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Based on the unbelievable true story of a team of unlikely underdogs, a struggling working-class gamer, a failed former racecar driver, and an idealistic motorsport executive. Together, they risk it all to take on the most elite sport in the world. It is an inspiring, thrilling, and action-packed story that proves that nothing is impossible when you're fueled from within.

All her life Jessica Drake has dreamed of other worlds, some of them similar to her own, others disturbingly alien. She never shares the details with anyone, save her younger brother Tommy, a compulsive gamer who incorporates some aspects of Jessica's dreams into his games. But now someone is asking about those dreams and about her. A strange woman has been watching her house. A visitor to her school attempts to take possession of her dream-inspired...

"Between easily beating the fifth stratum's secret boss and keeping pace with the best players in the game, Maple continues to demonstrate exactly how broken she is. Unfortunately, things aren't going as smoothly for Sally because the sixth stratum's debut reveals a horror-themed level, meaning it's chock-full of ghosts, geists, and ghouls! Wanting to do something nice for her partner who's too terrified to even step onto the new map, Maple sets out...

“I wasn’t ready for this. Hannah deserved a man who was whole, not a broken shell. But I couldn’t resist her. Couldn’t resist this. It felt too good.And would that be so bad? To have something that felt good for once?” My name is Leo Miles, and I’m not a hero. I came home broken—wounded and scarred. It’s been five years, and I haven’t left my family’s land. Not once. It’s not much of a life, but with the way I look now, I prefer...

"Aya, Mio, and their new friends Yuu and Tamaki are prim-and-proper young ladies by day, but when night falls, they turn to bloodthirsty hardcore gaming! They've set their sights on a huge fighting game tournament called EX Japan, where pros and amateurs alike gather for the ultimate test of skill. With so many experienced fighters out for blood, can the girls hope to get the results they want? From qualifying pools to grand finals, it's bound to...

"Aya, Mio, Yuu, and Tamaki are all students at a prim-and-proper academy for young ladies, one where video games are outright banned. That hasn't stopped them from following their fighting game passions all the way to EX Japan, one of the biggest e-sports championships in the world! But to have a spot in the main event, you've got to prove your worth in the preliminary qualifiers. Each young lady will have to prevail in a do-or-die battle in the qualifying...

"Aya and "Shirayuri-sama" are a lot of things: Gamers, rivals...and now friends. They turn the school upside-down looking for the perfect place to game in secret, but just when they think they've found the solution, their cover is blown by two members of the Dormitory Affairs Committee. Video games are strictly prohibited at their prim-and-proper school, and being caught with a fight stick carries dire penalties. Threatened with expulsion, they propose...

"The robots are here and they're not happy, at all. After accidentally releasing the robot villains from Super Bot World 3 into the real world, Jesse Rigsby's got to figure out a way to make everything right before anyone gets hurt. He'd usually rely on his friend Eric to help him with this sort of thing, but he's gone missing. To find Eric, Jesse will have to survive rickety mine carts, sewer piranhas, mysterious men in suits and a 100-foot-tall...

"New Liberty City, 2134. Two corporations have replaced the US, splitting the country's remaining forty-five states (five have been submerged under the ocean) between them: Stellaxis Innovations and Greenleaf. There are nine supercities within the continental US, and New Liberty City is the only amalgamated city split between the two megacorps, and thus at a perpetual state of civil war as the feeds broadcast the atrocities committed by each side....

The year is 1995, and the use of 3-D continues to change the landscape of fighting games. And in an arcade on the outskirts of town, where the haunting, ugly, and sometimes beautiful pride of men gathers, she continues to wait ... Her name is Akira Oono, and she's the talk of the class! Akira's presence has Koharu, now eager to play more fighting games with Haruo, in a tizzy! She knows something's up between Haruo and Akira, but what does their relationship...