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Applying games to games, Celia Pearce uses The Sims to showcase six keywords.

Eric Zimmerman whips "four naughty concepts" into disciplinary shape.

Jane McGonigal goes mobile with a "transformational agenda" shift for Cyberdrama.

Theories of performance, training, and psychology explain simulation - or do they? - in the third section of First Person.

Do violent games train us for violence? Drawing on social psychology and cognitive science, Simon Penny examines the "ethics of simulation."

Gonzalo Frasca's proposal for videogames that address "critical thinking, education, tolerance, and other trivial issues."

Phoebe Sengers discusses the Expressivator and socially situated AI.

First Person, second section: What is Ludology? Editors Pat Harrigan and Noah Wardrip-Fruin see a disciplinary shift away from ill-advised analogies toward analyses of the gaming situation itself.

Eskelinen can't be bothered to answer his critics.

J. Yellowlees Douglas adds more titles to Eskelinen's catalog of limnal games.