Game Studies

"Analog Game Studies is a journal dedicated to the academic and popular study of games containing a substantial analog component."

A database of player reviews, session reports, images, and news.

This site's mission is "to bring together and highlight the most interesting, provocative and robust writing, video and discussion on games from across the web."

"The Digital Library is published by the Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA). DiGRA conference proceedings include peer-evaluated research papers that have been accepted for publication at DiGRA conferences."

ETC Press is an academic, open source, multimedia, publishing imprint affiliated with the Entertainment Technology Center (ETC) at Carnegie Mellon University. "ETC Press publications will focus on issues revolving around entertainment technologies as they are applied across a variety of fields."

Weekly critical essays, commentaries, and book reviews on games.

The online free version of Game Developer Magazine. Weekly articles on game design and threads for discussion.

Games and Culture: A Journal of Interactive Media is a quarterly international journal that publishes innovative theoretical and empirical research about games and culture within interactive media. The journal serves as a premiere outlet for ground-breaking work in the field of game studies.

Game Studies is a crossdisciplinary journal dedicated to games research, web-published several times a year. Its primary focus is aesthetic, cultural and communicative aspects of computer games.

"G|A|M|E is a journal dedicated to a comparative, critical and theoretical analysis of videogames."

"A news and opinion site about games and things serious gamers care about."

An online database for articles relating to video game studies.

"We write thoughtfully, meticulously, critically, sometimes absurdly about games, their industry, and their surrounding culture."

The "News and Resources" section on the Entertainment Software Association site. Search by keyword or look up selected resources types or topics. (Keep in mind, this organization is funded by game companies.)

This websites hosts FAQs and walkthroughs for video games. Includes reviews and cheat codes.

"Website featuring a large searchable & comprehensive database which provides a WIP list of known antique & modern games from all over the world, including arcade video games, coin-operated games (like slot machines), console video games, computer softwares, and all other sorts of electronic games."

An online database for articles relating to video game studies.

MobyGames is an unofficial but highly comprehensive database of computer, console, and arcade games.

"This site is set up to digitally preserve video game magazines from 2001 and earlier for current magazines."

This site contains press releases and news articles pertaining to academic research pertaining to videogames.