computer games

Nick is given an addictive computer game called "Erebos" that asks its players to carry out actions in the real world in order to keep playing online, actions which become more and more terrifyingly manipulative. As Nick loses friends and all sense of right and wrong in the real world, he gains power and advances further towards his online goal--to become one of the Inner Circle of Erebos.

Fourteen-year-old Arvin and his friends risk using a computer-controlled role-playing game to simulate a magical world in which they actually become fantasy characters, even though the computer program is a pirated one containing unpredictable errors.

A boy who likes nothing but playing computer games is in trouble when the power goes out and his little sister has all of the batteries in the house.

Curtis Switzer reluctantly agrees to attend a party with his friend Junior, but they arrive at the video arcade where the event is supposed to be held to find it dark and boarded up, and when they manage to find their way in, Curtis, a gaming pro, is lured into a life or death contest with a mysterious, hooded man.

Pandora Walker unwittingly unleashes cyber Armageddon on her seventeenth birthday and must play a virtual reality game in order to save the world.

Contains a "virtual" approach for finding a career in computer and electronic games. Discusses the requirements, necessary education, and required equipment, and recommends that you take a tour of each game designer at work, and seek interviews with professionals already working in the electronic fields.

Lance, who loves the addictive online battle game Discordia, finds himself transported to the real Discordia, where he must battle enemies to complete his quest or risk being changed into the zombie character he plays in the game.

Discusses thirty-six principles of learning that the author argues are built into good video games, and looks at how those principles relate to three areas of research on learning, including situated cognition, the New Literacy Studies, and connectionism.

While in the virtual reality of a computer game, Fred Whiffington meets an eccentric professor whose problems spill over into the real world.

When his own high-tech start up turns into a Fortune 500 computer gaming group, Richard Forthrast, the black sheep of an Iowa family who has amassed an illegal fortune, finds the line between fantasy and reality becoming blurred when a virtual war for dominance is triggered.