Mortal Combat

Author : Justine Cassell
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262531689
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Barbie® to Mortal Kombat written by Justine Cassell and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2000-02-28 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Girls and computer games—and the movement to overcome the stereotyping that dominates the toy aisles. Many parents worry about the influence of video games on their children's lives. The game console may help to prepare children for participation in the digital world, but at the same time it socializes boys into misogyny and excludes girls from all but the most objectified positions. The new "girls' games" movement has addressed these concerns. Although many people associate video games mainly with boys, the girls games' movement has emerged from an unusual alliance between feminist activists (who want to change the "gendering" of digital technology) and industry leaders (who want to create a girls' market for their games). The contributors to From Barbie® to Mortal Kombat explore how assumptions about gender, games, and technology shape the design, development, and marketing of games as industry seeks to build the girl market. They describe and analyze the games currently on the market and propose tactical approaches for avoiding the stereotypes that dominate most toy store aisles. The lively mix of perspectives and voices includes those of media and technology scholars, educators, psychologists, developers of today's leading games, industry insiders, and girl gamers. Contributors Aurora, Dorothy Bennett, Stephanie Bergman, Cornelia Brunner, Mary Bryson, Lee McEnany Caraher, Justine Cassell, Suzanne de Castell, Nikki Douglas, Theresa Duncan, Monica Gesue, Michelle Goulet, Patricia Greenfield, Margaret Honey, Henry Jenkins, Cal Jones, Yasmin Kafai, Heather Kelley, Marsha Kinder, Brenda Laurel, Nancie Martin, Aliza Sherman, Kaveri Subrahmanyam

Author : Martin Delrio
Publisher : Tor Books
ISBN 13 : 9780812544527
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mortal Kombat written by Martin Delrio and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 1995-08-15 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once every generation, the tournament is held: the ultimate martial arts competition in which mortal warriors must fight against many supernatural opponents to defend the earth from evil forces. Now three young mortals have come to compete in the tournament. They are Liu Kang, raised as a fighting monk; Johnny Cage, an American movie star; and Sonya Blade, a beautiful U.S. Special Forces agent who seeks revenge on her deadly enemy Kano. With the help of the immortal thunder god Rayden, the mortals must conquer their inner fears to defeat Goro, the four-armed warrior prince, and save humanity from the dreaded sorcerer Shang Tsung. With over a dozen exciting photos from the hit movie!

Author : Jeff Rovin
Publisher : Berkley
ISBN 13 : 9781572970595
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mortal Kombat written by Jeff Rovin and published by Berkley. This book was released on 1995 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mortal Kombat has become one of the most successful home video games ever created. Now the bestselling author of GameMaster's Complete Video Game Guide has written an enthralling novel, based on this exciting video game experience.

Author : Jason Wilson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780307890955
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mortal Kombat written by Jason Wilson and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: • Learn character Fatalities • Complete the most challenging missions in the Challenge Tower • Unlock everything in the Krypt • Kombat Codes revealed • Fatality reference cards

Author : Shawn Kittelsen
Publisher : DC
ISBN 13 : 1401259413
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mortal Kombat X written by Shawn Kittelsen and published by DC. This book was released on 2015-04-14 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE PREQUEL TO THE VIDEO GAME PHENOMENON IS HERE! years, a tenuous peace has existed between the realms, time enough for old champions to fall and a new generation to rise. But peace can never last for long . . . Thunder God Raiden has seen visions of a great evil entering our world, one so powerful it could change the very face of the universe. The one hope to stop the sinister force lies in six ancient relics, mystical blades imbued with the Blood Magick of the One Being-the Kamidogu daggers. Raiden and his allies are not the only ones searching for the all-powerful weapons. Another has spent years acquiring each blade through cunning and guile. For not only can the Kamidogu daggers contain a god, they also have the power to create one . . . Kombatants old and new will fight for the future of our realm and the realms beyond in this red-hot debut by writer Shawn Kittelsen. Together with artists Dexter Soy (DC UNIVERSE VS MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE) and Veronica Gandini (JUSTICE LEAGUE BEYOND 2.0), they'll start this action-packed newest chapter in the Mortal Kombat saga off with a bloodbath!

