📚 Video Games

The medium’s short long history: arcade to console, design and culture, and the players who made it a literature.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject video games in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Game Design Deep Dive	Joshua Bycer	2019	32
	FORTNITE	Epic Games	2018	29
	Apex Legends	Josh Gregory	2020	21
	Jacked	David Kushner	2011	16
	Minecraft	Josh Gregory	2017	15
	Minecraft	Nick Farwell	2013	12
	Dragon Ball Z	Eric Mylonas	2002	11
	Reality Is Broken	Jane McGonigal	2011	10
	Game Over	David Sheff	1993	9
	Masters of Doom	David Kushner	2003	9
	The Crazy Careers of Video Game Designers	Arie Kaplan	2013	8
	Minecraft Guide to Enchantments and Potions	Stephanie Milton	2018	8
	Level Up!	Scott Rogers	2010	7
	Minecraft Essential Handbook	Stephanie Milton	2013	7
	Minecraft for Dummies	Jesse Stay	2014	7
	Five Nights at Freddy's	Scott Cawthon	2017	6
	Super Mario Odyssey	Prima Games	2017	6
	Sid Meier's Memoir!	Sid Meier	2020	6
	Playing to Win	David Sirlin	2005	5
	Fundamentals of Game Design	Ernest Adams	2006	5
	Console Wars	Blake J. Harris	2014	5
	I Am Error: The Nintendo Family Computer / Entertainment System Platform (Platform Studies)	Nathan Altice	2015	5
	Game design	Greg Austic	2013	4
	Minecraft	Minecraft Books	2014	4
	Blood, sweat, and pixels	Jason Schreier	2017	4
	Minecraft Mobestiary	Alex Wiltshire	2017	4
	Lost in a Good Game	Pete Etchells	2019	4
	Press Reset	Jason Schreier	2021	4
	Pokemon Ruby & Sapphire	Elizabeth Hollinger	2003	3
	What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy	James Paul Gee	2003	3

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 05 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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