IEEE Spectrum: Masters of Doom Hits #1 (Sort of)

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Masters of Doom Hits #1 (Sort of)

POSTED BY: David Kushner // Wed, May 21, 2008

File this blog under horn-tooting, but oh well. Game Informer magazine just published its Top 10 Videogame Books list and my book, Masters of Doom, is #1. Quite an honor, and especially to be included along with books like Snow Crash. It still amazes me that there aren't more books on gaming, but I guess that's just a sign of how young this medium is relative to other industries.

Here's the whole GI list:

1. Masters of Doom

2. Phoenix The Fall & Rise of Videogames

3. Snow Crash

4. The Ultimate History of Video Games

5. Confessions of the Game Doctor

6. Opening the Xbox

7. Lucky Wander Boy

8. Game Over: Press Start to Continue

9. A Theory of Fun for Game Design

10. High Score: The Illustrated History of Electronic Games

Bill Kunkel 05.24.2008
As the author of the #5 book on the GI list I certainly can't complain about my positioning as I would have rated books 1-4 ahead of mine anyway. I was a little surprised not to see "Hackers", but while there haven't been that many memorable books written about gaming and its culture, we do have non-fiction, histories, memoirs and original novels on that list and I think that's a fairly impressive range of content..