Power Play releases in North America today!
Buy online OR in person from today 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇵🇷
Good news, everybody! The North American edition of my debut non-fiction book Power Play: Video Games, Politics, and the Battle for Global Influence is out today.
The book, published by the wonderful team at Prometheus, is available in bookstores, online, or through your favourite audio platform.
It has been picked as one of its top non-fiction picks for the month by Amazon’s Editorial team.
It’s also received plenty of praise from North American writers, academics and video game experts.
Praise for Power Play: Video Games, Politics, and the Battle for Global Influence
“Power Play… is essential reading for anyone trying to understand where culture, technology, and power collide.” Dr Rachel Kowert, PhD, Founder of Psychgeist and Visiting Researcher at the University of Cambridge
“Power Play uncovers a hidden history of the contemporary world, showing the essential but often overlooked role of video games in shaping everything from the invention of the iPhone to the election of Donald Trump.” - Rollo Romig, New York Times Magazine and Pulitzer Prize-nominated author
“This is an urgent, fascinating read that will fundamentally change how you understand modern power.”- Kelly Clancy, Author, Playing with Reality: How Games Shape Our World
“George Osborn is perhaps the first to see with real clarity what almost everyone else has missed: that video games are the coffee houses of our age…He shows how this immense network became politically consequential, and how the right has been far quicker than the left to grasp and exploit its potential.” - Thomas Small, Co-Host of the Conflicted podcast
“George has captured one of the most important, and under-examined, dynamics driving international politics today: the way video games and the culture surrounding them are being used to influence our expectations of free speech and civil rights.” - Joshua Foust, Assistant Professor, Department of Public Relations, Syracuse University
Want to buy a copy of the book? There are two main ways to get your hands on one.
Buy online through your favourite retailer - You can buy Power Play through Bookshop.org, Barnes & Noble, BooksAMillion and more by hitting this link.
Buy it in person in New York this week - Or, you can buy the book in person in New York at the Games for Change Festival or the Thriving in Games Group’s Digital Salon. I’ll be signing copies at both events, so come along if you can.
Thanks again for supporting my work. Normal VGIM service will resume on Thursday.