Playstation 4 Pro: An Easy Guide to the Best Features


Book Description

The PlayStation 4 Pro is a gaming platform that is also referred to as the PS4 Pro for short. It was originally announced using the codename Neo as its moniker. This system was unveiled in September 2016 using the model number CUH-7000. The PS4 Pro is an updated version of the PlayStation 4 that has improved hardware that also includes an improved GPU with 4.2 teraflops of power in the processing unit along with a higher CPU clock. It was primarily made to facilitate some games at a 4K resolution and to offer a higher quality for PlayStation VR. It is important to note that all the games between the PS4 and PS4 Pro are forward and backward compatible between the two systems. However, games with built in optimizations will have better graphics on the PS4 Pro. This book will cover many of the features of the PS4 Pro to inform the reader of the capabilities.




iPhone 11 Pro User Manual


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IT'S OFFICIAL: the 2019 iPhone 11 Pro from Apple is out! The Pro model is the first to carry triple-camera arrays; it also features a new design made of polished stainless steel, Super Retina RDX displays that is much sharper, an improved battery life, the newly launched Apple's A13 Bionic CPU for faster response time, and a lovely range of colors to choose from. You've just recently purchased the iPhone 11 Pro, and you've learned nothing new on the device? Have you searched for some tips and tricks to master this device? Are you an Android user or an iPhone Newbie searching for a manual that'll help you navigate the phone? This manual is for you! It's time to explore the features and settings of your iPhone 11 Pro to make the most out of it. This manual will steer you through rudimentary to advanced features and improve your iPhone 11 Pro ownership as well. It also reveals some hidden tips and tricks on the device that you never knew existed. Inside this book, you'll discover: How to Move Data to Your New iPhone 11 Pro From Your Previous iPhone How to Setup and Use Dual SIM How to Prepare Your iPhone for a Repair How to Backup Your iPhone 11 Pro in Mac How to Restore Your iPhone 11 Pro from a Backup in Mac How to Backup Your iPhone to iCloud How to Reinstate Your iPhone From An iCloud Backup How to Power On and Off How to Use the Camera How to Crop and Trim a Video How to Change Wallpaper How to Take Screenshots How to Change Font Size How to Switch on AirDrop How to Change Screen Timeout Wait no longer, scroll up and click the BUY button to get this book to conquer your iPhone 11 Pro




Librarian's Guide to Games and Gamers


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Helps librarians who are not themselves seasoned gamers to better understand the plethora of gaming products available and how they might appeal to library users. As games grow ever-more ubiquitous in our culture and communities, they have become popular staples in public library collections and are increasing in prominence in academic ones. Many librarians, especially those who are not themselves gamers or are only acquainted with a handful of games, are ill-prepared to successfully advise patrons who use games. This book provides the tools to help adult and youth services librarians to better understand the gaming landscape and better serve gamers in discovery of new games—whether they are new to gaming or seasoned players—through advisory services. This book maps all types of games—board, roleplaying, digital, and virtual reality—providing all the information needed to understand and appropriately recommend games to library users. Organized by game type, hundreds of descriptions offer not only bibliographic information (title, publication date, series, and format/platform), but genre classifications, target age ranges for players, notes on gameplay and user behavior type, and short descriptions of the game's basic premise and appeals.




GPU Pro 360 Guide to Lighting


Book Description

Wolfgang Engel’s GPU Pro 360 Guide to Lighting gathers all the cutting-edge information from his previous seven GPU Pro volumes into a convenient single source anthology on lighting. This volume is complete with 24 articles by leading programmers that describes rendering techniques of global illumination effects suited for direct rendering applications in real time. GPU Pro 360 Guide to Lighting is comprised of ready-to-use ideas and efficient procedures that can help solve many computer graphics programming challenges that may arise. Key Features: Presents tips and tricks on real-time rendering of special effects and visualization data on common consumer software platforms such as PCs, video consoles, and mobile devices Covers specific challenges involved in creating games on various platforms Explores the latest developments in the rapidly evolving field of real-time rendering Takes a practical approach that helps graphics programmers solve their daily challenges




