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- Video Game Culture: Leisure and Play Preferences of BC Teens - Study examines the significance of children's video game play by surveying British Columiba teenagers' attitudes, interests, motives and behaviors toward gaming.
- Center for Computer Games Research - IT University of Copenhagen. Researching game aesthetics, game design, game spaces, game worlds, gaming cultures, and learning in games.
- Game Game - Ludology meets Understanding Comics. A card game about game studies by Aki Järvinen.
- Game Studies - Peer-reviewed, scholarly journal on computer games. Articles focus on aesthetic, cultural and communicative aspects of computer games.
- Games, Gamers and Gaming Culture - Links to computer and video game research resources. Bibliography of game research, researchers, organisations, conferences, archives, news.
- The Canadian Video Game and Computer Industry - 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.
- Game Studies - Game Studies is a crossdisciplinary journal dedicated to computer games research, with focus on aesthetic, cultural and communicative aspects of computer games.
- Board Games Studies - An academic journal for historical and systematic research on board games. Includes information on individual issues, subscriptions, colloquia, and related resources.
- Artificial Life Game - Contains useful links to resources and studies of artificial life games.
- Computer and Video Games Come of Age - National conference held at MIT in 2000. Full transcripts of sessions on games as interactive storytelling, aesthetics, and game design.
Wikipedia Articles
- Strategic Studies Group - Strategic Studies Group, commonly known as SSG, is an Australian software development company that makes strategy wargames. They are the creators of the Decisive Battles of World War II series which includes the games The Ardennes Offensive game, Korsun Pocket game, and Battles in Normandy game, Battles in Italy game and Battlefront (2007).
- Game studies - Video game studies is the still-young field of analyzing video games from a social science or humanities perspective.
- Visual culture - Visual culture is a field of study that generally includes some combination of cultural studies, art history, and anthropology, by focusing on aspects of culture that rely on visual images. Among cultural studies theorists working with contemporary culture, this often overlaps with film studies and the study of television, although it can also include video game studies, comics, traditional artistic media, advertising, the Internet, and any other medium that has a crucial visual component.
- Chaim Gingold - Chaim Gingold (born January 15, 1980 in Haifa, Israel) is noted for his work with the computer game Spore. He has jammed at the Indie Game Jam, presented at the Game Developers Conference, and is an active participant in the academic game studies community.
- Central Asian studies - Central Asian studies is the discipline of studying the culture, history, and languages of Central Asia. The roots of Central Asian studies as a social science discipline goes to 19th century Anglo-Russian Great Game.