Methods seminar at University of Tampere, 8-9 April, 2010:

What are the approaches and methods that are useful while studying games, play and related phenomena? The dynamic nature of interactive game form, the changing strategies adopted during actual play, as well as the multiple research questions that surround the design, implementation, distribution as well as the social uses of games all present their distinctive requirements for the methods that are suitable for their study.

Full CFP is available at http://gamesmethods.wordpress.com/2009/10/16/call-for-papers-games-research-methods-seminar/

We hereby invite scholars in any field who take a professional interest in the phenomenon of computer games to submit papers to the international conference “The Philosophy of Computer Games 2008″, to be held in Potsdam, Germany, on May 8-10, 2008.

Further details at:

http://www.gamephilosophy.org/

There is a new journal International Journal of Role-Playing and they have a call for papers out for the first number (deadline January 1st, 2008).