tomb raider

Stuart Moulthrop complicates the idea of self-contained games.

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

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.

An essay by Tara McPherson (and a conversation with Anne-Marie Schleiner) concerning patch mutations, opensorcery, and other explainable gaming offshoots.