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Computer Games & Game Studies

Journals | Mail lists | General Games Sites | Market Data | Media, Violence etc | Game Companies | Art  Journals Game Studies*** - Online journal of academic game studies edited by Espen Aarseth (now of ITUC).  Scan: Ludic Moments - New Peer reviewed Journal of media arts culture - computer games. Convergence - New Media journal, publishes papers on games. Mail lists - The links below are subscribe links, thus they either you to a web based subscribe page or use compose a mail with the relevant subscribe information. Note - this section is a work in progress. a(o)i.r. - Members only list for a(o)i.r. Moderated: Yes Membership: a(o)i.r. members List Owner: a(o)i.r. ArtResearch - "ArtResearch encompasses any practice-based research, artistic research, art-practice-led research or research in art or design that consists of postgraduate studies leading to a Doctorate in Fine Arts or any other equivalent degree" Moderated: No Membership Open List Owner: Arne Kjell Vikhagen  Cheaters - Discussion and dissemination of information about cheating and normative behaviour in games. Moderated: No Membership: by request to list owner List Owner: Me Game Culture - Discussion about game studies generally based on the Game Culture website. Moderated: No Membership: open List Owner: Sue Morris Games for Health - Listserv of the Serious Games initiative, more information on the list here. Moderated: No Membership: open List Owner: Ben Sawyer Games Network - The DiGRA mail list - discussion about game studies generally. Moderated: No Membership: open List Owner: DigRA MUD-DEV - Legendary discussion about the design of MMO*s. Anyone can join, but read the FAQ before thinking about posting.  Archived: Yes Digest Mode Option: Yes Moderated: Yes Membership: open List Owner: J C Lawrence Serious Games - List for the discussion of focused on the "uses for games in exploring management and leadership challenges facing the public sector". Archived: Yes Digest Mode Option: Yes Moderated: No Membership: By request (by email or web) List Owner: Ben Sawyer SSOWS - List for the discussion of sociological aspects of MMORPGs. Moderated: No Membership: By request List Owner: Jonas Heide Smith vworld-tech - Like MUD-DEV just more tech.  Archived: ? Digest Mode Option: ? Archived: Yes Moderated: No Membership: open List Owner: Owner Portals & General Game Sites antifactory.org - A site about game design, with opinion and comment. Digital Game Developer - A webzine for, erm, developers of digital games, has feature articles covering a wide range of subjects written by game developers themselves, with forum. The Education Arcade - Games for learning. * Game critics - A webzine that aims to review games and cover related issues from an independent critical stance. Game Culture*** - Site run by Sue Morris, another person with waaay too much time on their hands. <g> Game Design Wiki - I have almost no idea about what this site is about or for. Game FAQs - Ostensibly this is a collection of FAQ's, walkthroughs and 'cheats', though the site also has news and some features. Game gal - A site by and for gal's that game - and anyone else who is interested I guess. There is also a forum. game girl advance - A site that seems to have started as a personal site of a writer called Jane, now is more of a webzine and community that feature many things game. Game market watch - An industry news site from "internet.com" covering the interactive entertainment industry i.e. computer games. It has a weekly news letter too, but it seemed to be asking way more questions that I was happy to answer so I did not sign up. Game Pad - Web site of the UK TV show Game Pad. Carries info about the show, links to featured items and of course a forum. Game Spot - Commercial game webzine. GameDev - Fairly tech, if you into that sort of thing.  GameGirlz - A site that covers a wide range of game and game industry issues from a 'girlz' perspective. GamePro - Commercial game review site from IDG. GameSpy - Commercial games webzine from the company with the pleasingly sinister name 'Game Spy Industries'. Gamasutra - Very active commercial site about game development and games industry. The Games Journal - A monthly journal that focuses on the world of boardgames. Games, Gamers and Gaming Culture*** - A nice portal into many things game.  gamesindustry.biz - A UK based site covering the games industry.  Grrl gamer - A site that is not afraid to use some colour - oh if only they could actually get neon on the web <g> with eviews, feature and news. gurlgamer.com - A site about games for gurls and guys - heavy on design, ads and links. How they got game - A site with a LOT of Flash - so make sure you have bandwidth ! As it says its about project about "The History of Video Games and Interactive Simulations" which is sponsored by the Stanford Humanities Lab. With features and discussion - thankfully no Flash.  