Malcolm Ryan is putting together a most interesting list of game design-related books — except these are the ones…
Preservation of 'new media' has gotten some attention in recent months — a lot of venerable collections are moving…
I've really been enjoying GameSetWatch's series called 'The Game Anthropologist,' which (among other things) looks…
Michael Abbott of the Brainy Gamer has a nice little roundup of some of the current thinking on narrative designs…
Via Terra Nova comes a fascinating paper by Richard Heeks that covers the historical, social, and economic aspects…
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While at E3, I wandered down to check out the Indiecade offerings (I meant to post my impressions earlier, but…
Oh, be still my historian heart: a new journal has been announced (first issue forthcoming this winter), entitled Hi…
We mentioned Arden, the university-design MMO, a few times; a working paper has just been released that looks at…
I mentioned the Games, Learning & Society Conference in Madison, Wisconsin back when a call for papers was put out.…
Doubtless you've by now heard of the book entitled Grand Theft Childhood: The Surprising Truth About Video Games,…
It's been a while since the Space Giraffe kerfluffle where Yak Minter threw a hissy fit in his blog regarding poor…
We mentioned the new Sony Playstation-edu initiative when it was announced; now, Senior Manager of Developer…
I'm still on a semi-enforced vacation from academia, but I couldn't resist reading some of the essays found on electr…
I poked my head in to the public 'pecha kucha' session for UCSD's SoftWhere 2008, but couldn't stay for the whole…
After a rather grueling year, I am taking a self-enforced vacation from academia for a few days to recharge. But if…
Nick Montfort and Andrew Stern have published the text of their very interesting speech given at the Electronic…
In an effort to make learning Chinese less painful (and ostensibly to capitalize on the 'MMO as language learning…
The Life Love Game Design Challenge named its winners today. The Flash game design challenge sponsored by Jennifer…
More than $2 million in grants is being handed out to teams researching how video games can improve players' health.