GPU Pro 360 Guide to Rendering


Book Description

Wolfgang Engel’s GPU Pro 360 Guide to Rendering gathers all the cutting-edge information from his previous seven GPU Pro volumes into a convenient single source anthology that covers real-time rendering. This volume is complete with 32 articles by leading programmers that focus on the ability of graphics processing units to process and generate rendering in exciting ways. GPU Pro 360 Guide to Rendering is comprised of ready-to-use ideas and efficient procedures that can help solve many rendering programming challenges that may arise. Key Features: Presents tips and tricks on real-time rendering of special effects and visualization data on common consumer software platforms such as PCs, video consoles, and mobile devices Covers specific challenges involved in creating games on various platforms Explores the latest developments in the rapidly evolving field of real-time rendering Takes a practical approach that helps graphics programmers solve their daily challenges




Ready Player Juan


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This book fuses Latinx studies and video game studies to document how Latinx masculinities are portrayed in high-budget action-adventure video games. Developing an original approach to video game experiences, the author theorizes video games as border crossings, and defines a new concept--digital mestizaje--that pushes players, readers, and scholars to deploy a Latinx way of seeing constructive as well as destructive qualities.




Game Console Hacking


Book Description

The worldwide video game console market surpassed $10 billion in 2003. Current sales of new consoles is consolidated around 3 major companies and their proprietary platforms: Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft. In addition, there is an enormous installed "retro gaming" base of Ataria and Sega console enthusiasts. This book, written by a team led by Joe Grand, author of "Hardware Hacking: Have Fun While Voiding Your Warranty", provides hard-core gamers with they keys to the kingdom: specific instructions on how to crack into their console and make it do things it was never designed to do. By definition, video console game players like to have fun. Most of them are addicted to the adrenaline rush associated with "winning", and even more so when the "winning" involves beating the system by discovering the multitude of "cheats" built into most video games. Now, they can have the ultimate adrenaline rush---actually messing around with the soul of the machine and configuring it to behave exactly as the command. This book builds on the motto of "Have Fun While Voiding Your Warranty" and will appeal to the community of hardware geeks who associate unscrewing the back of their video console with para-jumping into the perfect storm. Providing a reliable, field-tested guide to hacking all of the most popular video gaming consoles Written by some of the most knowledgeable and recognizable names in the hardware hacking community Game Console Hacking is the first book on the market to show game enthusiasts (self described hardware geeks) how to disassemble, reconfigure, customize and re-purpose their Atari, Sega, Nintendo, Playstation and Xbox systems




Aaron Marks' Complete Guide to Game Audio


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Whether trying to land that first big gig or working to perfect the necessary skills to fill a game world with sound, Aaron Marks’ Complete Guide to Game Audio 3rd edition will teach the reader everything they need to know about the audio side of the multi-million dollar video game industry. This book builds upon the success of the second edition with even more expert advice from masters in the field and notes current changes within the growing video game industry. The tools of the trade excerpts will showcase what professionals, like Marty O’Donnell, Richard Jacques and Tom Salta, use to create their work and to help newcomers in the field prepare their own sound studios. Sample contracts are reviewed within the text as well as helpful advice about contractual terms and negotiable points. These sample contracts can also be found as a downloadable zip for the reader’s convenience. Aaron Marks also explores how to set your financial terms and network efficiently along with examples of how projects can go completely awry and achieving the best results in often complicated situations. Aaron Marks’ Complete Guide to Game Audio serves as the ultimate survival guide to navigating an audio career in the video game industry. Key Features New, full color edition with a complete update of information. Added and expanded coverage of field recording for games, creating voiceovers, adaptive and interactive audio and other cutting edge sound creation and implementation techniques used within games. Update/Replacement of interviews. Include interviews/features on international game audio professionals New and expanded interview features from game composers and sound designers of every experience level such as Keith Arem, Bradley Meyer, Christopher Tin and Rodney Gates including many international professionals like Pasi Pitkanen, Henning Nugel and Christos Panayides. Expanded and updated game console coverage of the Wii, Wii U, Xbox 360, Xbox One, PS3 and PS4. Includes new scripting and middleware concepts and techniques and review of powerful tools such as FMOD and Wwise.




