december 2002
Game Studies is a crossdisciplinary journal dedicated to games research, web-published several times a year at www.gamestudies.org. Our primary focus is aesthetic, cultural and communicative aspects of computer games.
Our mission - To explore the rich cultural genre of games; to give scholars
a peer-reviewed forum for their ideas and theories; to provide an academic
channel for the ongoing discussions on games and gaming.
Guest Editorial
by Jonathan Dovey,
This edition of Game Studies is devoted to a small selection of papers
originally presented at the Game Cultures conference at Bristol in July 2001.
As such it brought some of the best work being done internationally to a UK
academic audience for the first time. Apart from excellent contributions from
some of the leading scholars in the field the event created the chance for
academics from all over the world to come out as gamers ...
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Computer Games Have Words, Too - Dialogue Conventions in Final Fantasy VIIby Greg M. Smith Since most people think of computer games as a visual medium, the primary faith in the evolution of games resides in improving the technology for their visual presentation ... |
Lara Croft: Feminist Icon or Cyberbimbo? On the Limits of Textual Analysis
As the title suggests, the feminist reception of Lara Croft as a game character has been ambivalent to say the least ...
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Latin America's New Cultural Industries still
Play Old Games - From the Banana Republic to Donkey Kong
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Creative Player Actions in FPS Online Video Games - Playing Counter-Strike
The global sale of computer and console games now exceeds $10 billion dollars annually, inducing further integration of the entertainment, computer and military industries ... |
The Player with Many Faces - A Conversation with Louis Castleby Celia Pearce This is the second in a series of conversations with creative leaders in the game design industry ... |
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