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Contains useful links to resources and studies of artificial life games.

Articles and inform information on artificial life games.

Providing strategic market research and statistics on the video game, interactive entertainment and interactive broadcasting industries.

Research project on computer games, gamers and the gaming industry. Site has an bibliography of print and online game research. Some news, links, events, own publications.

Website for book of the same name. Includes sample chapter and individual pages for authors Brad King and John Borland.

Virtual exhibits from the University of Waterloo, Ottawa, Canada. Dedicated to research and the collection, preservation, and exhibition of games and game-related objects.

Ludology meets Understanding Comics. A card game about game studies by Aki Järvinen.

A game about game theory by Jesper Juul.

Offers news and research information on the development and social impact of computer games, and the Games Research mailing list.

Sponsored by the Serious Games Initiative. Develops a community and best practices platform for the numerous games being built for health care applications.

Links to computer and video game research resources. Bibliography of game research, researchers, organisations, conferences, archives, news.

One man, on a motorcycle, around the world, in mission to explore and record diverse people and the games they play.

Weblog and development historical information from Chip Morningstar and Randy Farmer, designers of Habitat, 1985.

Annotated bibliography and several scholarly articles about interactive fiction, by Dennis G. Jerz.

Examine computer games (arcade, console, PC, and handheld) in order to better understand their cultural and pedagogical import. Based in Tucson, AZ.

A collection of fulltext research articles on MUDs by different researchers.

A collection of insights that put video games inside a broader cultural and aesthetic framework. E-book available for download.

Focuses on using games in exploring management and leadership challenges facing the public sector. Sponsors annual Serious Games Summit.

Offers information and analysis about the video and computer game industry in Canada. Produced by a group of researchers in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies at the University of Western Ontario.

Study examines the significance of children's video game play by surveying British Columiba teenagers' attitudes, interests, motives and behaviors toward gaming.

Findings of a major study of EverQuest players including data on and discussions of demographics, statistics, psychology, charts, addiction, gender differences, gender bending, relationships, romance and guilds.