Covenant

Andreas Seyfarth

Puerto Rico

Prospector, captain, mayor, trader, settler, craftsman, or builder? Which roles will you play in the new world? Will you own the most prosperous plantations? Will you build the most valuable buildings? You have but one goal: achieve the greatest prosperity and highest respect! This is shown by the player who earns the most victory points? Type: Economic, City Building Number of players: 3-5 Age of players: 12+ Length: 60-90 minutes

The Times Jumbo Cryptic Crossword: 50 Challenging Cryptic Crosswords

Designed to challenge even the most experienced crossword buff, this selection of 50 puzzles from London's "The Times" put your linguistic prowess to its limit. Initially published just four times a year on holidays, "The Times "crossword has appeared on a weekly basis since 1997. With oversized grids of 23 x 23 squares--compared to a standard 15 x 15--these puzzles require serious word power and brain bending.

Nick Dyer-Witheford, Greig de Peuter

Games of Empire: Global Capitalism and Video Games

In the first decade of the twenty-first century, video games are an integral part of global media culture, rivaling Hollywood in revenue and influence. No longer confined to a subculture of adolescent males, video games today are played by adults around the world. At the same time, video games have become major sites of corporate exploitation and military recruitment.In Games of Empire, Nick Dyer-Witheford and Greig de Peuter offer a radical political critique of such video games and virtual environments as Second Life, World of Warcraft, and Grand Theft Auto, analyzing them as the exemplary media of Empire, the twenty-first-century hypercapitalist complex theorized by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri. The authors trace the ascent of virtual gaming, assess its impact on creators and players alike, and delineate the relationships between games and reality, body and avatar, screen and street.Games of Empire forcefully connects video games to real-world concerns about globalization, militarism, and exploitation, from the horrors of African mines and Indian e-waste sites that underlie the entire industry, the role of labor in commercial game development, and the synergy between military ...