Continuing its popular "pay what you want" ebook bundles, StoryBundle is proud to present the Video Game Bundle 3.0. The specially curated set of nine full-length game culture & history books/magazines follows up two previous multi-thousand selling digital bundles. It once again features almost $100 worth of books & magazines—plus narrative apps and interactive fiction—for a fraction of that price.
The basic purchase tier ($3 or above) for Video Game Bundle #3, again curated by game industry veteran Simon Carless, includes academic and designer Ian Bogost's witty tome How To Do Things With Videogames, alongside Marty Goldberg and Curt Vendel's massive, canonical Atari Inc.: Business Is Fun, a romp through the history of the seminal video game company up to 1984.
Also featured in the bundle are the first 11 (!) issues of Ray Barnholt's acclaimed SCROLL magazine, described as "video game history uncorked", and featuring deep dives into developers from Jaleco through Artdink to Warp and beyond.
Elsewhere featured are Ghosts In The Machine, a collection of 13 short stories "by a diverse group of videogame critics, journalists and artists about the bugs, glitches and design quirks of videogames and what they can tell us about ourselves", plus Sam Pettus' Service Games: The Rise & Fall Of Sega, dealing with the Genesis and Dreamcast maker's storied history.
An additional treat for bundle buyers is The Gothic Tower & Assorted Interactive Fiction, which includes five interactive fiction "text adventures" by IFComp winner Ryan Veeder, including two exclusively commissioned IF works debuting for the first time anywhere in StoryBundle. (Ryan has also bundled copies of his debut short story collection Motorcyclus as a book-length extra for buyers!)
The final books—available at the higher payment tier of $12 or your local equivalent—include some spectacular picks. Featured is Boss Fight Books #1: Earthbound by Ken Baumann, "a joyful tornado of history, criticism, and memoir" profiling the Super Nintendo RPG classic.
Also featured is the much-vaunted Minecraft by Daniel Goldberg and Linus Larsson, the hit behind-the-scenes book on Markus "Notch" Persson and his compatriots at Mojang's role in creating a gaming phenomenon. (NOTE: Due to a separate agreement that the book's publisher has made, this title is unfortunately not available to StoryBundle purchasers in the UK and select British Commonwealth countries. If the book is "greyed out" on the front page of StoryBundle, you're in a location affected by this agreement.)
Finally, The Final Hours of Portal 2 takes you deep within the top-secret offices of Valve, creators of Half-Life, for an unvarnished look at the creative process behind the acclaimed video game Portal 2. Journalist Geoff Keighley was granted unprecedented "fly on the wall" access to Valve over a total of three years to create this extensive 15,000 word experience, available on this StoryBundle in two formats—via eBook (text and photos) & an app redeemable for PC/Mac with a Steam key (exclusive videos, interviews, interactive experiences, and other surprises.)
The initial titles in the Video Game StoryBundle (minimum $3 to purchase, and worth over $50 when bought separately) are:
If you pay more than the bonus price of just $12, you get all six of the regular tomes, plus three unmissable extra full-length books/apps:
The Bundle is available for a very limited time only, via http://www.storybundle.com, and allows easy reading on computers, mobile devices and Kindles via file transfer, email, or other methods, with multiple DRM-free formats (.epub, .mobi, some .pdf) available for each book.
It's also super easy to give the gift of reading with StoryBundle, thanks to our gift cards – which allow you to send someone a code that they can redeem for any future StoryBundle bundle – and timed delivery, which allows you to control exactly when your recipient will get the gift of StoryBundle.
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StoryBundle was created to give a platform for independent authors to showcase their work, and a source of quality titles for thirsty readers. StoryBundle works with authors to create bundles of ebooks that can be purchased by readers at their desired price. Before starting StoryBundle, Founder Jason Chen covered technology and software as an editor for Gizmodo.com and Lifehacker.com.
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1: Due to pre-existing licensing restrictions with the publisher, we are unable to offer Daniel Goldberg and Linus Larsson's Minecraft in the UK and Commonwealth territories. We apologize for this inconvenience. All the other books are available and will be included in the bundle normally. If you have any questions about the restriction, you can email support@storybundle.com.
