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

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

Slavoj Žižek addresses the situation of post-9/11 global politics - and his own, controversial, theories of the political - in this interview with Eric Dean Rasmussen.

Judy Malloy on the voice of female narrators.

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.

Ian Bogost, the co-designer of The Howard Dean for Iowa Game (along with First Person contributor Gonzalo Frasca), deconstructs section three.

On the occasion of the 2003 Fitzpatrick O'Dinn Award publication, Alan Sondheim asks some questions of formally constrained literature. The more strict the constraints, the more open, free, and plentiful the questions.

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."

Mark Barret cautions against reinventing the wheel in this riposte to Cyberdrama and to Janet Murray's essay.

Phoebe Sengers discusses the Expressivator and socially situated AI.