University 'Overwhelmed' by Interest in Games Design Degree
Some believe that having a big-time college football team is the key to boosting enrollment. George Mason University…
Boston School Training The Next Video Game Composers
Composers working on video game soundtracks seem to either be veterans of game-making or TV/movie folks crashing the…
Three-Day Symposium will Examine the Art of Games
"The Art History of Games," a three day public symposium devoted to investigating games as an art form, will be held in…
ESA Report: More than 250 Colleges Offer Game Degrees
More than 50 game development programs have been added to U.S. colleges' curricula in the past year, bringing to 254…
UC-Irvine Establishes Games Research Center
The University of California-Irvine, already home to a game culture lab, has established the Center for Computer Games…
Study Examines Boom Blox for Benefits to Elderly Cognition
The National Science Foundation has given two universities a million dollars to study whether video games can improve…
You (Sorta) Owe Dead Space To Aristotle
Some deep reading over on Gamasutra on game design and narrative (courtesy of Company of Heroes narrative designer Steph…
How a Lightweight Console Lay the Foundations of Game Design
A book by two professors of media studies examines the challenges of designing games on the Atari 2600, and posits that…
Games+Learning+Society 5.0 CFP
Another weekend, another call for papers! This time around it's the Games+Learning+Society 5.0 conference, June 10-12…
CFP/Scholarship Application: Foundations of Digital Games '09
I spoke to Professor Jim Whitehead of UC Santa Cruz yesterday, and at the end of our conversation he brought up the…
'The Video Games and Human Values Initiative' Unveiled
Jim Reilly forwarded news of the UConn interdisciplinary and interinstitutional initiative called The Video Games and…
'Whose IP Is It, Anyway?': College Controversy
Recently, some controversy has popped up regarding who owns the IP of student-created work; recent events with the…
CFP: 'Thinking after Dark: Welcome to the World of Horror Video Games'
Totally out of my academic purview, but it's a really neat sounding conference: The research group Ludiciné…
Why We Love RPGs
Michael Abbott of the Brainy Gamer has a nice reminder of why we play RPGs (well, those of us who play RPGs), based on…
Scientists in Second Life
I was recently discussing the mainstream media's love affair with Second Life, and how the bloom appears to be off the…
'Educational' Meets 'Fun': Tangential Learning
I sort of hope the Zero Punctuation knock-off dies a quick death, but reader Nathan M. sent us this video, which is…
UC Irvine Gets Grant to Study WoW
The National Science Foundation has awarded $100,000 to do a cross-cultural study of World of Warcraft — Bonnie Nardi,…
'Debunking the Stereotypical Gamer Profile'
Via Terra Nova comes word that a new series of academic articles centered around Everquest II has just kicked off,…
Inside Out: The Pokemon Conundrum
In the last Japanese history seminar of my first year of graduate school, we shifted gears from the economic and…
On the Gaming-Academic Divide
There are plenty of fields where the academic-'real world' divide is pretty sharp — and it's probably no surprise that…