In time for the holidays, the new Game Studies issue has just been published.
The biggest issue yet. For the future, we are considering switching to a fixed release schedule of twice a year. (We do these things so you don’t have to.)
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Nick Montfort: Combat in Context
Mia Consalvo, Nathan Dutton: Game analysis: Developing a methodological toolkit for the qualitative study of games
Rob Cover: Gaming (Ad)diction: Discourse, Identity, Time and Play in the Production of the Gamer Addiction Myth
Hans Christian Arnseth: Learning to Play or Playing to Learn – A Critical Account of the Models of Communication Informing Educational Research on Computer Gameplay
Joris Dormans: On the Role of the Die: A brief ludologic study of pen-and-paper roleplaying games and their rules
Thaddeus Griebel: Self-Portrayal in a Simulated Life: Projecting Personality and Values in The Sims 2
Charles Paulk: Signifying Play: The Sims and the Sociology of Interior Design
Benjamin Wai-ming Ng: Street Fighter and The King of Fighters in Hong Kong: A Study of Cultural Consumption and Localization of Japanese Games in an Asian Context
Jonas Heide Smith: The Games Economists Play – Implications of Economic Game Theory for the Study of Computer Games
Hector Rodriguez: The Playful and the Serious: An approximation to Huizinga’s Homo Ludens
Jussi Parikka, Jaakko Suominen: Victorian Snakes? Towards A Cultural History of Mobile Games and the Experience of Movement
Great, I really love gamestudies.org…it’s good to have at least one serious, academic, online journal which deals with games.
Only downside is that it has no rss. ;)
RSS notification for a journal?
I personally tend to change feed reader technology now and then, and journals are a bit too slow-moving for that.
Would you find a RSS feed useful?
Yeah, definitely… I am using my rss reader (bloglines) for everything coz it just saves time. My problem with gamestudies.org is that I don\’t understand the system the releases are scheduled… so I had to browse there every week to check it out. If it had a rss-feed, I could have saved me the trouble coz bloglines would have told me. ;)
Thanks for the heads up on the new issue. And yes, I wouldn’t mind either an RSS feed and/or an e-mail notification service (which might suit the publishing schedule better).