Stuart Moulthrop

Over 800 pages, the New Media Reader does not exhaust its subject; it even sets the stage for a companion volume.

Sidebar images, "From Work to Play: Molecular Culture in the Time of Deadly Games."

Espen Aarseth holds that gameplay, not Lara Croft?s physique, should command the attention of an evolving game studies.

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.