Death by Video Game

Simon Parkin is an award-winning writer and journalist from England. Over the past decade his criticism and journalism has featured in numerous high-profile publications, including New Yorker.com, Harper's Magazine, the Guardian, New Statesmen, ESPN, BBC and a variety of other publications. A sought-after video game pundit, Parkin has been a guest on BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio 5 Live. He writes investigative pieces, profiles, criticism and essays on a variety of subjects, often around culture, video games and technology, some of which are collected on his website (www.simonparkin.com). Death by Video Game is Parkin's first non-fiction book.

The finest book on video games yet. Simon Parkin thinks like a critic, conjures like a novelist, and writes like an artist at the height of his powers - which, in fact, he is. -- Tom Bissell, author of Extra Lives and God Lives in St. Petersburg Simon Parkin's surgical story-telling reveals the humanity, beauty and truth beneath the surface of our digital adventuring -- Jonathan Smith, Director of the National Videogame Arcade Death by Video Game is life by video games. Simon Parkin is gaming's Jon Ronson, and his book charts the extremes of the medium to try to answer the question why the hell do we all care about video games anyway?' -- Kieron Gillen, writer of Iron Man, Uncanny X-Men and The Wicked + The Divine, co-founder of Rock, Paper, Shotgun The best book about video games I've read since I wrote one -- Steven Poole, author of Trigger Happy One of the most effortless and masterly voices in video game writing New Statesman