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  1. 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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  2. Virtual Me: Gender and Identity in World of Warcraft (2013)

    Director
    Trent Monahan; Sarah Prothero; Jennifer Torson
    Subject
    Anthropology; Technology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 11 minutes), £20.00

    VIRTUAL ME examines the experiences of players of the online game World of Warcraft, focusing specifically on their experience and understanding of issues surrounding gender and identity within their virtual...

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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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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