"Ever wondered what's inside the plastic of your video game console but don't want to crack it open to find out? Crack open this book instead! You'll learn what computer code looks like, how a game console's "brain" makes decisions, and how its memory allows you to return to play each day without starting from scratch."--Provided by publisher.

Suggests ways for experienced players of the popular video game to take advantage of little-known details and special techniques to manipulate redstone to create contraptions.

Find out how you can create and use potions to provide a varity of useful effects in the world of Minecraft.

Chernev blends anecdotes with observations on inspiring moves and combinations by well- and lesser-known players, including Troitzky, Réti, Kasparyan, Botvinnik, Kubbel, Rinck, and Grigoriev. Examples are introduced with a cue and include the composer's name, the date of its original publication, a diagram with an algebraic grid, and the winning variation presented in algebraic notion.

Despite the recession, video games continue to break records-and command unprecedented amounts of media coverage. The U.S. is the world's biggest video games market and manufacturer, with a market now worth over $20 billion annually in software and hardware sales-more than quadruple its size in the mid-1990s. World of Warcraft now boasts over 11 million players worldwide and over $1 billion per year in revenues. Gaming is flourishing as a career and...

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

A World of Adventure Outside Your Door! Hidden deep within the most secret of secret chambers was a magical book filled with daring and adventurous games for boys and girls. For years, many feared this book had been lost... until now. The Adventurous Book of Outdoor Games contains a treasure trove of the best neighborhood games invented by children since the beginning of time. This book is your passkey to a world of secret missions, last-minute victories,...

Beyond our modern horizons lie uncountable wars still to be fought by us, by machines, or perhaps even by intelligent alien species we can scarcely imagine. Horizon Wars is the new tabletop wargame that provides a simple system for playing out fun wargames on future battlefields. Involving an intricate mix of real-world tactics and combat, it interweaves threads of futuristic scenarios, combat and weaponry, and gear and battlefields that no modern...

"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...