David Kushner

Esta es la increíble pero verídica historia del Lennon y el McCartney de los videojuegos: John Carmack y John Romero. Juntos revolucionaron las posibilidades del medio tanto a nivel tecnológico como tematico, desafiaron todos los modelos de negocio establ

JACKED: HISTORIA FUERA DE LA LEY DE GRAND THEFT AUTO es un libro del autor KUSHNER, DAVID editado por GAMEPRESS. JACKED: HISTORIA FUERA DE LA LEY DE GRAND THEFT AUTO tiene un código de ISBN 978-84-18

The illustrated, inside story of the legendary hacktivist groups origins and most daring exploits.A for Anonymous shows how a leaderless band of volunteers successfully used hacktivism to fight for the underdog, embarrass their rich and powerful targets--from Sony and Paypal to the Church of Scientology and Ferguson Police Department--all in the name of freedom of speech and information. Their exploits blurred the distinction between "online" and "reality," and help shape our contemporary world.

The gripping origin story of Pong, Atari, and the digital icons who defined the world of video games.A deep, nostalgic dive into the advent of gaming, Easy to Learn, Difficult to Master returns us to the emerging culture of Silicon Valley. At the center of this graphic history, dynamically drawn in colors inspired by old computer screens, is the epic feud that raged between Atari founder Nolan Bushnell and inventor Ralph Baer for the title of father of the video game. While Baer, a Jewish immigrant whose family fled Germany for America, developed the first TV video-game console and ping-pong game in the 1960s, Bushnell, a self-taught whiz kid from Utah, put out Ataris pioneering table-tennis arcade game, Pong, in 1972. Thus, a prolonged battle began over who truly spearheaded the multibillion-dollar gaming industry, and around it a sweeping narrative about invention, inspiration, and the seeds of digital revolution.

Dois jovens mudaram o mundo... programandoOs Mestres de Doom é a fascinante história real de John Carmack e John Romero, que, juntos, dominaram o mundo dos videogames, revolucionaram a cultura pop e provocaram polemica nacional. Mas, acima de tudo, viveram uma verso unica e turbulenta do sonho americano, escapando de infancias problematicas para desenvolver, lado a lado, duas das franquias de jogos mais notorias e bem-sucedidas da historia: Doom e Quake.Este foi o primeiro livro a contar a maior aventura da industria do entretenimento interativo. Um dos principais observadores do meio, David Kushner leva o leitor para dentro da jornada de dois empreendedores rebeldes que sairam do nada e ajudaram a moldar toda uma geraço.Alem de reconstruir suas vidas, o autor mostra por que os jogos deles so to violentos e por que a imerso nos mundos de fantasia foi, para os garotos, uma forma de conforto. Esta e uma historia de amizade e traiço, de negocios e arte, um relato completo e intenso sobre como e ser jovem, ambicioso e absurdamente criativo.Traduzido por Felipe Damorim

Fácil de aprender, difícil de dominar nos lleva de vuelta a una Silicon Valley todavía en pañales en un viaje por la nostalgia hasta el nacimiento de los videojuegos. Esta historia gráfica cuenta con unos dibujos dinamicos y una paleta de colores inspirada en las antiguas pantallas de ordenador y se centra en la epica batalla que se desato entre el fundador de Atari, Nolan Bushnell, y el visionario Ralph Baer por alzarse con el titulo de padre del videojuego. Mientras Baer, un inmigrante judio cuya familia llego a Estados Unidos huyendo de Alemania, desarrollaba la primera consola para television con su videojuego de pimpon en los años 60, Bushnell, un niño prodigio y autodidacta de Utah, lanzaba el primer juego de tenis de mesa para maquinas recreativas de Atari, PONG, en 1972. Y asi daba comienzo una larga pugna por ser reconocido como el autentico impulsor de la multimillonaria industria del videojuego; una historia envuelta en un sobrecogedor relato sobre el ingenio, la inspiracion y el germen de la revolucion digital.

In 2011, a young idealist named Ross Ulbricht launched a website called Silk Road. It was an Amazon for drugs, hidden in the dark web and powered by a new, untraceable currency called Bitcoin. Ulbricht believed he was creating a libertarian utopia, a free market beyond the reach of the state. "The Pirate Roberts" charts the rise and fall of the worlds most notorious online marketplace.Operating under the pseudonym "Dread Pirate Roberts," Ulbricht grew his startup into a multimillion-dollar empire. But as the site grew, so did the violence. The book details how the philosophical idealist began ordering hits on blackmailers (though no bodies were found) and how he was hunted by a ragtag team of DEA, FBI, and IRS agents.It culminates in the dramatic arrest in a San Francisco public library, where agents had to snatch his open laptop before he could encrypt it. This is a digital thriller about the corruption of ideals, the birth of the crypto-economy, and the thin line between a startup founder and a drug lord.

