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1) Free guy
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A bank teller, who discovers he is actually a background player in an open-world video game, decides to become the hero of his own story, one he rewrites himself. Now in a world where there are no limits, he is determined to be the guy who saves his world his way, before it is too late.
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.
4) Pixels
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Aliens attack Earth in the form of video games after misinterpreting video feeds of classic video games as a declaration of war.
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
In an attempt to save her broken game, Ralph and Vanellope race against the clock -- and some shady characters in a gritty, urban racing game -- in the vast world of the Internet! When faced with the lure of new cars and exciting racing routes, Vanellope considers leaving the arcade for good, and Ralph recognizes that he may lose the only friend he's ever had.
6) 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, p2003]
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.
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
In 1980s Chicago, a 10-year-old sets out on a quest to get the Christmas gift of his generation: the latest and greatest video game system. A humorous and heartfelt look back at the adventures of childhood. Set in suburban Chicago in the late 1980s, the story centers on ten-year-old Jake Doyle's (Winslow Fegley) herculean quest to get the latest and greatest video game system for Christmas. -- Provided by publisher.
10) Existenz
Language
English
Description
A designer of a virtual reality game is hunted by an assassin intent on killing her and destroying her creation.
11) Wargames
Language
English
Formats
Description
Young electronics wizard David Lightman unwittingly hooks into America's supersecret wargames computer and the world is suddenly threatened with nuclear annihilation.
12) Murder bury win
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
When three game designers have to dispose of a body, they turn to their game for help. The premise? How to murder someone, and get rid of the body.
13) Gamer
Pub. Date
[2010]
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.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Alex is an 18-year old Earthling who has an extraordinary talent for video game wizardry and conquers the Starfighter game. He is then recruited by alien Centauri to be part of an elite legion of fighters. Leaving behind his trailer park existence, he heads to the outer regions of space. Alex becomes the last hope for the beleaguered Star League and hundreds of worlds, including Earth.
16) Stay alive
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
After their friend is brutally murdered, a group of friends find themselves in possession of a video-game called "Stay Alive." The game is based on a blood-curdling true story of a 17th century noblewoman who was known as the Blood Countess. Knowing that they should not play with the game, the friends play anyway and realize that once they die in the game, they die for real. As their numbers begin dropping and as they begin dying in the ways they...
17) Tron
Series
Language
English
Description
A hacker is transported into a computer where he must fight for his life against the Master Control system. The hacker teams up with a bookkeeping program and his girlfriend to try to replace Master Control with Tron.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this continuation of the Spy Kids saga, Juni Cortez has now retired from being a spy and is trying to live a normal life, while Carmen is still with OSS. When his sister Carmen is trapped inside a groundbreaking new video game, the only way to free her is to enter the game's virtual world and make it to the highest level. Juni goes in to rescue her, and together, the Spy Kids battle through tougher and tougher levels of the game, overcoming challenges...
Pub. Date
[2010?]
Language
English
Description
Spy kids: When their international spy parents are kidnapped by children's TV program host Fegan Floop, Carmen and Juni Cortez must criss-cross the globe in a quest to save their parents.
Spy kids 2: Now Carmen and Juni Cortez are full-fledged Spykid operatives with the OSS. Together they embark on a mission to a mysterious island to retrieve a valuable device which in the wrong hands could jeopardize the world.
Spy kids 3: Secret agents Juni and...
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