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Masters of Doom

Masters of Doom How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture

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Publisher's Synopsis

Masters of Doom is the true inside story of the Lennon and McCartney of the video game industry: John Carmack and John Romero. Together they created an empire, ruled a multibillion-dollar industry, and provoked a national controversy. They lived a unique American dream, escaping their broken homes to co-create the most innovative and notoriously successful video games in history - Doom and Quake - until the games they made tore them apart.

David Kushner has been covering the video game industry for ten years and knows all the angles. Even those with no interest in video games will be fascinated by this vastly entertaining tale of friendship, betrayal and the genesis of a multibillion-dollar popular art form.

About the Publisher

Piatkus

Little, Brown is the literary hardback imprint that feeds into our Abacus paperback list. We publish across a wide range of areas, including fiction, history, memoir, science and travel, but within this diverse list the vast majority of books have in common a strong narrative and a distinctive voice.

Book information

ISBN: 9780749924898
Publisher: Little, Brown
Imprint: Piatkus
Pub date:
DEWEY: 794.8092273
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 335
Weight: 314g
Height: 196mm
Width: 131mm
Spine width: 25mm