In the tradition of Shadow Divers and The Wager,the incredible true story of the pirate slave ship Guerrero,which wrecked in the Florida Keys, and the scuba divers who tracked it down nearly 200 years later.In 1827, the brig Guerrero was racing across the Florida Straits with 561 kidnapped Africans in its hold. Though Britain and the United States had banned the Atlantic slave trade, outlaw captains like Jose Gomez still attempted to get around their Navy patrols and make for Cuba, where markets remained open. The Spanish captain was particularly ruthlessnot only a trader, but a pirate, who didnt hesitate to use his terror-inducing fourteen-gun ship with a dragonhead on the prow to steal captives from other vessels. In 2004, Ken Stewart, a Black diver and Vietnam veteran, learned that the Guerrero might still be in American waters. He marshalled a group he called Diving with a Purpose to go looking for the shipwreck, not only as a historic site but as a graveyard of buried stories that demanded recovery. In partnership with Corey Malcoma marine archeologist whose affiliation with a famous Floridian treasure hunter made some initially wary of his motivesthe group began to piece together what happened to the survivors of the Guerrero. The saga they uncovered involved President John Quincy Adams, an African princess turned American slaveholder, and the founders of Liberia. It was a tale of tragedy as well as survival, connecting ancestors and descendants across thousands of miles of ocean.Ocean of Bones is a powerful and thrilling book that immerses readers in two connected journeys: one in the 19th century, and one in the 21st. It illuminates a forgotten history that reminds you why the lessons of the past must be kept alive in the present, and tells a story that will stick with you for a lifetime.

An engrossing microcosm of the internets Wild West years (Kirkus Reviews), award-winning journalist David Kushner tells the incredible battle between the founder of Match.com and the con man who swindled him out of the website Sex.com, resulting in an all-out war for control for what still powers the internet today: love and sex.In 1994, visionary entrepreneur Gary Kremen used a $2,500 loan to create the first online dating service, Match.com. Only five percent of Americans were using the internet at the time, and even fewer were looking online for love. He quickly bought the Sex.com domain too, betting the combination of love and sex would help propel the internet into the mainstream.Imagine Kremens surprise when he learned that someone named Stephen Michael Cohen had stolen the rights to Sex.com and was already making millions that Kremen would never see. Thus follows the wild true story of Kremens and Cohens decade-long battle for control. In The Players Ball, author and journalist David Kushner provides a front seat to these must-read Wild West years online, when innovators and outlaws battled for power and money.This cat-and-mouse game between a genius and a con man changed the way people connect forever, and is key to understanding the rise and future of the online world.Kushner delivers a fast-paced, raunchy tale of sex, drugs, and dial-up. Publishers Weekly

From award-winning journalist David Kushner, a reported memoir about family, survival, and the unwavering power of loveand the basis for the podcast Alligator Candy.David Kushner grew up in the early 1970s in the Florida suburbs. It was when kids still ran free, riding bikes and disappearing into the nearby woods for hours at a time. One morning in 1973, however, everything changed. Davids older brother Jon biked through the forest to the convenience store for candy, and never returned.Every life has a defining moment, a single act that charts the course we take and determines who we become. For Kushner, it was Jons disappearancea tragedy that shocked his family and the community at large. Decades later, now a grown man with kids of his own, Kushner found himself unsatisfied with his own memories and decided to revisit the episode a different way: through the eyes of a reporter. His investigation brought him back to the places and people he once knew and slowly made him realize just how much his past had affected his present. After sifting through hundreds of documents and reports, conducting dozens of interviews, and poring over numerous firsthand accounts, he has produced a powerful and inspiring story of loss, perseverance, and memory. Alligator Candy is searing and unforgettable.

A magnet for bullies at school, Jon Finkel grew up heckled and hazed until he discovered the trading-card game Magic: The Gathering. As Magic exploded from nerdy obsession into the mainstream, the teenage Finkel emerged as its first world champion. The young shark - now known to his friends and rivals as Jonny Magic - moved on to storm poker rooms, from the underground clubs of New York City to high-stakes tables online, until he landed on the largest card counting blackjack team in the country, taking Vegas for millions and becoming one of the biggest players in town. Finally, they took on the biggest game of all - the World Series of Poker...

