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  1. Global Fantasy II: The Irresistible Spread of the Computer Game? (2000)

    Subject
    Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (DVD-R, 29 minutes), £34.99 (CM)

    Explores the globalisation of culture through he contemporary phenomenon of computer games. Surveys gaming culture in Japan, the US and the UK and then explores the global flows of computer games, offering...

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  2. Fall and Roll (2000 Video)

    Subject
    Information technology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 2000 sale: £30.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Looks at developments in Britain’s computer games industry, focusing on development of artificial intelligence in programming and the attempt to encode the laws of physics into character movement. Features...

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  3. Get Lamp: The Text Adventure Documentary (2010)

    Director
    Jason Scott
    Subject
    Information technology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 121 minutes), $40.00

    The first games on home computers had limited sound, simple graphics, and tiny amounts of computing power. They were called "computer adventure games", and they used the most powerful graphics processor in...

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  4. Making of ‘Inferno’, The (1994 Video)

    Subject
    Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 25 min., 1997 sale: £12.99 (inclusive)

    Looks at the creative process behind Ocean Software’s computer game ‘Inferno’, following each stage of development from conception to the creation of the creatures who inhabit the virtual world within...

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  5. Girls Can Code

    Subject
    Information technology

    Half of all gamers are women, but only 4% of coders are. Radio 1’s Alice Levine takes five girls and finds out if they can take on and take over the male-dominated digital world. [120 minutes]

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  6. Writing for Games: Debate (2011)

    Subject
    Media studies

    Audio recording of a discussion held at BAFTA on 28/10/2011. Which techniques can be adapted from film, TV and other media to make characters and stories in video games more engaging, and which need radical...

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  7. Gfto: A Film About Women in Gaming (2015)

    Director
    Sue Sun-Higginson
    Subject
    Women’s studies
    Distribution
    DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 72 minutes), $295.00

    Young women are playing games in equal numbers to men, so why is this 20 billion dollar industry plagued with discrimination and misogyny? Through interviews with video game developers, academics and...

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  8. Returning Fire: Interventions in Video Game Culture (2011)

    Director
    Roger Stahl
    Subject
    Media studies; Psychology; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 45 minutes), $250.00

    Video games like Modern Warfare, America’s Army, Medal of Honor, and Battlefield are part of an exploding market of war games whose revenues now far outpace even the biggest Hollywood blockbusters. The...

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  9. Money Programme, The: Microsoft’s Big Games Gamble and Coke on the Rocks? (2006)

    Subject
    Business studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 60 minutes), £34.99

    Two programmes from the popular BBC 2 series. In MICROSOFT’S BIG GAMES GAMBLE we follow the launch of the new Xbox 360 as Microsoft attempts to take on Sony’s new Play Station for control of the...

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  10. Brits Who Made the Modern World (2009)

    Subject
    Engineering; Technology

    Series of six 30-minute programmes in which Peter Snow looks at the untold stories of British scientists and engineers who developed some of the modern world’s most incredible technology. The series covers...

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