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Eine Welt ohne Videospiele und nur du kannst sie zurückholen – ein fantastischer Gaming-Roman von Youtuber Manuel Schmitt alias SgtRumpel für alle Fans von "Ready Player One" und "Free Guy". Neil Desmond, bekannt als E-Sport-Legende Orkus666, verflucht die Welt nach einem desaströsen Match gegen seine Erzrivalin KiraNightingale. Am nächsten Morgen erwacht er in einer Welt, in der alles anders ist: Computer werden lediglich zur Datenverarbeitung verwendet, Videospiele hat es niemals gegeben. Der ehemals berühmte Orkus666 arbeitet nun als Putzmann bei einem großen IT-Unternehmen namens ATRIA.

Die Erde war nie mehr dieselbe nach dem Release von Welt der Verwandelten. Die Menschheit wurde in zwei Lager geteilt: in mordlustige Monster und Spieler, die alles taten, um zu überleben. All die Zankereien, mit denen die Menschen zuvor ihre Zeit verbracht hatten? - Vorbei. Wer den nächsten Sonnenaufgang erleben wollte, musste mit jedem zusammenarbeiten, mit dem er konnte - von anderen Spielern bis hin zu Funktionen des Spiels. Mark Derwin, der in der Anfangsphase des Spiels zum fortgeschrittensten Spieler aufgestiegen war, wusste nur zu gut, dass sein Level ihm keinen Vorteil brachte.

Los geht‘s! Ein neues, ultramodernes mobiles Spiel wartet auf dich! Nur noch zwei Tage bis zum Release! Sei der Beste und rette den Planeten! Wer kann die Invasion der Monster zurückschlagen, wenn nicht du? Hol dir jetzt schon die Prerelease-Version! Kein Text-Alert und keine Zahlung erforderlich. Welt der Verwandelten hat das menschliche Bewusstsein grundlegend verändert. Die unglaubliche Grafik, die selbst auf den primitivsten Smartphones läuft. Das intuitive Interface, das jedem den Einstieg ins Spiel ermöglicht. Die aggressive Marketingkampagne, die laufend brandheiße Game-News auf jeden Fernseher, jedes Telefon und jedes Tablet schickt.

Cole Tavish thought Antebelle was a quiet mining town…until a freak accident uncovers a dungeon filled with monsters, traps, and ancient artifacts. Now, to stop the monsters before they can devour the town, Cole and his friends will need to gain experience, level up, and upgrade their gear. But most of all, they’ll need a tank. And that’s just what Cole is.

Launch day has finally arrived, and Kyra Bishop is chomping at the bit to step into what has been touted as the most realistic VMMORPG of all time. But when events unfold in a way she never expected, Kyra is thrust into more than just a game, she finds herself trapped in a new life. An avid climber and athlete in the outside world, If she wants to survive, Kyra will have to unleash all her real-life skills on a violent virtual realm filled with creatures—and players—who long to kill her.

Mei Sky, the orphaned daughter of a famous dungeoneer, takes on a little too much debt with the elvish mafia. She did it in order to get her sister into a singing audition. Now her sister is in danger of being sold into slavery. Mei does the only thing she can in her situation - she brings up her father's name while bargaining with the elven debt collector.

Charlie Mason (a.k.a. Mace) is a former detective of major crimes who is forced to retire. His former captain offers him a job as an in-game constable for the hottest virtual reality game around, Immersion Online. This down-and-out detective knows nothing of character creation, leveling up, or magical artifacts. He is a noob. He spawns in the Wilderbrook - a group of human and humanoid villages hundreds of miles from the nearest city - to learn the ins and outs of the game before he assumes his role as a constable in Grandview, one of the largest cities in The Great Realm.

The race for Resurrection City begins with an earthquake, a rare class, and a portal to the Spirit Realm. In the aftermath of waking the game system known as the Cipher, the newly-minted council of 11 must learn to wage war with new skills in a world that’s been cut in half. It's a race against time...and new enemies to fulfill prophecy and activate the first Rune they need to survive. The alien Osuna are coming, and scripture says that only the Runelords will stand a chance when they arrive.

Carl thought his life was on track until disaster struck. Now he looks like a 35-year-old and is out of points, so he needs to scramble to change the situation before anyone finds out the truth. The question is, what should he do next? Buy more businesses, or focus on his love life? And always in the background is his family, wondering what happened to their father and grandfather and if he will ever talk to them again. Follow Carl as he discovers new ways of living when he is nearing the end of his own life.