the HUB exploring the psychology of MMORPG's*** - This is the gatway to Nick Yee's amazing set of MMORPG studies. It includes: The Norrathian Scrolls, Codename Blue and The Daedalus Project. If you want to know how long on average people spend on EverQuest or break down by gender or attitude, this is the place.  Joystick 101 - A wide ranging site on many aspect of games.  League of Extraordinary Game Developers - A discussion site about games stuff Ludology.org - Game studies and academic site run by Gonzalo Frasca.  Magic Box - A commercial site focusing in console games. Includes US and Japanese release schedules and forums. MUD-Dev-L Archive** - A web based archive (1996 to present) of the MUD-DEV mail list which is frequented my many of the best known MUD, MOO and MMORPG developers who discuss every aspect of virtual worlds. Ogre Cave - A site "committed to the promotion of non-computer, non-console games." Penny Arcade - News and review about games, gaming and comics (no really). With forum and things you can buy. Social Impact Games - 'Entertaining Games with Non-Entertainment Goals'. * Terranova*** - As it says "Our world and its synthetic offspring: MMORPGs, toy worlds, social worlds, and other realms of emergent collective reality." Set up by Edward Castronova, Julian Dibbell, Dan Hunter and Greg Lastowka, this is the hippest place in the MMORPG meta-verse. Tokoypia - Japan centred community of people in the games industry and into games. With forum. * Watercoolergames - A new site / blog (Q4 2003) about "video games with an agenda" that is advergaming, newsgaming, political games, simulations and edutainment. All brought to you by Ian Bogost and Gonzalo Frasca.  WomenGamers.Com - Yes women game too !   Market Data & Statistics People are always after data on the games market, this is available but expensive, so I have collated a list of site where free information is and is not available. ren 16)(04)(04  Games Industry Biz - vv good for current sales charts and analysis of recent sales activity, plus good on industry stuff e.g. shares and jobs, generally. DFC Intelligence - Well the whole thing is on games and numbers are scattered across the site in press releases and articles. Screen Digest  - Now include games, good summary data in recent press releases which has some global figures. Datamonitor - A bunch of very interesting stuff, Report Highlights include summary data. Forrester - Have interesting looking data on consoles and things like where games are played, single and group gaming etc but I cant find any for free (I think Forrester tend to interview and do attitudinal surveys rather than pure market numbers). Themis Group - Specialise in services to the online / MMORPG game industry. Site includes reports and press releases often contain summary data. Analysys - Good for information on mobile gaming, summary information includes numbers and even graphs. Gamestats and Gamerankings - Both sites pretty much the same and pretty much Rotten Tomatoes for the games world. Strategy Analytics - Have a Broadband Entertainment Strategies track, but almost no free info. IDC - Some stuff on consumer hardware sales but nothing of great note. NPD - Does stats on games and toys. Games focus seems to be more onto the console side, almost no data on the site though. Giga - Did not find much interesting. Gartner - Again nothing of real interest.   MMORPG user statistics  Sir Bruce's MMORPG user statistics - The page everyone seems to use.   Virtual item / currency trading sites   First bank of There Gaming Open Market MarkeeDragon MooCowForever MySuperSales Play Money Players Bay Player Auctions RPGTraders Tbux ThereBux   Media Violence & Game Addiction I'm adding a set of 'violence' resources to the Bibliography page, where I hope to link to most of big studies and meta-studies that are generally referenced as well as official publications from classification bodies etc. ren 01)(01)(04  Killology - LT. COL. Dave Grossman is director of this research group Media Awareness Network - Canadian site about young people an media issues. The Office of Film and Literature Classification (OFLC) - Australian Film, Literature - and computer game classification board - from March 2003 with new Games Classification rules (see Bibliography). MediaWise Video Game Report Card by the National Institute on Media and the Family Stop-Kill - Jack Thompson's site that sates "This site's purpose is to give you the means to contact Miami attorney Jack Thompson if you know of someone harmed as a result of violent entertainment, including violent video games". Virtual-Addiction - David Greenfield's site   Game Archive & History DiGA: The Digital Game Archive - Serious archival project based in Berlin. How_They_Got_Game: The History of video games and interactive simulations - Stanford based project covering the development of video games. Stanford: Green Library - Media-Microtext Center: Videogame collection - Covers PC, Mac and console games, catalogued with search facility. There are also a few machines. This collection is accessible to researchers - contact Stanford for details. Stanford: Stephen M. Cabrinety Collection in the History of Microcomputing - This is a collection of over 20,000 software titles (mainly games). The collection is in the process of being catalogued. Some scans of original materials are available though generally the collection is not accessible at this time - contact Stanford for further details.   