december 2003
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.
On Virtual Economiesby Edward Castronova Currently, several million people have accounts in massively multiplayer online games. The population of virtual worlds has grown rapidly since 1996; significantly, each world also seems to grow its own economy, with production, assets and trade with Earth economies ... |
Sim Sin City - Some thoughts about Grand Theft Auto 3by Gonzalo Frasca There has been a lot of controversy about Grand Theft Auto
3 ( GTA3 ) mainly because of its extreme violence.
Certainly, this game was not designed with children in mind ...
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"I Lose, Therefore I Think" - A Search for Contemplation amid Wars of Push-Button Glareby Shuen-shing Lee This paper investigates a small group of computer games imbued
with socio-political critique, putting forward perspectives and
readings on design conventions and poetical observations in the
game field ...
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When Seams Fall Apart- Video Game Space and the Playerby Laurie Taylor Much of the current critical and theoretical literature on new media, including video and computer games, assumes both the conceptual transparency of the video or computer screen and the absolute authority of a rational scientific order ...
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Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown - Interactivity and signification in Head Over Heelsby Jan Van Looy The aim of this paper is to investigate – through a
close analysis of the 1987 puzzle game Head Over Heels
– to what extent media objects can generate meaning by
means of their interactive structure ...
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