Games Popular Media News, Articles, Columns, Weblogs The Unreal Estate Boom - Wired article by Julian Dibbell Hackers Put 'Bane' in Shadowbane - from Wired News 30 May 2003 Game* Design * Art * Culture - weblog from Greg Costik Dungeons & Dreamers - weblog about games and gaming Games from slashdot.com DiGA - Digital Game Archive Video Games have surpassed movies in popularity - if not online anymore, try Lexis/Nexis The Games Wal-Mart Doesn't PLay - from Wired Games do make kids aggressive by tracy McVeigh from the Observier 4/23/00 Senate commerce committee hearing, The Impact of Interactive Violence on Children, search google for the online version "Classics reborn: seminal videogames are back" by Gregg Keizer, in Omni, 4/95, 17(7), p. 16., should be in one of the library databases online "Relationships between fun and the compuger business: playing games can have serious consequences", by Nolan Bushnell (founder of Atari and Chuckie Cheese, in Communication of the ACM, 8/96, 39(8), p. 31-38. "Are Computer Games Good? (response to Nolan Bushnell). by Ron Helmuth, in Communication of the ACM, 39(11), p. 21-23. Magazine websites Inside Mac Games PC Gamer magazine Computer Games magazine Gamers.com - has links to Electronic Gaming Magazine, news, reviews, interviews Massive Online Gaming Industry News & Professional Organizations International Game Developer Association - trade organization IDSA - Interactive Digital Software Association - news, game industry facts Entertainment Software Association GigNews: Get in the Game - news, interviews, feature articles, calendar of events for game industry professionals ieMag - business resources for entertainment industry GameSpot - gaming news from CNet JoyStick 101 - news, reviews, feature articles Mobile Entertainment Forum WomenGamers.com GameSpy GameBriefs GameMarketWatch - industry news IGN - movies, games, entertainment in general About.com Game site - has board games, video game strategies, link to a place to play online games RPGVault - Role Playing Game resource center, with descriptions, interviews with designers and gamers, chat, news Game Review GameSpot - gaming news from CNet JoyStick 101 - news, reviews, feature articles GameSpy WomenGamers.com GameBriefs Multiplayer Online Gazmes Directory GameCritics - game reviews Online Gaming Network IGN - movies, games, entertainment in general Places to Play Games Addicting Games - has the helicopter game and miniature golf!!! ActionFlash - don't have to register, has Asteroids!!! ETGames Gamesville - have to register but its free, don't pay any money to play games Games on Yahoo!, have to have Yahoo! account to play some of the games Pogo - have to register, seems to be free MiniClip WorldWinner - online games (may involve gambling or money - do not pay for games!!!) GameSpotter: The WebGame Tracker Internet Chess Club - multi-player chess games Advergames - are they games? are they advertisement? Are they something you'd com back to play more than once? Coca-Cola Racing Games Joe Boxer game(?) Spinopolis CandyStand Chevron PJ Squares Snapple Academic Research Product Placements go Interactive in Video Games Video Game Research Site - maintained by Prof. John Sherry Studies about Fantasy Role-Playing Games - links to academic studies about one type of game Project Massive - a MMORPG Research PRoject the HUB - Exploring the Psychology of MMORPGs Entertainment Technology Center - at Carnegie Mellon, game development program Ethics in VideoGame Journalism - from Online Journalism Review From Casual to Core: A Statistical Mechanism for Studying Gamer Dedication article on gamasutra.org about how to study gamers The Effects of Reducing Television, Videotape, and Videogames "Video Games and Aggressive Thoughts, Feelings, and Behavior in the Laboratory and Life"> from Journal of Personality and psychology, get info about it online. Din, Feng & Josephine Calao. (2001). The effects of Playing Educational Video Games on Kindergarten Achievement. Child Study Journal. June 2001. 31(2), p. 95-102. Scott, Derek. (1995). The effect of video games on feelings of aggression. The Journal of Psychology, 3/95, 129(2), p. 121-133.