The lengthy historical past of video video games is stuffed with fascinating tales, and in case you’re in search of some studying materials on the topic, you possibly can lock in a preorder for The Console Chronicles for $40 at Amazon. Out on October 1, this hardcover guide revealed by Lost in Cult chronicles 5 a long time of console gaming by way of a sequence of essays from writers throughout the business.
There are 9 key sections–each one similar to the 9 console generations–and these tales recount technical triumphs, game-changing disruptions within the scene, and main headline-making moments.
Should you’re considering seeing how video games progressed as each an inventive medium and an business, this guide will make for some important and insightful studying. This guide is a collaborative effort between Lost In Cult and Hookshot Media (Nintendo Life, Push Sq.), and it options an important cowl by artist Stephen Maurice Graham. Lost in Cult has been producing a number of enjoyable historic books like this, and in case you missed it, A Handheld History is a complete celebration of moveable platforms and their iconic video games. The Console Chronicles will look nice on the shelf alongside A Handheld History.
Lost in Cult’s latest installment in its sequence of gaming journals, Lock-On, can be rolling out quickly. The sixth quantity options over 400 pages of essays, interviews, and art work impressed by all kinds of video games like Metroid Prime, Alan Wake, and Oxenfree, and has a canopy designed by Last Fantasy Illustrator Yoshitaka Amano.
Disclosure: GameSpot’s Brendan Hesse contributed to The Console Chronicles.