This is a story of friendship and betrayal, commerce and artistry-a powerful and compassionate account of what it's like to be young, driven, and wildly creative. 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. The vivid portrait reveals why their games are so violent and why their immersion in their brilliantly designed fantasy worlds offered them solace. David Kushner takes readers inside the rags-to-riches adventure of two rebellious entrepreneurs who came of age to shape a generation. Masters of Doom is the first book to chronicle this industry's greatest story, written by one of the medium's leading observers. 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 history-Doom and Quake-until the games they made tore them apart.Americans spend more money on video games than on movie tickets. And they provoked a national controversy. Scopri Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture di Kushner, David: spedizione gratuita per i clienti Prime e per ordini a partire da 29 spediti da Amazon. This is a page-turning, mythopoeic cyber-soap opera about two glamorous geek geniuses-and 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 WilliamsMasters of Doom is the amazing true story of the Lennon and McCartney of video games: John Carmack and John Romero. Dave Kushner chronicles the saga of video game virtuosi Carmack and Romero with terrific brio. Masters of Doom is a particularly inspired rendition.

'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 by David Kushner