Author : David Church
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780472075225
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mortal Kombat written by David Church and published by . This book was released on 2022-02-21 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to one of the world's most iconic fighting games

Author : Shawn Kittelsen
Publisher : DC
ISBN 13 : 1401262856
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mortal Kombat X Vol. 2 written by Shawn Kittelsen and published by DC. This book was released on 2015-10-20 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The quest for the Kamidogu daggers continuesÉFight! Great changes are coming to Outworld and Earthrealm alike. Whether they seek to protect the worlds of gods and men or to rule them, Kombatants new and old are heading towards bloody conflict. Hoping to thwart the coming evil, Raiden has conscripted Hanzo Hasashi-Scorpion-and his charge, Takeda Takahashi, to gather the mystical Kamidogu daggers. Their journey leads them to an old foe who holds one of the powerful cursed weapons-Kuai Liang, the ninja known as Sub-Zero! With Sub-Zero corrupted by the Blood Magik of the dagger and Scorpion's deadly thirst for vengeance, the two will lock in a Mortal Kombat for the ages! Elsewhere, Kotal Kahn faces a challenge to his rule from the scorned tribe of the Shokan. King Gorbak is leading an army of Shokan and Oni warriors powerful enough to decimate the Emperor of Outworld. Though Kahn refuses to unleash his Kamidogu's Blood Magik again, he has an unlikely group of allies in the Earthrealmers Johnny Cage and Sonya Blade. The pair only wishes to rescue their daughter from the clutches of Reiko, but first they'll have to help Kahn protect his throne-which means an alliance with Kano and the Black Dragon! Writer SHAWN KITTELSEN continues his epic debut with the help of artists DEXTER SOY (DC UNIVERSE VS MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE), IGOR VITORINO (Green Hornet) and DANIEL SAMPERE (BATGIRL) as they paint the blood-soaked story that leads into the video game phenomenon in MORTAL KOMBAT X: BLOOD GODS! Collects issues #5-8.

Author : Charles Marshall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781852866129
Total Pages : 49 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mortal Kombat: Blood & Thunder written by Charles Marshall and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Simon Hill
Publisher : Prima Games
ISBN 13 : 9780761510765
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mortal Kombat IV written by Simon Hill and published by Prima Games. This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Mortal Kombat 4" covers basic strategies in amazing detail, giving you the inside info you need to blow away the opposition. You'll also get: Every character's special attacks revealed Tactics for wielding every weapon Fatalities exposed Secret Kombat Kodes About the Author Prima Creative Services is a team of gaming experts that has produced over 60 strategy guides for Prima Publishing, and collectively has two decades of experience in the gaming magazine field.

Author : David Church
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472902628
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mortal Kombat written by David Church and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2022-02-17 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Upon its premiere in 1992, Midway’s Mortal Kombat spawned an enormously influential series of fighting games, notorious for their violent “fatality” moves performed by photorealistic characters. Targeted by lawmakers and moral reformers, the series directly inspired the creation of an industrywide rating system for video games and became a referendum on the wide popularity of 16-bit home consoles. Along the way, it became one of the world’s most iconic fighting games, and formed a transmedia franchise that continues to this day. This book traces Mortal Kombat’s history as an American product inspired by both Japanese video games and Chinese martial-arts cinema, its successes and struggles in adapting to new market trends, and the ongoing influence of its secret-strewn narrative world. After outlining the specific elements of gameplay that differentiated Mortal Kombat from its competitors in the coin-op market, David Church examines the various martial-arts films that inspired its Orientalist imagery, helping explain its stereotypical uses of race and gender. He also posits the games as a cultural landmark from a moment when public policy attempted to intervene in both the remediation of cinematic aesthetics within interactive digital games and in the transition of public gaming spaces into the domestic sphere. Finally, the book explores how the franchise attempted to conquer other forms of media in the 1990s, lost ground to a new generation of 3D games in the 2000s, and has successfully rebooted itself in the 2010s to reclaim its legacy.