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New Book: Gaming Rhythms: Play and Counterplay from the Situated to the Global by Tom Apperley
Further information here: http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/weblog/2010/09/02/tod-6-gaming-rhythms-play-and-counterplay-from-the-situated-to-the-global/ Also available as free pdf download here: http://www.networkcultures.org/_uploads/TOD%236%20total%20def.pdf
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New Issue of Games and Culture Journal Out Now (Vol 5, Issue 4)
Table of Contents is available online at: http://gac.sagepub.com/content/vol5/issue4/?etoc
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New Book: Hollywood Gamers: Digital Convergence in the Film and Video Game Industries by Robert Alan Brookey
"In touring the half-world of film-games, Brookey shows how brands are cross-marketed and why the production of multimedia brands has failed to live up to the talk." -Edward Castronova, Indiana University For years, major film studios have licensed products related to their most popular films; video game spin-offs have become an important part of these…
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Support the Nordic Larp Book Project
Nordic live action role-playing games are a unique form of expression. Yet very little coherent and accessible documentation exists regarding these games. An annual article collection on Nordic role-playing has been published since 2003, but though these books have had an instrumental role in developing the tradition, actual games are documented rather poorly.
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New Issue of Games and Culture available (July 2010, Vol. 5, No.3)
Table of contents available here: http://gac.sagepub.com/content/vol5/issue3/?etoc
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Journal: New issue of The Fibreculture Culture guest edited by Tom Apperley and Michael Dieter
Available here: http://sixteen.fibreculturejournal.org/ Table of contents below
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New issue of Journal of Virtual Worlds Research Vol. 5 Number 2: The Metaverse Assembled
The Metaverse Assembled issue features the best papers from the SLACTIONS 2009 conference, as well as, peer reviewed articles sumbitted directly to the Journal. The metaverse is emerging, through the increasing use of virtual world technologies that act as platforms for end-users to create, develop, and interact, expanding the realm of human cooperation, interaction, and…
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New Issue of Game Studies Journal Out Now (Vol 10, Issue 1)
Game Studies: The International Journal of Computer Game Research has just published its latest issue (Volume 10, Issue 1, April 2010). All articles are available at http://gamestudies.org/1001 This issue of GS includes not only articles but also 4 book reviews, 1 interview and 1 Call for Papers.
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Computer Game Museum to open new permanent exhibition in Berlin
Further details: http://www.computerspielemuseum.de/index.php?lg=en&main=News&site=02:00:00&id=194
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News Product Changed
I updated the news product. This should be faster than the old one. News in the older product can be access here