Stuart Moulthrop

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.

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

"Playing with play," John Cayley sets ludology on an even playing field with literature, but without literary scholarship's over-reliance on 'story,' 'closure,' and 'pleasure.'