Cheating

Author: Mia Consalvo
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Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0262513285

Cheating: Gaining Advantage in Videogames

The widely varying experiences of players of digital games challenge the notions that there is only one correct way to play a game. Get Cheating computer books for free.
Some players routinely use cheat codes, consult strategy guides, or buy and sell in-game accounts, while others consider any or all of these practices off limits. Meanwhile, the game industry works to constrain certain readings or activities and promote certain ways of playing. In Cheating, Mia Consalvo investigates how players choose to play games, and what happens when they can't always play the way they'd like. She explores a broad range of player behavior, including cheating (alone and in groups), examines the varying ways that players and industry define cheating, describes how the game industry itself has he Check Cheating our best computer books for 2013. All books are available in pdf format and downloadable from rapidshare, 4shared, and mediafire.

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She explores a broad range of player behavior, including cheating (alone and in groups), examines the varying ways that players and industry define cheating, describes how the game industry itself has he

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