Commercial - Companies and Games This list does not attempt to be a complete list computer games or games companies, rather it is a collection of links to those that tend to be discussed in Games Studies debate and literature. Game companies Rockstar Games - The Grand Theft Auto people. Sony Online Entertainment - The EverQuest people.   Small and / or independent and / or just weird Invisible city games - In there own words: "Invisible City Productions is a group of collaborating artists, writers, zine editors and game designers who are dedicated to creating, promoting and distributing alternatives to the products and activities designated as "entertainments" by a monolithic cultural empire". game Lab - Erric Zimmermanm and others. Persuasive Games - commercial arm of the people that bring you Water Cooler Games and ludology.org and Powerful Robot Games and newsgaming.com. Skotos - Erm an interactive storybuilding site community thing. With forum.   MMORPGs, MUDs etc There are a LOT of MUDs and MMORPGs. The list below is just the big ones. For a complete list go here: The Mud Connector - Main MUD list - MMORPG / Graphical MUD list   Anarchy Online - "In dark alleys, beneath gleaming towers and the incandescent, hypnotic glow of glooming streetlights..." Dark age of Camelot - MMORPG by Mythic Project Entropia - The infamous - virtual world, real money MMORPG EverQuest - "Your in our world now "! Lineage - The MMORPG everyone in the West forgets - this is by far the biggest virtual world with subscribed players in the millions, Star Wars Galaxies or the Sims with its wide demographic appeal may top it of course. And yes this is the one where Clans allegedly kill each other in real life. Ultima Online - Home page.  The Sims Online - MMORPG or just a McDonaldsTM advert ? You decide. Star Wars Galaxies - This could be the big one, and another SOE product - out of the Austin studio I believe.     Art This section of links relates to the intersection between computer games and art. Yes, all computer games contain elements of graphic and audio art in them, and yes games like Rez and the forthcoming Unity are highly aesthetic but in addition there are a number of artists working in the medium of computer games to create interesting and challenging artistic statements. Note: in some cases where an artists work includes non-game related work I have included references to these works particularly where they incorporate information technology such as search engines or surveillance technology. Groups Blast Theory works: uncle roy all around you :: can you see me now? :: TRUCOLD :: an explicit volume :: desert rain :: viewfinder :: 10 backwards :: kidnap :: something american :: invisible bullets :: stampede beige [programming ensemble] Droma Productions works: The Buff and the Brutal (quake 3 arena) [machinima] jodi (Dirk Paesmans and Joan Heemskerk) works: SOD (Wolfenstein 3D 'hack') machinima.com Mongrel (Matsuko Yokokoji, Mervin Jarman, Richard Pierre-Davis and Graham Harwood) works: BlackLash Mutation.fem ®™ARK Select Parks Archive: here Strange Company works: Matrix 4x1 :: Ozymandias :: eschaton Velvet-Strike   Artists & Works 9-11 Survivor All Your Base Jim Andrews works: asteriods Cory Arcangel works: nintendo nes cartridges :: super mario clouds :: i shot andy warhol :: video_ravings :: data diaries Tobias Bernstrup works: Exceed 4000 (2004 Game Modification Unreal Tournament (Epic); GameEditor (UnrealEd)) :: Nekropolis (2002 Game Modification Unreal Tournament (Epic); GameEditor (UnrealEd)) :: In the Dead of Night (2002 5:11 min loop DVD ) :: Potsdamer Platz (2001 Game Modification Unreal Tournament (Epic); GameEditor (UnrealEd)) :: Untitled (Friedrich Passage) (2001 6:30 min loop DVD ame modification Half-Life (Valve) GameEditor Worldcraft) ::  Penthouse Idle (2000 10:30 min loop DVD game modification Half-Life (Valve) Game Editor Worldcraft) :: Polygon Lover (2000 20 min loop DVD Game - Sin, (Ritual) Gameeditor SinView)) :: Tobias Bernstrup Tonight Live (2000 4:30 min loop DVD Game - Sin, (Ritual) Gameeditor SinEd)  :: Museum Meltdown (1999 game modification Half-Life (Valve) GameEditor Worldcraft) :: Museum Meltdown Episode II: The Vilnius Vengeance (1997 game modification Duke Nukem 3D (3D Realms) GameEditor: Build) :: Museum Meltdown Episode I: Arken (1996 game modification Duke Nukem 3D (3D Realms) GameEditor: Build) John Paul Bichard works: Staying in to play Natalie Bookchin works: Metapet :: The Intruder Mauro