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E-book: How a Game Lives

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  • Pub. Date: 20-Nov-2025
  • Publisher: Expanse
  • Language: eng
  • ISBN-13: 9780008776794
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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, Gellers work positions games as vital tools for understanding each other and ourselves.



How a Game Lives re-examines ten of Gellers most iconic essays accompanied by his brand-new commentary, afterwords on each piece by some of the industrys best writers and stunning original artwork by Kilian Eng and other exceptional artists.



With videos like Whos Afraid of Modern Art , Every Zelda is the Darkest Zelda, and The Legacy of the Haunted House, Geller has taught audiences how to think about the art thats affected them. How a Game Lives immortalises those works and more and provides boundless insight into the construction, philosophy, and afterlife of each essay. Featuring original scripts and new industry analysis of the following works:





Whos Afraid of Modern Art?







Returnal is a Hell of Our Own Creation







Control, Anatomy, and the Legacy of the Haunted House







Does Call of Duty Believe in Anything?







The Decade-Long Quest for Shadow of the Colossus Last Great Secret







Every Zelda is the Darkest Zelda







Art in the Pre-Apocalypse







The Golem and the Jewish Superhero







The Future of Writing about Games







Fear of Cold

Reviews

"The book is as striking as it is intellectually rich" Voice Magazine, 5/5



Featured alongside Jacob Geller in BFI Sight & Sound's roundup of Best Video Essays 2025.



Featured on Sight and Sounds list of Best Video Essays of the Year, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024



Featured on Polygons 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 hes 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.

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The Annotated Essays of Jacob Geller, with brand-new commentary, analysis and original art. Perfect for fans of video game history and internet culture.
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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