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Arthur disobeys his mother by playing his favorite game on her computer, which leads to a lesson in taking responsibility for one's actions.

Discusses topics related to children's use of online games, such as the benefits of online gaming, massively multiplayer online games, safety concerns, and griefers.

A compendium of facts on video games and gamers, containing specifications on different platforms; records such as firsts, fastests, highests, and mosts concerning sixty video games, including Halo, Starcraft, Zelda, and Guitar Hero; lists of record-breaking high scores and the top one hundred arcade games; and interviews with the world's youngest professional gamer, a video game composer, and other figures in the field.

Klooz, trying to stop a group of crooks who are putting out a violent computer game, has to use old-fashioned investigating techniques when he is forced offline.

Fourteen-year-old Miriam agrees to test a new computer game in utmost secrecy but finds that it is more than she bargained for.

Explores aspects of the making and marketing of video and computer games and discusses why and how to think critically about their messages.

When someone uses futuristic technology to play pranks on twelve-year-old Dorso Clayman, he and his best friend set off on a supposedly impossible journey through space and time trying to stop the gamesters who are endangering the universe.

Twelve-year-old Johnny endures tensions between his parents, watches television coverage of the Gulf War, and plays a computer game called Only You Can Save Mankind, in which he is increasingly drawn into the reality of the alien ScreeWee.

Chris receives a computer game in the mail that somehow becomes real and he finds himself trapped in a mysterious adventure in which he must retrieve a magic crystal from a dragon and use it to release Princess Darvina from the evil spell that has turned her to stone.

Collects essays that offer varying perspectives on issues related to video games, including what impact they have on players' health, how they affect society, and whether or not they portray minorities fairly.

Fourteen-year-old Arvin and his friends risk using a computer-controlled role-playing game to simulate a magical world in which they actually become fantasy characters, even though the computer program is a pirated one containing unpredictable errors.

Nick is given an addictive computer game called "Erebos" that asks its players to carry out actions in the real world in order to keep playing online, actions which become more and more terrifyingly manipulative.

Fourteen-year-old Grace must find a way to get her older sister out of a princess-filled virtual reality RPG (role playing game)--before it is too late.

"Describes the technology used for creating and playing video games.

Pandora Walker unwittingly unleashes cyber Armageddon on her seventeenth birthday and must play a virtual reality game in order to save the world.