How a Game Lives: The Annotated Essays of Jacob Geller update

We recently shared in a previous update that the writing and editing was now finished, with over 45,000 new words alongside the already-beloved writings from Jacob's video essays. That's a lot of new content, between all-new essays, afterwords, and annotations – far more than even we anticipated! We can't wait to show it to you.

With the content done, we're now on track with design and the rest of production. However, we want to be completely transparent and upfront on this early. Faced with unprecedented demand – we are producing more than 12,000 copies of the book so far, with more than 5,000 of them Deluxe Editions, which is 10 times the amount of usual – we will need to give ourselves more time for production.

We don't have an exact timeframe right now, but we wanted to be clear as we look at the process ahead, that we will not be shipping in Q4 2024. Our current target is Q1 2025. It's important we do this right, with the quality we, Jacob, and you expect from us, and that we deliver a quality, incredible book for each and every one of those copies.

We don't want to rush the global shipping process of so many books and risk making it any less perfect than it should be. In the meantime, we're ecstatic that The Console Chronicles and A Handheld History: 88-95 are arriving in hands, with Citizen Sleeper: Design Works and Heterotopias now also due to start the shipping process from the end of September. Copies are expected to start arriving in the forthcoming weeks.

Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for the support and patience, and again for your exceptional demand for How a Game Lives. We're eternally grateful to be printing over 12,000 copies of this incredible collective work. We can't wait to have it in your hands soon.

The Console Chronicles & A Handheld History: 88-95

Hot off the heels of yesterday's updates on Heterotopias, Citizen Sleeper: Design Works, Cycles of the Eye, and a teaser for our most-requested Design Works ever, we're keen to take a minute to appreciate the accomplishments of our writers, designers, sponsors, and every freelancer who has made The Console Chronicles and A Handheld History: 88-95 possible.

We sincerely apologise for the slower-than-expected rollout; we had to manually approve orders after some frustrating warehouse mix-ups. Rest assured, these beautiful books will be in everyone's hands before you know it.

To take it all in, our very own Imogen has shot some stunning photos of these newly-shipped tomes. Enjoy below, and we'll catch up next Tuesday on our next celestial-sized master work.

Missed out on The Console Chronicles? We’ve just released a retail version!

Following the Amazon-bestselling success of A Handheld History, we’ve teamed up with HarperCollins to bring The Console Chronicles to retail – the perfect Christmas gift. Available now for 22% off.

Thank you to TCC sponsors Hookshot Media – publishers of Nintendo Life, Push Square, Pure Xbox and Time Extension – for making this release possible.

Thank you also to the Embracer Games Archive for sponsoring the original TCC.

█████ █████: Design Works

Our most-requested Design Works ever.

Lifting off Tuesday, 24 September. 6:00pm BST.