Most-Read Full-Text Articles http://gac.sagepub.com/ Most-read rankings are recalculated at the beginning of the month based on usage of full-text and PDF views for the previous month. 2008-10-06 <![CDATA[From Tree House to Barracks: The Social Life of Guilds in World of Warcraft]]> http://gac.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/1/4/338?rss=1&ssource=mfc Oct 1, 2006; 1:338-361
Article]]> Dmitri Williams, Nicolas Ducheneaut, Li Xiong, Yuanyuan Zhang, Nick Yee, Eric Nickell 2006-10-01 10.1177/1555412006292616 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[Building an MMO With Mass Appeal: A Look at Gameplay in World of Warcraft]]> http://gac.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/1/4/281?rss=1&ssource=mfc Oct 1, 2006; 1:281-317
Article]]> Nicolas Ducheneaut, Nick Yee, Eric Nickell, Robert J. Moore 2006-10-01 10.1177/1555412006292613 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[The Meaning of Race and Violence in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas]]> http://gac.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/3/3-4/264?rss=1&ssource=mfc Jul 1, 2008; 3:264-285
Article]]> Ben DeVane, Kurt D. Squire 2008-07-01 10.1177/1555412008317308 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[WoW is the New MUD: Social Gaming from Text to Video]]> http://gac.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/1/4/397?rss=1&ssource=mfc Oct 1, 2006; 1:397-413
Article]]> Torill Elvira Mortensen 2006-10-01 10.1177/1555412006292622 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[Video Games and Embodiment]]> http://gac.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/3/3-4/253?rss=1&ssource=mfc Jul 1, 2008; 3:253-263
Article]]> James Paul Gee 2008-07-01 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[The Truth About Baby Boomer Gamers: A Study of Over-Forty Computer Game Players]]> http://gac.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/3/2/142?rss=1&ssource=mfc Apr 1, 2008; 3:142-174
Article]]> Celia Pearce 2008-04-01 10.1177/1555412008314132 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[Does WoW Change Everything?: How a PvP Server, Multinational Player Base, and Surveillance Mod Scene Caused Me Pause]]> http://gac.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/1/4/318?rss=1&ssource=mfc Oct 1, 2006; 1:318-337
Article]]> T. L. Taylor 2006-10-01 10.1177/1555412006292615 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[Blood Scythes, Festivals, Quests, and Backstories: World Creation and Rhetorics of Myth in World of Warcraft]]> http://gac.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/1/4/383?rss=1&ssource=mfc Oct 1, 2006; 1:383-396
Article]]> Tanya Krzywinska 2006-10-01 10.1177/1555412006292618 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[Storyline, Dance/Music, or PvP?: Game Movies and Community Players in World of Warcraft]]> http://gac.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/1/4/362?rss=1&ssource=mfc Oct 1, 2006; 1:362-382
Article]]> Henry Lowood 2006-10-01 10.1177/1555412006292617 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[Making Computer Games and Design Thinking: A Review of Current Software and Strategies]]> http://gac.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/3/3-4/309?rss=1&ssource=mfc Jul 1, 2008; 3:309-332
Article]]> Elisabeth R. Hayes, Ivan Alex Games 2008-07-01 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[Critical Ethical Reasoning and Role-Play]]> http://gac.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/3/3-4/333?rss=1&ssource=mfc Jul 1, 2008; 3:333-355
Article]]> David W. Simkins, Constance Steinkuehler 2008-07-01 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[Gaming for Beginners]]> http://gac.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/1/1/5?rss=1&ssource=mfc Jan 1, 2006; 1:5-12
Article]]> Toby Miller 2006-01-01 10.1177/1555412005281403 SAGE Publications <![CDATA["Just Like the Qing Empire": Internet Addiction, MMOGs, and Moral Crisis in Contemporary China]]> http://gac.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/3/1/59?rss=1&ssource=mfc Jan 1, 2008; 3:59-75
Article]]> Alex Golub, Kate Lingley 2008-01-01 10.1177/1555412007309526 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[Why Game Studies Now? Gamers Don't Bowl Alone]]> http://gac.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/1/1/13?rss=1&ssource=mfc Jan 1, 2006; 1:13-16
Article]]> Dmitri Williams 2006-01-01 10.1177/1555412005281774 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[Why Game (Culture) Studies Now?]]> http://gac.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/1/1/97?rss=1&ssource=mfc Jan 1, 2006; 1:97-102
Article]]> Constance A. Steinkuehler 2006-01-01 10.1177/1555412005281911 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[Game Classification and Game Design: Construction Through Critical Analysis]]> http://gac.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/2/1/3?rss=1&ssource=mfc Jan 1, 2007; 2:3-22
