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SMARTBOMB: The Quest for Art, Entertainment, and Big Bucks in the Videogame Revolution is a book written by the journalist Heather Chaplin and her husband Aaron Ruby. It was published in November 4, 2005 by Algonquin Books. It is the authors' first book and the work of five years of research.

The book chronicles how the PlayStation 2 threatened Microsoft with upcoming multimedia and personal computer appliances promised in the post-PC era. According with this book, the Xbox console was the Microsoft's step to break Sony in a market that nobody imagined that a traditional software company would to enter. The book says that Bill Gates "was becoming increasingly frustrated by Sony's success in the videogames market see Sony’s PlayStation was already outselling the top five PC makers combined"

Editions

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• hardcover: ISBN 1-56512-346-8

See also

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• List of books on computer and video games

External links

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• Official website
• Joystiq interview
• Sample chapter from NPR
• Sample chapter from Next Generation

Reviews

• Next Generation
• Joystiq
• Slashdot
• USA Today
• New York Times
• Business Week
• Newsweek

2005 books | Computer books | Cultural studies books | Popular culture books | Computer and video game development | Computer and video game culture