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.

Late Breaking: William Gillespie, Scott Rettberg, and Rob Wittig post from Notre Dame University on the &Now festival of writers and writing.

Larry McCaffery reframes his 1989 essay on the "postmodern turn" in rock'n'roll music.

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.

Cyberpractitioner Diane Gromala celebrates virtual immersion's unsteady body-knowledge.

U.S. cybernetic pragmatisim and practical Net expertise interest Moulthrop (and his auditors) on "second thought."

Literature scholars eager to understand gaming have made early inroads. Markku Eskelinen sets up serious checkpoints.

Chris Crawford adduces the algorithms of games against dramatic conventions.