The biggest video games reach far beyond the screens upon which they're played. Find out about the history, pop culture influence, and future of one of the world's most popular gaming franchises: Pokmon.

You wanted nostalgia and now you've got it. With Red, Blue, and Yellow now available on the 3ds its time to travel back in time!

Pikachu could be called the mascots of the PokŽmon brand, as the short, yellow furballs are the most recognizable of hundreds of characters. This book for growing readers tracks the birth of the Japanese pocket monsters chased all around cities by PokŽmon Go players.

Death, Culture and Leisure: Playing Dead is an inter- and multi-disciplinary volume that engages with the diverse nexuses that exist between death, culture and leisure. At its heart, it is a playful exploration of the way in which we play with both death and the dead.

The book is dedicated to a compilation of diverse and creative landscapes which occur in games. Being part of a game setting, these landscapes trigger social construction processes in specific ways. A selection of twenty-four research articles addresses the social constructions of landscapes represented in analogue, digital and hybrid game formats as well as their theoretical framing and future perspectives.

This volume was first published by Inter-Disciplinary Press in 2011. Videogame Studies: Concepts, Cultures, and Communication explores the ever-expanding field of game studies. Included in this volume is the research and insights of experts in multiple interdisciplinary fields, focused on the construction of new frameworks for understanding games as narrative artifacts, technological systems, cultural indicators, social communities, educators, and works of art. Games and game-structures permeate every aspect of our lives, and provide more than simple entertainment to the millions of players immersed and engaged in games on a daily basis. The sixteen authors in this volume provide new thoughts on the rapid expansion of both the game industry and game academia, and cover a wide range of topics, including the rise and fall of in-game communities; the place of digital versus analog games in current methodology; the particular relationship between player, avatar, and identity; the design of educational and serious games; the social structures, needs, and desires of social game players; the performance aspect of interactive media; and the economic consequences of game production. This collection aims to inspire further research in numerous areas of game studies, and is a valuable addition to the growing discourse of a rapidly evolving field of study.

Gotta catch 'em all? Gotta have this guide! ·Gigantic Pokédex with complete, up-to-date stats for all 386 Pokémon, includingPokémon FireRedandPokémon LeafGreen ·Where to catch 'em in all the latest Pokémon titles, fromPokémon RubyandPokémon SapphirethroughPokémon FireRedandPokémon LeafGreen ·Must-have mini-walkthroughs forPokémon RubyandPokémon Sapphire,Pokémon FireRedandPokémon LeafGreen, andColosseum ·The best ways to catch, breed, evolve, and trade your Pokémon ·Interview with Pokémon game developers offers a secret peek inside the world of Pokémon ·Exclusive poster inside ·Retrospective on past Pokémon titles ·Huge appendix featuring detailed info on Moves, HMs and TMs, Berries, and more