November 2004
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.
Social Realism in Gaming
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Play Along - An Approach to Videogame Musicby Zach Whalen As recent attention in Associated Press stories and a New York Times article attest, videogame studies is beginning to emerge from its murky status as an "academic ghetto." Videogames provide rich opportunity for interdisciplinary study, but at least one aspect of videogames remains to a large extent unrecognized for its impact on the game player ... |
Living a Virtual Life: Social Dynamics of Online Gamingby Castulus Kolo and Timo Baur Online games have become a popular object of investigation ever
since social and cultural sciences began studying the Internet. In contrast to
the early text-based games for a few simultaneous players, today many thousands
interact in the most up-to-date games via their chosen online personae in a
distributed simulated environment with graphical representations of a variety
of real-world or fictional objects ...
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Loading the Dice: The Challenge of Serious Videogamesby Stewart Woods Increased academic attention to games has led to discussion of the potential of the videogame as a new medium for critical creative expression. Interestingly, it appears that much of the debate surrounding the possible evolution of videogames is founded upon the notion that they might offer the type of serious content/experience that is contained within traditional narrative forms such as books or film ... |
A Meaningful Read: Rules of Play reviewedby Aki Järvinen For a lowly game researcher, such as the author
of this review, the first meeting with Katie Salen's and
Eric Zimmerman's magnum opus is best approached with a quiet respect, mingled,
of course, with a healthy amount of fear ...
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Game Studies - Review: Germans at Playby Anja Rau Look at your map of European Game Studies. Is there a white space south of Denmark?
There needn't be. Over the past two years, game studies initiatives have sprung up in
Germany, too, and the rate of activities is accelerating ...
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