Gameology 2.0

While doing my usual round of blog surfing today I came across a brand new video game e-zine that, in much the same vein as The Escapist, publishes what I suppose could be called New Games Journalism. However, understanding the stigma attached to that term, perhaps we can just call it serialized digital writing on games which is far more intellectually sound than say, Destructoid.

This magazine is called Cerise and they call themselves a "gaming magazine for women" and just released their first issue this month. The articles seem to be rehashing a few of the Girl Games debates from years back, but I think the magazine is overall productive in terms of repackaging some of these academic arguments in a more accessible format. I am quite fond of the idea of some of the academic gaming criticism leaking into the public for a larger discussion.

It can be quite difficult to convince a lot of players that games are worth thinking about, a few of us learned that the hard way.