Trigger Happy: Videogames and the Entertainment Revolution

From the Publisher: Videogames first came on the market 30 years ago as a marginal technological curiosity. Now they are virtually everywhere. Videogame sales have equaled movie sales. They are played my more adults than children, and game design can even be studied in college. Yet videogames are still often viewed as a minor form of entertainment, at best shallow, or at worst harmful. Now, Steven Poole argues that videogames are a nascent art form on track to supersede movies as the most popular and innovative form of entertainment in the new century.