Andreas Rosenfelder
For decades, video games were seen as a waste of time, a pastime for socially isolated kids roaming through digital mazes and dungeons. But today, vast landscapes and entire continents thrive inside computers, while the real world feels worn-out and exhausted. The last untouched frontiers now lie behind the screen, where all of humanity’s utopias and dreams find new life.
However, even these digital Eldorados quickly turn into trampled wastelands, as seen with Second Life. Not everything in this brave new gaming world is truly new.
This book is a voyage of discovery: Andreas Rosenfelder examines the rising cultural power of video games, which may soon outshine Hollywood. He traces how pixelated worlds have transformed into boundless universes, how game developers became world-builders, and how gaming now absorbs and reshapes Western cultural history.
With insight and humor, Rosenfelder reveals the seductive beauty of these artificial paradises, yet also argues that they resemble bureaucratic systems more than the opium dens of the past. Along the way, he visits the global epicenters of gaming culture—from developer studios in Ukraine to e-sports tournaments on Italian Formula 1 tracks and gamer reenactments on the beaches of Normandy.
PUBLICATION DETAILS
LANGUAGE | BINDING | EDITION | ISBN | YEAR | PAGES |
German | Paperback | | 9783462039559 | 2008 | 191 |
OTHER NAMES
Digital Paradises: On the Terrible Beauty of Computer Games
Digitale Paradiese: Von der schrecklichen Schönheit der Computerspiele
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