Biting the hand - a biweekly column on online gaming (&industry) by game designer and critic Jessica Mulligan. Column has in fact been running since 1997!. The column is now on the pages of the compagny Skotos, but used to be at Happy Puppet.com. Full archive is here.

Mostly by way of Game Research.com - a site run by the two Danes, Simon Egenfeldt-Nielsen and Jonas Heide Smith. A predecessor to this site is their site autofire.dk (which comes in newly revised edition too, I just see). Heide&Nielsen are authors of the book Den digitale Leg - om børn og computerspil (UK: The Digital Play - on children and computergames) from 2000 and, according to the authors, the online bibliography and game research site grew out of the work with that. The site lists games per genre (a courageous approach, I think) and has a short discussion of each genre plus references to literature about it. Perhaps a slight tencendcy to emphasise the children's gaming and pedagogy pov - but they try to be neutral :).
# posted by Lisbeth at: 13:33