computer games

This book celebrates the awe-inspiring experiences, environments, and simulations modern gaming offers as well as the cognitive and developmental benefits they convey.

Twelve-year-old Andrew, bored with life, becomes obsessed with a mysterious new computer game, which has the power to zap him and his friends into a dangerous world of menacing space warriors.

When she wakes up one morning to find her double in her room, seventeen-year-old Kate, already at her wit's end with college applications, finals, and extracurricular activities, decides to put her to work.

While trying to play the games at a seemingly harmless Website, Jess and her friend Matt are sucked into a cyberworld filled with characters from familiar fairy tales, all controlled by the evil Granny Goose.

Explores options in the career field of computer gaming, covering programming, art design, audio design, game design, writing, testing, and marketing, and discusses the field's future.

Provides cheat codes for a wide range of video games that can be played on the Xbox 360, Nintendo Wii, Playstation 2 and 3, Nintendo DS and 3DS, and PSP, including "Gears of War 3, " "L.A. Noire, " "Lego Pirates of the Caribbean: the Video Game, " "Forza Motosport 4, " and more.

Twelve-year-old Johnny endures tensions between his parents, watches television coverage of the Gulf War, and plays a computer game called Only You Can Save Mankind, in which he is increasingly drawn into the reality of the alien ScreeWee.