PC Gaming: Beginner's Guide

by Josh Gregory

Overview

By building their own custom PCs, video game fans can tweak every detail to make sure they get the best possible experience every time they play. In this book, readers will learn what makes PC gaming different from other kinds of gaming and find out how to get started playing PC games. Includes table of contents, author biography, sidebars, glossary, index, and informative backmatter.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781534199682
Publisher:	Cherry Lake Publishing
Publication date:	01/01/2022
Series:	21st Century Skills Innovation Library: Unofficial Guides Series
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	7.30(w) x 9.37(h) x 0.36(d)
Lexile:	960L (what's this?)
Age Range:	10 - 11 Years

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 A Better Way to Play 4

Chapter 2 Something for Everyone 10

Chapter 3 The Perfect Setup 18

Chapter 4 Play Time 26

Glossary 32

Find Out More 32

Index 32

Editorial Reviews

04/01/2022

Gr 5–8—These overviews are ready to walk readers through the basics of PC gaming and the gameplay of some of Nintendo's most popular games. Far from thorough, they function less as how-to guides and are more useful as tools for learning about gaming before taking the big plunge. The descriptions of upgrading computer hardware and software in Building a Gaming PC and Maintaining and Upgrading a Gaming PC are reasonably informative, they would have been better supported with diagrams of the basics. While the Nintendo games chosen are wildly successful, they're also simple enough that gameplay guides like these don't seem necessary. As such, they are less helpful for readers than the PC gaming titles in the series. Though the writing is not particularly engaging or exciting, the books themselves function suitably as informative introductory guides for beginning gamers. VERDICT Additional purchases at best.

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