This is now published:
Games & Culture:
Volume 12, Issue 6, September 2017
Special Issue: Reflecting and Evaluating Game Studies
(http://journals.sagepub.com/toc/gaca/12/6)
Guest Editors: Frans Mäyrä and Olli Sotamaa
Articles
Need for Perspective:
Introducing the Special Issue “Reflecting and Evaluating Game Studies”
by Frans Mäyrä & Olli Sotamaa
(Free Access: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1555412016672780)
The Game Definition Game: A Review
by Jaakko Stenros
The Pyrrhic Victory of Game Studies: Assessing the Past, Present, and Future of Interdisciplinary Game Research
by Sebastian Deterding
How to Present the History of Digital Games: Enthusiast, Emancipatory, Genealogical, and Pathological Approaches
by Jaakko Suominen
What We Know About Games: A Scientometric Approach to Game Studies in the 2000s
by Samuel Coavoux, Manuel Boutet & Vinciane Zabban
What Is It Like to Be a Player? The Qualia Revolution in Game Studies
by Ivan Mosca
Unserious
by Bart Simon
Many thanks to all the authors, reviewers, and the staff of the journal!
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