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The first interdisciplinary European summer school in game and play research will take place 16-31 August 2014 at Utrecht University in The Netherlands. It is aimed at talented PhD and […]

GLS 2013: http://events.mediasite.com/Mediasite/Catalog/Full/390a33dc16fe4f7094387bfc53f87f5c21 G4C 2013: http://new.livestream.com//g4c

Update: this issue has been solved. The new library should now contain all publications from the DiGRA conferences. We have some issues with transferring digital library data to the new site. Currently, plenty of […]

The Institute of Digital Games at the University of Malta is offering a  new MSc in Digital Games starting this coming October. The first deadline for applications closes on the […]

Deadline is: May 1, 2013 — Few places for the Game Studies course still free — [sic!] Summer Institute Cologne – July 12-19, 2013: [Techniques of Imagination] New Perspectives in […]

The Strong offers research fellowships for people to do research in its collections, library, and archives at the National Museum of Play. This includes all the materials from its International […]

The second issue of G|A|M|E – Games as Arts, Media, Entertainment is now online and available at this address: http://www.gamejournal.it/issues/game-n-22013 The second issue of G|A|M|E, entitled Technology evolution and perspective innovation. 3D and…

Jon Festinger Q.C. would like to let the community know that most of the materials including slides and HD videos of lectures for his University of British Columbia Faculty of Law course in Video Game Law (Law450A) are available on-line at http://blo…

The Art of Failure: An Essay on the Pain of Playing Video Games. This is a personal-philosophical essay on the pain of playing video games. The book combines discussion about game design (are time investment-based games unfair?), with philosophy, psy…

ReCALL (the journal of the European Association for Computer Assisted Language Learning – EuroCALL) recently published a special issue on ‘Digital Games for Language Learning: Challenges and Opportunities’. You can access it here: http://journals.cam…

CTRL-ALT-PLAY:Essays on Control in Video Games is now available from McFarland Publishing. The word “control” has many implications for video games. On a basic level, without player control, there is no experience. Much of the video game industry foc…

The third issue of the peer-reviewed International Journal of Role-Playing (http://journalofroleplaying.org/) is out. Inside the issue you can find the following: Editorial: The state of our art. Karl Bergström: Creativity Rules. How rules impact pla…