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This category is for articles relating to Game Studies that are not otherwise available as part of a journal (for example) or linked from an author's personal home page.

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• Anderson, Craig A. and Karen E. Dill. "Video Games and Aggressive Thoughts, Feelings, and Behavior in the Laboratory and in Life"

  http://psycnet.apa.org/index.cfm?fa=buy.optionToBuy&id=2000-08135-012
  Abstract of article showing increased aggression in video game players. Full text by subscription.

• Castronova, Edward: Virtual Worlds: A First-Hand Account of Market and Society on the Cyberian Frontier

  http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=294828
  Abstract of report on the economy of Everquest, arguing that this virtual world has as real an economy as most nation states. Full text by subscription only.

• Goldstein, Jeffrey. "Does Playing Violent Video Games Cause Aggressive Behavior?"

  http://culturalpolicy.uchicago.edu/events/conference-2001-video-games.shtml
  Quick and very sharp critique of the validity of recent research on video games and violence.

• Juul, Jesper. "A clash between game and narrative"

  http://www.jesperjuul.dk/thesis/
  MA thesis by a Danish ludologist arguing that games are not narrative. Links to his other work. 1999.

• Kennerly, David. "Fun is Fine: Toward a Philosophy of Game Design"

  http://finegamedesign.com/fun_is_fine.html
  Argues that honest game design begins and ends with "fun" considered philosophically.

• Klevjer, Rune. "In Defence of Cutscenes"

  http://www.uib.no/people/smkrk/docs/klevjerpaper.htm
  Article situating cutscenes in games in relation to popular culture and narrative, arguing against the radical ludologist position that they are extraneous.

• Richard A. Bartle. "Players Who Suit MUDs"

  http://www.mud.co.uk/richard/hcds.htm
  Discusses whether MUDs are games, pass times, sports or entertainments and suggests four kinds of player: achiever, explorer, socializer or killer.

• Unsworth, John. "Living Inside the (Operating) System: Community in Virtual Reality"

  http://pmc.iath.virginia.edu/Virtual.Community.html
  Essay discussing communities in MOOs, using PMC-MOO as a case study and discussing scholarly and pedagogical trajectories of MOOs. 1996.

 

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