Faculty Book Exploring Video Gaming in Latin America
Cultural Code: Video Games & Latin America by Call Number: GV1469.17 .S63 P46 2016Publication Date: 2016This book, written by University of Delaware Professor Phill Penix-Tadsen, is only one of many books concerning gaming to be found in The UD Library collection.
Pictures of the Display
 |
 |
 |
A History of Gaming in Film & Video (Fall / Winter 2017/18 Display)
 |
Explore the Library's Video Game Collection, which you can check out or play on site in the Film & Video Collection on the Lower Level of Morris Library. The UD Library has a nearly ten-year history of supporting video game-related research and instruction. The Multimedia Collections and Services Department provides access to console-based and Virtual Reality games, encouraging student use and exploration of this vibrant field. Whether you consider video gaming an art form or a recreational activity, there is much to learn by exploring how these games have been played and designed through time, how various cultures are represented in popular games, and how new technologies impact future possibilities. Across campus, student organizations and Departments as varied as Languages, Literatures and Cultures, Art and Design, Computer & Information Sciences, English, and Sociology engage with the powerful, globally-reaching phenomena of video gaming. |
Feature Films based on video games
Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XVCall Number: DVD 18010
Laura Croft, Tomb RaiderCall Number: DVD 11038
Mortal KombatCall Number: DVD 12741
Need for SpeedCall Number: DVD 14704
Resident Evil: AfterlifeCall Number: DVD 11631
Resident Evil: DamnationCall Number: DVD 12661
Resident Evil RetributionCall Number: DVD 12558
Silent HillCall Number: DVD 19051
TronCall Number: DVD 9711
Tron LegacyCall Number: DVD 9714
WarcraftCall Number: DVD 18011
SMDC Gaming Resources
Visit Studio 1 in the Student Multimedia Design Center to use the Library's HTC Vive-based Virtual Reality system. Software available in the Studio can be found here.
Gaming Documentaries
Darkon by Call Number: DVD 4679Publication Date: 2007Follows the real-life adventures of an unusual group of weekend 'warrior knights, ' fantasy role-playing gamers whose live action battleground is modern-day Baltimore, Maryland, re-imagined as a make-believe medieval world named Darkon.
Game Over by Call Number: via StreamingPublication Date: 2012In recent years, video games have become the world's largest cultural industry. With a turnover of $61 billion, they are far ahead of Hollywood that makes $12 billion a year. 50 million people around the world are connected everyday through video games, transcending the generation gap - in the United States, 50% of daily players are over 30 years old - cultural habits and social class. In less than 40 years, video games have become omnipresent and offer the incredible experience of traveling into a virtual world to escape reality.
Getting Into Games by Call Number: DVD 9359Publication Date: 2010Electronic gaming has progressed a long way since the days the first Space Invaders machines began to appear in local shopping centers. Today, electronic games are highly sophisticated and interactive, part of a multi-billion dollar industry worldwide - an industry that is now larger than the film and music industries combined. Ask many keen game players about their ideal job, and the answer would be designing or testing electronic games.
GTFO by Call Number: DVD 16873 and via StreamingPublication Date: 2015"Sparked by a public display of sexual harassment in 2012, GTFO pries open the video game world to explore a 20 billion dollar industry that is riddled with discrimination and misogyny. In recent years, the gaming community has grown more diverse than ever. This has led to a massive clash of values and women receive the brunt of the consequences every day, with acts of harassment ranging from name calling to cyber vandalism and death threats.
Joystick Warriors : Video Games, Violence & Militarism by Call Number: DVD 13884 and via StreamingPublication Date: 2013"For years, there has been widespread speculation, but very little consensus, about the relationship between violent video games and violence in the real world. Joystick Warriors provides the clearest account yet of the latest research on this issue.
The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters by Call Number: DVD 4655Publication Date: 2008Unprecedented rivalry rocks the electronic world to its core. Join novice gamer Steve Wiebe on his quest to destroy the top score of gaming legend Billy Mitchell, the uncontested champion of the Donkey Kong world for over 20 years. Only one can truly claim the title King of Kong.
Life 2.0 by Call Number: DVD 11319Publication Date: 2010Profiles a group of people devoted to the online role-playing game Second Life.
Returning Fire: Interventions in Video Game Culture by Call Number: DVD 9604 and via StreamingPublication Date: 2011"Video games like Modern Warfare, America's Army, Medal of Honor, and Battlefield are part of an exploding market of war games whose revenues now far outpace even the biggest Hollywood blockbusters. The sophistication of these games is undeniable, offering users a stunningly realistic experience of ground combat and a glimpse into the increasingly virtual world of long-distance, push-button warfare.
Second Skin by Call Number: DVD 6744Publication Date: 2009Second Skin examines online computer games as well as the personal lives of various dedicated gamers. Through interviews and direct involvement, the documentary provides details on how "MMORPG's" (aka "Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games") have become an increasingly popular genre of computer games, allowing millions of users from around the world to simultaneously interact in dramatized virtual spaces.Thank You for Playing by
Call Number: DVD 19038Publication Date: 2015When Ryan Green, a video game programmer, learns that his young son Joel has cancer, he and his wife Amy begin documenting their emotional journey in the form of an autobiographical video game. This film follows Ryan and his family over two years through the creation of "That Dragon, Cancer" as it evolves from a cathartic exercise into a critically acclaimed work of art that memorializes and personalizes their time and interactions with Joel and sets the gaming industry abuzz.