Jacked: The Outlaw Story of Grand Theft Auto - Hardcover

Kushner, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0470936371 ISBN 13: 9780470936375

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2012

Synopsis

Inside the making of a videogame that defined a generation: Grand Theft Auto Grand Theft Auto is one of the biggest and most controversial videogame franchises of all time. Since its first release in 1997, GTA has pioneered the use of everything from 3D graphics to the voices of top Hollywood actors and repeatedly transformed the world of gaming. Despite its incredible innovations in the $75 billion game industry, it has also been a lightning rod of debate, spawning accusations of ethnic and sexual discrimination, glamorizing violence, and inciting real–life crimes. Jacked tells the turbulent and mostly unknown story of GTA ′s wildly ambitious creators, Rockstar Games, the invention and evolution of the franchise, and the cultural and political backlash it has provoked. Explains how British prep school brothers Sam and Dan Houser took their dream of fame, fortune, and the glamor of American pop culture and transformed it into a worldwide videogame blockbuster Written by David Kushner, author of Masters of Doom and a top journalist on gaming, and drawn from over ten years of interviews and research, including firsthand knowledge of Grand Theft Auto ′s creators and detractors Offers inside details on key episodes in the development of the series, including the financial turmoil of Rockstar games, the infamous "Hot Coffee" sex mini–game incident, and more Whether you love Grand Theft Auto or hate it, or just want to understand the defining entertainment product of a generation, you′ll want to read Jacked and get the real story behind this boundary–pushing game.

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Praise for Masters of Doom "A fascinating portrait of visionary coders transforming a previously marginal hobby into a kind of twenty–first–century art form—and enraging an entire generation of parents along the way. Kushner tells the story with intelligence and a great sense of pacing. Masters of Doom is as riveting as the games themselves." — Steven Johnson , author of Everything Bad Is Good for You and Where Good Ideas Come From " Masters of Doom is an excellent archetypal tale of hard work and genius being corrupted by fame too young and fortune too fast. I rooted for these guys, was inspired by them, and then was disturbed by them—and was fascinated from beginning to end." — Po Bronson , coauthor of NurtureShock "Kushner′s mesmerizing tale of the Two Johns moves at a rapid clip . . . describing the twists and turns of fate that led them to team up in creating the most powerful video games of their generation . . . An exciting combination of biography and technology." — USA Today "Meticulously researched . . . as a ticktock of the creative process and as insight into a powerful medium too often dismissed as kids′ stuff, Masters of Doom blasts its way to a high score." — Entertainment Weekly "Kushner′s portrait of Carmack is lustrous and gripping . . . An impressive and adroit social history." — The New York Times Book Review "Terrifically told . . . The storytelling is so fluid, so addictive, that your twitching thumbs keep working the pages." — The Washington Post Book World

About the Author:

DAVID KUSHNER is the author of Masters of Doom, voted the best videogame book of all time by Game Informer magazine, as well as Jonny Magic and the Card Shark Kids, and Levittown. A contributing editor at Rolling Stone, Kushner has written for publications including Vanity Fair , Wired , New York Times Magazine , New York , GQ , and Details . He served as the digital culture commentator for National Public Radio′s Weekend Edition Sunday . He has been included in The Best American Crime Reporting and is an adjunct professor of journalism at New York University.

About this edition

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0470936371
• ISBN 13: 9780470936375
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 304