Raspberry Pi User Guide


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Learn the Raspberry Pi 3 from the experts! Raspberry Pi User Guide, 4th Edition is the "unofficial official" guide to everything Raspberry Pi 3. Written by the Pi's creator and a leading Pi guru, this book goes straight to the source to bring you the ultimate Raspberry Pi 3 manual. This new fourth edition has been updated to cover the Raspberry Pi 3 board and software, with detailed discussion on its wide array of configurations, languages, and applications. You'll learn how to take full advantage of the mighty Pi's full capabilities, and then expand those capabilities even more with add-on technologies. You'll write productivity and multimedia programs, and learn flexible programming languages that allow you to shape your Raspberry Pi into whatever you want it to be. If you're ready to jump right in, this book gets you started with clear, step-by-step instruction from software installation to system customization. The Raspberry Pi's tremendous popularity has spawned an entire industry of add-ons, parts, hacks, ideas, and inventions. The movement is growing, and pushing the boundaries of possibility along with it—are you ready to be a part of it? This book is your ideal companion for claiming your piece of the Pi. Get all set up with software, and connect to other devices Understand Linux System Admin nomenclature and conventions Write your own programs using Python and Scratch Extend the Pi's capabilities with add-ons like Wi-Fi dongles, a touch screen, and more The credit-card sized Raspberry Pi has become a global phenomenon. Created by the Raspberry Pi Foundation to get kids interested in programming, this tiny computer kick-started a movement of tinkerers, thinkers, experimenters, and inventors. Where will your Raspberry Pi 3 take you? The Raspberry Pi User Guide, 3rd Edition is your ultimate roadmap to discovery.




YOUTUBE GAMING CHANNEL SETUP : Step to step guide on how to set up your YouTube gaming channel


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Are you a gamer? Do you ever feel the need to start your own YouTube gaming channel? Well, look no further. This book is the perfect starting point to getting your channel off the ground and into the web's eye! Perhaps you've always wanted to start a YouTube gaming channel but weren't sure how. Or maybe you've already started one, but feel like it needs improvement. Whatever your reason is, this book has everything you need to get a good start to your channel! The in-depth information will guide you not just through the creation of your own video productions, but also into how you can get your channel off the ground and make it the success it should be. Since gaming is all the rage with younger generations, and Youtube has become such a popular site for people to post their own videos, it only makes sense that more and more people are starting up their own Youtube Gaming Channel. YouTube gaming channels are becomming increasingly popular nowadays as gamers are turning away from playing games on consoles or PCs, and instead using mobile gaming devices such as mobile smartphones or tablets. In order to make a good impact on youtube, you need to have a channel that is not only entertaining but also informative. Video games have always been a popular pastime and now, with the advent of YouTube, gamers can broadcast their game play for others to watch. As such, it can be tempting for those who have never thought about setting up their own YouTube gaming channel to take that first step into the world of online streaming and broadcasting. This book covers: Choosing your niche Before you begin Your gaming platform Building an audience Monetizing your channel And much more. How To Set Up A YouTube Gaming Channel will walk you through all of the steps involved in getting your new channel up and running as smoothly as possible. Not only will you learn how to create your channel, but you’ll also find out all about uploading videos, enabling monetization and making money from your clips on YouTube. With this handy guide in hand, setting up your channel should be a walk in the park! You will be taken through the steps of creating a YouTube channel and setting up your streaming account in an easy-to-understand manner! In addition, you will discover how to live stream on Twitch, the benefits of monetizing your gaming videos, and other quick tips! So, not only will you learn how to create a YouTube channel, but you will discover all that you need to know about how to setup your streaming services and making money from your clips on YouTube within days! If you have been considering starting your own YouTube Gaming channel, but aren't sure where to start, this is the perfect book to get you off the ground! It is a simple to read guide, in simple language. Hurry and make the most out of it.