Wednesday Blog Watch - Game On

What are your favorite games blogs?  This week we will present a blogroll of our favorite blogs and other online destinations for people interested in games and game studies.  The MIT press is well-known for game studies titles, so don't be surprised to find that many of the authors of online journals or blogs about the topic are also MIT Press authors.

Game Studies Journal  (old-skoolers might want to check out Nick Montfort's article in Game Studies Journal about the importance of Atari's Combat.  The image above, from Montfort's article, is a screenshot of Combat.)

Loading (games studies research in Canada)

Gameology (an active game studies community, with forums and events calendars)

Escapist Magazine (for game developers)

Ludicidal Tendences (Tracy Fullerton's Interactive Media blog)

Gender and Computing  (Hilde Corneliussen)

The Ludologist (Jesper Juul)

Klastrup's Cataclysms (Lisbeth Klastrup)

Ludology.org  (Gonzalo Frasca)

Zone of Influence (Matthew Kirschenbaum)

Ian Bogost's Webpage

NewMediaFix ("a portal to online resources and projects...news, opportunity announcements and occasional reviews, and periodically releases in depth texts as well as interviews on new media culture")

GameSetWatch (from the people who run game developer and gamasutra)

Guardian Gamesblog

Memory Card (Mia Consalvo)

Grand Text Auto (a "group blog about machine narrative, games, poetry, and art")

Kotaku (a site for gamers)