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Understanding Video Games

By On 02/08/2011 ·

Our Facebook page provides info on the upcoming 2nd edition of our text book Understanding Video Games.

You could also follow @jonassmith on Twitter (we’ll be posting under #uvg2)

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Our video game text book gets an extra life

By On 09/11/2010 ·


In the year of our Lord 2008, Simon Egenfeldt Nielsen, Susana Tosca and I published our introduction to video games and video game studies Understanding Video Games (unabashedly subtitled “The Essential Introduction”).

The sales data was always semi-abstract to me, but [...]

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Grundbog om computerspil klarer sig hæderligt

By On 06/01/2009 ·


Susana Toscas, Simon Egenfeldt-Nielsens og min computerspilgrundbog “Understanding Video Games” har i følge forlaget solgt hæderligt i sine første 8 måneder. Ole Ertløv Hansen har I øvrigt netop anmeldt den i tidsskriftet MedieKultur. OEH har pæne ting og sige, men [...]

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Understanding Video Games now in stores

By On 07/03/2008 ·

The video games text-book which I have co-written with Susana Tosca and Simon Egenfeldt-Nielsen has now left the printers and reached the virtual shelves of Amazon.com.
The book is so interesting that it actually has a (somewhat rudimentary) [...]

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Tekster

By On 08/05/2005 ·

Smith, Jonas Heide (2011). W4 segmenterne. Kommunikationsforum, 15/12-2011.

Egenfeldt-Nielsen, Simon & Smith, Jonas Heide & Tosca, Susana (in press). Understanding Video Games: The Essential Introduction (2nd Edition). New York: Routledge. [Facebook page].

Smith, Jonas Heide (2011). Du står for enden af en vej: Computerspil og fantasy. Kritik #202. [ikke online, skriv hvis du vil læse]

Smith, [...]

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