Visionary game designer Jane McGonigal shows how we can harness the power of computer games to solve real-world problems and boost global happiness, since her research suggests that gamers are expert problem solvers and collaborators because they regularly cooperate with other players to overcome daunting virtual challenges.

"In the first in this series of three unofficial Minecraft adventure books, it’s time for our 12-year-old hero to choose his future vocation to study at the Minecraftia school. His options are less than tantalizing: farmer, butcher, crafter, miner. What this noob really wants is to be a warrior like his hero, Steve. So when he learns that the five best students in school that year will get the chance to start warrior training, it’s on."--Amazon.com...

When someone uses futuristic technology to play pranks on twelve-year-old Dorso Clayman, he and his best friend set off on a supposedly impossible journey through space and time trying to stop the gamesters who are endangering the universe.

"Learn what it takes to get started in the world of Minecraft, from gathering resources to building your first structures."--

"Minecraft is WAY more than a game: it?s an alternate universe of creation, exhilaration, survival, adventure, passion! Don?t enter that universe alone. More than ever, you need an experienced guide who?ll help you constantly as you learn Minecraft?s newest, most powerful secrets! From Minecraft?s earliest betas to its newest combat upgrades, Stephen O?Brien has seen it all! Now, he?ll take you deep inside craft and mine, cave and menagerie, farm...

"Steve is back and ready for more adventures! But this time the excitement lands closer to home. While walking home from the village, Steve is surprised to hear a loud BOOM! When he arrives, he finds his wheat farm destroyed and a huge crater where the wheat once grew. And his diamond sword is missing! Steve believes its the act of a griefer with a lot of TNT. Devastated, Steve wants to rebuild and find his sword, but with his wheat destroyed,...

"Michael and his friends, Sarah and Bryson, are still being chased by a cyber-terrorist. And now the government is after them, too"--

Learn how to use redstone to build advanced Minecraft structures such as automated doors and powered mine carts.

The three friends trapped in their Minecraft game have never been closer to escaping the Overworld, and they can?t wait to return home after being trapped on the server for so long. But then a vicious horde of creepers attacks, delaying their escape. Soon the gang learns that there?s a new villain behind the attack: a griefer so twisted that he?d rather stay trapped in the Overworld than live a mundane life in the real world?and he has no qualms about...

When his own high-tech start up turns into a Fortune 500 computer gaming group, Richard Forthrast, the black sheep of an Iowa family who has amassed an illegal fortune, finds the line between fantasy and reality becoming blurred when a virtual war for dominance is triggered.