Digging deeper into games

After a number of students demanded I point them in the direction of some deeper understandings about games and Game Culture - stuff that goes beyond fan boy rants and teenage hyperbole - I compiled a collection of links to essays, articles, reviews, video and podcasts that dig deeper into gaming. It was a list i thought worth sharing and so have posted it here. If you know of anything rich, detailed, exciting or enlightening that should be on the list pelase leave a comment. 

Philosophy of Game Desgin

Zero Punctuation (vodcast)

Extra Punctuation 

- On Endings

- On silent protagonists

- On horror games

- On interactive storytelling

Video Game Writing (video)

Playing for the story

On Storytelling (video)

A life well wasted (podcast)

Journey into the Cradle (pdf)

The Nature of Narrative in the Age of Networks

Gameprobe (video series)

RedKingsDream

- A Grammar of video games

Another Castle (game podcast)

The Psychology of Immersion in video games

Sandbox Storytelling

The Game narrative Triangle

Video game Taxonomies

The spectrum of story vs narrative

Why Heavy Rain sucks

HOW, not IF

Gaming Cinema