This week's book giveaways are in the JBoss and Spring forums. We're giving away four copies each of JBoss AS 5 Development and Spring Dynamic Modules in Action and have the authors on-line! See this thread and this one for details.
Our chapter on animation discusses topics that are directly applicable to gaming applications, but no, we don't use a gaming example in the text. We have a game example on our web site (Banker) with source code.
Essential JavaFX Example Page.