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King PONG

How Atari Bounced Across Markets to Make Millions

by Raiford Guins

ISBN: 9780262051330

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: February 10, 2026

Why and how Atari’s first video game Pong established an industry that shapes consumers’ relationships to technology to this day.

Bounce

Balls, Walls, and Bodies in Games and Play

by Carlin Wing

ISBN: 9780262553216

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: January 20, 2026

A lively and insightful account that follows the bouncing ball through the history of nonelectronic and electronic games.

Zen and Slow Games

On Zen Modes and Slow Games

by Víctor Navarro-Remesal

ISBN: 9780262553568

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: January 20, 2026

A deep dive into the reflective modes of playfulness in video games.

Designing Serious Games

by Magy Seif El-Nasr, Elin Carstensdottir and Michael John

ISBN: 9780262049986

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: January 6, 2026

A comprehensive guide to the design and development process of games for impact.

Thresholds of Digital Gameplay

by Daniel L Gardner

ISBN: 9780262553582

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: December 16, 2025

How the often-overlooked interfaces, interactions, and inequities on the edges of gameplay are more central to gaming than we realize.

The Well-Played Game

A Player's Philosophy

by Bernard De Koven

ISBN: 9780262553988

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: December 2, 2025

The return of a classic book about games and play that illuminates the relationship between the well-played game and the well-lived life.

Resonant Games

Design Principles for Learning Games that Connect Hearts, Minds, and the Everyday

by Eric Klopfer, Jason Haas, Scot Osterweil and Louisa Rosenheck

Foreword by Colleen Macklin

ISBN: 9780262052580

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: May 13, 2025

Principles for designing educational games that integrate content and play and create learning experiences connecting to many areas of learners' lives.

Playing at the World, 2E

Three Pillars of Role-Playing Games

by Jon Peterson

ISBN: 9780262552318

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: April 8, 2025

The second volume of two in a new, updated edition of the 2012 book Playing at the World, which charts the vast and complex history of role-playing games.