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Just saw this...

Digital + Analogue: The Art and Science of Rockstar Games by Rockstar Games
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Rockstar Games creates some of pop culture’s most provocative icons. The Rockstar Games label, founded in 1998, is known for the creation of groundbreaking video games with unprecedented production values, style and depth with a dizzying range of techniques and media. Rockstar’s dedication to making the most extraordinary free-form game play captured the enthusiasm of millions of fans around the world and continues to shock those too afraid to take control.

This ultimate slip-cased Rockstar Games monograph checks in at 13.5” x 11.5” in three volumes, featuring original illustrations, wireframes, production stills, product shots, ads, inspiration and candids of the company’s games plus exclusive content on a CD/DVD. The hundreds of color photographs and never-before published video-scapes all culled from the archives of the creators will acquaint readers with the vast areas within the games that allow unparalleled freedom, and a unique experience every play.

This enormous compendium celebrates a decade of Rockstar Games with spectacular artwork and detail drawings of stunning environments (the hoods, grand canyons, asylums), death-defying tasks (races, executions, carjacks, drug runs), colorful subjects (bullies, smugglers, prisoners, hit men), and passersby with whom your characters interact, so that even a non-player may understand how exhilarating a Rockstar experience can be. Characters switch perspectives and radio stations, navigate through real time day-to-night changes and weather cycles, and participate in society with total moral freedom – actions that the company’s founder and executive producer describes as an “experiment in narrative.”

Published to coincide with Rockstar’s tenth anniversary, this timecapsule has been created with the company’s designers, and every page reflects their spectacular aesthetic. It is the ultimate Rockstar testament to the company’s history of singular moments reinventing the boundaries of style and mischief in entertainment, and setting a new standard for what is possible in interactive arts.

...the publishers price is $450 USD, but Amazon UK has it up for pre-order for £75.65 (Approx. $116 USD). Not sure if it's a pricing error, but I put my order in just in case. These books are gonna be sweet.
 
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My SDCC book haul so far...

Brooks (Angelic), Dodson (Bombshells), Campbell (Blue Beauties), Hughes (Slayboy), Josh Cooley (Movies R Fun)

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^^ Damn good deal! That Drew Struzan book is $60 alone on Amazon.

What would they sell that one for at the con? :naughty
 
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Saw a few pics of The Art of District 9 Blad that Weta had at Con.....can't wait should be here just in time for your christmas stocking.:yess:
 
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I managed to find this for a good price, so now I have all three of the Art books by Olivia De Berardinis.

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Picked up these yesterday, got an amazing deal, $60 for all three hardcovers.

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Awesome Haul ill :D

I have all three of those and love them, i actually keep the Struzan and the IDW transformer book out on a coffee table in my office for people to "carefully" look through....they are to good to keep hidden away on a shelf!
 
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Awesome Haul ill :D

I have all three of those and love them, i actually keep the Struzan and the IDW transformer book out on a coffee table in my office for people to "carefully" look through....they are to good to keep hidden away on a shelf!
Thanks man!

I don't want anybody touching mine! :lol

Did anyone pick up Frank Cho's book at SDCC ?
No, I had already bought too much. :(
 
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Adam Hughes' Cover Run is now out of stock at Amazon.com. Should be going to press for a second printing sometime in August, but I don't know how long it will take to be back in stores. We have some that I may ask Adam to sign so I can put them up on Ebay.
 
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Adam Hughes' Cover Run is now out of stock at Amazon.com. Should be going to press for a second printing sometime in August, but I don't know how long it will take to be back in stores. We have some that I may ask Adam to sign so I can put them up on Ebay.

Congrats to you both Alison! Will the second print have a different cover or additional material?
 
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