Lukol Directory: Games: Game Studies: Weblogs

The Ludonauts
Collaborative weblog focusing on games from an academic perspective. Authored by Christian McCrea, William Huber, Walter Kim, and Thom Moyles.
http://www.ludonauts.com/

Terra Nova
Collobarative weblog featuring several important scholars in the field. General focus is MMORPGs and social aspects of online gaming communities.
http://terranova.blogs.com/

Collision Detection
Clive Thompson writes about politics, technology, and culture.
http://www.collisiondetection.net/

Academic Gamers
Collaborative weblog discussing video games and related media. Provides commentary, and resources for video game scholarship.
http://www.academic-gamers.org

intelligent artifice
A blog on interactive entertainment: design, production, industry and related topics, authored by Jurie Horneman.
http://www.intelligent-artifice.com/

Ding! Gratz!
News, links, and commentary on the game industry. From an informed perspective.
http://dinggratz.blogspot.com/

Ludology.org - Videogame Theory
Blog and resource for academic videogame research. Includes articles, links, conferences, news
http://www.ludology.org

Curmudgeon Gamer
Curmudgeoning all games equally. Collaborative blog authored by Michael Vance, Bob Wieman, Ruffin Bailey, Matt Matthews, and John Harris.
http://curmudgeongamer.com/

Game Eaters
Collaborative weblog covering video games from an academic angle.
http://game-eaters.blogspot.com/

Coin Operated
Blog focusing on the theme of "Deconstructing Networks", video game studies, and network culture in general. Authored by Jonah Brucker-Cohen.
http://www.coin-operated.com/

Avant Gaming
Blog and a directory of "avant games". Seeks to identify and catalog games, and related resources, that challenge and subvert mainstream gaming conventions.
http://www.avantgaming.com/

Social Study Games
Research, news and resources. Collaborative weblog, links, articles and research.
http://www.socialstudygames.com

Buzzcut
A collaborative weblog on the theory and criticism of electronic entertainment and video games, led by David Thomas.
http://www.buzzcut.com

Grand Text Auto
Collaborative weblog featuring several leading scholars in Game Studies and New Media.
http://www.grandtextauto.org

zang.org
Blog discussing videogames, art, new media, and culture, auhored by William Huber.
http://www.zang.org/

Writer Response Theory
A blogging collective dedicated to the discussion and exploration of digital character art, authored by Jeremy Douglass, Mark Marino, and Christy Dena.
http://wrt.ucr.edu/wordpress/

Water Cooler Games
Blog site authored by Ian Bogost and Gonzalo Frasca. Covers persuasive games, newsgaming, advergaming, and related rhetorical forms.
http://www.watercoolergames.org

Popular Culture Gaming
Blog centering on an ethnographic approach to studying videogames and videogame players. Authored by Bryan-Mitchell Young.
http://popularculturegaming.com/

Game Girl Advance
Ezine/ blog about the politics and culture of gaming.
http://www.gamegirladvance.com

Game/Ai
Collaborative weblog focusing on artificial intelligence in game technology.
http://www.ai-blog.net/

Game Blogs
Catch-all aggregator site for dozens of game-related blogs.
http://www.gameblogs.org/





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2006