Simulations and Gaming, Indiana University [ http://www.indiana.edu/~games/ ]
Taught by Kurt Squire. Syllabus, schedule, assignments. - [ Read more ]

Collision Detection [ http://www.collisiondetection.net/ ]
A weblog about politics, technology, and culture. By Clive Thompson. - [ Read more ]

Pearce, Celia [ http://www.cpandfriends.com/ ]
Interactive media designer who has also written on games. Papers and descriptions of projects are available. - [ Read more ]

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

Castronova, Edward: Virtual Worlds: A First-Hand Account of Market and Society on the Cyberian Frontier [ http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=294828 ]
Abstract of report on the economy of Everquest, arguing that this virtual world has as real an economy as most nation states. Full text by subscription only. - [ Read more ]

Juul, Jesper [ http://www.jesperjuul.dk ]
IT University of Copenhagen. Articles, reviews, thesis, games. - [ Read more ]

Barr, Brandon. [ http://texturl.net/ ]
Texturl is the blog of Brandon Barr, an advertising copywriter interested in the intersections between electronic media, advertising and poetry. - [ Read more ]

Zimmerman, Eric [ http://www.ericzimmerman.com/ ]
Game designer, artist, and academic at NYU exploring the theory and practice of game design. Essays, links, teaching. - [ Read more ]

Game Studies [ http://gamestudies.org ]
Peer-reviewed, scholarly journal on computer games. Articles focus on aesthetic, cultural and communicative aspects of computer games. - [ Read more ]

Eladhari, Mirjam [ http://eladhari.blogspot.com/ ]
Gotland University in Sweden and University of Teesside in England. Personal blog and notes for Ph.D. work on MMORPGs. - [ Read more ]

Digital Arts and Culture: Streaming Wor(l)ds [ http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/dac ]
Melbourne, Australia. International conference exploring new media art, games and theory. - [ Read more ]

Game Liberation [ http://www.jesperjuul.dk/gameliberation/ ]
A game about game theory by Jesper Juul. - [ Read more ]

Burke, Timothy [ http://www.swarthmore.edu/SocSci/tburke1/ ]
Personal blog of Terra Nova contributor. Includes links and other resources. - [ Read more ]

Myers, David [ http://www.loyno.edu/~dmyers/ ]
Recent work attempts to unify existing theories of play within a semiotic framework. - [ Read more ]

Taylor, Laurie [ http://www.laurientaylor.org/ ]
Professional and academic articles, presentations, and links to other resources. - [ Read more ]

Games, Gamers and Gaming Culture [ http://www.knowledge.hut.fi/projects/games/gamelinks.html ]
Links to computer and video game research resources. Bibliography of game research, researchers, organisations, conferences, archives, news. - [ Read more ]

Costikyan, Greg [ http://www.costik.com/ ]
Game designer, consultant and author. Site includes weblog, publications and other resources. - [ Read more ]

History of Computer Game Design [ http://www.stanford.edu/class/sts145/ ]
A course at Stanford that provides a historical and critical approach to the evolution of computer and video game design. Syllabus and course notes. - [ Read more ]

Manninen, Tony [ http://www.tol.oulu.fi/~tmannine/research.html ]
Researching networked multi-user virtual worlds, and especially the high-intensity interaction between humans originating from the world of 3D games. - [ Read more ]

GamesLab [ http://www.gameslab.co.nz/ ]
New Zealand based research group dedicated to raising the profile of games research and acting as a proponent in developing a critical awareness of video games. - [ Read more ]