The Play's the Thing: Games, Gamers and Gaming Cultures

The most recent issue of the ejournal Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture (v6i1) is on gaming. Of course, numerous articles are on video gaming, of which this is a very small selection:

• Multi-Player Computer Gaming: ‘Better than playing (PC Games) with yourself’ by Melanie Swalwell
  
• More Than Girlfriends, Geekettes, and Gladiatixes: Women, Feminism, and Fantasy Role-Playing Games by Rebecca Borah and Inez Schaechterle
  
• Shooters to the Left of Us, Shooters to the Right: First Person Arcade Shooter Video Games, the Violence Debate, and the Legacy of Militarism by Karen J. Hall
  
• The Game's Afoot: Games, Science Fiction and Heterotopias by Marc R. Zaldivar

via SFRA-L.