Sean’s 2005 Gamer’s Almanac

Street Tech co-founder Sean Carton has a new book out, called the 2005 Gamer’s Almanac. Subtitled “Your Daily Dose of Tricks, Cheats and Fascinating Facts,” this all-color tome is crammed to the binding with all sorts of brain food for game geeks. Knowing how much effort Sean put into this title, it makes me nauseous just to thumb through it; it’s a phenomenal effort. Each day of the year has an actual event in gaming history attached to it, and then there are game and hardware reviews, tips on games, articles on various aspects of game culture and history, cheats codes, and on and on. It also covers every game platform, from PCs to consoles to cellphones. (Sean wants everybody to know that he had nothing to do with the wizard on the cover who’s carrying a football helmet and fitting off attack helicopters.)