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News - May 2009
Netgames 2009: The 8th International Workshop on Network and Systems Support for Games
November 23 and 24, 2009
Paris, France
In co-operation with ACM SIGCOMM/SIGMM (Pending), Technically sponsored by IEEE Communications Society (Pending)
THE PHILOSOPHY OF COMPUTER GAMES INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE IN OSLO 2009
August 13-15, 2009
Keynote speakers: Kendall Walton, author of "Mimesis as Make-Believe: On the Foundations of the Representational Arts" (Harvard University Press, 1990), Miguel Sicart, author of "The Ethics of Computer Games" (The MIT Press, 2009) and Grant Tavinor, author of "The Art of Video Games" (Wiley-Blackwell, forthcoming in October 2009).
Bad Games colloquium
Saturday 18th July, 10am - 6pm
Pervasive Media Studio
Leadworks, Bristol
The Play Research Group at the University of the West of England, Bristol seeks contributions in the form of research outlines, position papers, media projects and provocations on the theme of
Bad Games.
What makes a game good? or bad? or better?
This book is full of in-depth close readings of video games that parse out the various meanings to be found in the experience of playing a game. Contributors analyze sequences in a game in detail in order to illustrate and interpret how the various components of a game can come together to create fulfilling a playing experience unique to this medium. Contributors have chosen the video games in which they're interested and then they play them well
IE2009: The 6th Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment 14-16 December 2009, Sydney, Australia http://ieconference.org/ie2009/
Call for a special issue of Eludamos, titled: "Next Gen."
Guest editors are Thomas J. Apperley, Darshana Jayemanne and Christian McCrea.
Game Studies: The International Journal of Computer Game Research has just published its latest issue.
Special Issue: EQ – 10 years Later (Volume 9, Issue 1, April 2009).
All articles are available at http://gamestudies.org/0901