Ceolin works: RGBinvaders Sonia Cillari works: ISOLA :: LIGHTSURFACE :: BOX01 :: FETO :: SENSIBLE :: NEUTRO :: KOMANDOS :: SHADOWS :: BOLA :: GAMEROOM Leon Cmielewski & Josephine Starrs works: Bio-Tek Kitchen (Marathon Infinity mod) Brody Condon works: waco: resurrection (3D PC Computer Game/Installation Digital sound and images, 3D models, Torque game engine) :: 650 polygon john carmack :: fake screenshot contest :: ROM check  :2002: velvet-strike :: chinatown  :: c0a0 (game modification (Half-Life)) :2001: worship (online game performance (Anarchy Online) DVD installation (looping 9 min.) :: white_picnic_glitch (game modification (Sims)) :: adam killer (game modification (Half-Life) downloadable software and DVD installation (looping, 12 min) Gunship Ready (game intervention (Tribes)) Arcangel Constantini works: atari-noise Tom Corby and Gavin Bailey works: gameboy_ultraF_uk :: reconnoitre :: notepad Char Davies works: Osmose :: Ephémère DELTA (Boris Tellegen) works: Arcade Dave Dries works: Arcade 84 Linda Erceg works: Skin Pack (Quake II) Mary Flanagan works: domestic :: rootings :: career moves Gonzalo Frasca works: September 12th fuchs-eckermann (Sylvia Eckermann, Mathias Fuchs) works: Expositur - a Virtual Knowledge Space (2001 (UNREAL engine)) Auriea Harvey & Michaël Samyn works: 8 Troy Innocent works: semiomorph Toshio Iwai works: SimTunes Zina Kaye works: observatine Isobel Knowles works: BLAM Victor Liu See-Le works: Clean Weed :: Ray Gun Lev Manovich and Norman Klein works: The Freud-Lissitzky Navigator Rosetta Mastrantone works: Level 5 Feng Mengbo works: ah Q Jeff Minter works: Unity Tetsuya Mizuguchi works: REZ nullpointer works: Q :: F SKN QQ :: QQQ :: PeaceKeeper :: CCTEX Julian Oliver aka 'Delire' works: q3apd :: deathjam :: quilited thought organ (Quake II) :: q3aPaint Chiara Passa retroyou Ann-Maire Schleiner works: Epilepsy Virus Patch (April 1999 game modification (Marathon Infinity)) :: Parangari Cutiri (March 1999-Present)  ::  Velvet-Strike (May 2002)  :: Anime Noir (March 2002)  :: Snow Blossom House  (June 2001) Skool  (March 2001) Luckykiss_xxx > (November 2000) Gentian Shkurti works: Go West Urban Invasion works: Invader Van Sowerwine works: nerve game :: girl play Eddo Stern works: Summons to Surrender :: Sheik Attack :: Vietnam, Mon Amour  :: Redball (The Fall of the Russian Empire: Mir, Kursk, Chernobyl) STNAZA (steve tanza) works: The Central City Projects CCCITY [surveliance] Reiner Strasser Olaf Val works: Verstärker (trans. Amplifier) Arne Kjell Vikhagen Tony Ward works: Alien Invasion Thomson & Craighead works: Trigger Happy Game Fan Fic The Game Fan Fiction Collction

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Blogs and personal sites \ homepages

This is simply a list of Blog's relating to game stuff and home pages of game developers, writers or academics (sometimes all three in one).  See also Artists in the Art section (above).   Terranova - The now legendary Terranova blog. Established by Edward Castronova (Mr Economics of Virtual Worlds), Julian Dibble (Rape in Cyberspace, My Tiny Life), Dan Hunter & Greg Lastowka (Laws of Virtual Worlds). Now with added contributors Richard Bartle (who invented virtual worlds),Cory Ondrejka (one of the creators of Second Life), Dave Rickey (One of the Dark Ages of Camelot creators now working on Wish), T.L.Taylor (leading sociologist of MMORGers), Nick Yee (THE ongoing studies of the behaviour and psychology of MMORGers). Yes so good its listed twice. Oh and as of 21)(12)(03 I'm a Terranovan too - w00t.   James Boyle Homepage Chris Busse Blog: Game Development and You Marc "MAHK" LeBlanc Homepage: ALGORITHMANCY.ORG Raph Coster Homepage Greg Costikyan Blog: Games * Design * Art * Culture Homepage Chris Crawford Homepage: Erasmatazz! Interactive Storytelling Dan Dunham Blog: Strange Coding Edward (Ed) Felten Blog: Freedom to Tinker - DMCA type stuff.  Frank Field Blog: FurdLog - Tech law, DMCA type stuff.  Seth Finkelstein Blog: INFOTHOUGHT Mary Flanagan Homepage James Frinstrom Blog (with discussion): Jamie on Game Development Kevin J. Heller Blog: Tech Law Advisor - IPR and the net law blog. William Humberto Huber Blog: prism, mirror, lens - Game studies focused blog Amy Jo Kim Naima  - Actually the site of Naima that Amy is creative director of.  John Kirriemuir Ceangal Lawrence Lessig Blog Homepage John Maltbie Blog: actulamalice.com Clay Shirky Homepage - Mr social software Derek Slater Blog: A Copyfighter's Musings Lawrence Solum Blog: Legal Theory Blog Joel Spolsky Blog: Joel on Software (painless software management) Eugene Volokh Homepage - Cyber law, copyright and free speech. Donna Wentworth COPYFIGHT: The Politics of IP - A blog on IP stuff by the editor of The Filter at Harvard Law School's Berkman Center. Kim Weatherall Blog: Weatherall's Law - An IP and Technology law Blog from K Weatherall, Law Lecturer at the Univeristy of Sydney. Eric Zimmerman Homepage

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