Game Night! Books and Movies about Games

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Reality Is Broken Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World By McGonigal, Jane (Book - 2011)

Play How It Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul By Brown, Stuart L. (Book - 2009)

All your Base Are Belong to Us How 50 Years of Videogames Conquered Pop Culture By Goldberg, Harold (Book - 2011)

Extra Lives Why Video Games Matter By Bissell, Tom (Book - 2010)

E-athletes (DVD - 2008)

Annotation:Documentary about professional video gamers.

Video Games Behind the Fun (DVD - 2007, c2000)

Annotation:History of video games up to the first years of this century.

Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World (DVD - 2010)

Annotation:Bass player Scott Pilgrim uses video game battle tactics to defeat his new crush Ramona's seven evil exes in this film based on the graphic novel series.

Tron (DVD - 2011)

Annotation:Originally released in 1982. A video game designer finds himself inside the game he's designing.

Wargames (DVD - 2008?)

Annotation:Teenage hacker may breaks into the Department of Defense computer system in search of new and challenging games, but he just may have started World War III. Made in 1983.

Brainiac Adventures in the Curious, Competitive, Compulsive World of Trivia Buffs By Jennings, Ken, 1974- (Book - 2006)

The Immortal Game A History of Chess or How 32 Carved Pieces on A Board Illuminated Our Understanding of War, Art, Science, and the Human Brain By Shenk, David, 1966- (Book - 2006)

Bobby Fischer against the World (DVD - 2011)

Annotation:HBO documentary film about the life of the chess champion.

The Chess Artist Genius, Obsession, and the World's Oldest Game By Hallman, J. C. (Book - 2003)

The Defense A Novel By Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977 (Book - 1990, c1964)

Annotation:Brilliant chess master Luzhin seeks relief from the chaos and emotions of everyday life in the orderly world of chess.

The Luzhin Defense (DVD - 2001)

Annotation:Film adaptation of the Nabokov novel The Defense.

Word Freak Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius, and Obsession in the World of Competitive Scrabble By Fatsis, Stefan (Book - 2001)

Word Wars Tiles and Tribulations on the Scrabble Game Circuit (DVD - 2005)

Annotation:Documentary about the world of competitive Scrabble.

21 (DVD - 2008)

Annotation:Drama about six MIT students who used card counting skills to win hundreds of thousands of dollars playing blackjack or “21” at Las Vegas casinos. Based on a true story told in Ben Mezrich’s Bringing Down the House.

Bringing down the House The inside Story of Six MIT Students Who Took Vegas for Millions By Mezrich, Ben, 1969- (Book - 2003)

The Cincinnati Kid (DVD - 2005)

Annotation:Drama set in New Orleans featuring a marathon poker duel between Edward G. Robinson and Steve McQueen. Made in 1965.

The Devil's Tickets A Night of Bridge, A Fatal Hand, and A New American Age By Pomerantz, Gary M. (Book - 2009)

The Oxford History of Board Games By Parlett, David Sidney (Book - 1999)

The Games We Played The Golden Age of Board & Table Games By Hofer, Margaret K., 1965- (Book - 2003)

The Book of Games Strategy, Tactics & History By Botermans, Jack (Book - 2008)

Monopoly The World's Most Famous Game-- and How It Got That Way By Orbanes, Philip (Book - 2006)

Clue (DVD - 2000)

Annotation:Colonel Mustard, Miss Scarlet, Professor Plum and the other Clue characters come to life in this film version of the classic board game. This 1985 film received middling reviews.