Die Magische Akademie... eine geheimnisumwitterte und unergründliche Institution. Menschen aus allen Ecken der unterschiedlichen Imperien eifern danach, dort zu studieren, Zugang zu ihrem unermesslichen Wissensschatz zu erhalten und die angesehensten Magier der Welt zu werden. Tailyn Vlashich war einer der wenigen Glücklichen, die ohne Aufnahmeprüfung zugelassen wurden. Kaum war er hineingekommen, warteten das Training, die Arena, der Unterricht und eine interessante Auffassung dessen, was sich dreitausend Jahre zuvor abgespielt hatte.

Huon has less than one week to save those he cares about most. But in the world of Temtoria, time moves at a different rate, and those days are turned into months. Though Huon has managed to defeat a High Celestial, he still isn't ready to face the Everlasting King. But he has a plan. Reunited with people from his past, he has to teach them all he knows—whether he wants to or not—as when the time comes, they'll only have one chance to defeat their enemy.

Gibt es etwas Schöneres als ein ruhiges Leben? Nun, natürlich: Ein ruhiges Leben im Kreise von Menschen, die einem viel bedeuten und von denen man geliebt wird. Tailyn Vlashich hatte so ein Leben nie kennengelernt. Seine Eltern waren vor vielen Jahren gestorben, und die Stadtbewohner hielten sich seit eh und je von ihm fern, erst recht, seitdem sich gezeigt hatte, dass er der Liebling des Gottes war. Und sein Vormund wollte ihn einfach loswerden. So kam es, dass Tailyns Weg ihn nun wieder ins Ungewisse führt.

Miles Boone is finally an adult and able to roll up his permanent character. He will join the Game that the world has become. Most of the planet is now dominated by feral AIs and nano who behave as all the monsters of man’s imagination. Every adult left alive plays, striving to keep the the AI and nano from wiping us out completely. Success in the Game is survival itself. Success in the Game is success in life. If only the game wasn’t rigged against anyone who isn’t a member of the Party.

In the industrial wasteland of future America, Solomon Herrick spends his days wandering the streets and getting into trouble. Staying one step ahead of the local PD, his life is mostly spent immersed in history or aimless exploring - until Shyft comes along. Whether that's a good thing or not is still up in the air. Shyft 2.0, an immersive, open-world RPG, just entered beta, and though Solomon Herrick wasn't on the list, his friends knew a guy who could get them in.

Skree loved playing Massively Multiplayer online role-playing games. When he becomes the first player to reach level 100 in his favorite game, he is offered the chance to test a brand new game. Never one to read the fine print, he jumped at the chance to be the very first player to see the brand new game. But some opportunities are just too good to be true. Awaking to find himself trapped in a brand new world and struggling to survive, James must find a way to master the game and escape the world of Raiya.

When undercover agent Lily Thatcher is ordered to undergo a dangerous medical mind-wipe procedure prior to re-assignment, she avoids arrest and becomes a rogue agent. She quickly learns that there are much greater forces at work that are far beyond her comprehension. Timur Demyan, formerly known as the feared Tamerlane of the ancient Tumurid Empire, has forged an alliance with a loathsome creature called the Leviathan. This beast's insatiable hunger is currently being fed by another world's few remaining souls. For now.

There are many insane people in the world. This is okay if one of them is not the head of the light elven clan, eager to achieve omnipotence at all costs. He frees the Lord of the Dead, and it almost turns into a global catastrophe for the Belt of the World's civilizations. However, ordinary onlookers, players, and crooks arrive in the empire capital from all sides of the galaxy in order to stare at the confrontation and try their luck on the totalizers. After all, soon it will be possible to bet and enjoy the bloody sight.

When bartender Jake Steele finds a portal in an abandoned building, he does what any bored guy would do - he walks through it. He finds himself in a game-like world where his life is measured in stats, and his violence is rewarded with experience points. Under the tutelage of an animal-butchering, whore-loving master, he learns to become an alchemist. He used to mix drinks, but from now on, he's going to be mixing things that are far deadlier.

Merl is possibly the worst shepherd in Morgan Mount. He’s easily distracted. You see, Merl can see things that other folks in his village cannot...like letters over their heads. His best friend, Billy Muckspreader, has NPC. Except Merl doesn’t know what it spells, because Merl can’t read. But that’s not Merl’s only distraction. Buildings have even more letters over them, and he thinks they have numbers too. If he stares at a tree long enough, a golden plaque appears with all sorts of unintelligible nonsense on it.

Growing up as the daughter of the Goddess of Justice was like living in my own private little fairy tale, but that carefully crafted illusion was shattered with the death of my mortal mother. In the aftermath of her passing, the true nature of my "divine" parent was finally revealed, and I found myself stranded in a sea of lies and hypocrisy.