<p>The behind-the-scenes story of the worlds most notorious and controversial video games company - Rockstar Games.Jacked is the incredible story behind the phenomenon that changed video games for ever Grand Theft Auto.Powerful politicians tried to stop it, parents and activists vigorously campaigned against it, but they couldnt stop GTA breaking records. GTA IV became the biggest entertainment product launch of all time, eclipsing all other books, films and music, and went on to become the most controversial video game in history.Now, after 10 years of research, David Kushner reveals how Sam Housers company, Rockstar Games, made it all possible. He lifts the veil of secrecy around the team to show how a blend of creative genius, daring PR campaigns, big egos and an obsessive work ethic all came together to create a monster with a tendency to spiral out of control. Including the full story behind Hot Coffee the hidden sex minigame that nearly killed the game and the company Jacked gets right to the heart of what it takes to make a classic computer game</p>

Jacked: The Unauthorised Behind the Scenes Story of Grand Theft Auto

Computers & Technology

David Kushner

Games & Strategy Guides

Harper-collins Publishers

A magnet for bullies at school, Jon Finkel grew up heckled and hazed until he discovered the trading-card game Magic: The Gathering. As Magic exploded from nerdy obsession into the mainstream, the teenage Finkel emerged as its first world champion. The young shark - now known to his friends and rivals as Jonny Magic - moved on to storm poker rooms, from the underground clubs of New York City to high-stakes tables online, until he landed on the largest card counting blackjack team in the country, taking Vegas for millions and becoming one of the biggest players in town. Finally, they took on the biggest game of all - the World Series of Poker...

Jonny Magic and the Card Shark Kids

Biographies & Memoirs

Arrow Books

Masters of Doom : How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture

Piatkus

Masters of Doom' is the true inside story of John Carmack and John Romero, co-creators of the most innovative and notoriously successful video games in history - Doom and Quake. They created an empire, ruled a multi-billion-dollar industry, and provoked a national controversy.

Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture by Kushner, David (2004) Paperback

Professionals & Academics

Piatkus Paperback

Jacked

Turner Publishing

[This is the Audiobook CD Library Edition in vinyl case.] Inside the making of the multibillion-dollar Grand Theft Auto videogame empire  Grand Theft Auto is one of the biggest and most controversial videogame franchises of all time. Since its first release in 1997, GTA has pioneered the use of everything from 3D graphics to the voices of top Hollywood actors and repeatedly transformed the world of gaming. Despite its incredible innovations in the $75 billion game industry, it has also been a lightning rod of debate, spawning accusations of ethnic and sexual discrimination, glamorizing violence, and inciting real-life crimes. Jacked tells the turbulent and mostly unknown story of GTA's wildly ambitious creators, Rockstar Games, the invention and evolution of the franchise, and the cultural and political backlash it has provoked.  *Explains how British prep school brothers Sam and Dan Houser took their dream of fame, fortune, and the glamor of American pop culture and transformed it into a worldwide videogame blockbuster  *Written by David Kushner, author of Masters of Doom and a top journalist on gaming, and drawn from over ten years of interviews and research, including firsthand knowledge of Grand Theft Auto's creators and detractors  *Offers inside details on key episodes in the development of the series, including the financial turmoil of Rockstar games, the infamous ''Hot Coffee'' sex minigame incident, and more Whether you love Grand Theft Auto or hate it -- or just want to understand the defining entertainment product of a generation -- you'll want to read Jacked and get the real story behind this boundary-pushing game.

Jacked: The Outlaw Story of Grand Theft Auto

Blackstone Audiobooks

Inside the making of the multibillion-dollar Grand Theft Auto videogame empire  Grand Theft Auto is one of the biggest and most controversial videogame franchises of all time. Since its first release in 1997, GTA has pioneered the use of everything from 3D graphics to the voices of top Hollywood actors and repeatedly transformed the world of gaming. Despite its incredible innovations in the $75 billion game industry, it has also been a lightning rod of debate, spawning accusations of ethnic and sexual discrimination, glamorizing violence, and inciting real-life crimes. Jacked tells the turbulent and mostly unknown story of GTA's wildly ambitious creators, Rockstar Games, the invention and evolution of the franchise, and the cultural and political backlash it has provoked.  *Explains how British prep school brothers Sam and Dan Houser took their dream of fame, fortune, and the glamor of American pop culture and transformed it into a worldwide videogame blockbuster  *Written by David Kushner, author of Masters of Doom and a top journalist on gaming, and drawn from over ten years of interviews and research, including firsthand knowledge of Grand Theft Auto's creators and detractors  *Offers inside details on key episodes in the development of the series, including the financial turmoil of Rockstar games, the infamous ''Hot Coffee'' sex minigame incident, and more Whether you love Grand Theft Auto or hate it -- or just want to understand the defining entertainment product of a generation -- you'll want to read Jacked and get the real story behind this boundary-pushing game.

If you think a gang of real-life geeks can’t take on the world and win big...think again.  And whatever you do, don’t sit down across a gaming table from Jon Finkel, better known as Jonny Magic.  Jonny Magic and the Card Shark Kids is his amazing true story: the jaw-dropping, zero-to-hero chronicle of a fat, friendless boy from New Jersey who found his edge in a game of cards–and turned it into a fortune!  The ultimate bully-magnet, Finkel grew up heckled and hazed until destiny came in the form of a trading-card game called Magic: The Gathering.  Magic exploded from nerdy obsession to mainstream mania and made the teenage Finkel an ultra-cool world champion.  Once transformed, this young shark stormed poker rooms from the underground clubs of New York City to the high-stakes tables online, until he landed on the largest card-counting blackjack team in the country.  Taking Vegas for millions, Finkel’s squad of brainy gamers became the biggest players in town.  Then they took on the town’s biggest game, the World Series of Poker, and walked away with more than $3.5 million!  Thrilling, edgy, and ferociously feel-good, the odyssey of these underdogs-turned-overlords is the stuff of pop-culture legend. Acclaimed author David Kushner masterfully deals out the outrageous details while bringing to life a cast of characters rife with aces, kings, knaves…and more than a few jokers.  If you secretly believe every player has his day, you’re right.  Here’s the proof.

Jonny Magic and the Card Shark Kids: How a Gang of Geeks Beat the Odds and Stormed Las Vegas

Humor & Entertainment

Puzzles & Games

Listen & Live Audio, Inc.

This volume is a collection of the private  papers of Ali Ekrem Bey, the governor of Ottoman Jerusalem at the beginning of the twentieth century.

To Be Governor of Jerusalem (Analecta Isisiana: Ottoman and Turkish Studies)

History

Middle East

Gorgias Pr Llc

Maestros del Doom

Es Pop Ediciones

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