Some believe that having a big-time college football team is the key to boosting enrollment. George Mason University…

Composers working on video game soundtracks seem to either be veterans of game-making or TV/movie folks crashing the…

"The Art History of Games," a three day public symposium devoted to investigating games as an art form, will be held in…

More than 50 game development programs have been added to U.S. colleges' curricula in the past year, bringing to 254…

The University of California-Irvine, already home to a game culture lab, has established the Center for Computer Games…

The National Science Foundation has given two universities a million dollars to study whether video games can improve…

Some deep reading over on Gamasutra on game design and narrative (courtesy of Company of Heroes narrative designer Steph…

A book by two professors of media studies examines the challenges of designing games on the Atari 2600, and posits that…

Another weekend, another call for papers! This time around it's the Games+Learning+Society 5.0 conference, June 10-12…

I spoke to Professor Jim Whitehead of UC Santa Cruz yesterday, and at the end of our conversation he brought up the…

Jim Reilly forwarded news of the UConn interdisciplinary and interinstitutional initiative called The Video Games and…

Recently, some controversy has popped up regarding who owns the IP of student-created work; recent events with the…

Totally out of my academic purview, but it's a really neat sounding conference: The research group Ludiciné…

Michael Abbott of the Brainy Gamer has a nice reminder of why we play RPGs (well, those of us who play RPGs), based on…

I was recently discussing the mainstream media's love affair with Second Life, and how the bloom appears to be off the…

I sort of hope the Zero Punctuation knock-off dies a quick death, but reader Nathan M. sent us this video, which is…

The National Science Foundation has awarded $100,000 to do a cross-cultural study of World of Warcraft — Bonnie Nardi,…

Via Terra Nova comes word that a new series of academic articles centered around Everquest II has just kicked off,…

In the last Japanese history seminar of my first year of graduate school, we shifted gears from the economic and…

There are plenty of fields where the academic-'real world' divide is pretty sharp — and it's probably no surprise that…