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• - Professional and academic articles, presentation, and interviews game design philosophy, MMORPG design, and game education.
  
• - Game designer, artist, and academic at NYU exploring the theory and practice of game design. Essays, links, teaching.
  
• - Interactive media designer who has also written on games. Papers and descriptions of projects are available.
  
• - Volda University College. Weblog. Research on MUDs.
  
• - IT University of Copenhagen. Articles, activities, teaching.
  
• - Weblog, articles and projects centered around multiplayer games, women and technology, emergence in communities and games and serial and reconfigurable narrative.
  
• - IT University of Copenhagen. Articles, reviews, thesis, games.
  
• - Brief presentation of his doctoral thesis on videogame history and a few links.
  
• - PhD Student, University of Seville. Research on the evolution of video games from a formal/audiovisual point of view. Portfolio and CV.
  
• - Recent work attempts to unify existing theories of play within a semiotic framework.
  
• - University of Bergen. Editor in chief of Gamestudies.org and the originator of cybertext theory. The first chapter of his book, Cybertext, is available, as are a few other early articles.
  
• - Game developer and theorist. Links to published essays, game play and a personal section.
  
• - Researching networked multi-user virtual worlds, and especially the high-intensity interaction between humans originating from the world of 3D games.
  
• - Research is both quantative and qualitative, and is particularly centred on players of EverQuest and other Massive Multi-Player Online Games.
  
• - Theorist and author/developer specialising in interactive fiction, often in the crossover between game and literature. Games, fiction, publications and links.
  
• - University of North Carolina. Research on the impact of violence in computer and video games on children. List of publications.
  
• - Phd scholar at the University of Bergen, Norway. Abstract of his doctoral project: Play and Mediation in Computer Games, links to papers.
  
• - Aalborg University. Research on computer games and ludology. Weblog and articles.
  
• - Germany. Weblog, articles, conference calls. Research on computer games and hypertext.
  
• - Researching the construction of story in virtual worlds. Background in hypertext theory. Weblog and publications.
  
• - Offers links to game technology and articles on research and courses.
  
• - Weblog about videogames and popular culture and essays about first-person shooters written from a cultural studies perspective.
  
• - University of Virginia. Dissertation deals with games and generative art in the context of conflicting design philosophies: hermeneutic and algorithmic. CV, descriptions of dissertation and projects, list of publications.
  
• - University of Oregon. Digital media artist, research among other things on games.
  
• - Game designer and theorist. Archive of columns published in Gamasutra, other articles, list of print publications, pages describing game philosophy.
  
• - Focuses on the performative and participatory elements of computer game play. Also researches hypertext theory and interactive, streaming video.
  
• - Independent. Weblog, articles, games. Research on political games, simulations, ludology.
  
• - Virtual exhibits from the University of Waterloo, Ottawa, Canada. Dedicated to research and the collection, preservation, and exhibition of games and game-related objects.
  
• - Interested in the psychological dimensions of technology use in work and leisure; gender and leisure; computer games and internet use; media psychology and media effects.