Featuring interviews with the creators of 39 popular video games--including Halo 3, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, Medal of Honor and Metroid Prime--this book gives a behind-the-scenes look at the origins of some of the most iconic shooter games. Interviewees recount endless hours of painstaking development, the challenges of working with mega-publishers, the growth of the genre and the creative processes that produced some of the industry's biggest hits, cult classics and indie successes.

“Patrick's interviews with all the top names in the industry let the reader feel like they know the developer and the games when they finish reading. I consider him one of the good guys in the industry.”—Todd Friedman, author of The Walter Day Superstars, Volume 1
“Patrick has taken on an incredibly important task of telling these fascinating, untold stories of the greatest minds in the most underappreciated art form. Without him and these books, their stories would never be documented like they are now. Classes of video game history will owe this man everything."—Kyle Davis and Blaise Dahl, Top Kvlt (Horror Podcast)
“When it comes to preserving the stories behind the gaming industry's most influential titles, Patrick Hickey Jr. has proven to be an unwavering force time and time again. With an impossible attention to detail and profoundly entertaining story telling, Patrick's writing has an incredible knack to transport its readers to a very special place in gaming history. It is a journey that anyone - gamer or not - would be grateful to be a part of.”—Andreas Asimakis, host, The Duel Screens podcast

Patrick Hickey, Jr., is the founder and editor-in-chief of ReviewFix.com and a lecturer of English and journalism at Kingsborough Community College, in Brooklyn, New York. Over the past decade, his video game coverage has been featured in national ad campaigns by Nintendo, Disney and EA Sports. Series editor Matthew Wilhelm Kapell teaches American studies, anthropology, and writing at Pace University in New York.