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so, since joystick101.org is down for a while, i will post a short review of the CGDC Confernece Proceedings. Basically, this is the best "book" on videogames published to date. The book consists of all of the papers presented at the CGDC confernece in June 2002. There are quite a number of good analytical videogame essays here. I must admit that I did not read every single one, as not all of the subjects covered are of great interest of me, but I did read most of them and was very pleased with the majority of them.

Names I recognize that are included here are Lars Konzack, Julian Kücklich, Geoof King & Tanya Krzywinska (whose book, ScreenPlay I eagerly await since it seems to be about movies and videogames, something I am completely against!), and jesper juul.

it's not available in bookstores, but I highly recommend you get it. It is only available (as far as I can tell) online from the University of Tampere Bookstore. The adress is http://granum.uta.fi/cgi-bin/book.cgi?6901 They do not accept credit cards directly, and ask you to fax your card info to them, but as I said, it is the extra bit of hassle. Get this book if you are interested in videogame studies.
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First-Person Shooters Aren't Like Movies and That is a Good Thing --A paper about why Shooters aren't like films and how comparisons to them do a disservice to what Shooters are.

That paper was presented at the 2002 PCA under the title "More Than Moving Pictures: Developing New Criteria For Designing and Critiquing Computer Games. The presentation version can be found here. The handout I distributed can be found here.

Identification in First-Person Shooters

Flow in Multi-player FPS gaming (.rtf file)

my reviews

here are a couple of reviews I wrote for joystick101.org

Mark J. P. Wolf's The Medium of the Video Game.
Arthur Asa Bergers Video Games: A Popular Culture Phenomenon.