Ebook {Epub PDF} Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter by Tom Bissell

Tom Bissell is the author of Chasing the Sea, God Lives in St. Petersburg, The Father of All Things, Why Video Games Matter, Magic Hours: Essays On Creators and Creation () and Apostle: Travels Among the Tombs of the Twelve (). He also co-authored The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside the Room () with Greg Sestero. A recipient of the Rome Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the .  · Bissell moves analysis of video games to the next level [ Extra Lives] should help usher in a widespread, much more serious consideration of how video games have taken up permanent residence in our increasingly screen-based world.”.Brand: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. In his nonfiction work Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter (), Tom Bissell explores what video games teach us about human nature, arguing that these games are becoming the most popular art form of our time. Well regarded by critics and general readers, the book received various award nominations. Bissell is a bestselling, award-winning journalist, media critic, and fiction writer.

Summary and Response Tom Bissell, in his essay, "Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter" has described video games and how they are unique and different from movies, books, or even interactive films. Bissell says "I came to accept that games were incompetent with almost every aspect of what I would call traditional narrative.". "Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter" [p. ] Tom Bissell In this essay Tom Bissell details the pros and cons of the video game Fallout 3, concluding that although sometimes such games are frustrating, their "stylishness, sophistication and intelligence" draw him in. He tells the story of his first experience playing the game, when he got so distracted that he missed the results of. Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter. Writer Tom Bissell shares his take on the best - and worst - aspects of video games. Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter Tom Bissell Pantheon Books pp.

In this, he is not alone. Millions of adults spend hours every week playing video games, and the industry itself now reliably outearns Hollywood. But the wider culture seems to regard video games as, at best, well-designed if mindless entertainment. Extra Lives is an impassioned defense of this assailed and misunderstood art form. Bissell argues that we are in a golden age of gaming - but he also believes games could be even better. In his nonfiction work Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter (), Tom Bissell explores what video games teach us about human nature, arguing that these games are becoming the most popular art form of our time. Well regarded by critics and general readers, the book received various award nominations. Bissell is a bestselling, award-winning journalist, media critic, and fiction writer. Bissell moves analysis of video games to the next level [ Extra Lives] should help usher in a widespread, much more serious consideration of how video games have taken up permanent residence in our increasingly screen-based world.”.