Article]]> Christian Elverdam, Espen Aarseth 2007-01-01 10.1177/1555412006286892 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[Well Played: Interpreting Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time]]> http://gac.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/3/3-4/356?rss=1&ssource=mfc Jul 1, 2008; 3:356-386
Article]]> Drew Davidson 2008-07-01 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[Why Game Studies Now? Video Games: A New Art Form]]> http://gac.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/1/1/58?rss=1&ssource=mfc Jan 1, 2006; 1:58-61
Article]]> James Paul Gee 2006-01-01 10.1177/1555412005281788 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[Age of New Media Empires: A Critical Interpretation of the Korean Online Game Industry]]> http://gac.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/3/1/38?rss=1&ssource=mfc Jan 1, 2008; 3:38-58
Article]]> Dal Yong Jin, Florence Chee 2008-01-01 10.1177/1555412007309528 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[Fantasy Baseball: The Case for Competitive Fandom]]> http://gac.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/3/3-4/286?rss=1&ssource=mfc Jul 1, 2008; 3:286-308
Article]]> Erica Rosenfeld Halverson, Richard Halverson 2008-07-01 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[Digital Game Involvement: A Conceptual Model]]> http://gac.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/2/3/236?rss=1&ssource=mfc Jul 1, 2007; 2:236-260
Article]]> Gordon Calleja 2007-07-01 10.1177/1555412007306206 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[Technological, Content, and Market Convergence in the Games Industry]]> http://gac.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/3/2/199?rss=1&ssource=mfc Apr 1, 2008; 3:199-224
Article]]> Barry Ip 2008-04-01 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[Beyond Play: A New Approach to Games]]> http://gac.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/2/2/95?rss=1&ssource=mfc Apr 1, 2007; 2:95-113
Article]]> Thomas M. Malaby 2007-04-01 10.1177/1555412007299434 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[Introduction to the Games Learning & Society (GLS) Conference Special Issue]]> http://gac.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/3/3-4/251?rss=1&ssource=mfc Jul 1, 2008; 3:251-252
Article]]> Constance Steinkuehler 2008-07-01 10.1177/1555412008317301 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[Productive Play: Game Culture From the Bottom Up]]> http://gac.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/1/1/17?rss=1&ssource=mfc Jan 1, 2006; 1:17-24
Article]]> Celia Pearce 2006-01-01 10.1177/1555412005281418 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[The Digital Dollhouse: Context and Social Norms in The Sims Online]]> http://gac.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/2/4/314?rss=1&ssource=mfc Oct 1, 2007; 2:314-334
Article]]> Rosa Mikeal Martey, Jennifer Stromer-Galley 2007-10-01 10.1177/1555412007309583 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[Hybrid Reality Games Reframed: Potential Uses in Educational Contexts]]> http://gac.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/1/3/231?rss=1&ssource=mfc Jul 1, 2006; 1:231-251
Article]]> Adriana de Souza e Silva, Girlie C. Delacruz 2006-07-01 10.1177/1555412006290443 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[Parlaying Value: Capital in and Beyond Virtual Worlds]]> http://gac.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/1/2/141?rss=1&ssource=mfc Apr 1, 2006; 1:141-162
Article]]> Thomas Malaby 2006-04-01 10.1177/1555412006286688 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[The Play of Imagination: Extending the Literary Mind]]> http://gac.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/2/2/149?rss=1&ssource=mfc Apr 1, 2007; 2:149-172
Article]]> Douglas Thomas, John Seely Brown 2007-04-01 10.1177/1555412007299458 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[The Labor of Fun: How Video Games Blur the Boundaries of Work and Play]]> http://gac.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/1/1/68?rss=1&ssource=mfc Jan 1, 2006; 1:68-71
Article]]> Nick Yee 2006-01-01 10.1177/1555412005281819 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[Enmeshed in Games with the Government: Governmental Policies and the Development of the Chinese Online Game Industry]]> http://gac.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/3/1/98?rss=1&ssource=mfc Jan 1, 2008; 3:98-126
Article]]> Mirko Ernkvist, Patrik Strom 2008-01-01 10.1177/1555412007309527 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[Of Mods and Modders: Chasing Down the Value of Fan-Based Digital Game Modifications]]> http://gac.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/2/4/300?rss=1&ssource=mfc Oct 1, 2007; 2:300-313
Article]]> Hector Postigo 2007-10-01 10.1177/1555412007307955 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[Playing and Making Games for Learning: Instructionist and Constructionist Perspectives for Game Studies]]> http://gac.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/1/1/36?rss=1&ssource=mfc Jan 1, 2006; 1:36-40
Article]]> Yasmin B. Kafai 2006-01-01 10.1177/1555412005281767 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[The Mangle of Play]]> http://gac.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/1/3/199?rss=1&ssource=mfc Jul 1, 2006; 1:199-213