Dois jovens mudaram o mundo... programandoOs Mestres de Doom é a fascinante história real de John Carmack e John Romero, que, juntos, dominaram o mundo dos videogames, revolucionaram a cultura pop e provocaram polemica nacional. Mas, acima de tudo, viveram uma verso unica e turbulenta do sonho americano, escapando de infancias problematicas para desenvolver, lado a lado, duas das franquias de jogos mais notorias e bem-sucedidas da historia: Doom e Quake.Este foi o primeiro livro a contar a maior aventura da industria do entretenimento interativo. Um dos principais observadores do meio, David Kushner leva o leitor para dentro da jornada de dois empreendedores rebeldes que sairam do nada e ajudaram a moldar toda uma geraço.Alem de reconstruir suas vidas, o autor mostra por que os jogos deles so to violentos e por que a imerso nos mundos de fantasia foi, para os garotos, uma forma de conforto. Esta e uma historia de amizade e traiço, de negocios e arte, um relato completo e intenso sobre como e ser jovem, ambicioso e absurdamente criativo.Traduzido por Felipe Damorim

Masters of Doom is the amazing true story of the Lennon and McCartney of video games: John Carmack and John Romero. Together, they ruled big business. They transformed popular culture. And they provoked a national controversy. More than anything, they lived a unique and rollicking American Dream, escaping the broken homes of their youth to co-create the most notoriously successful game franchises in historyDoom and Quakeuntil the games they made tore them apart. Americans spend more money on video games than on movie tickets. Masters of Doom is the first book to chronicle this industrys greatest story, written by one of the mediums leading observers. David Kushner takes readers inside the rags-to-riches adventure of two rebellious entrepreneurs who came of age to shape a generation. The vivid portrait reveals why their games are so violent and why their immersion in their brilliantly designed fantasy worlds offered them solace. And it shows how they channeled their fury and imagination into products that are a formative influence on our culture, from MTV to the Internet to Columbine. This is a story of friendship and betrayal, commerce and artistrya powerful and compassionate account of what its like to be young, driven, and wildly creative. To my taste, the greatest American myth of cosmogenesis features the maladjusted, antisocial, genius teenage boy who, in the insular laboratory of his own bedroom, invents the universe from scratch. Masters of Doom is a particularly inspired rendition. Dave Kushner chronicles the saga of video game virtuosi Carmack and Romero with terrific brio. This is a page-turning, mythopoeic cyber-soap opera about two glamorous geek geniusesand it should be read while scarfing down pepperoni pizza and swilling Diet Coke, with Queens of the Stone Age cranked up all the way.Mark Leyner, author of I Smell Esther Williams

The behind the scenes story of the worlds most notorious and controversial video games company Rockstar Games. Jacked is the incredible story behind the phenomenon that changed video games for ever Grand Theft Auto. Powerful politicians tried to stop it, parents and activists vigorously campaigned against it, but they couldnt stop GTA breaking records. GTA IV became the biggest entertainment product launch of all time, eclipsing all other books, films and music, and went on to become the most controversial video game in history. Now, after 10 years of research, David Kushner reveals how Sam Housers company, Rockstar Games, made it all possible. He lifts the veil of secrecy around the team to show how a blend of creative genius, daring PR campaigns, big egos and an obsessive work ethic all came together to create a monster with a tendency to spiral out of control. Including the full story behind Hot Coffee the hidden sex minigame that nearly killed the game and the company Jacked gets right to the heart of what it takes to make a classic computer game

La verdadera historia de los orígenes y las mayores proezas del legendario grupo de activistas informáticos.A de Anonymous nos cuenta cómo un colectivo de voluntarios sin líder se valió del activismo informatico para enfrentarse y avergonzar a los ricos y a los poderosos desde Sony y PayPal a la Iglesia de la Cienciologia o el Departamento de Policia de Ferguson, todo ello en nombre de la libertad de expresion y de informacion. Sus logros desdibujaban la linea entre lo que sucedia en la red y lo que sucedia en la realidad, y sirvieron para dar forma al mundo actual.Editorial original: IDW

La verdadera historia de los orígenes y las mayores proezas del legendario grupo de activistas informáticos.A de Anonymous nos cuenta cómo un colectivo de voluntarios sin líder se valió del activismo informatico para enfrentarse y avergonzar a los ricos y a los poderososdesde Sony y PayPal a la Iglesia de la Cienciologia o el Departamento de Policia de Ferguson, todo ello en nombre de la libertad de expresion y de informacion. Sus logros desdibujaban la linea entre lo que sucedia en la red y lo que sucedia en la realidad, y sirvieron para dar forma al mundo actual.Editorial original: IDW