Wed, Jul 07, 2010 | 15:43 BST
Rossignol’s “This Gaming Life” now available online for free
Games journalist Jim Rossignol’s book, This Gaming Life: Travels in Three Cities, is now available online for free in lovely digital format.
In it, Rossignol offer’s “an insider’s view of online games and how they change us”.
The book describes Rossignol’s encounters with gamers in London, Seoul, and Reyjkavik, and spans from days playing Quake to Korea’s televised professional gaming culture, and then off to his adventures in Iceland with Eve Online.
Here’s the description from Amazon, where you can still purchase the book in paperback for £12.71:
Rossignol introduces us to a still emerging and largely undocumented world of gaming lives. Torn between unabashed enthusiasm and optimism about the future of gaming and lingering doubts about whether games are just a waste of time, “This Gaming Life” also raises important questions about this new and vital cultural form. Should we celebrate the ‘serious’ educational, social, and cultural value games, as academics and journalists are beginning to do? Or do these high-minded justifications simply perpetuate the stereotype of games as a lesser form of fun? Could it be that the true value of games lies in their ability to stave off boredom?
Rossignol, who writes for RPS, has also penned articles for Wired, The BBC, PC Gamer, and other media outlets.
Get the digitized version through here.
Via: RPS.
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Posted in: Internet, Journalism, PC, books
Tags: Jim Rossignol, This Gaming Life: Travels in Three Cities
15 comments
#1
mington
07/07/10, 3:44 pm
Riveting, i’d rather read the bible
bring it!
#2
Windsmeare
07/07/10, 3:48 pm
I’ve read the bible. The Zebra did it.
#3
Patrick Garratt
07/07/10, 3:49 pm
Go on. It’s free. Do him a favour.
#4
Stephany Nunneley
07/07/10, 3:50 pm
@1 What’s the Bible?
#5
mington
07/07/10, 3:50 pm
@2 ^SPOILER^
#6
mington
07/07/10, 3:56 pm
@3 oh ok, i’ve got to finish off reading the Koran first
@4 It’s pretty much ‘Being the creator for Dummies’
#7
Windsmeare
07/07/10, 4:00 pm
@4. A rip roaring thrill ride of pure adrenaline.
#8
mington
07/07/10, 4:12 pm
amazon review of the bible
reading this has been the highlight of my day
http://www.amazon.co.uk/review/R29TWEXEBFF2R8/ref=cm_cr_dp_cmt?ie=UTF8&ASIN=1565633253&nodeID=266239#wasThisHelpful
scroll up
#9
spiderLAW
07/07/10, 4:22 pm
@7
I agree!!! Excellent book!
#10
tenthousandgothsonacid
07/07/10, 4:45 pm
@8 Great find mingers…
#11
Stephany Nunneley
07/07/10, 4:53 pm
@8 That was the best thing I have read in ages
#12
spiderLAW
07/07/10, 5:50 pm
@8
That was awesome! because of his intellegent wording.
I as a Christian would take offense normally but it was funny. And i dont hate or dislike non-believers, instead i like to befriend them and convince them otherwise in a easy going, non-forceful, friendly manner. If they dont change then (i kill them) i just remain friends with them and accept them either way.
#13
deanimate
08/07/10, 1:22 am
@12
you really believe in all that eh?
indoctrination from birth or you “found god”?
#14
Phoenixblight
08/07/10, 6:03 am
@13 No flame wars
Faith doesn’t need proof to believe in just conviction.
#15
LarsWestergren
08/07/10, 9:07 am
So… getting back to games, This Gaming Life is a pretty good book. You should read it. It is also available to buy from Amazon and other online bookstores.