Article: Off to college to major in ... video games? 'Video game studies' may sound oxymoronic, but academia is beginning to take it seriously.(FEATURES)(LEARNING)

Article: Video games: technology and social issues.
Journal of Evolutionary Psychology;  August 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... entertainment. Entering the terms "video games" into MSN Search engine gave 2626 ... journals devoted to scholarly study of video games; two prominent ones are Game Studies and Game Research. Many enjoy video games, even if they have no understanding ...

Article: Academics Turn to Video Games
AP Online;  February 13, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... exclusively in video game studies. His dissertation "Half-Real: Video Games Between Real Rules ... to define what video games are, and how academics ... would say that video games merit much more ... critical journal, Game Studies, where one writer ...

Article: Video games get a place on college curriculums
The Record (Bergen County, NJ);  September 23, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... Indeed, "video game studies" is an oxymoron ... the study of video games - in computer science ... for education. Video games are just an easy ... who teach video-game studies know it'll be ... grew up playing video games. The games seem ... academic journals like ...

Article: Professors at the joystick.(Video Games)(Brief ...
New York Times Upfront;  April 26, 2004 ;     687 words ...Think video games are just mindless ... who are making game studies into a scholarly ... Graduate programs in game studies and conferences ... say that if a game studies Aristotle is going ... seminal text on video games, you have to ...

Article: Harvard Interactive Media Group explores the future of ...
University Wire;  April 9, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... interactive media." "Video games are expanding what it ... video games" mislead. Video games are more than just pixels ... With an emphasis on video games, the group attempts ... growing community of "game studies," and the professional ...

Article: U. Arizona library displays history of video games ...
University Wire;  February 3, 2006 ;     578 words ... ... communities created by video games, and an academic setting ... there is a sense that video games are a 'trendy' thing ... The environment for video games is changing slowly ... the United States in game studies or game development ...

Article: Author: Video games deserve place in high-tech ...
The Boston Herald;  November 13, 2001 ;     520 words ... ... those neon-lit years, video games occupied every conceivable ... MIT Press, believes video games will make a return to ... I think video-game studies will be the cinema studies ... hard for me to take video games seriously, but it is ...