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

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

Computers & Technology

Kushner, David

Games & Strategy Guides

Collins

“To my taste, the greatest American myth of cosmogenesis features the maladjusted, antisocial, genius teenage boy who, in the insular laboratory of his own bedroom, invents the universe from scratch. Masters of Doom is a particularly inspired rendition. Dave Kushner chronicles the saga of video game virtuosi Carmack and Romero with terrific brio. This is a page-turning, mythopoeic cyber-soap opera about two glamorous geek geniuses—and it should be read while scarfing down pepperoni pizza and swilling Diet Coke, with Queens of the Stone Age cranked up all the way.” —Mark Leyner, author of I Smell Esther Williams Masters of Doom is the amazing true story of the Lennon and McCartney of video games: John Carmack and John Romero. Together, they ruled big business. They transformed popular culture. And they provoked a national controversy. More than anything, they lived a unique and rollicking American Dream, escaping the broken homes of their youth to co-create the most notoriously successful game franchises in history—Doom and Quake—until the games they made tore them apart. Americans spend more money on video games than on movie tickets. Masters of Doom is the first book to chronicle this industry’s greatest story, written by one of the medium’s leading observers. David Kushner takes readers inside the rags-to-riches adventure of two rebellious entrepreneurs who came of age to shape a generation. The vivid portrait reveals why their games are so violent and why their immersion in their brilliantly designed fantasy worlds offered them solace. And it shows how they channeled their fury and imagination into products that are a formative influence on our culture, from MTV to the Internet to Columbine. This is a story of friendship and betrayal, commerce and artistry—a powerful and compassionate account of what it’s like to be young, driven, and wildly creative.

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

Biographies & Memoirs

Random House]

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

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...

William Heinemann

Inside the making of a videogame that defined a generation: Grand Theft Auto 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.
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<li>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</li>
<li>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</li>
<li>Offers inside details on key episodes in the development of the series, including the financial turmoil of Rockstar games, the infamous ""Hot Coffee"" sex mini-game incident, and more </li>
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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

Turner

Hardcover Edition. How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture.

Masters Of Doom: How Two Guys Created And Empire And Transformed Pop Culture

Demco Media

An analysis of the ideas and doctrines of Turkish nationalist writers in the closing decades of the Ottoman period. This book argues that such ideas played an important role in the formation of modern Turkish nationalism.

The Rise of Turkish Nationalism, 1876-1908: 1876-1908

History

Middle East

Routledge

This timely volume, written by Spin magazine contributing author David Kushner, offers easy steps for finding, downloading, creating, and listening to music on any PC. Cybercasts, MP3, and Internet radio are among the hot trends covered in this fun and easy guide, which also includes tips on tweaking systems for optimal performance and locating the best tunes online. The CD-ROM contains links to online music sites, software for making and listening to music files, and more.

Music Online For Dummies

Web Development & Design

For Dummies

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<li>Introducing the most complete digital media reference available-more than 900 pages of fun and easy instructions and tips on digital photography, digital video, digital music, and CD and DVD recording</li> <li>At under $35, this value-priced book is the only single-volume digital media reference that covers such topics as choosing a digital camera, taking great pictures, and editing digital pictures</li> <li>Covers printing and sharing pictures, selecting a camcorder, capturing good film footage, and importing video clips</li> <li>Provides coverage of editing videos, buying music online, using playlists, syncing an iPod or MP3 player, and burning CDs and DVDs</li> <li>Includes exclusive Dummies Man reusable peel-and-stick reference tabs that readers can use to mark their favorite pages</li> </ul>

Digital Photos, Movies, and Music Gigabook?For Dummies

Busch, David D.

Bove, Tony

RATHBONE, Andy

Underdahl, Keith

Chambers, Mark L.

Rhodes, Cheryl

Doucette, Martin

Staufer, Todd

Digital Photos, Movies, & Music Gigabookfor Dummies

Levittown: Two Families, One Tycoon, and the Fight for Civil Rights in America's Legendary Suburb

The dark side of the American dream: the true story of the first African-American family to move into the iconic suburb, Levittown, PA . In the decade after World War II , one entrepreneurial family helped thousands of people buy into the American dream of owning a home. T he Levitts―William, Alfred, and their father, Abe―pooled their talents to create storybook towns with affordable little houses. T hey laid out the welcome mat, but not to everyone. Levittown had a whites-only policy. 
The events that unfolded in Levittown, PA, in the unseasonably hot summer of 1957 would rock the community. There, a white Jewish Communist family named Wechsler secretly arranged for a black family, the Myerses, to buy the pink house next door. T he explosive reaction would transform their lives, and the nation, leading to the downfall of a titan and the integration of the most famous suburb in the world. Levittown is a story of hope and fear, invention and rebellion, and the power that comes when ordinary people take an extraordinary stand. And it is as relevant today, more than fifty years later, as it was then.

Community & Culture

Walker Books

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