For your theoretical dissection, Game Studies journal issue 19/02.
Game Studies: The International Journal of Computer Games Research is out now (Volume 19, Issue 2).
Editorial
Game Studies: How to play — Ten play-tips for the aspiring game-studies scholar
by Espen Aarseth
Articles
“Gotta Catch ‘Em All” – Can Playing Pokémon Go Influence Mood and Empathy?
by Tracy Packiam Alloway & Rachel Carpenter
Don’t Fear the Reapers, Fear Multiculturalism: Canadian Contexts and Ethnic Elisions in Mass Effect
by David Callahan
The Indiepocalypse: the Political-Economy of Independent Game Development Labor in Contemporary Indie Markets
by Nadav D. Lipkin
The Open, the Closed and the Emergent: Theorizing Emergence for Videogame Studies
by Joan Soler-Adillon
Book Review
Review of Gaming the Iron Curtain
by Jaakko Suominen