Finally, the truth is out there!

The first issue of Game Studies (www.gamestudies.org), the first academic, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to computer game studies, is out. Edited by Espen Aarseth, the journal aims to reach everybody who believes that "computer games are already a phenomenon of greater cultural importance than, say movies, or perhaps even sports. Seen from 2001, the potential cultural role(s) of computer games in the future is practically unfathomable. It seems clear that these games, especially multi-player games, combine the aesthetic and the social in a way the old mass media, such as theatre, movies, TV shows and novels never could."
There is plenty to read on this first issue, includying <.self-promotion.> my own review of The Sims<./self-promotion.>. Feel free to email the editors, suggest new topics, articles, etc.
Long life to Game Studies!