Bit by Bit: How Video Games Transformed Our World

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An acclaimed critic argues that video games are essentially the most important art type of our time
Video games have seemingly taken over our lives. Whereas gamers once constituted a small and in large part male subculture, lately 67 percent of American households play video games. The average gamer is now thirty-four years old and spends eight hours every week playing–and there’s a 40 percent chance this person is a woman.
In Bit by Bit, Andrew Ervin sets out to keep in mind the explosive popularity of video games. He travels to government laboratories, junk shops, and arcades. He interviews scientists and game designers, both young and old. In charting the material and technological history of video games, from the 1950s to the present, he suggests that their appeal starts and ends with the sense of creativity they instill in gamers. As Ervin argues, games are art because they’re beautiful, moving, and even political–and because they turn players into artists themselves.

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