Article]]> Constance Steinkuehler 2006-07-01 10.1177/1555412006290440 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[Live Action Role-Playing Games: Control, Communication, Storytelling, and MMORPG Similarities]]> http://gac.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/1/3/252?rss=1&ssource=mfc Jul 1, 2006; 1:252-275
Article]]> Anders Tychsen, Michael Hitchens, Thea Brolund, Manolya Kavakli 2006-07-01 10.1177/1555412006290445 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[Sustainable Play: Toward a New Games Movement for the Digital Age]]> http://gac.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/2/3/261?rss=1&ssource=mfc Jul 1, 2007; 2:261-278
Article]]> Celia Pearce, Tracy Fullerton, Janine Fron, Jacquelyn Ford Morie 2007-07-01 10.1177/1555412007304420 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[Learning in Context: Digital Games and Young Black Men]]> http://gac.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/3/2/131?rss=1&ssource=mfc Apr 1, 2008; 3:131-141
Article]]> Betsy James DiSalvo, Kevin Crowley, Roy Norwood 2008-04-01 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[Guest Editors' Introduction]]> http://gac.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/1/4/279?rss=1&ssource=mfc Oct 1, 2006; 1:279-280
Article]]> Tanya Krzywinska, Henry Lowood 2006-10-01 10.1177/1555412006293515 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[Performing the Self: Subverting the Binary in Combat Games]]> http://gac.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/2/4/283?rss=1&ssource=mfc Oct 1, 2007; 2:283-299
Article]]> Rachael Hutchinson 2007-10-01 10.1177/1555412007307953 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[Culture and Business of PC Bangs in Korea]]> http://gac.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/3/1/26?rss=1&ssource=mfc Jan 1, 2008; 3:26-37
Article]]> Jun-Sok Huhh 2008-01-01 10.1177/1555412007309525 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[The Pleasures and Dangers of the Game: Up Close and Personal]]> http://gac.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/1/1/119?rss=1&ssource=mfc Jan 1, 2006; 1:119-122
Article]]> Tanya Krzywinska 2006-01-01 10.1177/1555412005281913 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[Jean Baudrillard and the Definitive Ambivalence of Gaming]]> http://gac.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/2/4/358?rss=1&ssource=mfc Oct 1, 2007; 2:358-365
Article]]> Gerry Coulter 2007-10-01 10.1177/1555412007309530 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[Fighting Hyperreality With Hyperreality: History and Death in World War II Digital Games]]> http://gac.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/2/4/366?rss=1&ssource=mfc Oct 1, 2007; 2:366-375
Article]]> Eva Kingsepp 2007-10-01 10.1177/1555412007309533 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[A Ludicrous Discipline? Ethnography and Game Studies]]> http://gac.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/1/1/29?rss=1&ssource=mfc Jan 1, 2006; 1:29-35
Article]]> Tom Boellstorff 2006-01-01 10.1177/1555412005281620 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[Gendered Identities at Play: Case Studies of Two Women Playing Morrowind]]> http://gac.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/2/1/23?rss=1&ssource=mfc Jan 1, 2007; 2:23-48
Article]]> Elisabeth Hayes 2007-01-01 10.1177/1555412006294768 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[Relating Online: Managing Dialectical Contradictions in Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game Relationships]]> http://gac.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/3/1/76?rss=1&ssource=mfc Jan 1, 2008; 3:76-97
Article]]> Nan Li, Michele H. Jackson, April R. Trees 2008-01-01 10.1177/1555412007309529 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[The Presence of Stigma Among Users of the MMORPG RMT: A Hypothetical Case Approach]]> http://gac.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/3/2/225?rss=1&ssource=mfc Apr 1, 2008; 3:225-247
Article]]> David Grundy 2008-04-01 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[Convergence, Connectivity, and the Case of Japanese Mobile Gaming]]> http://gac.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/3/1/13?rss=1&ssource=mfc Jan 1, 2008; 3:13-25
Article]]> Dean Chan 2008-01-01 10.1177/1555412007309524 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[Strategic Simulations and Our Past: The Bias of Computer Games in the Presentation of History]]> http://gac.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/2/3/213?rss=1&ssource=mfc Jul 1, 2007; 2:213-235
Article]]> Kevin Schut 2007-07-01 10.1177/1555412007306202 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[Toward a (Kin)Aesthetic of Video Gaming: The Case of Dance Dance Revolution]]> http://gac.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/2/4/335?rss=1&ssource=mfc Oct 1, 2007; 2:335-354
Article]]> Bryan G. Behrenshausen 2007-10-01 10.1177/1555412007310810 SAGE Publications