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ETC Press has recently announced the release of the fourth issue of Well Played: a special issue edited by Jane Pinckard and focusing on the theme of romance in games. […]

“Participatory Media and Role-Playing”, edited by Evan Torner and William J. White. This collection of all-new essays approaches the topic of immersion as a product of social and media relations. […]

A new issue of Simulation & Gaming is available online: Symposium: Research Methodology in Gaming: 1 June 2012; Vol. 43, No. 3 Table of Contents is available online at: http://sag.sagepub.com/content/vol43/issue3/?etoc […]

“As an overview of the current state of research into digital gaming, the 42 papers included in this handbook focus on the social and cultural relevance of gaming. In doing […]

The first issue of G|A|M|E – Games as Arts, Media, Entertainment is now online and available at this address: http://www.gamejournal.it G|A|M|E is a journal dedicated to a comparative, critical and […]

Norsk Tipping: open dialogue meeting for an impending procurement of a cooperation partner with gaming research As a follow up to the Request for Information (RFI) that Norsk Tipping carried […]

The revised papers from Philosophy of Computer Games 2012: The Nature of Player Experience conference, held in Madrid in January this year, are now available on the conference website: http://www.arsgames.net/2012gamephilosophy/en/html/program/ […]

Peter Zackariasson and Timothy L. Wilson eds. (2012). The Video Game Industry: Formation, Present State, and Future. New York: Routledge. The Video Game Industry provides a platform for the research […]

Gender and Sexuality in Online Game Cultures: Passionate Play By Jenny Sundén & Malin Sveningsson Routledge, New York, 2012 Series: Routledge Advances in Feminist Studies in Intersectionality How do gender […]

From the games and innovation research seminar 2011 (http://gamesandinnovationseminar.wordpress.com/): + http://urn.fi/urn:isbn:978-951-44-8705-7 + http://tampub.uta.fi/G/games_and_innovation_research_2012.pdf The seminar was organized in connection with the Games and Innovation (GaIn) research project; the research report […]

ETC Press is excited to announce the release of the third issue of Well Played: a journal on video games, value and meaning http://www.etc.cmu.edu/etcpress/content/volume-1-number-3 Table of contents after the jump

http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=12799 Competitive video and computer game play is nothing new: the documentary King of Kong memorably portrays a Donkey Kong player’s attempts to achieve the all-time highest score; the television […]