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Game Studies covers the artistic, cultural, social, psychological and economic significance of games. This category includes links to academic studies, journals, news articles, conferences, associations, and related information on game culture and research.

Subcategories

• Articles
• Conferences
• Education
• Journals
• Personal Pages
• Video Game History
• Weblogs

Resources in This Category

• Artificial Life Game

  http://alifegame.blogspot.com/
  Contains useful links to resources and studies of artificial life games.

• Artificial Life Game

  http://alifegame.blogspot.com/atom.xml
  Articles and inform information on artificial life games.

• DFC Intelligence: Game Industry Research

  http://www.dfcint.com/
  Providing strategic market research and statistics on the video game, interactive entertainment and interactive broadcasting industries.

• Dungeon & Dreamers

  http://www.dungeonsanddreamers.com/
  Website for book of the same name. Includes sample chapter and individual pages for authors Brad King and John Borland.

• Elliott Avedon Museum and Archive of Games

  http://gamesmuseum.uwaterloo.ca/
  Virtual exhibits from the University of Waterloo, Ottawa, Canada. Dedicated to research and the collection, preservation, and exhibition of games and game-related objects.

• Game Liberation

  http://www.jesperjuul.dk/gameliberation/
  A game about game theory by Jesper Juul.

• Game Research

  http://www.game-research.com/
  Offers news and research information on the development and social impact of computer games, and the Games Research mailing list.

• Games For Health

  http://www.gamesforhealth.org/
  Sponsored by the Serious Games Initiative. Develops a community and best practices platform for the numerous games being built for health care applications.

• Globaltimoto : A Quest For Gameplay

  http://www.globaltimoto.com/
  One man, on a motorcycle, around the world, in a quest for gameplay. A mission to explore and record culture through games.

• Interactive Fiction

  http://jerz.setonhill.edu/if/index.html
  Annotated bibliography and several scholarly articles about interactive fiction, by Dennis G. Jerz.

• Richard A. Bartle: MUD Writings Archive

  http://mud.co.uk/richard/oarchive.htm
  A collection of fulltext research articles on MUDs by different researchers.

• Satellite Uplink

  http://www.efn.org/~dredmond/penguin.html
  A collection of insights that put video games inside a broader cultural and aesthetic framework. E-book available for download.

• The Canadian Video Game and Computer Industry

  http://publish.uwo.ca/~ncdyerwi/
  Offers information and analysis about the video and computer game industry in Canada. Produced by a group of researchers in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies at the University of Western Ontario.

• Yee, Nicholas - The Norrathian Scrolls: A Study of EverQuest

  http://www.nickyee.com/eqt/home.html
  Findings of a major study of EverQuest players including data on and discussions of demographics, statistics, psychology, charts, addiction, gender differences, gender bending, relationships, romance and guilds.

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