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.

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

"Where is the text in chess?" asks Espen Aarseth. Rules, play, and semiosis are the (un)common ground between games and stories in "interactive narrativism" and the art of simulation.

Stuart Moulthrop (re)mediates the interpretation (narrativists) vs. configuration (ludologists) debate by going macropolitical.

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

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

Sidebar images from "Genre Trouble: Narrativism and the Art of Simulation."

Insisting on the centrality of character (in literature no less than gaming) Ken Perlin responds to Victoria Vesna and Will Wright.

Narrativists vs. ludologists, material vs. formal constraints: Michael Mateas replies by identifying actors' roles in each division.