The commentary section includes content created by our contributors. Basically, the goal of this section is to carry on the conversation about video games and game studies at different levels of depth and currency. Through these areas, we strive to keep our readership informed and engaged about the topics important to our field.
The Academic Gamer's blog is the current incarnation of the group blog we started at www.academic-gamers.org that ran from early 2004 to 2006. We saw the blog as the beginning of the larger project that now makes up Gameology.org, so retaining the name Academic Gamers is our way of keeping that identity alive.
In our blog entries, we comment on the goings on of the video game world as well as the field of game studies. If you'd like to suggest a story, or if you've found (or made) something you think we'd be interested in seeing, please contact us with your idea.
Essays are our longest form of content, and they're a way for our contributors to really flesh out an idea. Frequently, the essays here have been presented at conferences or re-published in other venues. This provides an important opportunity for developing scholars to publish and share their ideas in an active and receptive environment and really work through a topic with the rigor of academic writing.
While our current essays are all by our contributors, we do consider unsolicited submissions. Please contact us for details.
Our reviews are longer-form content (that is, generally longer than blog entries) that examine a particular work in some detail. We review both video games as well as books related to game studies, and our general goal with these reviews is to bring the ideas of game scholars to bear on particular games to see how they work themselves out.
We're always interested in reviewing new material, so if you've got something you want us to look at, please get in touch.