{"id":3986,"date":"2025-05-08T11:03:04","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T09:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oxomuseomadrid.com\/?post_type=ajde_events&#038;p=3986"},"modified":"2025-05-08T11:04:24","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T09:04:24","slug":"presentacion-libro-colosos-en-llamas","status":"publish","type":"ajde_events","link":"https:\/\/oxomuseomadrid.com\/en\/eventos\/presentacion-libro-colosos-en-llamas\/","title":{"rendered":"BOOK PRESENTATION : COLOSSI IN FLAMES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OXO Museo Madrid invites you to an unmissable event for lovers of the history of contemporary video games. The next <strong>15 May at 18:00h<\/strong>, we welcome the presentation of <em><strong>Colossuses in flames. Xbox or PlayStation, the war between Microsoft and Sony<\/strong><\/em>, the new book by <strong>Miguel \u00c1ngel S\u00e1nchez (Aureal)<\/strong>, published by Star-t Magazine Books.<\/p><p>This chronicle documents the technological, entrepreneurial and cultural battle that has defined the last two decades of the video game industry. A <strong>Console Wars<\/strong> which has had <strong>Sony and Microsoft<\/strong> as protagonists, and millions of players as direct witnesses of a contest without a clear winner... yet.<\/p><p>At <em>Colossi in flames<\/em>, the author - a specialised journalist and creator of the blog \u00abPerspectiva Cenital\u00bb - breaks down the key moments that marked the confrontation: from the unstoppable rise of the first <strong>PlayStation<\/strong>, the coup d'etat of authority of <strong>Xbox 360<\/strong>, until the consolidation of <strong>PlayStation 4<\/strong> and the decisive role of consoles during the pandemic. It also addresses hot topics such as the acquisition of <strong>Activision<\/strong>, The role of the player as judge and jury, the business strategies of each company and the role of the player as judge and jury.<\/p><p>\ud83d\udcd8 An essential story to understand the present and the future of videogames.<br>\ud83c\udfa4 The author will be present to talk about the process of creating the book and sign copies.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3987,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"tags":[],"event_type":[],"event_type_2":[],"class_list":["post-3986","ajde_events","type-ajde_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","event_location-oxo-museo-videojuego-madrid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxomuseomadrid.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ajde_events\/3986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxomuseomadrid.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ajde_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxomuseomadrid.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ajde_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxomuseomadrid.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxomuseomadrid.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3986"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxomuseomadrid.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxomuseomadrid.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxomuseomadrid.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3986"},{"taxonomy":"event_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxomuseomadrid.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_type?post=3986"},{"taxonomy":"event_type_2","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxomuseomadrid.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_type_2?post=3986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}