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Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
[English/Spanish version].
Language
English
Description
Video-game bad guy Ralph and best friend Vanellope von Schweetz leave the comforts of Litwak's arcade in an attempt to save her game, Sugar Rush. Their quest takes them to the vast, uncharted world of the Internet, where they must rely on the citizens, or Netizens, to help navigate their way.
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
For years, there has been widespread speculation, but very little consensus, about the relationship between violent video games and violence in the real world. Joystick Warriors provides the clearest account yet of the latest research on this issue. Drawing on the insights of media scholars, military analysts, combat veterans, and gamers themselves, the film trains its sights on the wildly popular genre of first-person shooter games, exploring how...
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
With the gang spread across the country (and beyond) at college, Spencer is back to feeling out of place, even when he returns home over winter break. Desperate to escape his grandfather who is sharing his room, and to feel confident again, he attempts to fix the broken Jumanji video game, giving his friends no choice but to level up and return to rescue him.
7) Best player
Pub. Date
©2012.
Language
English
Description
"Quincey Johnson, a 30-year-old ultimate video gamer, challenges Chris, aka "Prodigy," a rough, slightly awkward teenage girl who's also got some sick gaming skills, to the ultimate video game showdown -- the Black Hole Championships! But as they prepare for their face-off, they both realize that maybe they've been hiding behind their avatars for too long and missing out on more important things in life."--Container.
Series
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
11-year-old Davey has retreated into a world of video games and an imaginary hero-pal. When an FBI agent about to be murdered slips him a video cartridge containing top-secret data, Davey is plunged into the intrigue and danger of real-life espionage.
10) Hero mode
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
With her indie video game business on the brink of bankruptcy. Kate throws a Hail Mary and puts Troy, her teenage coding genius son, in charge of creating a video game to save the company. It's a dream come true for Troy. But quite the opposite for the company's disgruntled coders and their rival CEO.
Series
Pub. Date
©2004, ℗2003.
Edition
3-D and second-D version ; widescreen.
Language
English
Description
Secret agents Juni and Carmen set out on their most mind-blowing mission yet: to venture inside the virtual reality of a 3-D video game. The game contains awe-inspiring graphics and creatures that come dangerously close to real life. As they face escalating challenges, the Spy Kids must rely on humor, high-tech gadgets and the bonds of family in order to stop a power-hungry villain who is set on controlling the youth of the world.
12) Level up
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Level Up, a Cartoon Network original movie, is a fantastical comedy for the video game age. When three high school gamers, Wyatt, Lyle, and Dante, unwittingly open a portal from an online game into the real world, the trio must put aside their social differences and join forces with classmate Angie in order to play the game for real and defeat evil.
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A small-town video game store clerk must go from zero to hero after accidentally unleashing the forces of evil from a cursed Colecovision video game cartridge. Max Jenkins's gaming fantasies collide with reality when a legendary 'lost' installment of the 1980s 'Nether Game' series appears on the store counter of his workplace.
14) GTFO
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Sparked by a public display of sexual harassment in 2012, GTFO pries open the video game world to explore a 20 billion dollar industry that is riddled with discrimination and misogyny. Although half of all gamers are women, females are disproportionately subject to harassment and abuse from other gamers, and are massively under-represented in the video game design world. Through interviews with video game developers, journalists, and academics, GTFO...
15) Gamer
Language
English
Formats
Description
Kable is the superstar and cult hero of the ultraviolent Slayers. Kable is controlled by Simon, a young gamer with rock star status who continues to defy all odds by guiding Kable to victory each week. Taken from his family, imprisoned, and forced to fight against his will, the modern-day gladiator must survive long enough to escape the game, free his family, regain his identity, and save mankind from this ruthless technology.
16) The wizard
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
A boy decides to take his autistic video game-playing brother to a national video game competition across the country.
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Given the wild popularity of violent video games, it has never been more urgent to encourage dialogue about how virtual killing might shape attitudes about real-life violence. Game Over examines the nature and consequences of simulated violence, and encourages high school and college students to think critically about how gender and race are depicted in the video and computer games they play. It is sure to spark lively debate about the complex and...
18) Digital nation
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
"Within a single generation, digital media and the World Wide Web have transformed virtually every aspect of modern culture, from the way we learn and work to the ways in which we socialize and even conduct war. But is the technology moving faster than we can adapt to it? And is our 24/7 wired world causing us to lose as much as we've gained? In Digital Nation: Life on the Virtual Frontier, FRONTLINE presents an in-depth exploration of what it means...
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Beyond Good and Evil argues that U.S. political leaders and news media responded to the 9/11 tragedy by simplifying complex international relationships into a fight between good and evil. The video examines how this "good and evil" narrative shapes our perceptions of, and response to, conflict more generally. Focusing on the impact of such rhetoric and imagery on children, the film asks viewers to consider the long-term consequences of reductive...
20) Madden NFL 22
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Play and build your professional football field team as you strategize from the front office to the field to get your franchise to the Super Bowl.
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