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Bitmap Books founder Sam Dyer has been speaking to GI.biz about his line of excellent video game-related books and has opened up on the topics of nostalgia, growth and preservation. Bitmap has produced a series of coffee table classics over the years and has worked with the likes of Sega, SNK...

One of the best video game art books just received a sequel. The Art of Cuphead: The Delicious Last Course was published by Dark Horse Books on November 5. Cuphead fans have three editions to choose from: a standard hardcover, Deluxe Edition hardcover, and Kindle ebook. Both editions of the new...

Earlier this week, the author Florent Gorges announced the long-awaited release of The History Of Nintendo: the Story of the Family Computer and The History Of Nintendo: The Incredible Story of the Game Boy in English. As mentioned below, both books had previously only ever been published in...

Publisher Read-Only Memory is reprinting its superb Sega Dreamcast: Collected Works book. Originally published back in 2019 and written by award-winning author Simon Parkin, the book is produced in collaboration with Sega and is packed with "never-before-published materials and specially...

Today, Lost in Cult revealed that it will be releasing a new book exploring 25 years of Grasshopper Manufacture — the developer behind titles like Killer7, No More Heroes, and Shadows Of The Damned. Kill the Past: 25 Years of Grasshopper Manufacture is being written by Blake Hester, a games...

Update [Fri 16th Aug, 2024 16:10 BST]: The Kickstarter for Arcade Decades - 80s Edition is now live. It's got a funding target of £25,000, with early bird pricing starting at £30. Signed copies are available for £45. Numskull Designs has announced that it is publishing a new book which aims...

Mike Diver, the writer behind books such as The Console: 50 Years of Gaming and From Coin-Ops to Table-Tops, has just revealed that his next book will be a complete history of Alien's Xenomorph appearances in games. Aliens: The Video Games (working title) is slated to be released sometime next...

We've already seen UK publisher Bitmap Books team up with acclaimed writer Dave Cook for a book about scrolling beat 'em ups, so the news that the pair are reuniting for a weighty tome focused solely on run 'n' gun shooters was certainly cause for celebration. Bitmap Books was kind enough to...

Last year, we revealed the news that we were teaming up with the wonderful folks at Lost in Cult to create The Console Chronicles, a premium book which aims to celebrate the history of the humble games console. You might have noticed that the initial June release date has proven to be less than...