How a Game Lives
$67.15
- Hardcover
208 pages
- Release Date
20 November 2025
Summary
How a Game Lives: Exploring the Art, Philosophy, and Afterlife of Video Games
Over his illustrious career, Jacob Geller has written and produced a sprawling collection of video essays. Deftly interweaving video game analysis with complex narratives about art, politics and history, Geller’s work positions games as vital tools for understanding each other and ourselves.
How a Game Lives re-examines ten of Geller’s most iconic essays accompanied by his brand-new commentary, aft…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780008752293 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 000875229X |
| Author: | Jacob Geller |
| Publisher: | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Imprint: | Expanse |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 20 November 2025 |
| Weight: | 270g |
| Dimensions: | 247mm x 196mm x 16mm |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
Featured on Sight and Sound’s list of “Best Video Essays of the Year,” – 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
Featured on Polygon’s list of “Best Video Essays of the Year,” – 2020, 2022, 2023
Jacob Geller … is to the video game essay what Annie Dillard is to the literary essay” – Patrick House, LA Review of Books
“It probably goes without saying that Jacob Geller is the Future of Writing about Video Games, but he’s also the future of writing about … kind of anything?” – Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, How a Game Lives
Jacob Geller is the host of the podcast Something Rotten.
About The Author
Jacob Geller
Jacob Geller writes about the intersecting worlds of video games, politics, art, and storytelling.
He primarily publishes essays to YouTube, where his work has been cumulatively viewed over one hundred million times.
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