keogh, Brendan – Killing is Harmless: A Critical Reading of Spec Ops: The Line – 2012
Keogh, Brendan – A Play of Bodies: How We Perceive Videogames – 2018
Kocurek, Carly A. – Coin-Operated Americans: Rebooting Boyhood at the Video Game Arcade – 2015
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Kutner, Lawrence and Cheryl Olson – Grand Theft Childhood: The Surprising Truth About Violent Video Games and What Parents Can Do – 2008
Lehdonvirta, Vili and Edward Castronova – Virtual Economies: Design and Analysis – 2014
Macdonald, Keza and Jason Killingsworth – You Died: The Dark Souls Companion – 2016
Margini, Matt – Red Dead Redemption – Boss Fight Books #24 – 2020
McGonigal, Jane – Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make us Better and How They Can Change the World – 2011
Minor, Jordan – Video Game of the Year – Expected 2023
Nelson, Nick and Jerrald Spencer – Versus: 25 Head-to-Head Battles that Shaped the Evolution of Video Games – 2020
Orland, Kyle – The Game Beat: Observations and Lessons from Two Decades Writing About Games – 2019
Orland, Kyle – Save Point – 2021
Parkin, Simon – Death by Video Game: Tales of Obsession from the Virtual Frontline – 2015
Phillips, Amanda – Gamer Trouble: Feminist Confrontations in Digital Culture – 2020
Ruberg, Bonnie – Video Games Have Always Been Queer – 2019
Ruberg, Bonnie and Adrienne Shaw – Queer Game Studies – 2017
Shaw, Adrienne – Gaming at the Edge: Sexuality and Gender at the Margins of Gamer Culture – 2014
Stovall, Rawson – The VidKid’s Book of Home Video Games – 1984
Strunk, Trevor – Story Mode: Video Games and the Interplay Between Consoles and Culture – 2021
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Sudnow, David – Pilgrim in the Microworld – 1983▶ Republished as Breakout: Pilgrim in the Microworld by Boss Fight Books in 2020
Taylor, T.L. – Play Between Worlds: Exploring Online Game Culture – 2006
Taylor, T.L. – Watch Me Play: Twitch and the Rise of Game Live Streaming – 2018
Wardrip-Fruin, Noah – How Pac-Man Eats – 2020
Wilbur, Brock and Nathan Rabin – Postal – Boss Fight Books #23 – 2020