Here is the collection of various articles that HNRS 353 students studied for Inquiry #1: Approaches to Game Studies:
- Advance Wars by Noah Falstein
- Befriending Ogres and Wood-Elves: Relationship Formation and The Social Architecture of Norrath by Nick Yee
- Blacks Deserve Bodies too!: Design and Discussion about Diversity and Race in a Tween Virtual World by Y.B. Kafai, M.S. Cook, and D.A. Fields
- Cheesers, Pullers, and Glitchers: The Rhetoric of Sportsmanship and Discourse of Online Sports Gamers by Steven Conway, Bruce Esplin, and Ryan Moeller
- Each Link in the Chain is a Journey: An analysis of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time by Seth Sivak
- Everything I Know About Game Design I Learned from Super Mario Bros by Patrick Curry
- The Games Economists Play – Implications of Economic Game Theory for the Study of Computer Games by Jonas Heide Smith
- Gaming (Ad)diction: Discourse, Identity, Time and Play in the Production of the Gamer Addiction Myth by Rob Cover
- Guitar Hero: “Not Like Playing Guitar At All”? by Dominic Arsenault
- The Impact of Nintendo’s “For Men” Advertising Campaign on a Potential Female Market by G. Schott and S. Thomas
- Just Like the Qing Empire: Internet Addiction, MMOGs and Moral Crisis in Contemporary China by Alex Golub Kate Lingley
- Loading the Dice: The Challenge of Serious Videogames by Stewart Woods
- Ludonarrative Dissonance in Bioshock by Clink Hocking
- The Meaning of Race and Violence in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas by Ben DeVane and Kurt Squire
- Me, the Other by Torill Elvira Mortenson
- Moral Decision Making in Fallout by Marcus Schulzke
- Passionate Digital Play-Based Learning(Re)Learning in computer games like Shadow of the Colossus by Konstantin Mitgutsch
- Putting the Gay in Games: Cultural Production and GLBT Content in Video Games by Adrienne Shaw
- Self Portrayal in a Simulated Life: Projecting Personality and Values in The Sims 2 by Thaddeus Gribel
- Solitaire by Helen Thorington
- “You Are Dead. Continue?”: Conflicts and Complements in Game Rules and Fiction by Jason Tocci